If you are working in a large company that use CATIA, the predefined settings is to close this application for inactivity. For example in my company, Enovia is shouting down after 600 minutes of inactivity. To disable auto closing for CATIA V6 you must navigate to Tools -> Options and on General navigate to Local […]
CATIA tips and tricks
List of CATIA keyboard shortcuts – PDF attached
Below I created a list of simple keyboard shortcuts in CATIA. This article is an supplement of how to create a shortcut for a command in CATIA. I recommend to read this article to find how easy is to create your own list of shortcuts for a fast workflow and an easy way to save […]
Simplify your work using right commands in CATIA
I’m sure that almost all of us are not using the right commands to simply the work in CATIA. For me it’s important to find commands that save time, because I work with large assemblies and I must hide and show parts, create lines, point, curves, planes etc. and it’s important to find a way […]
Export multiple drawing sheets in one PDF
Today I needed to export a large drawing document from Drawing module in CATIA and I saw that I must save manually each sheet one by one, and this job takes time and I dislike to do that each day for my documents that have more than 15 sheets…
Improve Display Performance in CATIA V5
If you use CATIA for modeling parts with default Display Performance Options, I think you saw that the circle looked like a polygon, but in reality this polygon it’s a circle. This anomaly appears because CATIA must work properly on a slow computer station or into a performant Graphic Station (e.g. HP Z420).