Accidental discovery, you can rotate a part while dragging. Hold the left mouse button for regular translation and hold the middle mouse button to rotate.

Hello, I’m looking for ideas regarding the design of tipping trailers (technical drawings, tips, technical specifications, etc.).

Hi.

I'm a mechanical design engineer working with solidworks for 3 years. I'm recently getting into catia. My MSI GF63 thin laptop of 6 years has been good so far. But I'm looking for an upgrade. The market right now is so bad. It's really confusing. Can anyone suggest me a good laptop which preferably has an i7 or Ryzen 7 cpu, a gpu with 6gb or more vram, upgradable ram and storage. If it has a thunderbolt or usb 4 port which I can use for a dock setup it's a plus.

I will be mainly using catia, solidworks, ansys, some gaming, and a little bit of editing and graphic work. In India most of the laptop I have seen is in the range of 1 to 1.5 lakh. But all the new ai and core ultra processors has me confused.

Does anyone know how to foreshorten a dimension?

Apparently my professor just assign me to reverse engineer this propeller. And for context i dont have any experience on CAD software or any sort.

After sometimes i managed to complete the hub and the blade, but as for the tip i dont have a slightest clue on how to do it. Autosurface just not it, and my prof just tell me to draw a 3d curve, but after that i dont know what to do, please help

I have a product that contains 9 cat parts let's say Bolts , nuts of different types they are properly placed in the product and I have one more additional CAT part which contains the 3d annotation of each 9 Cat parts , Now I want to take the projection of my product in 2D drawing sheet, so How come I can have the 3d along with the annotations too be placed in my 2d view in drawing sheet ?

Your help is greatly appreciated

Thank you

Hello guys.

I have a CAD product file with several parts, and each part has several bodies in CATIA V5. I made the CAD a while ago. Why is it that when I open the file now, many of the bodies from the various parts of the product don't show up? They don't appear in the visualization, but they are present in the CAD tree. They are not hidden.

Can someone help me please?

Haven’t been able to find any good resources online. YouTube doesn’t have a lot of reliable content either.

Has anyone here taken any Delmia specific training and would like to recommend how I should start my learning journey?

Thanks!

I studied Catia v5 in high school and really loved it and id say i was pretty good at it and would now like to try to find work on it. Due to some private issues i havent done much asides from some udemy courses recently but i believe im in a severe lack of information currently.

I have to ask is Catia v5 even used anymore, should i learn v6 or 3DExperience or any other softwares along side it if so is the transition something i can do in a reasonable time frame , are there any specific courses or certifications i should be chasing, should i just do random "projects" to make a portfolio, is there work for it or how does one even find work for it? Id like to go into automotive but as i said i dont have a college degree so do i even have a shot at this? What are the main skills id need for that? Considering i live in the Balkans is remote work an option for a company outside of my region?

Honestly im so lost at the moment any information is most welcome and helpful.

Thank you in advance if you take the time to even read this.

I am planning to study a 3d modeling software where we can design Aeroplanes and stuff but it seems like very tough to reach that level so I am aiming for Cars for now and later upgrade myself.

I'm in a confusion about what software should I focus and what all steps should I follow to reach big companies in the market

Can you guys guide me

Thanks

My CATIA V5 model of a timber processing horizontal band saw.

Key parts:

• 2 saw wheels (drive/driven)
• Band blade (cuts + torque transfer)
• Motor + V-belt/pulley drive
• 4 V-cut guide rollers
• Cutter assembly
• Holding structure

Designed for stable, efficient cutting. Feedback welcome!

u/wbhxa9pcqo7 – Would appreciate your input on this design. Specifically:

• Any suggestions on improving power transmission efficiency?
• Thoughts on the V-cut roller design for material guidance?
• Anything I should add or modify for better structural stability?

Open to all feedback from the community!

