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Welcome back. In this AutoCAD tutorial for beginner’s article, we’ll talk about using palettes in AutoCAD.

Once the palette is enabled, you can grab it and drag it. A palette is kind of just what it sounds like; a free floating “plate” of tools that you can move around as you see fit. Click the Properties icon. You see that we can resize the palette left to right or up and down. You can easily close the palette by clicking the close icon in the upper right corner. There’s also an auto hide toggle, so that when you mouse over the palette it appears, but when you mouse away, it collapses automatically. This helps free up some of your screen space for drawing, of course!

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Inventor Training for Beginners: The Fusion Interface

Welcome back to our discussion of the Inventor Fusion 2013 interface. We’d left off talking about the navigation bar and how you can adjust its visibility as well as the appearance and availability of its tools. The navigation bar is just one of many on-screen graphic tools you can use to get around the Inventor Fusion interface, and this is found in Inventor also.

Now, let’s take a look at the bottom right corner of the graphic area. Here is what’s called the snap bar. There is also the snap-to grid. Thirdly, this is where you can see and set the Units of Measurement for your document. Down below we have the options toolbar, where we can activate or deactivate options by clicking on them. A blue tint indicates the option is active.

Finally, at the bottom of the screen is the status bar. This is common to all the AutoDesk CAD software products.

Now, most of these last few items can be hidden or shown via the View tab. Or you can go to the Control Panel on the View tab, User Interface, and then check or uncheck the items you want to see and /or hide. We can also activate or deactivate transparency, change the visual style (orthographic, perspective, perspective with orthographic faces) and adjust the view style (shaded with edges, realistic, wire frame, wire frame with hidden edges, and wire frame with visible edges only). We’ll talk more about when to use each of these view styles in a different Inventor training post. We can also change the background color of our document, or use a gradient, specify an environment etc.

This concludes this post about the Inventor Fusion 2013 interface; we’ll see you back in our next article.

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Welcome back to our series of articles about SOLIDWORKS training for beginners, and in this article we’ll continue our discussion of VBA. In this article, I’ll describe how to create your first macro.

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In this next entry for our Inventor training series, I’ll continue our introduction to working with Inventor’s interface, and I’ll pick up from where I left off previously.

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CATIA Instructions For Beginners – Applying Constraints

Welcome back. As you may recall from reading our previous entries, we have prepared a series of articles about CATIA to supplement our CATIA video tutorials. In this article, we’re going to talk about applying constraints when working in the Sketcher environment.

Previously we learned what constraints are: this is how you fix your model precisely in space, with geometrical relations between your sketch elements, and by applying dimensions. This is required for precise manufacturing of your models.

When you select one, two or three elements that you want to constrain, CATIA will provide you some suggestions for appropriate constraints. Let’s say you select two lines: CATIA will offer you options that are appropriate—say, applying a horizontal constraint; a vertical constraint; a parallel constraint; a collinear constraint; a perpendicular constraint, and so on. If you want to see other types of constraints, you can see some from the contextual menu when you right-click, and you get some options for positioning the constraints too.

So, one way to create a constraint is to click on the Constraint icon on the Constraint toolbar. Then, select one entity in your sketch, like a point, circle, or line, and then select a second element. CATIA will suggest some potentially appropriate constraints.

Once you’ve placed the constraint, you can just double-click on it to edit it.

You can also create a constraint by selecting the sketch elements first and then activating the constraint command. In this situation, you can create the constraint between either of the two elements. CATIA will offer you concentric, coincidence and tangent constraints (in this order of priority). This is called a Contact Constraint. You click the Contact Constraint icon on the Constraint toolbar to do this.<p align="justify"><p align="justify">Next we’ll learn about creating constraints via dialog box. This concludes our entry about CATIA instructions for beginners to accompany our CATIA video tutorials.

