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Accessing Documents and Workbenches(1 of 5)

1 - Open the Course.CATPart document using the File menu

Click on Open in the down menu

A dialogue box appears.

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Select the file Course.CATPart, then click Open

It opens the Course.CATPart document.

Open the Course.CATProduct using the appropriate

icon

Click on the Open icon.

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It displays the same Dialogue box.

As you did before, select the Course.CATProduct file,
then click Open.
The file is opened. You are now ready to use the last
method to open the third document.
Open the Course.CATDrawing, using the filter.

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Whatever the method you have used to display this

window, you will click on the arrow (1) to drop down the
Files of type list
Slide down the scroling bar (2) until you see
CATDrawing (*CATDrawing) line
Click on this line, (3).
It display only the CATDrawing documents. Then you
can easily choose the one you need. Here, it will be :
Course.CATDrawing.
You can organise your windows by tiling horizontaly or
verticaly.

Click on Window

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Select Tile Horizontaly

The three documents are displayed horizontally in the
CATIA V5 window

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Do the same with the vertically option to see the

difference

You can notice that here, the vertically option is not

approppriate to work, because of the drawing. We will
prefer the horizontal tiling.

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2 - Mirror the Part

Maximize the Course.CATPart document

Now you want to create the symetrical part of this object.

For that you have to select its bottom face. As you can not
see it, you will rotate the view.

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Click as indicated with the MB2. Keeping it, you click with
MB1. Keeping both pressed, you do half a circle with your
mouse, clock wise. When the orientation of the Part
allows you to see its bottom face, you can release the
both mouse buttons.

Then in order to zoom in, you will click and keep the MB2
where indicated, then a simple click with MB1.
A double arrow appears :

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Keeping the MB2 pressed, you can now go up to zoom in,

or go down to zoom out.

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The contour is hilighted and a dialogue box appears.

Leave the name of the plane as default and click OK.

Click on the

mirror icon, in the Part Design toolbar.

Select the Face that will be the plane of symetry.

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The mirror is done and the active result is hilighted.

You can zoom out to better see the result.

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3 - Save and Close the Documents.

Select the File and Save As option in the menu bar.

A dialogue box appears.

Key in Course.CATPart in the File name line, if its is not

already here, then Save.
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The Part is saved. You can close the other documents.

Select File and Close in the menu bar

The file is closed.

Close the next file, by the X button.

Click on the Cross as indicated.

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Close the last one by the method you prefer.

Finally, you will Exit CATIA by the File and Exit selection
in the Menu bar, or by clicking on the X button in the top
right corner of the CATIA window.
You have finished the first step.

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Holding an Manipulating a Part (2 of 5)

Open the Course Manip.CATPart document, and

maximize the resulted window by clicking on its
corresponding icon as indicated. below.

1 - Pan the Part in the window

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Press Mouse Button 2

Drag the mouse in the direction your want, keeping

middle mouse button down

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The cursor changes to a cross:

and a red cross
appears in the middle of the screen. The geometry
follows your hand mouvement while you drag.
You can position your mouse on the geometry or on the
background (here on background)

2 - Quick Centering

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If you do not keep the MB2 down when dragging, you

will center the view.
Click with Mouse Button 2
want in the center

The cursor is a finger:

on the zone you

as for the selection

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The zone is put in the center of the window keeping

same zoom value and orientation

3 - Rotate the part

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It is like turning it all around in your hands

Press Mouse Button 2 first
then press Mouse Button 1 while keeping button 2
pressed
The cursor changes to a hand:

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A red circle in dotten line appears in the center of the

screen; it represents the space ball that your are
virtually holding in your hand
Drag the mouse in the direction your want to rotate the
part: here up and down.
Note that the rotation axis is always in the center of the
screen. You must recenter the part to be able to rotate it
differently.