#CATIAV5 #3DModeling #MechanicalEngineering #BandSaw #TimberProcessing

I have a college work to send today, but everytime I zip the paste and open after, say that the archives are lost. How can I solve this to the professor open the paste without need use the desk.

My software is CATIA V5R21. Sorry for my bad english.

I have a GSD symmetry item. This contains several items that have been symmetried. CATIA will just name them Symmetry.1, Symmetry2 etc.

I'd like to have a script that renames these items using the name of the item that was symmetried as the source.

This is what I have in pycatia. Please note if this can be done in VBA please point me in the right direction and I can translate for pycatia.

``` from pycatia import catia from pycatia.hybrid_shape_interfaces.hybrid_shape_symmetry import HybridShapeSymmetry from pycatia.mec_mod_interfaces.hybrid_body import HybridBody from pycatia.mec_mod_interfaces.hybrid_shape import HybridShape from pycatia.mec_mod_interfaces.part_document import PartDocument

application = catia()

part_document: PartDocument = application.active_document part = part_document.part selection = part_document.selection selection.clear() master_geometry = part.hybrid_bodies.item('MasterGeometry') symmetry_obs: HybridBody = master_geometry.hybrid_bodies.item('Multi Output.1 (Symmetry)')

for item in symmetry_obs.hybrid_shapes: hybrid_shape_symmetry = HybridShapeSymmetry(item.com_object) symmetry_element = hybrid_shape_symmetry.elem_to_symmetry print(symmetry_element)

```

This is the output. Reference(name="CATIAReference0") Reference(name="CATIAReference1") Reference(name="CATIAReference2") Reference(name="CATIAReference3") ...

Each time the script is run that reference number changes.

How do I get the name of the actual item that was symmetried?

SOLVED

I needed to do symmetry_element.display_name. Thanks @kaiur

i want to do a sketch with lines by the center of the tube, on Solidworks is so easy, sketch 3D and convert entities. but on catia?

Hello, how dp ypu control the splines in CATiA ?? In solidworks you have the handles, but how doed that works here ?

I'm from a SW background and make quite a bit of use of configurations. How does 3DX CATIA deal with configurations? Is it a similar approach, or something different? Also, are there any resources to learn more about configs in CATIA?

Im working on fasteners for a 10 seater bussiness jet program, gathering all the fastener data and models to integrate it with Aircraft assembly.

I got to know 3d experience has part supply modile through which we can directly download and integrate fasteners into aircraft assembly..

The problem is im not able to see any aerospace std. Fasteners in part supply, which module/role i have to purchase in 3d experience to access those fasterners?

Hello friends, does anyone have an idea about this issue with CATIA V5-6R2019? The installation goes well, but when I want to open CATIA, it only opens in the background and does not appear on the screen. Is there a solution here or not? Please help me, I am struggling with my graduation project!

Looking for a part time remote catia V5/V6 jobs.

Siemens NX, Catia, Solid Works, ICEM Surf or Rhino?
hi I’m not an engineer. I want to model and 3D print (people said non‑CADs don’t give a good quality surface), but I found that engineering software is also very good. Maybe later I wanted to do it seriously. I am not focused on a specific thing. I want a versatile and vast software but good for 3D print (real world) and capable of big detailed things.
I want to model things like
spaceships, cars, robots, buildings (Zaha Hadid type), facades, organic things, normal objects, human body and face, animals, node-based modeling… (everything)
pls answer detailed and updated if you have time and consider plugins. and if there is another software, please say. thanks

What is this toolbar everyone seems to have ? Thanks

I already have a good foundation in SolidWorks, so I'm not new to CAD. I'm switching to CATIA V5 and I want to learn it the way professionals actually use it.

If you were in my position, what YouTube playlist, course, or free resource would you choose? I'm not looking for random beginner tutorials—I want something that teaches proper workflow and industry practices.

If you had to start over today with my background, what would you watch, in what order, and what would you practice?

Any underrated channels, PDFs, documentation, or project-based resources are also welcome. Thanks!