Catia V5 Drawing
Imelda Matchett
When I was working in V5 and making drawings I sometimes had to "fake" geometry, the world is not perfect I know, copy geometry in the 2d, like center lines and such. I am trying to do the same in Inventor and use the project geometry button and geometry is created but it does not show up when exiting sketch.
What I want do do is to get geometry like center line geometry to show up in a drawing in this case it is a tube that is not circular in shape because it has been made from lofts and other things but the material that it is going to be made from is a circular tube.
Now I have got a center line in 3d and I think I can see it in the drawing when I use hidden lines view, but I dont want hidden lines view. So I am trying to copy the center line from the hidden lines view so that it shows when I am not using hidden lines.
To do this I thought of using sketch in drawing mode, as the picture. It worked well and I could copy the geometry but the sketch lines was invisible when exiting sketch mode, even after unticking the box "sketch only".
If i understand what your trying to say.... You can retrive sketches you used to create your model by right clicking the .ipt file in the browser tree (under the view you want the sketches in). Then click get model sketches.
If you want to create a new sketch on the .Idw you must first click on the view you want to be able to project lines from (you will see a red dotted rectangle around the view when selected). Then start your sketch, you will be able to project your solid geometry.
I have a requirement to read text from engineering drawing design tools like CATIA, CAD and paste in different tools. And I am not sure if UiPath tool can provide that functionality or not, If someone has an idea, could anyone help me to confirm it?
CATIAv5, or FEA tools like ANSYS or NASTRAN or anything like Solid edge, AutoCAD everything works on a rendering application that store data in a different way and render it differently. They are not built for automation nor data can be extracted from it as the whole canvas where designs are made will be shown as a single frame.
Hi @Raghavendraprasad Thanks a lot for your response.
Actually i got a requirement where the team is asking if we can extract engineering drawings from such kind of design tools and paste it one some other tools.
We are not only reading the title block (drawing ID, designation, material etc), but also details about the design (measures, tolerances, fits, threads, GD&Ts, angles etc). For some simple parts we can even generate a 3D approximation from the 2D file. - works also for scanned files.
Can UiPath be used to Edit cells in a Catia table? We want to bump revs to assembly drawings to as a result of BOM subcomponents up-revisions.
Can UiPath work with Teamcenter to edit properties and create revisions of items there?
When creating single sheet drawings in CATIA then saving this into SmarTeam, there are usually no problems. If the drawings are a multisheet drawing file then there usually is an issue saving this into SmarTeam. When saving, SmarTeam thinks there is already a file that exists and it will simply try to replace each drawing sheet upon saving of the drawing file.
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To make an export to PDF from a CATIA Drawing you just use save procedure as save a drawing. Just go to File -> Save as -> write the File name and on Save as type form, choose the file format for the file, in this case PDF.
The paper size of PDF will be the same as the drawing format used to in CATIA Drawing. If you want to print the PDF in other paper size, you must install a virtual printer that allows you to use Print function (shortcut CTRL + P) in CATIA V5 without any printer attached to the workstation.
The new tutorial it is about a complex shaft design. It this link you can download the execution drawing for this part. You can find how to to read an execution drawing, how to use Stiffener command and some circular pattern.
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What are drafting standards used for? Largely, they help create a uniform appearance across every drawing. You might have some specific standards that your company uses, like the border template. If every engineer on your team uses the same standards for each drawing, your drawings will be cohesive across the board.
So, how do you use CATIA to put together these drafting standards? They can be done in two different ways on CATIA. One option is to put together an XML file. This will have a list of standards and default settings.
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Walking through that training will give specific help for most of the attributes that you can change. Next time you make a drawing, all of these settings will be loaded. You should save and restart CATIA after making these changes.
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Some software have built-in raster conversion tools that will automatically trace over any imported raster images with their vector tools. Unfortunately, CATIA is not one of those programs that have a built-in conversion tool. On the bright side, there are amazing third-party apps that can handle that conversion and output vector files that can be easily opened on CATIA.
One such program is our very own Scan2CAD. Scan2CAD can handle both raster and vector source files and is specifically designed to output the best quality vector files that can be used in all standard CAD and modeling programs. That includes CATIA. However, do note that while you can import DXF or DWG files in CATIA, you cannot directly manipulate them within the software environment. Instead, CATIA allows you to use them as sketches. The DXF or DWG files appear as sketches in the CATIA work area.
Before the advent of CAD, the main way to reproduce and edit any existing technical drawings was tracing over them with tracing paper. In the digital age, CAD users emulate that by overlaying vector lines over any source raster image they choose to use. As it was was before, the process can be painstaking and tedious but some users prefer using this tried and tested manual method over automatic conversion processes.
The main reason these users opt for manually tracing is the belief that a high degree of accuracy is not possible with conversion software. This stigma against automatic conversion is probably exacerbated by the results you can get from free automatic conversion software available online. However, dedicated apps used for conversion have the advantage of continually developing technologies used for CAD and can compete with almost any manual tracing when it comes to accuracy at a fraction of the time. This makes it a better option in the majority of cases.
CATIA is a wonderful piece of software that can be more easily used when using software such as Scan2CAD to streamline the process of conversion. Not only do the two programs work well individually, but they also work amazingly well when used in tandem.
The DraftSight 2024 release includes support for CATIA drawings allowing you to collaborate with your supply chain with clarity and precision. You now have the ability to import CATIA drawings directly into DraftSight and open them as DWG files with no conversion required.
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