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Navigating CATIA V6 Product Structure

10 March 202310 March 2023Admin

Navigating CATIA V6 Product Structure Previously in CATAI V5 the product structure was reasonably simple to navigate, in CATIA V6 no so much and if your as dyslexic as I…Continue readingNavigating CATIA V6 Product Structure

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C# Reset Instance ID’s Within a V6 Product Structure

24 September 202224 September 2022Admin

C# Reset Instance ID’s Within a V6 Product Structure In a previous post “C# Connecting and Managing a Link to the CATIA App” we created a class that manages the…Continue readingC# Reset Instance ID’s Within a V6 Product Structure

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C# Connecting and Managing a Link to the CATIA App

22 August 202224 September 2022Admin

C# Connecting and Managing a Link to the CATIA App In the past we have used the ‘GetObject’ or ‘CreateObject’ methods in VBA to create a COM connection to CATIA…Continue readingC# Connecting and Managing a Link to the CATIA App

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Creating Custom BI Essentials

24 June 202224 June 2022Admin

Creating Custom BI Essentials Within the 3DX environment is a new tool suit called BI-Essentials which based on a rule color codes the data to allow quick visualization of the…Continue readingCreating Custom BI Essentials

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Creating Part Design Hole Standards

11 May 202219 May 2022Admin

Creating Part Design Hole Standards When defining Holes, we ahve to key in values for all of the fields which can become very repetitive and even troublesome from human fallibility…Continue readingCreating Part Design Hole Standards

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Involutes of Primitive 2D Shapes

23 February 202123 February 2021Admin

Involutes of primitive 2D Shapes So what is an Involute, if you took a string that was 300mm long and tied it to the bottom right hand vertex of an…Continue readingInvolutes of Primitive 2D Shapes

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CAD Replicating Features on a Complex Surface

10 January 202110 January 2021Admin

CAD Replicating Features on a Complex Surface In this example we need to replicate the design feature to the other four locations, we could just redesign it which would be…Continue readingCAD Replicating Features on a Complex Surface

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CAD Feature Parameters

7 January 20217 January 2021Admin

CAD Feature Parameters Many parametric CAD systems have the capability to allow the user to create and manage their own parameters. Which can then be used to drive the CAD…Continue readingCAD Feature Parameters

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BRep (Boundary Representation)

9 December 20207 January 2021Admin

BRep (Boundary Representation) Within the CAD System there are two main constructs, the object and the elements that make up the object. Lets imagine a Surface Object, it is comprised…Continue readingBRep (Boundary Representation)

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Normal's

8 December 2020Admin

Normal’s Within the CAD system, the base geometric elements, Surface’s (Super Class), Curve’s (Super Class) have an inheritable attribute, known as the Surface or Curve normal dependent on the element…Continue readingNormal's

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