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    How to hide sketches in a large assembly?

    Hi all! We have a hard trouble. We switched from CATIA 5.7 to CATIA 5.10. As we loaded our job in 5.01, which is a large assembly (>2000 catpart and 50 sub-assemblies) every part has in show all sketches. We see that the only way is to get into every catpart and use the feature under...
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    loading parts from catalog, using them as details

    Hi, we have several problems with managing parts loaded from the catalog (pins, screws, bolts...). Having worked a lot with catia4, i would like to have all that parts loaded as symbols, without saving them as files. We are not using PDMteam, so the managing of standard parts is becoming a...
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    surface from a cloud of points

    Hi all, i need to reconstruct some surfaces from a given cloud of points. I'm not finding the right way to do it. I use digitized shape editor, import the cloud... and then? Is it possibile without having the Quick surface reconstruction? i'm using V5R7. thanx in advance. sergio.
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    graphic card on notebook for catia v5

    Hi all again! Thank You for Your opinion and your experiences. My main worry is about graphic cards. As long I can see, my work on this laptop will be on small-medium products, it will be an extra job (evenings... weekends...), so I don't expect to work on a large scale models. Are there big...
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    graphic card on notebook for catia v5

    Hi all I am to buy a notebook, which should work ok with catia v5r7 and newer releases. I am trying to understand which graphic card would fit to this purpose. I see that most of the newest notebook have graphic cards whith "shared" memory, UMA or system memory. Last year several...
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    Sheetmetal design

    Hi all. I've been asked if it's possible to manage double curvature surfaces with CATIA5, with the target to have the profiles developed in a drawing. We are using V5.7 and it doesn't seem that the sheet metal design application can manage double curvature walls. Are there improvement in this...
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    BOM on CATIA V5R7

    Hallo there Pascal, All that software is installed on the same machine... that's why I think that CATIA V5R7 doesn't recognize ExcelXP... Is there any way to "force" CATIA to look for Excel? Salut, Sergio.
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    BOM on CATIA V5R7

    Dear Pascal, thank You for Your answer. I am using CATIA V5R7 on WIN2000 Pro, and have installed EXCEL by OFFICE XP. I would like to export my BOM directly on excel. Bye. Sergio.
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    BOM on CATIA V5R7

    Hi all again. I'd need to export a BOM into an EXCEL format (.xls), but i get an error message saying "Microsoft Ecxel not found. Save interrupted". How can I solve it? Sergio
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    symmetry of products

    Hi all. I need to mirror a product on catiav5r7. Is that possible?

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