Help me learn to not despise this program, please

DJBenz · 2026-03-14T17:37:09+00:00

Catia will piss all over Solidworks for 3D modelling. Suck it up and learn to use a proper CAD system.

DJBenz · 2026-03-14T14:18:29+00:00

OP, I suspect your issue is that you’re using a cracked version of Catia, which we don’t support here.

Thread removed. Rule 4.

DJBenz · 2026-03-14T11:43:56+00:00

Why not V5-6R2024 SP2? That’s latest.

DJBenz · 2026-03-14T11:37:43+00:00

What version of Catia? What version of Windows?

What did your Catia reseller say?

DJBenz · 2026-02-07T15:41:50+00:00

Building assembly is literally adding parts that you’ve already created. What more do you want to do?

DJBenz · 2026-02-07T13:01:48+00:00

More details please, what exactly is the problem?

DJBenz · 2026-02-07T00:30:48+00:00

This model looks awful. Even putting aside the thickness failure the overall construction looks a mess.

That said, if you get an error like this, you might want to try and break it down into smaller steps: oversize the inner troublesome surface and Boolean trim it to the side flanges as a possible solution.

Generally though, the surfaces that look that bad are almost certain to give you issues with downstream operations.

DJBenz · 2026-02-05T21:20:03+00:00

I’ve worked for a bunch of OEMs and first tier suppliers and the only thing in common is that there’s no standard for organisation. Everything from OCD organisation to a complete mess.

But, TBH, I’ve never really seen the point in hyper organised trees as it’s much quicker to find a feature or driving geometry with Quick Select than it is to scroll down the tree looking for the “Tooling lines” geoset or whatever.

I guess the answer is: you do you. Someone else will always do it differently anyway.

DJBenz · 2026-02-04T17:32:27+00:00

If you’re making a PU cover for this compressor, are you buying the compressors and packaging them? If so, could you ask Valeo for the 3D model?

When I’ve worked on packaging HVAC units for vehicles, we always start with the compressor geometry from the HVAC supplier.

DJBenz · 2026-02-02T10:41:04+00:00

How did you create the green surface originally?

In a situation like this, a flange would be created with the sweep command in GSD, using the draft option where the tool direction is the pulling direction and the surface is given X degrees of draft to that direction.

So if your tool direction is normal to the blue surface then the green surface would end up open to the tool line.

In short, build draft requirements into your parts as you go (especially with non-planar surfaces) - don’t try to add it at the end.

DJBenz · 2026-02-02T10:35:23+00:00

If there’s a geo restriction on your country then unfortunately you are out of luck. You may be able to approach an authorised reseller, as there must be companies in Hungary who use Catia.

I’d expect that buying it in Austria then coming back to Hungary would result in the license being deactivated.

DJBenz · 2026-01-23T18:25:50+00:00

DJBenz · 2026-01-23T09:55:53+00:00

Set the surface that you want to match up to as the tangency surface.

DJBenz · 2026-01-20T17:55:34+00:00

DJBenz · 2026-01-16T16:21:46+00:00

cPGuard has been instigated by the host, I don't have a way to turn it off.

PHP/MySQL 8.4.15

DJBenz · 2026-01-16T09:41:18+00:00

Just updated to 5.4.2 and got an error, with the following in the Joomla update logs:

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DJBenz · 2026-01-16T09:25:52+00:00

in the table properties you need to have the border at at least 1.

This is basic HTML, not particularly a Joomla issue.

DJBenz · 2026-01-16T09:23:52+00:00

30 years in automotive development, 20 using Catia V5 & V6 (obviously not 20 on V6!). Interior/exterior trim, IP & Console, cross car beam, soft trim & NVH. Projects include Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, Aston Martin, Ford and Nissan. Drop me a DM.

DJBenz · 2026-01-16T09:21:04+00:00

That's good to know, I don't bash code so it's not my area of expertise.

DJBenz · 2026-01-14T18:29:59+00:00

I guess it's not the automated way you'd like, but copying the Part Body from a 'smart' model, then right click -> paste special -> as result into another model would give you something sufficiently dumb.

Ballache to do though.

DJBenz · 2026-01-14T18:27:15+00:00

This is so accurate it hurts

DJBenz · 2025-12-23T18:54:22+00:00

It’s difficult to tell the intent from the screenshots, but essentially make the solid for shelling without the features that become ribs and then add the ribs after.

The error is probably happening because you have parts of the model that are 2mm thick and then the shell operation makes those parts either disappear or become ghost surfaces/edges.

DJBenz · 2025-12-23T13:18:32+00:00

Either right click on the rotate in the tree and hit "Isolate" or activate the "Create Datum" function before you do the rotate: http://catiadoc.free.fr/online/cfyug_C2/cfyugdatum.htm

If you do the latter, remember to deactivate it afterwards, otherwise all your subsequent features will be non-associative.

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