Book Recommendation

[spartan2674]

I am basically a "newbie" to the field of CATIA V5. Everyday I learn something new. I am interested in learning more about macros, and writing and executing UDF´s. Also, the field of FEM is one where I would like to try my hand at. Can anyone recommend a good book / web resource where I as a complete beginner can start ?

"Das Beste Oder Nichts"

 

[willsie]

I've not looked at many books on catia, having learned on courses and on the job, but I think the SDC publications series look quite good. I get my student son to borrow them from the university library!
I'm currently working through the FEA tutorials book.
Interesting, but I don't think English is the author's first language so the occassional word is not quite right!

You can find SDC at

http://www.schroff.com

or

http://www.schroff-europe.com

J

 

[CEROG]

Spartan,

did you look at Hanser's homepage? There are several books about CATIA. I think your first language is German so tat you can read them.

Reagrds,

CEROG

CEROGs CATIA Blog(German):

http://www.cad-gaenssler.de/de/cerogs-catia-blog.html

 

[ferdo]

Hi,

CEROG is right...I saw a lot of good books and most of them in German language (here are just some of them

http://www.websites-factory.de/catia/Literatur/literatur.html

) including single real book about CATIA macros.



Regards
Fernando

 

[spartan2674]

Thank you for your valuable replies. My signature belies my knowledge of the German language. I am not a fluent German speaker, and thats why I am searching for books in English. :-D

I have had a look at the 'CATIA V5 - Effiziente Konstruktion mit Makros' book. But its in German, so am not making any progress. %-)




"Das Beste Oder Nichts"

 

[ferdo]

Mein Deutsch ist fast 0, aber das Buch hat mir sehr geholfen ... long live the Google :->

Regards
Fernando

 

[CEROG]

I found some books in Englsh at amazon.

But in my opinion the price is too high.

@Ferdo: Perhaps you should read Jens Hansen's book Kochbuch CATIA V5 automatisieren. Vom Powercopy bis zur C# -Programmierung

I'm sorry, it is in German.

REgards,

CEROG

CEROGs CATIA Blog(German):

http://www.cad-gaenssler.de/de/cerogs-catia-blog.html

 

[ferdo]

Thanks CEROG for your recommendation, I have to go in Hamburg till the end of this year (my plan was to go there in august but I had a lot of problems and I couldn't go) so I will try to buy it directly from Germany, I believe I can handle understanding the German language.

Nice to see new books, in my opinion there is not so much documentation about CATIA programming and the German books are definitely very good.

Regards
Fernando

 

[CEROG]

@ferdo:
The list is old which you posted.

There is pone which is more actual:

http://catia.cad.de/index.php/literaturliste.

Thare you can find newer ones.

An employee of Hanser told me that is not easy for them to translate books into English and distribute them in other countries. So they don't do that.

CEROGs CATIA Blog(German):

http://www.cad-gaenssler.de/de/cerogs-catia-blog.html

 

[spartan2674]

@CEROG

Could you name the english books you found at amazon. I can type the name in the search box ofcourse, but I dont know which ones would suit me (as a complete beginner to VB). Are these books relevant to macro programming in CATIA ? Which one do you think would suit me ?

"Das Beste Oder Nichts"

 

[CEROG]

Spartan, in fact I can't recommend any of the english books. I know only one of them: Advanced CATIA V5 Workbook - Konwledgeware and Workbenches. I was disappointed about that book because I'd expected more about Knowledgeware.

Others are:
- Catia V5 Workbook: Release 16
- CATIA V5 FEA Tutorials Release 16
- Catia V5 Workbook Release 19

I do not know whether there are english books about VB-Programming in english because I didn't look for them. German is my first language so I could read the books of Jens Hansen and Dieter R. Ziethen and many others.

Regards,

CEROG


CEROGs CATIA Blog(German):

http://www.cad-gaenssler.de/de/cerogs-catia-blog.html

 

[itsmyjob]

I started scripting with VB for dummies, or VBA for dummies. Even if the book was talking about Excel I manage to understand what I needed to work with V5.

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti ​