I make complicated multi-body parts in order to save out STLs for analysis. Sometimes there are a dozen parts imported and I do various combines and splits, I save out a volume and then roll back the model to work on the next volume. If I'm not careful I can get stuck on a circular reference and...
I've just spent time projecting a curve on the complex surface of a pad, filled it, thickened it and now I want to subtract it from that underlying pad. It seems a boolean operation wont work unless there are two distinct part bodies. How can I separate my 'thicksurface' feature (which is...
My Astroid works a treat with Solid Edge but now I've been put on CATIA and I've never seen anyone set up a motion controller with CATIA. Does anyone know how to set up the Astroid? There must be more to it than the button in tools - options.
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I've been fiddling, by-passed the bounding box and have sussed out the pulling direction dialog. My sample plastic part has a core surface and a cavity surface now. I thought the next step would be with surfacing tools to extend the surfaces as far as the edges of the...
I used to reveal the innards of parts and assemblies in Solid Edge by means of a dynamic clipping plane and I've been told I can do it in CATIA too. Can anyone point me to it?
Does someone have experience with this workbench? I'm learning plastic tool design in order to participate in powder injection moulding projects.
My mentor uses... wait for it... microsoft excel to make amazing 2D drawings of complicated tools. I don't want to follow him down that little...
