Latest Version Of Catia V5

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Sinceit supports multiple stages of product development from conceptualization, design and engineering to manufacturing, it is considered a CAx-software and is sometimes referred to as a 3D product lifecycle management software suite. Like most of its competition it facilitates collaborative engineering through an integrated cloud service and have support to be used across disciplines including surfacing & shape design, electrical, fluid and electronic systems design, mechanical engineering and systems engineering.

Besides being used in a wide range of industries from aerospace and defence to packaging design, CATIA has been used by architect Frank Gehry to design some of his signature curvilinear buildings[2] and his company Gehry Technologies was developing their Digital Project software based on CATIA.[3]

Dassault Systmes purchased CADAM from IBM in 1992, and the next year CATIA CADAM was released. During the nineties CATIA was ported first in 1996 from one to four Unix operating systems, and was entirely rewritten for version 5 in 1998 to support Windows NT.[9] In the years prior to 2000, this caused problems of incompatibility between versions that led to $6.1B in additional costs due to delays in production of the Airbus A380.[10]

Hello All,

I'm having a problem with importing Catia v5 files. As I import them the ipt files are all empty, but I'm 100% sure that the Catia files are ok and I used to make imports like this a couple of times with no problam. Has anybody faced this problem? Is there a fix or a method to import Catia files correctly? I'm using Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2 Update 8.

In your Inventor browser there should be a 3rd party report on the translation (just below the browser name of your file). Expand and click on the report. It should provide you with the translation info, expand the report and it should tell you what has happened. Post an image here of the info and we can tell you what's going on if you don't understand the info.

In the Translation Report the status is "Error". I have already tried to import it on more PCs with nearly the same configuration and all of them fails. It creates the ipt file (it is set to save during import) but there's nothing in it and there's no error message during the import.

You were right, I haven't expanded it... Unfortunately it says it is not supported file format.... however I would expect other warning during the import from Inventor....

Anyway, thanks for you help...

Hi! You could either upgrade to newer Inventor releases which support this version of Catia V5. Or, you could use A360 to translate the Catia file and export it to STEP, which you could import to Inventor 2014.

Hi!

Thanks for you help, unfortunately I can't use newer version of Inventor. But the A360 could be a good solution, but I can't find where can I export the file in different filetype. As I searched about it I saw screenshots that when you click on the download button, a list shows up and you can select the file type you would like to download. Is it an old feature and not available now or is there a setting where you can select STEP?

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CAD design engineering services - Catia V4, Catia V5, and CAD Translation. Catia V5 resources - CATBlog. Replies continue belowRecommended for youconst urltitle=document.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];urlin = urltitle.innerHTML;urlout=urlin.substring(0, urlin.length - 11);console.log(urlout);new MoreLikeThis( text: [urlout], pubCodes: ["ENGCOM"], include: postTypes: ["post"], limit: 4 ,); RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? m1mason (Mechanical)25 May 06 11:57if it's a couple of files, I will do it for you. However, you should look into getting Acad Lite to step it back to an older version.

Or if you have a Solidworks license, it comes with DWG Editor, that can open, save as any version.

can you get the dxf files from your provider? you might have better results since dxf is not really version specific.

you should look into this plugin, it's free if you have Acad. RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? solid7 (Mechanical)(OP)25 May 06 12:05It's not that I can't do them - I'm in the translation business, afterall. My problem is that I want to WORK with the files. I don't want to HAVE TO translate them through any other program. That's why Catia has a built in AutoCad translator.

At the time of posting, I had already converted them down to AutoCad 2000, (in another CAD system) and re-imported them. But it should not be so...

I have scoured the documentation seeking the supported AutoCad versions, but cannot find it. If anyone else can open the later versions of AutoCad, (i.e. - 2006, 2007) please let me know, as this would indicate some sort of an installation problem (or something) on my part. I cannot open ANY AutoCad 2006 files. (so of course, I can't open 2007, either, obviously)

Thank you. ---

CAD design engineering services - Catia V4, Catia V5, and CAD Translation. Catia V5 resources - CATBlog. RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? eklunja (Mechanical)26 May 06 02:20It is written in V5R16 documentation

"Version 5 supports DXF/DWG formats version 12,13, 14 and AUTOCAD2000, AUTOCAD2000i and AUTOCAD2002."

