CATIA V5 / V6 Archive - wolfgang walden´s IT & CAD blog

3 – Minutes – CAD Catia v5 #010 – #018

Wolfgang Walden — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:15:01 +0000

Create an Undercut with Powercopy

How to create an undercut with powercopies – enjoy! Please watch this more detailed and longer video, because the 3MC Undercut is missing an important element: https://youtu.be/_SmJGJw2FL8

Output from Sketch Axis & Plane

There is a very easy and quick way to create reference 3d axis and planes. Enjoy!

Geometrical Sets & Ordered Geometrical Sets

The main differences between Geometrical Sets & Ordered Geometrical Sets. The geometrical sets allow a far more flexible structure of your models. Enjoy!

Raster Images placed as Material

You can import Raster Images without the Sketchtracer or the Sticker – you can special created materials for that pupose – enjoy! Please note there will be at least 2 – 3 more 3MC videos where I explain how to create those materials and Images.

Get Raster Images cropped & squared for use as material

I use irfanview 64 – which is a free software tool – in order to crop and „square“ the images for the use as textures in the catia v5 material library – enjoy!

Create Materials for Raster Images

First copy your default material library to a folder of your choice/desktop, because it is write-protected. Open the copy. Create a new material family – then copy a material with an image/texture and edit. Change to planar and change the material size to your size by pixels and change the transparency. Save your library file and open it with the „apply material“ window. Enjoy!

Create a Rigid FixTogether (almost like a block)

You can create FixTogethers in a sketch, which work almost like a block.

Layers in Catia v5 - Create & Switch Layers

For all of you, who want to use layers in Catia v5 – this is the first of a few videos on this topic. Enjoy!

Visualisation Filters - Layer Filters

In order to use layers in catia v5 you have to create Visualisation Filters / Layer Filters – enjoy

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3 – Minutes – CAD Catia v5 #001 – #009

Wolfgang Walden — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:20:19 +0000

Sketch Analysis in the Sketcher Workbench

Very useful to get your sketches „iso-constrained“, which means fully constrained in Catia v5

10.3 Schnecke - Drill Bit (version a)

In the Catia v5 Part Design Workbench we need an additional helix in order to create that Drill Bit.

Enhanced Scenes - Fully overloaded

You can save positions, graphical properties, visibility and activation status in enhanced scenes. (fully overloaded = completely independant)

Exploded View with Enhanced Scene

You can create an exploded view in an enhanced scene – you should use a fully overloaded one – enjoy!

Exploded View in Drawing

Using a fully overloaded enhanced scene with an exploded view of your assembly you can easily bring that exploded view in your drawings – enjoy!

Superpose Views & Overload Properties of Views

By using enhanced scenes you can superpose views and overload the properties of those views as well. Enjoy!

Keyboard Shortcuts for every Command

It is quite easy to create keyboard shortcuts for most of the commands in catia v5. For some you need a little „trick“ – enjoy!

Breakout View & 3D Breakout View

In Catia v5 you can apply a 2D Breakout View to a 3D Isoview as well – enjoy! Here you´ll find all about the breakout view: https://youtu.be/_xBUk9GAU-M

Create a Userdefined Toolbar

There are some very useful commands like show/hide all sketches, all planes, all surface etc. Which are not on any standard toolbar. It is quite easy to create a userdefined toolbar and to add these very usefull commands. Enjoy!

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Catia v5 Shorts – #001 – #025

Wolfgang Walden — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:37:31 +0000

Restore & Reset lost Toolbars

Ever lost toolbars in catia v5, somehow toolbars suddenly vanished? Here is the way to bring them back.

Show hidden Toolbars

You´ve checked all toolbars, restored all contents and positions and the toolbar you are looking for is still missing? Then proceed like this – enjoy!

Change Size of Axis Systems and Planes

The default size of axis systems and planes is quite small. So in order to change that go to: tools – options – infrastructure – part infrastructure – Display – move the Slider.

