From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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Modeling tree
- [Instructor] It's critical to understand the modeling tree within CATIA v5. You'll notice that, with every file that you begin as a CAD part, you're going to have the three absolute planes, XY, YZ, ZX plane. Depending upon your settings, when you create your file, you can have an absolute axis system created, based off of those three planes. Here you can see these elements are all currently hidden. I know this, because the icon has a grayed-out or whited-out square around it. This signifies that the element is in hide space. You'll also note, within the tree, I have a PartBody. This PartBody is a repository for all features based off of your solid modeling, sketches, features, everything will order themselves in timestamp in this body. You'll notice that I expanded the tree, by hitting the plus sign. Upon expansion, you'll see all of the features used to create the part. Now, the tree is nested in said fashion, where the sketch is the parent to the pad. So, as you go through the…
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