CATIA V5R18

[Conceptual]

So, I recently started using CATIA, and I must say WOWOWOW! I have used AutoCAD since R14, and I must say that CATIA makes AutoCAD 2007 look like a DOS based program with very little actual use. The killer thing, however, is that the methods that I tried using in ACAD, and failed miserably, hundreds of times, seems to be the way that CATIA works. The first time that I even scribbled in CATIA, I was making and modifying some pretty complex shapes, and I was amazed as to how simple it was to use.

I have never been this excited about a software before! I thought MS Visio was the cats-ass for what it does, but now I have a program that allows me to, literally, draw anything that comes to mind. After about 5 hours of usage, and rather confident with about 25% of the program, and considering its complexity, that is quite a lot, but its intuitiveness is simply staggering, so it makes it much easier.

I don't really know where I am going with this except that if there are any other users on this forum (I'm sure that there are several), I am very interested in any more available tutorials or communities that are GOOD QUALITY.

Does anyone have some renders that they want to share on here?

Chris

[miqi23]

Perhaps you can design aero parts for the members here and some one can do CFD analysis on them. This way you can build a small library of parts and the analysis done will show what they do..

What do you think?

[Conceptual]

I was discussing building a Quad Crossfire AMD Spider platform to do CFD and stuff on another thread, and does anyone know if I can use CATIA to do CFD analysis?

I am simply amazed by this program. It is like having an erector set with EVERY SINGLE PIECE that you could ever dream of implementing.

I have a 2 hour block lined up this afternoon, so I am gonna get to it!

Chris

[Lightning McQueen]

Hi Chris,

you cannot use directly Catia to perform CFD analysis;
there are some softwares (CFDesign, Fluent . . . ) with
a package that enables the analysis starting from a Catia 3D model
with some simple passages.
But you must have that software, that are sold separately from Catia.

Try to see :
http://www.cfdesign.com/products/catia/default.asp or
http://www.fluentforcatia.com/index.htm