Imagine & Shape

Getting Started

Working With The Imagine and Shape Product

Entering the Workbench

Designing a Stylistic Chair

Creating The Main Shape Of The Chair

Creating The Leg Of The Chair

Creating The Foot Of The Chair

Using Cyclic Toolbar and Menu Toolbar

Displaying Textual Help

Creating Primitives

Creating a Curve

Creating Closed Primitives

Creating a Sphere

Creating a Cylinder

Creating a Pyramid

Creating a Torus

Creating a Densified Sphere

Creating a Densified Cylinder

Creating a Densified Torus

Creating a Surface Using Revolve

Creating a Surface Using Extrude

Defining a Primitive Profile

Creating Open Primitives

Creating a Rectangle

Creating a Circle

Creating a Triangle

Creating a Ring

Creating a Densified Circle

Creating a Densified Ring

Creating Advanced Primitives

Creating a Net Surface

Creating a Stripped Surface

Importing and Exporting Meshes

Importing Meshes

Exporting Meshes

Mapping an Image on a Subdivision Surface

Modifying and Deforming Surfaces

Managing the Compass

Creating Elements Using the Compass

Displaying the Compass Coordinate

Translating a Surface

Moving Along Normals

Moving Along Edges

Rotating a Surface

Scaling a Surface

Modifying the Weight of Vertices or Edges

Picking Elements

Propagating the Selection

Using Edition for Modification

Selecting Elements

Setting the Attenuation Factor for a Surface

Hiding the Mesh

Defining Manipulation Laws

Drafting a Subdivision Surface

Selecting Multiple Surfaces

Fitting a Subdivision Surface on Another Support

Smoothing a Base Mesh

Applying Modifications on a Subdivision Surface

Aligning Vertices

Dimensioning Subdivisions

Applying a Modification

Modifying and Deforming Curves

Refining a Curve

Manipulating a Curve

Smoothing a Curve

Defining the Working Area

Defining a Fillet

Erasing a Part of the Curve

Keeping the Curve on a Plane

Sketching a Curve on a Surface

Switching to the View Plane

Defining the Curve Characteristics

Displaying The Transformations Icons

Managing the Compass

Translating a Curve

Rotating a Curve

Scaling a Curve

Using Edition for Curve Modification

Setting the Attenuation Factor for a Curve

Moving Surfaces and Curves Using the 3D Compass

Manipulating Objects Using the Mouse and Compass

Manipulating Objects Using the Edit... Command

Styling Surfaces

Modifying the Mesh

Merging Subdivision Surfaces

Extruding Faces and Edges

Extruding Edges Using Directions

Subdividing Faces

Creating a Bevel

Erasing Faces and Edges

Inverting the Normal of a Subdivision Surface

Cutting a Subdivision Surface by a Plane

Cutting a Subdivision Surface by an Edge

Performing Operations on Surfaces

Associating Elements

Defining The Working Zone

Performing a Symmetry

Defining Symmetry Zones

Defining Symmetry using a Plane

Managing Character Lines

Creating a Matching Constraint

Managing Subdivision Instances

Manipulating an Object

Managing the Visualization and the Selection of Elements

Performing Shape Operations

Migrating Pre-R18 Features

Imagine and Shape Interoperability

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Imagine and Shape

Workbench Description