Screen Lens - Quick Select

Quite often too many object are too close to each other. So in order to select a certain one you need some kind of quick select feature – in catia v5 it is a screen lens, activated by pressing one of the arrow keys on your keyboard – enjoy.

Show Parameters and Relations/Formulas in the Tree

If you want to see your parameters and formulas/relations with values in the tree – just proceed like this – enjoy!

Deactivate Zoom on Tree ( switch between Tree and Model)

The name of this option is kind of misleading. So if you deactivate the „Zoom on Tree“, you can´t switch between „Tree-mode“ (zoom and pan the tree) and „Modelspace-mode“ by accident anymore. Which by the way, is a good thing, because it happens very often that you click on one of the branches of the tree by accident. You can always switch by clicking on the axis-system in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Automatically Insert Axis System

If you activate that option, those 3 default planes will be hidden and you will get an axis system in your part document. But take care this axis system will have those hidden planes as parents. That is good enough for exercises, but for real construction you should use a different axis system. This will be shown in Catia v5 Shorts #008.

Set up the "correct" Axis System

So this „correct“ Axis System has just one „Parent“ – and that is the way you want it to do.

Normal View with Compass

You can quickly change to a normal view along one of the axis by clicking on the compass letters x,y,z

Edit Dimensions with Manipulators

You can activate additional Manipulators for the editing of dimensions in the drawing.

Text in a sketch and 3D Text in a part

Make a Catia Drawing – insert the text – save that drawing as „dxf“ file – open that dxf-file in your drafting workbench – select these curves – copy thes curves – CTRL+C – switch to your part – make/open a sketch – insert these curves CTRL+V – use that sketch for whatever you want.

Split Plane with a Sketch

Easy way to create a planar surface of any shape – split plane with a sketch

Size independent from View Scale

If you make a section view from a very small or a very big part you callout symbols will be either very big or very small – you can fix this with the right click context menu – properties – callout – activate – size not dependent from view scale.

Quick Detail View vs. Detail View

If you want to make a detail view from the drawing view – ie. including the breakout – you have to use the „quick detail view“ – otherwise you will get a detail view from the model without the breakout.

Create a Rigid FixTogether (almost like a block)

You can create FixTogethers in a sketch, which work almost like a block.

Create a flexible FixTogether (almost like a dynamic block)

You can create rigid and non rigid/flexible FixTogethers almost like a dynamic block

Instantiate a FixTogether in a different sketch

You can instantiate a FixTogether in a different sketch as well.

Assembly in a Sketch - Animate Constraint

You can use FixTogethers like parts to build an assembly in a sketch and then animate a constraint to drive it.

Propagate Directory (sort of pack and go)

Instead of a pack & go command, there is none in catia v5, you can use the Save Management and Propagate Directory to put all the parts and tne product (assembly) in one folder and then zip this folder and give it to someone else.

Filet/Round/Chamfer all Corners in a Sketch at once

Using the User Selection Filter you can round/chamfer all corners of a sketch at once.

Create 2D Components (blocks) in a Drawing

In the Drafting Workbench you can create 2D Components, which work like Blocks in Autocad

Instantiate 2D Components

In order to use 2D Components you have to instantiate these Components

User Pattern along a Curve / Path

There is no pattern along a curve / path in Catia v5 – but you can use a User Pattern and a sketch with a spline with equidistant points on the spline.

Spiralcurve in a sketch easy

You can create a spiralcurve in a sketch without having a spiral feature in the sketch workbench but having a 3D helix feature.

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Videotutorial – catia v5 – gsd – Storage Compartment – Variations

Wolfgang Walden — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:09:53 +0000

This is a follow up to the storage compartment video – I did two variants based on the same curves – enjoy!

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Videotutorial – catia v5 – part design – 4.1 Antennenstock

Wolfgang Walden — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:15:21 +0000

Another remake of an old one , now in HD and with Audio commentary – enjoy!

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