- [Narrator] Now that we have our initial CAT bar created,
the first thing I'd like to discuss
are the tool options which set the overall
global preferences and options
for how you interact within CATIA.
So we'll go into Tools, Options.
Under the tools options, you'll see again,
several settings that control how you interact
within the CATIA session.
As a note, these different settings will be available
based off of licensing so what you see here
may be slightly different to what you actually have
on your machine.
These are based off of our shareable products and licensing.
Within the licensing tab, we can see what licenses
we are drawing from.
You'll notice that there are literally dozens,
if not hundreds, of available licenses
and sharable file product types.
These control the various workbenches and tools
available to us.
When you first enter in to your CATIA session,
you're going to have to determine a license type.
Shareable products, or floating licenses,
are tools that are routinely available to people
based off of need.
If you do not need a specific tool,
then you do not want to turn on that shareable product.
Someone else in your group may need that tool,
so allow them to have access to that tool.
Based off of our current licensing configuration,
we have various capabilities to set
and turn on and off the various options.
My preference, especially for the new user,
is to turn things off
to make your user experience much easier.
The first option I like to deactivate is the Drag and Drop.
You can still copy, paste with your keyboard actions,
but as you're learning to use the mouse
with translating, rotating your geometry
in your graphics window, it's very easy
to accidentally grab something, drag it, drop it
and recreate data which can cause problems later on.
So generally speaking for the new user,
I encourage you to deactivate the enable, drag, drop,
cut, copy, paste use.
Next, I want to get into some display settings.
Within the display settings, you have various options
that control how you interact and what you're looking at.
For instance, tree appearance, this is the classic style.
Most people use the classic style interface
for their tree.
Other things that are very important to pay attention to
are tree manipulation.
What happens to our tree?
Another setting that I recommend
most users deactivate initially is the Zoom on tree.
I'm going to turn that off and select okay,
and I'm going to go to the tree.
What this does is, if I click on the tree,
you'll notice nothing happens to my screen.
If I come to the axis system
in the lower right corner and click on it,
you'll notice here that the screen
sort of grays out a little bit.
What this is for is the ability to zoom in and out
on the CATIA modeling tree.
By having this option set to on, what ends up happening
is, as I'm clicking through the modeling tree,
I may accidentally turn this on.
I bring this up as a point now because a lot of users
initially getting into CATIA will accidentally
click on a branch
and then think they corrupted their system.
And that's not the case.
It's just activating the modeling tree
versus the design space that you're working in.
So I'll go back into my Tools options,
again, turn that off.
If you choose to turn that on in the future, go for it.
Next is Navigation.
You have ability to turn on preselections
which we'll discuss later on and how you can pick things.
So if you're having a difficult time picking geometry,
this navigation menu selection allows you to determine
how you can go about displaying and selecting geometry.
Another is the performance.
A lot of people come into CATIA
and the initial reaction is, I don't like the way it looks.
The reason is, is because your 3D accuracy is turned way up.
Meaning, when I look at a circle, it looks like a hexagon.
If you want to improve the accuracy of your display,
especially when you're dealing
with highly stylized surfaces, cylindrical surfaces,
those kinds of things,
you want to turn your 3D accuracy down.
So if you have a nice, powerful video card,
you can go all the way down to 0.01.
If you're dealing with very large assemblies,
and you may not have the most powerful video card,
you may want to adjust this number up a little bit
to 0.04, maybe even 0.1 to speed up the visualization
of your parts.
Next is the visualization.
Here you can see a graduated color background.
A lot of people have a very difficult time
working within a graduated color background
so if you choose to deactivate that, you can.
Or, you can change your background color
to suit your purposes.
Other options that are critical
are located under Parameters.
Within the Parameters tab, you have the ability
to specify the units that you're working within.
By default, it's set to millimeter.
If you need to change your magnitude,
you come up to the window, select the magnitude
you want to change, in this case length,
and if you want to change the unit,
you come down to the menu pulldown here
and specify the type of unit you want to work within.
So if you need to change this to inches, you can.
One of the greatest things about v5 and v6,
is that you have the ability to change the unit on the fly.
You do not have to start the part file
within whatever specific unit you need.
If you create a file within metric,
you can change it to English.
If you create it in English, you can change it to metric
on the fly.
We'll go back to millimeter.
Again, if you want to change your mass,
you can come into mass, specify the type of unit
you wish to use here as well.
Again, these units can be changed at any time
without any sort of detriment to the file.
Next is under My Infrastructure.
Under Infrastructure, you have
what's called Part Infrastructure.
With the Part Infrastructure,
there are several settings here that I want to discuss now
and then in future lectures, we will come in and discuss
as they are applicable.
One of the important ones is Display.
Under Display, you can specify what you see in the tree.
When we get into parameters and relations,
you want to be able to see those parameters and relations.
Another thing that's important is,
let me move this menu out of the way,
you'll see the planes, the initial planes,
that are fixed size and space.
This display in geometry area allows you to control
the size of your planes and axis systems.
Personally, I like to increase the size a little bit.
Next is Part Document.
This is again, a very critical setting.
Depending on where you're working,
they're going to have design standards that allow you
to work within either HyperDesign
or do not want you to work within HyperDesign.
So if you have HyperDesign enabled
and you need to deactivate it,
this is where you're going to go.
Some of the other settings that you see within our window,
the Part Design, Assembly and Sketcher,
we'll cover at the appropriate time
when we get to those appropriate workbenches.