CATIA Smart understands the full vocabulary of CATIA V5 — Part Design, Generative Shape Design, sketcher, constraints, transforms, booleans, and surface operations. Browse the catalog. Each entry shows the operation and a sample prompt that triggers it.
Lines, circles, arcs, ellipses, splines, conics, polygons — and the constraints that hold them together. Describe a sketch in words and CATIA Smart drops it on the plane you mean.
Point, Line (by coordinates or by snapping to existing points), Circle, Arc, Rectangle, Ellipse, Spline, Conic, Polygon, Axis.
→ "Draw a 60-mm circle on the XY plane, centered at origin."
Distance, Angle, Coincident, Parallel, Perpendicular, Tangent, Concentric, Horizontal, Vertical, Length, Radius, Symmetric.
→ "Make those two lines parallel and 25 mm apart."
Break curve, Trim, Offset, Project 3D edges into sketch, Auto-deduce relationships from positioned geometry.
→ "Project the top face's outer edge into this sketch."
Sketch on an arbitrary plane with explicit origin, H/V axes. Essential for non-standard reproduction work.
→ "Sketch on plane 33, origin at point 18, H-axis along line 19."
Pads, pockets, shafts, grooves, multi-section solids — and the full dress-up suite: fillets, chamfers, drafts, shells, threads, patterns. Drilled holes in seven flavors. Booleans across bodies.
With limits (Dimension, Up to face, Up to plane, Up to next/last), mirrored extent, start offset, custom direction. Multi-Pad and Multi-Pocket for per-region depths.
→ "Pad that sketch 15 mm both ways, then add a 10 mm pocket up to the next face."
Simple, Counterbored, Countersunk, Tapped (M6/M8/M10 series), with direction control. Slot, Rib, Stiffener for advanced sketch-based features.
→ "Add a counterbored M8 hole 25 mm from the right edge — counterbore Ø14 × 3 mm deep."
Edge Fillet (constant), Variable Fillet (per-vertex radius), Face-Face Fillet, Tritangent Fillet, Chamfer (length/angle or two-length), Draft (constant or variable angle), Shell (multi-thickness face selection), Thread / Tap definitions.
→ "Round all top edges R5, and shell the part inside with 2 mm walls — leave the bottom face open."
Rectangular, Circular, and User Patterns. Mirror across plane, Translate, Rotate, Symmetry, Scaling, Axis-to-Axis. Operates on bodies or feature subsets.
→ "Mirror this whole boss across the YZ plane."
Add, Remove, Intersect, Assemble, Trim — across bodies in a single Part. Handles tricky operand-order cases and face-selection traps automatically.
→ "Remove the cavity body from the main solid."
Insert Body, Insert Geometrical Set (ordered or unordered), Rename, Hide/Show, Set Current. All the spec-tree organization moves.
→ "Make a new ordered geometrical set named 'Tooling' and start working in it."
The full GSD vocabulary: reference geometry, curves, surfaces, volumes, transformations. Sweep variants (explicit / linear / circular / conical), every fillet flavor, healing and joining, extract and disassemble.
Points (by coordinates, on curve, at center, at extremum, between), Lines (point-point, point-direction, normal-to-surface, tangent, bisector, axis), Planes (offset, three-points, equation, tangent, mean), Circles (center-radius, three-points, bitangent, tritangent), Helix, Spiral, Axis System, Direction.
→ "Create a plane parallel to XY offset 25 mm upward, then a circle on it Ø40 mm centered on the origin."
Spline, Polyline, Intersection, Projection, Combine, Connect, Corner, Extract, Extrapolate, Invert, Parallel, Reflect-line, Split.
→ "Intersect those two surfaces and extract the intersection curve."
Extrude, Revolve, Sphere, Cylinder, Sweep (explicit, linear, circular, conical), Multi-Sections (Loft), Blend, Fill, Offset, Rolling Offset, Mid-Surface. Plus Trim, Split, Join, Healing, Extract, Extrapolate, Simplify.
→ "Sweep that profile along the spine curve with a pulling direction normal to the floor."
Bitangent, Tritangent, Face-Face, Chordal — with full control over trim mode, ribbon relimitation, section type (circular or conic), and orientation flags.
→ "Bitangent fillet R3 between these two surfaces, trim the supports."
Volume Extrude, Volume Sweep, Thick Surface, Draft, Volume Booleans (Add, Remove, Intersect, Assemble, Trim).
→ "Thicken this surface 2 mm outward and 0.5 mm inward."
Translate, Rotate, Symmetry, Scaling, Affinity, Axis-to-Axis — operating on any reference geometry or surface, with full reader/writer parity.
→ "Rotate the bracket around the Z axis by 15° about the origin."
CATIA Smart doesn't just build — it reads. Every feature in the spec tree can be queried for its parameters, references, and geometric state. Useful when you want to verify, audit, or modify in context.
"What's the pocket depth?" "Which face is the draft neutral?" "What does this sketch project from?" CATIA Smart reads the full attribute set of any feature.
Faces, edges, vertices — by index or by center coordinates. Stable across small geometry changes (CATIA's FeatureRSUR semantics, not coordinates).
List all features in the part, filter by name or type, find by full path. Inspect the parameter set of any Knowledgeware-backed feature.
Open, save, save-as, activate, capture viewport. Force-reload after replacing a part on disk. Multi-document workflows.
Concrete dimensions, named directions ("along +X"), explicit references ("on the top face"). The more precise your intent, the cleaner the geometry.
One sketch, one pad, one fillet at a time gives you the most control. Big-bang prompts work — but small steps let you verify each move.
If you're not sure what something is, ask. "What's the diameter of this hole?" "Which features depend on that pocket?" CATIA Smart sees the tree the way you do.
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