Overview

Conventions

What's New?

Getting Started

Entering the Wireframe and Surface Workbench

Creating Wireframe Geometry

Creating a First Multi-Sections Surface

Creating Swept Surfaces

Creating Second Multi-Sections Surface

Joining the Surfaces

Closing the Surfaces

Basic Tasks

Creating Wireframe Geometry

Creating Points

Creating Multiple Points and Planes

Creating Lines

Creating an Axis

Creating Polylines

Creating Planes

Creating Planes Between Other Planes

Creating Circles

Creating Splines

Creating a Helix

Creating Corners

Creating Connect Curves

Creating Projections

Creating Intersections

Creating Surfaces

Creating Extruded Surfaces

Creating Revolution Surfaces

Creating Spherical Surfaces

Creating Cylindrical Surfaces

Creating Offset Surfaces

Creating Filling Surfaces

Creating Swept Surfaces

Creating Multi-Sections Surfaces

Creating Blended Surfaces

Performing Operations

Joining Surface or Curves

Healing Geometry

Restoring a Surface

Disassembling Elements

Splitting Geometry

Trimming Geometry

Creating Boundary Curves

Extracting Geometry

Rotating Geometry

Translating Geometry

Performing a Symmetry on Geometry

Transforming Geometry by Scaling

Transforming Geometry by Affinity

Transforming Elements From an Axis to Another

Inverting the Orientation of Geometry

Creating the Nearest Entity of a Multiple Element

Extrapolating Curves

Extrapolating Surfaces

Editing Surfaces and Wireframe Geometry

Editing Surface and Wireframe Definitions

Creating Elements From An External File

Selecting Implicit Elements

Managing the Orientation of Geometry

Deleting Features

Deactivating Elements

Isolating Geometric Elements

Editing Parameters

Upgrading Features

Using Tools

Displaying Parents and Children

Scanning the Part and Defining In Work Objects

Updating Parts

Defining An Axis System

Working With a Support

Managing the Background Visualization

Creating Datums

Keeping the Initial Element

Checking Connections Between Surfaces

Checking Connections Between Curves

Performing a Draft Analysis

Performing a Surface Curvature Analysis

Analyzing Distances Between Two Sets of Elements

Performing a Curvature Analysis

Applying a Material

Analyzing Using Parameterization

Managing Groups

Repeating Objects

Stacking Commands

Selecting Using Multi-Output

Managing Multi-Result Operations

Managing Warnings

Interrupting Computations

Advanced Tasks

Managing Geometrical Sets and Ordered Geometrical Sets

Managing Geometrical Sets

Managing Ordered Geometrical Sets

Inserting a Body into an Ordered Geometrical Set

Hiding/Showing Geometrical Sets and Ordered Geometrical Sets and Their Contents

Managing Power Copies

Creating Power Copies

Instantiating Power Copies

Instantiating Power Copies Using the Catalog

Saving Power Copies into a Catalog

Working with the Developed Shapes Workbench

Developing Wires and Points

Unfolding a Surface

Measure Tools

Wireframe and Surface and Knowledge

Wireframe and Surface and Knowledge Advisor

Point Constructors

Line Constructors

Circle Constructors

Direction Constructors

Measures

Surface Constructors

Wireframe Constructors

Plane Constructors

Wireframe and Surface Interoperability

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Wireframe and Surface

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