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CATIA V5R18 Specialist

Assalamualaikum & Good day everybody.
Last friday ive finished my catia specialist certification exam and i managed to pass three exams in a row.Im now a specialist in catia v5. i am so relief that ive passed all the exams ( part design, wireframe and assembly).

to share some experience with you guys, about the exam, ive taken the exam in two days, 2 exams for the first day (PDG, WFS) and a single exam on the other day (ASSM). ive taken the exam in MAWEA company that is located in petaling jaya, malaysia. On that both days, i am the only one that have taken the exam. with a set of objective questions, around 63-75 questions within 75 minutes (for native english users) and 90 minutes (for non native english user), the questionaires will have to be divided around 1~1/5 minutes. and the uniqueness of this exams is, they wont be a turn around or answer review for the previous question that we ve answered. as an example, if we have answer the first question, the select next, there will no previous icon button on the second question. what your answered in the first question is final.no more changes can be made. so it goes on to the next question until last.waaa...so uniqe ha.and what happened to the last question? after you have click on finish, the computer automatically calculate your answer and give you the total that you get. ( its like the time stop ticking ). if your total is over their score, so you ve pass the test. but, if total is below their score, it means that you failed the test and there goes our exam fees..

how is the questions? is it difficult?
for me the questionaires is totally challenging.we have to know every icon in every workbench, what it does and doesnt, and also we have to understand about the option that is inside the icon window. so, we have to understands about the function of every icon and what it can do. for me, in my 2 years experience, ive memorized almost all of the icon and getting used to it. so as for the questionaires, they will ask to the little2 things about the icons.

the exam area? room?
during my exm or any exam, there will be a person to secure you. we cannot bring anything accept our identification card and no else. no laptops, handphones and etc. they will give an erasable paper board and a marker so that we can write any notes. this means, no A4 paper also included.

what you gonna get?
i am waiting for my certificate from DS and mawea company said, that DS will sent the certificate in two or three months. for me, its ok. ive waited and studied this software for a long time, and 2-3 months is still accepted. i will include any picture about what ive got on the next posting.

lastly, thanks to my boss for supporting me to take this exam and, together with this certificate, i will make my best to teach students from our university and other universities about this software.

wassalam

zihad
12:09 am, 29032010, penang, malaysia

Updated on 25/3/2016 as below

As for the sample, you can refer here, from the DASSAULT SYSTEMES themself 

(http://www.3ds.com/fileadmin/Training/PDF/CATIA-Exams-Sample-questions.pdf) 

(http://www.scribd.com/doc/66994145/CATIA-Certified-Professional-Exams)

(http://www.itnium.com/CATIACertif_SampleQuestions.pdf)

(http://mawea.com.my/index.php/catia-v5-exams-description.html)

Good luck ! And don't get easily upset with the questions !

F1 1 Malaysia | CATIA V5

Good evening to all,

how are you doing with your life out there? busy with all your design, or finding solution for method of CATIA in your design req?

last month, ive watched Majalah Tiga, a malaysian documentary television show and it did attract me with its 30 min documentary about Malaysia dream building a Formula One race car and enter the Formula 1 race. what i am really interested is about, this car is made from scratch and many engineers is contributing in their skills including design.

they use CATIA V5 to design the car.i am really amaze to see it live, (although the tv crew have record it) on how they use CATIA to design all the parts from a small parts to a race car product..

the car have so many complicated surfaces and i bet, the guy out there that are joining and contributing in the team should have really high experience in using CAD CATIA software. and, what i like the most is, the team them self contributing in designing the car.sitting in a same room, share the same network (surely using a network collaboration) waaa..its the best job..having such a contributing team.

with now based in london, they produce the design, produce the model of the car and test it in aerodynamic lab.using fluent and other CFD software is the most crucial way to build a high velocity racing car.surely they have the complete package.


and, maybe in some years,the technology and experts will changed to malaysian staff after our malaysian hav qualified to be in the team either in design team or maintenance team.
i hope someday, when i have the valuable experience in various workbenches, i can join this team in their cad design area and be a leader of the design team. if its is not in full time position, part time would do. to mr tony fernandes, if you read this, please consider me to be in the part of the F1 1malaysia team !! i would do my best...





credit to http://www.aktechpage.com/, http://www.dailytorque.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1Malaysia-F1-Team_thumb.jpg for images

CATIA V5 from youtube

good online reference

hye,

today ive read some of comments in catiav5forum and i found this website http://www.kxcad.net/

this website is really benefits all with its help documents online ranging from CAD,CFD,FEA and electronics stuff. read it carefully and maybe you can find what you need. although the interface is quit dull, but it remind me how help books so boring that can make us go to sleep.

credits to the picture owner and the help online link.

zihad signing out

catia for design

hye,
today ive watched this video that have been published in you tube from Dassault Systemes.totally impressed on the presentation, skills that have been shown in the video and most of all the usefullness of catiaV6.

the use of this V6 is totally imazing, with its new interface that surely looks modern and the function made this V6 really powerful. the design for the seat, cars and other design that have been showed looks great.

surely V6 have total differents with the V5 likes V4 that have been replaced by the V5. and now, with V6,designers surely will have more use and function.

are you are V6 user? care for any sharing experience using V6? as for me and my institution, we are still using the V5 as company demanded for V5 user. maybe 3-5 years later, V6 will replace our V5 in every workstation here.

well, the CAD world is really changing fast as for now, all the CAD software change its mission, that it just not go only for the CAD, but also how CAD and GREEN can combine together to make it a green software that will calculate material and resources and which choice is good for the environment when the product is in process and manufacturing.

thats all.
bye.

cant open assembly files?