4 - Zoom in or zoom out

This corresponds to look closer on a part or from further

away

Press Mouse Button 2 then 1

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Release button 1 while keeping 2 pressed

The cursor changes to a double arrow:
cross appears in the middle of the screen

and a red

Then drag the mouse :

Up to zoom in (to get closer),

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Down to zoom out ( from further away)

You can position your mouse on the geometry or on the

background (here on background)
Keep your mouse button pressed before dragging
because if you click and release your mouse button 2 on
the geometry, the place where you clicked will be put in
the center of the screen.

5 - "Fit all in" the Part.

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That means to have all geometric elements in the

window
Zoom in enough to not seeing the hole part.

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Click with Mouse Button 1 on the icon

View toolbar at the bottom of the screen

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The zoom is automatically calculated so as to center the

part or assembly and display all geometric elements in
the window.

6 - Manipulations for Specification Tree

Activating the Tree

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Minimize the Course.CATPart document and open the

Course.CATProduct one
Select Tree by cliking on any branch line with mouse
button 1

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Note that the geometry becomes underintensified

Panning / Moving

Tree being activated, press Mouse Button 2 down and

drag

Drag up to see bottom part of tree, and down to see top.

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Zooming

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Tree being activated, press Mouse Buttons 2 and 1

down, then 1 up and drag upwards (zoom in) or
downwards (zoom out)

You can use the icons located on the View toolbar at the
bottom of the window to zoom step by step
In V4, you used mouse button 3 but in V5 you must use
mouse button 2 because mouse button 3 is reserved for
the contextual menu
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Specification Tree can be displayed or not with F3 key

Hit Function Key F3 to hide Tree

Hit again F3 to display it again;

it will be displayed with same zoom and position as

before hiding.

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Selecting and Editing Objects (3 of 5)

Check the Course.CATPart is opened. If not, open it.

1 - Change the color of the Course.CATPart, and apply an iron

texture

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Click with MB1 on Pad.1 in the Tree.

Keeping the CTRL key pressed, for multiselection,
select the PartBody, always in the Tree.

The cursor changes to the hand one :

When it is done, leave the cursor on PartBody or Pad.1,
and active the contextual menu (MB3).

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A dialogue box appears, that displays the properties of

the selected parts. Here, the PartBody and the Pad.1.

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You will now change the Color of the Part

(1)Select the Graphic tab.

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(2)Then drop down the Fill Color list by clicking on the

arrow.
It displays a color palette

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Slide down the scrolling bar (3) to choose another color

for the Part.
Select More Colors (4).

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It displays another palette box where you can select the

desired color for the Part. Here you will choose, the light
blue color, and OK.
Click OK, to accept the new color.

The Part has now a blue color.

Then you will apply a texture
Select the Material icon

in the bottom toolbar

A window appears that show you all the different

material you can apply for the Part. But more than a
vizual effect, it associates the physical caracterics of the

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material. Here, you will apply an Iron composition for

this Part.

Select the Metal tab at the top.

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Select the Iron material (5).

Select PartBody in the tree (6), then OK to accept.
Note that the vizualization remains the same.
(1) Select the arrow just under the Shading with Edges
icon:
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It displays a toolbar. Keeping the MB1 down, drag until

you are on the Shading with Texture and Edges icon.

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You can rotate the Part to appreciate the quality of the

vizualization.
When it is done, come back to a Shading with Edges
vizualization.
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2 - Modify the Diameter of Hole.1

Double-Click on Hole.1 in the tree or inside it.

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Its corresponding definition dialogue box is displayed,

whereas the Part comes back to an older step of the
design.

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Key in 25mm in the diameter line, enter to validate this

new value, and OK to modify the Design.

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The Part is automatically updated. So you can see the

modification.

3 - Display the Relations

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Here, you just have edited a formula, but you do not see it
in the tree. You have the possibility to see it there.
Select the Tools + Options, in the menu bar.

Here you have all the settings of the CATIA Environment.

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Select Part (1), then Display (2)

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Select Relations, then OK.

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The Formulas appear in the tree. The last one is the one

you have created.

Some other parameters are customizable.