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SOLIDWORKS Tutorials for Beginners – Working with Macros

A macro in SOLIDWORKS is one way to improve your design productivity; by reducing the time it takes you to complete simple tasks. When you automate some of your design work this way, it can free you up to focus more of your mouse movements on more complicated design work.

In our previous entry, we’d learned how to create and run a macro. We also learned how important it is not to make any extra clicks, mouse movements, or keystrokes, because we don’t want these recorded to our code. We economize movements so as to avoid inserting junk code into the script that might confuse us later on and require some tedious cleanup.

Now let’s talk about how to edit our macro. First I’ll record a macro to edit. Let’s say a sketch on the front plane, with a simple rectangle, then an extruded boss. One trick you can use to find where your arguments are in the code is to enter values that are easy to search for and locate in the code later on. For my depth of the extrusion, let’s enter an usual value that we can easily find, say 11.11 mm. Click accept.

That’s all I want to record in this macro. I’ll click the Stop button on the macro toolbar. Then the Save As dialog window opens, with the default macro file name in the File Name field. Enter an appropriate and descriptive name, so that it’s easy for you to find this macro later on when you want to run and/or edit it. For Save As Type, the SOLIDWORKS VBA Macros file type is preselected (that’s file extension .swp). Click Save.

SOLIDWORKS returns us to the graphic area, where my extrusion waits. The macro toolbar remains open. Now we are ready to edit the macro. Click the Edit Macro button; it’s the last button on the Macro toolbar. The Open dialog window appears; now we browse for and select the macro we want, and click Open. We’re now taken to the code for this macro. If you’re not used to scripting language, this is going to look scary. It’s not, and in our next SOLIDWORKS tutorialsfor beginner’s entry, we’ll learn why.

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Tips & Tricks for Getting Around SOLIDWORKS for Beginners

Hi there; welcome back to our SOLIDWORKS tutorials for beginner’s series, and in this entry I'll be publishing some information that works as a useful supplement to our SOLIDWORKS video tutorials.

We're picking up where we left off in our discussion of View Manipulation tools and tricks in SOLIDWORKS. We'd just discussed all the tools on the Hang-Up toolbar, which is a toolbar that is docked at the top center of the graphic area, right under the command manager.

If you don't see the Hang up Toolbar at the top of your graphic area (it appears top-center in the graphic area, right underneath the ribbon and right beside the environment tabs), you can make it visible via the Customize dialog window. You get to this by clicking the arrow next to Options on the Quick Access toolbar at the very top of your screen. It's near the right margin. The Customize Command Manager dialog window opens; you need to click on the Commands tab. Then, click on the View category (it's the branch on the left-hand side of the window), and drag in any tools from the right-hand side of the window. You can put any tools you want on to the hang-up tool bar. This is a really convenient way to keep the view manipulation tools you use most frequently.

Stay tuned for my next entry in this SOLIDWORKS tutorial for beginners series containing documentation to supplement our SOLIDWORKS video tutorials

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Hi everyone, stay posted because our new SolidWorks Surface Design & Modeling 2014 tutorials will be released this week!

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If you’re just starting out with SolidWorks, here is a playlist from my new SolidWorks 2014 Essentials course that will help launch you into this very exciting design software.

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View manipulation refers to how you can reorient your models on screen.screen. Â SolidWorks gives you lots of tools for this. They are located on the Hang-Up toolbar, right under the command manager (that's the ribbon of commands at the top of your screen).

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CATIA Basics - What Are Workbenches?

If you prefer to read about CATIA rather than watch CATIA video tutorials, we'll be publishing some articles to help you out. In this entry, I'll start teaching you the basics of the CATIA workbench.

What exactly is a CATIA workbench? The CATIA workbench is an environment within CATIA hosting a particular set of tools that create and manipulate geometry with a certain output in mind.

