Serching in Catia V5 Assemblies 1

[Catusr]

Hello,

I am working in Catia V5. I am working with a huge assembly that has 40+ sub-assemblies in it. I spending a lot of time searching for parts within those assembles. Is there a eay to search for a part fast. I tried the search function and that takes way to long. I was thinking of the power input zone. It will not let me cut & paste text into the power input zone either.
The assembly is also all in German, is there a Language translater in Catia to translate the text to english.

Thanks in advance

Catusr

 

[jackk]

you can do a name search in the power input zone.

n=*abc* will search for parts with abc in the name. I think you have to be in the Assembly workbench for this to work.

 

[ferdo]

Hi,

As far as I know, there's no language translator inside CATIA. You can save the asseembly like txt file. This will give you the tree structure in a txt file (something similar with your tree structure in CATIA, only products and parts names).

You can translate this file with the help of an internet on-line translator.

If you will expand your tree at a convenient level you will find much faster your part (I think you can aproximate where is it your part with the help of that txt file).

Regards
Fernando

 

[jackk]

Catusr, (you probably already know this)

You can also right-click on the geometry and use CENTER GRAPH to highlight the part in the tree