Question: After few days creates CATProduct & CATPart then save the file. One day I tried to open the CATProduct in the same PC, this error came out "Problem reading document. Load operation failed". So I can't open any files from the same CATProduct.This problem happen several times. I hope people out there can give me some advice regarding this problem.Thank you in advance.

here is the solution.

as we know, product assembly consist of different parts link together in a file. so, when we want to save the assembly file, we have to use save that give us an option to save the link.this is very important so that the assembly file that we have just saved before can link back to the parts.

what you have to do is:
1. Make an assembly product that you want
2. after you have finish it, please select save management.( this will list out files that are currently opened by your catia v5 either they are link or not with the assembly files)
3. Select appropriate assembly files in the list and click SAVE AS.. ( it is better if you create a folder that named your assembly)
4. then, select propogate directory, so that all the parts that linked to the assembly files is propagated such that your parts files will be save in the same previous folder) *( it is different if you copy and paste the files manually into the folder because it will not keep the links)
5. then select ok.
6. a progress bar will take 2-5 second depends to your size of assembly.
7. finish. your assembly files is saved.
8. try reopen your assembly file. insyaALLAH ok.

zihad malaysia

3d design visualization contest

last few weeks, dassault blog have announced their 3 of the best concept design visualization.waa..i ve go through all entries, their are so good at rendering. looking at their background, making CAD as their life, and hundred of rendering per days make them expert in this rendering arena. so, didnt suprising, the black and decker senior engineer won the first prize.

looking at the rendering that he made, make me feel that the product is real and anyone that look at these rendering should be affirm and satisfy with the judges result. so real, and so fantastic. i hope i can learn more about these rendering stuff.

as for me, i also have submit my own rendering that as you can see in minute 1:20 and 2:20. that is a tee fitting and a chain saw.hehehe...a lot more to learn to win an ipod.hehehe..anyway, im happy with my entries and maybe someday i could win any prizes from this kind of competition.hehehe...

okies.its all for now.wait for the next posting ya!!!

turbine

Good Day everybody,

this is my post about auto rendering for turbine. using catia v5r19 image capture, i,ve obtain this nice picture. no need to adjust lighting and camera, as in photo studio. but i think if we use photo studio, we will get more than this.hehe. its like using a compact camera and SLR camera.

Rendering with V5R19

Good evening everyone...
Today, my workstation and other 30 workstations have been updated to CATIA v5R19 (student version). Previously we are using CATIA V5R16 and R17 (student version). I thought the supplier company will bring us the V6, but they gave us this R19 instead. thanks to their application engineer and our CAE lab staff group, that have installed this software and just take half day to complete the installation for 30 workstation. and this evening, ive explore some extra function in R19. well, there are so many extra icon in the R19, and i think you can refer to this link http://www.idiada.cz/clanky/news/CV519_factsheet.pdf. And what ive done with the R19, i ve explore the render icon that they provide. this render (and maybe i called it light render) will render the part effectively. It will provide nice background that it have installed in the library, and also, the lighting have been set up for you so that the environment lighting will suit with the rendered object.

ofcourse the material of the part have to be added first. and when we turn on the render option, it will automatically display the background and we can adjust the object so that it will sit perfectly with the enviroment.the just snap on the camera icon, the object will be rendered.

below are some pictures that i ve made with the render image from CATIA V5R19

the image refraction from the glass is good with its soft shadow lay up nicely on the table. maybe this option is good when we want to do a simple rendering but still good rendering. And i think, CATIA V5 has absorb some of solidworks function that enables light rendering.

A study lamp

Hello, good evening for those who are currently in Malaysia. I think it is so long i didnt write anything in my blog. uhhh...with the semester will end soon, many students ask many questions about this software either for their composite analysis, reverse engineering for final year project and DMU kinematics for class projects. but i feel so happy, because the students getting knwowledge about this catia software. because this software have many advance capabilities that other software cant do it.

but, during the hard work, i managed to rendered something that is a desk lamp. This sample i get it from the dassault help files. so, i have made some rendering about this one.

Studio set up

For this rendering, i ve used 5 rectangle lamp and a bulp to light up the inner cap. Ive also have set up an environment so that the bottom environment will act as the desk of the lamp. as u can see, the rectangle on the left of the lamp is the camera that i put up as the scene.

Rendering setting

As we can see in the render table, ive set the output image to be at 1600x1200 px. using a high accuracy, with value about 5-6 for reflection and activate the shadow, ive managed to render image below.

The rendered image have its reflection with the lamp base a less reflection on the top of the lamp. although the desk didnt look so real, but the lamp i think is close to real view.

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Here is one image that i really satisfied about the rendered image but its use a different material environment. the lamp 100% nice with is reflection from the bottom to the top of the lamp.