So, in the Sketcher workbench, you get 2D drawing tools like circles, lines, rectangles, polygons, arcs and such, as well as tools for further refining your geometry once you've placed it in the graphic area--such as tools for trimming, copying, moving, offsetting etc. The Sketcher Workbench is where you draw out your ideas. In the Surface Design workbench, you'll have tools for creating surfaces, which are models of zero-thickness geometry, and you'll have tools that are unique to modifying those surfaces (rather than tools for modifying solid models). The Part Design workbench has a set of tools designed for manipulating 3D objects in 3D space. So, here is where you turn your 2D geometry into a 3D model, by creating and modifying extrusions, revolutions, etc. In the Drafting workbench you get tools that let you create drawings of your work that you can share with colleagues or clients.

By limiting the display of certain tools to certain workbenches, or environments, the software stays more tidy and focused in its presentation. Some tools are available to you in many different environments, of course, such as the tools for view manipulation, like pan, zoom, rotate, etc. The standard tool bar also displays in many different workbenches. The standard tool bar has buttons for Open, Save, Save As, Print, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, and Help.

Some of this information is easier to present in the format of CATIA video tutorials, but we have had many requests for easy-to-read-and-digest text information, so enjoy! Stay tuned for the next in our series of CATIA tutorials for beginners.

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In CATIA training for beginners, there are some important terms to get under your belt before you start your practical training.

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While I prefer learning this cool software with CATIA video tutorials, I am happy to provide a lot of useful information in this article. In this article, I'll tell you about the navigation tools and other ways of getting around in CATIA.

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New Improvements to Autodesk Inventor in This Release

Welcome to this Inventor training information. We'll continue talking about new improvements to Inventor. Now, we've got some improvements to the 3D sketch mirror command--it's quite a bit easier to use. We simply select the entities to mirror, and then the mirror plane, apply and done. We can continue selecting geometry to mirror and click Apply numerous times, before you close the tool by, for example, pressing Escape.

As well, now we have sketch properties available for three dimensional sketches. Before, they were available only for two-dimensional sketches. We can change the line color, line type, line weight and the scale. You access the sketch properties via a right-click, and selecting Properties from the contextual menu.

Another nice new feature is that we can align our geometry to a plane. In fact, this is a tool, the Align to Plane tool. So, let's say you create a line. Then activate the Align to Plane command. Now, select the edge of a plane. And the line moves to align with the plane. From there you can continue to create geometry. So, aligning your geometry to any plane is now a lot faster and easier.

We've also got some improvements to the Spline tool. There's a new kind of spline, the Control Vertex spline. The Interpolated Spline was available in previous versions of Inventor. Let's say we activate the spline tool, now double-click to create the spline. We choose the type of spline--Control Vertex. So, let's choose our vertices with left-clicks. We can apply dimensions and relations between control polygon, or frame, and the geometry. If we start with some dimensions, we can use an aligned dimension, angular dimension, parallel dimensions and so on. We can also convert the interpolated spline to a control vertex spline and back again. Stay tuned for more Inventor training materials!

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In this tutorial we’ll talk about view manipulation in SolidWorks. View manipulation refers to how you can reorient your models on screen. This is really important for beginners to figure out, to help make SolidWorks easier for you to use. SolidWorks gives you lots of tools for view manipulation. They are located on the Hang-Up toolbar, right under the command manager (that’s the ribbon of commands at the top of your screen).

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This information I'm presenting here pertains to basic AutoCAD tutorials. The majority of the commands we use are available on the ribbon. We can add or remove tabs from the ribbon. The ribbon is categorized into a variety of tabs. I can switch between the tabs with a simple left click on each tab.

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This is the software that’s used by the big automotive and aeronautical companies. Boeing, AirBus and Bombardier use CATIA for their planes. Both the 777 and 787 were designed in CATIA. Lots of auto manufacturers use CATIA – Bentley, BMW, Citroen, Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Peugeot, Renault, Tata, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo and more. CATIA is also used by GoodYear, and the United States Navy for shipbuilding. World-renowned architect Frank Gehry used CATIA to design his many curvy buildings.

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