CATIA Tutorials

[Jabba]

Has anybody out there got any basic tutorials using CATIA V5R3?
I am trying to widen my CAD knowledge and must admit that books on the subject are really too expensive for me to buy!
Your help would be much appreciated.

[CADTutor]

Jabba

I must admit that I'd never heard of CATIA. Can you give us some background?

[Jabba]

CATIA, which stands for Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application, is the most powerful and widely used CAD (computer aided design) software of its kind in the world. CATIA was created by Dassault Systems of France and is marketed in the U.S. by IBM.

[Mr T]

It was originally developed by the french Dassault company purely for aerospace use. The sub-contractors used it as well.

Nick

[superjari]

CATIA, which stands for Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application, is the most powerful and widely used CAD (computer aided design) software of its kind in the world. CATIA was created by Dassault Systems of France and is marketed in the U.S. by IBM.

Just going offtopic for a moment

What does CAD mean? I've heard several variants of it; Computer Aided Drafting, Computer Automated Drafting, and now computer aided design...

Which is the correct one?

[CADTutor]

CAD is generally considered (at least by me!) to stand for Computer Aided Design. Sometimes you will see the acronym CADD which stands for Computer Aided Drafting and Design.

Sadly, in recent years the term CAD has become somewhat of a dirty word in design circles. The poor quality of many CAD drawings, produced by inexperienced users being mainly to blame. I now refer to what I do as being "Digital Design". In theory, CAD should cover all aspects of design with a computer (as the name would suggest) but it has come to be associated specifically with vector drafting applications like AutoCAD (and CATIA?). Since my design "tools" cover a whole range of software types, I consider "Digital Design" to be a better description.

[vizwhiz]

hi There

superjari, David and All

CAD stands for

Change Again Daily
Change Again, Dammit
Cant Always Decide
Cant Anything Decide
Confused Architectural Drafter
Confused Architectural Designer
Cant Add Dimensions

i just had too much Time on my hands one day at work
couldnt resist doing something a little bit more creative

Thanks

vizwhiz

yes CATIA is one of the big boys Intel Motorola, etc use this extensivly
with the 6 directional 3d mouses etc, its not widely known but extremely expensive etc mainframe type of CAD

[CADTutor]

...CATIA is one of the big boys Intel Motorola, etc use this extensivly with the 6 directional 3d mouses etc, its not widely known but extremely expensive etc mainframe type of CAD

So does this mean that CATIA is outside the public realm and that this is the reason why there is a lack of publicly available tutorials or affordable manuals?

[vizwhiz]

hi There

David,

i just did a google search for "catia tutorials"

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=catia+tutorials

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here is a url link to a manual catia v.4.1.9. on cd 5844 pages

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here is a url to a fellow who is actively writing some catia tutorials v5

http://catiav5tutorialmanual.com/

his direct email is:

mailto:DN@catiav5tutorialmanual.com

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here is a link to catia users of central ontario canada

http://ca.geocities.com/catiawebca/cucoweb-frames.html

there is a link to tips and techniqes listed here which has

modeling tips, drafting tips etc links to go to from here

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cad digest:

http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/CATIA/tutorials.htm

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http://www.click4links.com/DirectoryOutput-12.asp?link=0012CAD&link=1117CATIA

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There is a LOT more

Thanks

vizwhiz

yes it is a vehicle IBM type of software major expensive unix workstations

[vizwhiz]

hi There

David and All,

(no coffee this am)

well, duh there is a catia website

http://www.catia.com/

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Thanks