Looking for holiday gift ideas for CAD users and engineers? The holiday season is right around the corner and it’s never too soon to start thinking about what presents you are going to get your friends, family, or coworkers. To help you out, I’ve made a list of items I think would be very useful or exciting for your fellow CATIA users. Some of these items I use on a daily basis and others are
Monday, 25 November 2013
2013 Gift Guide for Engineers
Posted on 15:00 by Unknown
Looking for holiday gift ideas for CAD users and engineers? The holiday season is right around the corner and it’s never too soon to start thinking about what presents you are going to get your friends, family, or coworkers. To help you out, I’ve made a list of items I think would be very useful or exciting for your fellow CATIA users. Some of these items I use on a daily basis and others are
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
How to hide CATIA geometry with a macro
Posted on 18:50 by Unknown
Use selection method to select a piece or
pieces of geometry in CATIA. You can do this by searching for name or by type. Now you
can use the code below to hide or unhide the geometry in CATIA.
‘hide
Dim visPropertySet1 As VisPropertySet
Set visPropertySet1 = oSelection.visProperties
VisPropertySet1.SetShow catVisPropertyNoShowAttr
‘alternative method: VisPropertySet1.SetShow 1
Thursday, 8 August 2013
How to Reorder Drawing Sheets in CATIA V5
Posted on 17:38 by Unknown
One of the most asked questions I’ve
seen on various CATIA forums is: How do you reorder drawing sheets in CATIA V5?
Many times when dealing with a large CATDrawing with multiple sheets, the
sheets are typically not in any logical order, which can get quite confusing.
The best thing to do is rearrange the drawing sheets in a logical order, and
not just rename them. If you want to reorder the
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
How to count individual parts and display userforms
Posted on 19:02 by Unknown
Many designers are wondering how to count the number of unique
parts in a CATIA assembly (not including instances of a part) with a macro and how to display the result with a VBA
user forms. Emmett Ross decided to combine these topics into one tutorial and took it up a
notch by making it a dynamic
userform as
well. This new VBA macro to be run on an assembly to display in a
userform:
Monday, 13 May 2013
How to Convert PDF to AutoCAD
Posted on 19:02 by Unknown
One question many CAD users ask is if there is an easy way to convert PDF to AutoCAD format. Well, now there is an easy, and best of all, FREE solution for you. PDFAutoCAD is a free PDF to DWG and DXF conversion for AutoCAD-designed PDFs.
Some of its distinct features are:
High quality conversions with lines, arcs, scale presets and texts preserved, and no need for further touch-ups.
Files
Sunday, 7 April 2013
3D Boat Design Software
Posted on 04:00 by Unknown
I recently found a nice 3D boat design software to help you design anything that floats. If you have ever wanted to design a boat yourself then this is the program for you. 3DBoatDesign is a versatile CAD software package that is easy to use yet also powerful at the same time. Some feature of 3DBoatDesign include enhanced hydrostatic calculations, easy 3d scaling, rotating, and moving, hull
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Drafting and Dimensioning in Solid Edge Tutorial
Posted on 18:53 by Unknown
Ally PLM has created another wonderful Lunch Bytes Solid Edge video tutorial. This time the topic they
cover is Solid Edge drafting, dimensioning, and annotation tips and
tricks. More detailed topics include how to create drawings in Solid Edge, how to create a quicksheet template, how to add different views, how to create dimensions and annotations, how to make sheet metal callouts, and more
Posted in Analysis, Drafting, Engineering, Example, How To, Machining, Solid Edge, Tips, Tutorial, Video
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Thursday, 7 March 2013
How to Hide Axis System in CATIA V5
Posted on 18:56 by Unknown
My colleague Emmett Ross recently put together a new
video tutorial explaining how to hide axis systems in CATIA V5 with a VBA
macro. In this lesson you will learn how to:
Hide all
axis systems (or other geometry)
Search by
name or by type
Use the
CATIA Visual Basic help file
Use the
object browser
Set a
product to Design Mode
Check it out below and subscribe to Emmett’s
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Android Application Programming Basics
Posted on 18:47 by Unknown
Today
I’m going to share a few of my notes about Android Application
programming basics. Recently I’ve been trying to learn how to program
Android applications. This post is not directly related to CAD but I
will hopefully one day be creating some Android applications for CAD
users.Android Programming Acronyms
SDK = software development kit
DP = density pixels
IDE = Integrated
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Sunday, 27 January 2013
CATIA Macro Flowchart
Posted on 11:26 by Unknown
You may have noticed the Delete Deactivated Features CATIA macro I’ve linked to in the downloads page. It’s a CATScript my good buddy Emmett Ross of scripting4v5 wrote. He recently created a new article about how to start programming a custom CATIA macro from scratch. He lists several important questions you need to ask yourself before diving into the coding work. One question is: What is the
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
CATIA Lego Training Download
Posted on 17:52 by Unknown
I’ve long looked for a good LEGO CAD program and today I’ve finally found one. John B Cearns, founder and
owner of Solid Engineering Solutions, has created an outstanding exercise to help students learn how to use CATIA’s Assembly Design workbench while being super fun at the same time.
While building the Lego model you’ll learn how to use catalogs in CATIA to create different Lego
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