AutoCAD expert in our company says that AUTOCAD2002 format is equal up to AUTOCAD2005. AutoCAD2006 is a new format at AUTOCAD. That's why Catia can't read it. Sorry. RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? solid7 (Mechanical)(OP)26 May 06 02:43Thanks for the info.

Every other CAD platform on the market can read it. Why are we getting short-changed on this one? ---

CAD design engineering services - Catia V4, Catia V5, and CAD Translation. Catia V5 resources - CATBlog. RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? catiajim (Aerospace)30 May 06 12:53Some answers:

DS Development Cycle is 24 months

DS is only releasing one release a year

DS won't add functionality in a Service Pack (this is a good thing!) RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? TurbulentFluid (Mechanical)31 May 06 09:33To piggyback this thread,

I can't seem to open .dxf and .dwg 3D files in Catia. They get "flattened" and opened in Drafting module. Is there a way around this (other than exporting it all to IGES and getting an enormous file in the end)...? RE: Catia V5R16 cannot read AutoCad 2006?!?!? DBezaire (Automotive)31 May 06 09:47Catia recognizes dxf and dwg as 2d files. Unlike the .igs extention (3d file) - changing it to .ig2 loads that same file into drafting (2d file).

Regards,

Derek

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i would like the opinion of some Catia V5 surfacing guru. I just had a conversation with a master of class A surfacing on Catia V5 and his assessment was that Rhino to Catia in STP ( forget IGES it s crap we all know that ) the rhino surfaces are not that great. Work needs to be redone in some instances.

From my experience I didn t find it horrible. I was pretty satisfied ( maybe I m not as perfectionist as others or I m completely missing something) But are there any Catia V5 surfacing guru who sees that working with Rhino surfaces is not ideal ? and why exactly ?

Yeah i Guess you guys are right. I also had in the past had to clean up catia surfaces before sending it to a cnc. Too many gaps. I guess i m a bit paranoid. But one thing i noticed is that exported rhino surfaces are broken in multiple surfaces in Catia, whereas Alias surfaces come out really nice in Catia. Yet they re all Nurbs surfaces.

Agreed, i d like to look at the surfaces. I m surprised to hear that some experts in Catia say they need to rework rhino surfaces but are happy with Alias surfaces. They say rhino surfaces are broken down into much smaller ones in Catia.

We used Icem previously moving away from it due to the yearly maintenance costs, instead we purchased the Rhino plugins called VSR before they were purchased by Autodesk. We are also users of Catia, Unigraphics, Ideas and Creo.

The good point on Rhino is the direct and easy modification of a NURBS surface like in Blender and the easy transformation of a curve or surface from one degree to an other.

The good point on Catia was/is the easy analyse of the curveture by a section through the surface. But in those time Catia had problem generate or keep a closed a highlevel non-uniform surface pipe with a kink or without a kink. Every time it broke up the pipe by an Iso-line.

To add even more confusion I found that if I used code to generate my CATIA surfaces they sometimes seemed to be of higher quality with fewer IGES export issues that the same surface made the traditional way.

I remember wHen i imported Catia V 4 to rhino v3 and then rhino v4 it was a nightmare. I would import surfaces broken down into tiny tiny ones and hundreds to clean up as well. Catia v5 improved because it was working on windows platform wHereas catia V4 was Unix based. Airbus had huge problems with the a380 design because the french were using v5 and germans were on v4. I wonder how Alias does it. Never heard people complain when importing in CatiaV 5.

Hi all,

i'm facing strange behaviour with Inventor 2013 (PDS Ultimate).

I'm working close with some CATIA users and therefore i have to export frequently files to CATIA (parts and assemblies).

If i export files manually by invoking Inventors SAVEAS command rom the pukkdown menu, i can select the proper CATIA target (V5 R19 in my case) and the exported files are pretty good in CATIA.

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