As you spotted, if your part thickness is 3mm then your minimum rads need to be at least 3mm otherwise it won't offset.
I get this lots with automotive bumpers where the Styled surface rads are less that the material thickness. In this case there's no option but to model the A and B surfaces...
We have the same problem and generally find the following works well.
1. Put the kettle on
2. Make yourself a cuppa
3. Put your feet up and wait.
It doesn't get the job done any quicker but big products will always take time to load even with cache mode turned on.
Here's one thing you can try if you get the image in JPEG or similar format.
Use GSD and in a sketch, draw a shape that's a bit bigger than the size of the sticker. Come out of the sketch and apply a fill to the sketch to produce a flat surface. Apply a material to the surface, something plain...
After you have dropped the compass onto the body, right click on the compass and select 'Use Local Axis System' this will orientate the compass relative to the model axis system so that the compass U, V and W will correspond to the model X, Y and Z axis
Right click on the body that you want to see and select 'Define in Work Object' then in Tools toolbar select the 'Only Current Body' icon (looks like 3 small horizontal rectangles) - it will turn orange and change to one small rectangle with a line under it. You will now only see the selected...
Create two extrudes - one from each curve and then use blend. You can then tangency match the blend to each extrude and also adjust the tension at each end to tune the shape. It'll probably turn out pretty nasty but then it's expecting a bit to get a decent result from very basic geometry -...
I've got a complicated aluminium casting that's used in a left hand drive automotive application. It's modelled in V5 solids, fully parametric so I can make changes as required.
Now I need to create the equivalent casting for the right hand drive version, which will basically be a symmetry of...
Go to Tools, Options, Infrastructure, Product Structure and select the cache management tab and de-select Work with the cache system. Be aware that if you work with very big products this will slow your machine down - regardless of how fast you think it is.
If you've already got a solid, they maybe you could use shell. This would allow you to apply an inside and outside thickness to each surface of the solid.
I'd use method 2 as described by jackk (not got a DMU licence). In assembly design, fix the column and then apply a concentricity constraint between the column and the shroud. Then if you use the Manipulation icon - select the Drag around any axis button (bottom right) and check the 'with...
I'm assuming that it's a planar fill that you're doing - otherwise you probably wouldn't be using a sketch.
Best to start off trying to close the end points in the sketch. If you've got two curves that you want to meet at their end points, first fix one of the curves by right clicking on it and...
If you have two CATIA Parts open and have the windows tiled, is there any way of linking the model manipulation between the two windows, similar to link viewers in the Replace command, so when you move one Part the other one moves at the same time.
Personally I use Boundary for curves, Extract to get faces or surfaces and occasionally to get individual curve elements out of sketches and I don't generall have problems when I come to replace element. Not sure what anyone else uses but this does the job for me.
