| Welcome to the Mechanical Surface Refinement User's Guide! |
| This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product. |
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| This overview provides the following information: |
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Mechanical Surface Refinement in a Nutshell
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The Mechanical Surface Refinement app provides a set of CATIA ICEM main functionalities for Generative Shape Design
users which may be used to re-design visible mechanical parts from style point of view.
Therefore, a Feature toolbar, an Advanced Analysis toolbar, and the Tools Dashboard provide selected functionality available with
FreeStyle Shape Design, ICEM Shape Design Center and ICEM Shape Design Expert. |
Before Reading this Guide
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| Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard
and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities
common to all Mechanical Surface Refinement products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between
workbenches. |
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
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The Basic Tasks section deals with handling all the product functions.
The Workbench Description section, which describes the Mechanical Surface Refinement workbench,
will also certainly prove useful to find your way around the Mechanical Surface Refinement workbench.
Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of
contents to the information.
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Accessing Sample Documents
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| To perform the scenarios, sample documents are provided all along this documentation. For more information about
this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure
User's Guide. |