Catia V5 users with UG experience

[thixoguy]

This question goes out to V5 users with UG experience,

In UG if I wanted to create say, a datum plane, I could approach it in two ways. I could select the "Datum Plane" icon and create a datum or, if I didn't have an icon visible in a toolbar, I could select Insert/Datum/Datum Plane and create my datum plane this way.

In V5 ( and I am a newbie) if I want to create a datum plane I would select the "Plane" icon. My question is, lets say I don't have the "Reference Elements" toolbar turned on (View/Toolbars/Reference Elements)is there any other way I could access the "plane" feature? As a newbie, I haven't quite set up all my toolbars properly and am curious if I can access features in more than one way. For example, with "Pad", I can access it by picking the pad icon but I can also access it Insert/Sketched Base Features/Pad. Why are some features accesible in more than one way and others not? Am I correct in what I say?

Thank You in advance.

p.s. I understand that Catia is not UG and vice versa.

 

[catiajim]

Thru the pull-down menu, you can use VIEW, ALL COMMANDS. From there you can get to the Plane function (or any other function available in a CATPart).

 

[thixoguy]

Catiajim,

Wow... I guess I got what I asked for. That's a pretty long command list. I will definitely have to spend some time and set up some toolbars.Thanks for the timely response.

 

[jackk]

if you don't have the toolbar available, here are three other ways you can create a plane:

1. in the lower-right corner, in the white box, you can type "clane"

2. Insert + Wireframe + Plane (oops! that only works in the GSD workbench)

3. in the Pad panel, right-click in the plane field and choose CREATE PLANE