CATIA V5 - Flattening and transferring features in Part Design

This is a demo for a bent aerospace beam. The faces are unruled. To add to the difficulty, it's not really an intelligent part. To bring it into a 2D drawing, we need to flatten it and transfer all the cuts and fillets into the final version. It's almost like reverse engineering the whole part again.You can extract some details such as the beam profile as well as the overall length to produce the extrusion length. It's a laborious task but the result is worth the effort.

CATIA V5 - How to Compare Similar Parts

This is demo on how to compare products that are similar but not exactly the same. It's available in the DMU space analysis workbench. CATIA will overlap the 2 parts or assemblies and color code the added material in red and the removed material in green. It's a great tool when you are looking for a quick way of telling the difference between parts.

CATIA V5 - How to Generate G codes in NC mode

The most important part about using CATIA V5 NC is to generate G-codes. In this demo we show how to create a sample program. There are certain steps required to to create the program successfully. You must specify the directory where the files go in the Tools>Options. Otherwise, your files will end up in the wrong folder and finding them will be a challenge.
 
Sample V5 file and program

CATIA V5 - Hide/Show Geometric sets quickly

Some users need to hide show certain aspects of the design and some others. The Search tool allows you to do just that.