Basic Steps and Tools in Catia V5 Sketcher Workbench

In this tutorial you will be gaining the basic knowledge on how to use the CATIA V5 sketcher workbench.

• This is the screen you see when you open the CATIA V5 Software.

1. Let us start by creating a new file.

Start -> Mechanical Design -> Part Design

2. 'New Part' window pops up.

Enter the part name and then click OK

3. A new file with file name 'Part1' will be created as shown below.

4.

Part Tree - it creates steps of the operations we work with

Planes to create the drawing

Compass

Sketcher Tool

5. Enter Sketcher workbench

New File -> Select the Plane -> Sketcher Tool

This is the sketcher workbench and you can find the sketcher tools on the right, top and bottom interfaces and start drawing.
6. Change Plane

we can select the 'Exit Workbench' tool and also can double click the planes in the Part Tree to enter the particular plane (i.e., XY, YZ, ZX Planes).
Exit Workbench Tool -> Select Other Plane -> Sketcher Tool
7. Zoom In and Zoom Out

Zoom In and Zoom Out tools
Or
Hold the center roller and a single click on 'right click' of the mouse and by moving the mouse forward we can zoom in and by moving backward we can zoom out.

8. Rotate

Select the Rotate key and hold the left click of the mouse and rotate the plane.
Or
Mouse Roller + Right Click/Ctrl

9. Move
Press and hold the Center Roller of the mouse and move it.

10. Normal View Tool

This is the disturbed view of the drawing area.

Now, to bring it back to the normal view select the "Normal View" tool.

And you can see the normal view

11. Fit in all

This tool hepls to take the drawing to the center of the plane.

12. Grid and Snap

• Grids disappear, when it is turned off and it appears when it is switched on.
• When Snap tool is switched on, the motion of the cursor is restricted to the intersections of the lines and cannot be stopped in the middle.
  
• When the Snap tool is switched off we can take any dimension of our drawings.

Try to create a basic mechanical design using Sketcher workbench.
Refer the link below
https://youtu.be/oSKz07vhZk

Additional Resourse

https://grabcad.com/tutorials/catia-v5-basic-tutorial–1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQMYpw6Mhk