4 - Quick look at the settings

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As you did before, come back in the Tools + Options.

Select General, in the left side of the displayed window.
Click on each tab to see what you could modify.

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V4 to V5 Interoperability (4 of 5)
1 - Open a V4 model

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With the same way than you have done in the previous
exercises, you will open the SHAFT.model document.
This document is a CATIA V4 model.

On the left side, you can see the Version 4 tree,

whereas the central view displays the 3D Part.
Note that you can move, rotate, or zoom this Model. As
it is recognised by CATIA V5, you have got all the
possibilities to hold and manipulate that you have seen
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But if you want to work on, you will have to covert this
model to a CATIA V5 Part.
Create a new document by selecting File + New in the
menu bar, or by clicking on the new icon :
in the
bottom toolbar.

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Slide down the scrolling bar (1) until you see Part
Then Click on Part, and OK to create a new Part.
Note that the new document is a Part, with the
associated Part Design Workbench you can see on the
right side of the CATIA Window.

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Tile Horizontally the two documents, by Window + Tile

Horizontally in the menu bar.

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2 - Generate its corresponding V5 Part

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Keeping the MB1 down and clicking on the V4 model,

Drag and Drop the cursor on the XY plane of the V5
Part.
When you see the corresponding profile in the reference
axis of the V5 Part, click on the Update icon
then
the Fit All In one

You can visualize the SHAFT object, with the Updated

tree. Note you can do all the manipulation you want. It is
a V5 Part !

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3 - You will now modify the geometry of this new part.

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Close the V4 SHAFT.model, by File + Close in the

menubar.
Maximize the V5 Part, to better work on it. For that, click
on the square icon

Double click on Shaft.1 in the tree.

The Shaft Definition window appears, so you can

modify the End angle value to 270deg.

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Enter key to validate, Apply key to preview, then OK to

modify the geometry.

Finally, you can save the Part. File + Save As, and
enter Shaft, for the name of the CATPart document.
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Quick Tools (5 of 5)
1 - Capture Images and record them into an Album

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Open the Course.CATProduct document.

Select Tools + Image + Capture... in the menu bar.

Then Tools + Image + Album...

For the first selection a new workbench appears,
whereas for the second selection, a dialogue box is
displayed.
Position them as shown below.

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Then draw a rectangular window around the assembly.

The first point is the upper left one. You keep the MB1
down, you drag the cursor until the lower right one.
(1)Then you release MB1.
(2)Then you click on the capture icon
(3)You visualize the result in the album
(4)You can finally save the image at the format you want
You can do this as many times as you need...

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2 - Customize your workbenches

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Close the Image tools by clicking on their small black

crosses at the top of their windows.
Select the Customize option in the the menu bar (Tools
+ Customize)
You can customize the Start Menu or the Workbenches.

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Select, for example, Material Library, in the Favorites

window.
Then the left direction arrow in the middle.
If you close this window you will notice that Material
Library is not in the Start menu bar anymore...
To modify the Workbenches you have to select the
Toolbar Folder in the Customize dialogue window. For
example, you can rename Assembly in My
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For that, you select Assembly, then the rename button.

You change the name, then OK.
To see the change, you have to close the Customize
dialogue window, and select View + Toolbars in the
menu bar.

3 - You can also create your own workbench

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In the Customize dialogue window, select the toolbars

tab.
Click on the new button.
Key in Course Workbench, then click OK.

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A new empty workbench is displayed. You just have to

indicate what icons you want to put in.

Select the Commands tab.

Then drag and drop the commands you need. For
example : Undo, Redo.

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Select File in the Categories section, then drag and

drop the Print and the Save As commands in your new
workbench...
Note that each time, there corresponding icons are
created in your toolbar. Moreover, you can drop another
command between the last one and the border :

Add the Magnifier icon (you will find it in the View

category...)

You can check that your workbench is now available in

View + Toolbars in the menu bar.
Congratulations, you have finished all the basic
courses.

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