- [Instructor] There are several ways to launch CATIA,
here I have a desktop icon which I can double click.
Once CATIA has launched, you'll see an empty workspace.
In the window, you'll see the menu and several icons.
Most of the icons will be grayed out or deactivated.
What we're looking for first,
is to either start a new part
or open existing data.
So we'll start with File,
New.
The File New window appears
and as you can see there is a long list of
types of files that can be created.
Everything that we're going to be doing
in the first portion of our course is going to be a CATPart.
Now just to note, to anyone that's starting out in CATIA,
this list of file types is going to change
based off of the available license
which we will discuss here shortly
within CATIA licensing manager.
Depending upon what licenses you have active,
you will see a smaller or greater list
of available file types.
So here we're going to select our Part,
select OK,
and because this is the first time we've launched CATIA,
a New Part window dialogue appears.
There are several options available to us
within the New Part window dialogue.
You can enter in a part name,
you can Enable hybrid design.
Now another note, that there are several different design
standards each company or corporation uses.
Based off of your existing design standard,
you may want to disable the hybrid design.
You may want to enable a geometrical set
or an ordered geometrical set
or you may want to deactivate the window.
Here I'm going to disable the hybrid design,
I will leave the part name in as entered and select okay.
Once I come into my CATPart, you'll see my menu
and all available icons within
the Part design workbench.