- [Instructor] Here I want to discuss the user interface,
what you're looking at.
The first and most important thing that
I want you to pay attention to is the model tree.
The model tree is going to contain
all elements within the CATPart.
It doesn't matter if it's a point, line, plane, sketch,
solid, surface, whatever it is it will display
somewhere in the modeling tree.
Within the part design workbench
we are going to be creating sketches and solids
so they will all be contained within
the initial part body.
Here you can see by expanding
the part body we can see all the features that are nested
within the tree.
The sketch is the parent to the pad.
This pad one is the first feature within the tree
and everything is within timestamp order afterwards.
It's important to understand that
within the CATIA world
when we're dealing with solid based features
everything will appear within timestamp order in the tree.
When we get into additional workbenches in future courses
the elements do not necessarily appear
within timestamp order so it's very important
you have a good understanding of what's happening
within part bodies before we move into additional body
and element types.
You'll see here as the tree grows
we have the scroll bar.
This allows us to navigate through the tree.
If you happen to have a wheel on your mouse
you can also scroll through that tree as well.
You'll note in the upper right corner you have
an element called the compass.
This compass is
sort of like a working coordinate system.
We can visualize our part with a compass
by manipulating it,
moving the part data across the screen
by grabbing on that compass,
you can click on
any one of the letters on the compass
and it will true the view up
to that access direction.
In the bottom right corner is an axis system.
This access system always points
to the absolute X,Y,Z.
The reason why this is important
is because there are going to be times when the compass
is no longer oriented to absolute
and you can use the
absolute access in the lower right corner,
here, to reorient your compass
back to its absolute orientation.
Next you'll see our menu.
One of the things that I do want you to note
within CATIA is most of the options that are
contained in the menu are also iconized,
you will have an icon,
and most of the icons have a menu option.
You'll notice I said most.
There are some tools that do not have
an easy access menu pull down
and there are some tools that do not have
an easy access icon
and I will point these out as we go along within the course
to make sure that you're not trying to find something
somewhere that it doesn't exist.
We'll come down to the bottom of the screen
and you'll see at the bottom you have a command line.
This command line is very handy
for the new user to pay attention to
and even somebody, an old salty like myself
that's been in the system for nearly 20 years.
This command line is the prompt.
It's going to tell you or ask you
pick this, do this, and so on.
So by paying attention to that command line
when I do select an icon, for example,
or enter into one of the tools
you'll see enter desired data to modify the pad.
So I can pick the sketch,
enter in my limits, etcetera.
Let me get out of that.
Next to the command line is a text entry field.
This text entry field is for some users
that like to actually type in the functions
that they want access to.
In some cases it's really simple to go in there
and type in what you're looking for.
You can setup a list of commands
and quickly rifle through those commands
through that text field.
A lot of people don't like to use that,
but there's some old timers that have been around since
AutoCAD days that do like to enter in their commands
and this is where they can go into it
and enter those things in.
Other things to wary of is
at the very top you're going to have
your part file name as it exists in your database.
At the tree this top level node in the tree
this is going to be a reference name.
So there is potential for this name
and this name to be different.
When we get into future courses
we will discuss what the reference is
versus what the document is.
It's important you understand that there is a difference.
So when you get into the system
you'll note that those names can be different.