Learning resources for CATIA V5

[JNieman]

Greetings,

Where I work, we primarily work with NX for design, drafting, & CNC programming. We also have a seat of CATIA, for using some customers' data. I'm unsure the extent of modules, but I assume it's minimal. It is not just the ENOVIA viewer, we have a few seats of that elsewhere. Though we don't use CATIA /much/ - I would like to learn more and develop my knowledge of the software on my own time. I doubt there is any way to get a seat installed on my home computer, but that is not an issue as I can access my work computer remotely.

With no financial investment, what suggestions are there for learning some basics of the software, and maybe eventually some 'best practices'?

If "no financial investment" is not going to net any results, I'm open to not-far-from-zero financial investment.

Thank you.

 

[drewmumaw]

@JNieman
A few quick ideas off the top of my head:
[ul]
[li]youtube and google search[/li]
[li]coe.org[/li]
[li]CATIA help documentation (if it's been installed - check Tools>Options>General>Help tab)[/li]
[li]eng-tips.com[/li]
[/ul]

Drew Mumaw

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[JNieman]

Youtube is blocked here, unfortunately, though I could leverage that if working from home, and I've heard of google a time or two before, thanks. I'm using your 4th suggestion to get experienced input, right now.

Never heard of COE, though, thank you.

 

[drewmumaw]

@JNieman
The CATIA help documentation (my third point in the above post) is actually pretty good. Whenever you're in a dialog pop-up (for example, the "pad" command) you can hit F1 and CATIA will automatically pull up the help documentation that relates to that command - if you have the documentation installed. In CATIA check Tools>Options>General>Help tab for the installation path. The documentation really comes in handy.

I have additional resource ideas - like contacting your CATIA reseller (Adaptive, Idex, Inceptra, Mecanica) - but you won't get much with "no financial investment". The same goes for CATIA training classes.

And lastly, when I listed eng-tips.com I meant using the search function at the top of the site. I see you've used the "Drafting Standards" forum quite a bit, but you'd be surprised how many people ask questions in the "CATIA Products" forum that have already been answered in previous posts if only they had been willing to search first.

Drew Mumaw

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