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CATIA Viewer
What can a CATIA viewer do? Overview View ANY CATIA FormatZoom, Pan, Orbit, Save Named ViewsView PMI and Export to 3D PDFChange Color, Transparency, Cut SectionsMeasure, Dimension, EstimateMass Properties, Surface Area, Bounding BoxOptimize Settings for .Model,...
Four Threats to Manufacturing On-Time and On-Budget
Avoid Million-Dollar Manufacturing Disasters In engineering, something as simple as declaring the wrong unit of measure can create a disaster costing millions of dollars. John Pike, space policy director at the Federation of American Scientists, stated, “It is very...
CATIA Tutorials
Many web-based and video-based tutorials are of such poor quality (slow or missing pages, bad or unintelligible audio, incredibly slow pacing and over-reliance on slides) that they are unusable. Since a lot of our customers are CATIA users, we wanted to help clarify...
CATIA File Converter
A CATIA file converter can translate to and from CATIA CAD and polygonal formats. The majority of CATIA files you will encounter will be .CATPart, or part files, and .CATProduct, or assembly files, although there are three other formats you may run into. This article...
CATPart to STEP
CATPart to STEP refers to translating or converting a native CATIA CAD model to the neutral STEP CAD format. This article will discuss some of the reasons you may want to do this, reasons you may not want to do this, and other formats you might want to consider...
What is Model Based Definition? Why Implement It?
This article is in collaboration with Dimensional Control Systems, authored by Ben Reese, DCS Marketing, and Norm Crawford, Model Based Definition Specialist. Part 2 of the MBD Series with Norm Crawford – understanding what MBD is and the value of implementing MBD...
5 Ways to Improve Your Engineering Department
In 5 Ways to Improve Your Engineering Department we have compiled some of the best and highest-ranking advice for engineering managers and team members. Here's the overview: Hire Smart, Humble Workers who Demonstrate the Ability to Get Things Done Keep Communication...
Parasolid to STEP
Parasolid to STEP translation is essentially moving from a geometric modeling kernel to a neutral CAD format. Parasolid is the one of the most popular geometric modeling kernels in use today, and is the next best format to use when converting from a Parasolid-based...
How to Destroy a Spacecraft in 7 Easy Steps
The purpose of How to Destroy a Spacecraft in 7 Easy Steps is to emphasize how easy it is to inadvertently make bad design and manufacturing decisions which can not only affect astronauts in the space program, but can extend to all sectors and endanger lives, products...
Access to Geometric Modeling Kernels
Having recently covered the advantages of TransMagic EXPERT and SUPERVIEW, what can we say about TransMagic PRO, other than the fact that it includes all of the functionality of SUPERVIEW? TransMagic PRO gives you access to geometric modeling kernels such as ACIS,...