Using This Guide

This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with Part Design Version 5 Release 10 product. The user should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars.

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the step-by-step tutorial Getting Started. This tutorial will show you how to create a basic part from scratch.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the next sections dealing with the handling of CATPart data, then the creation and modification of various types of features you will need to construct parts. This guide also presents other Part Design capabilities allowing you to design complex parts. You can also take a look at the sections describing the Part Design Workbench at the end of the guide.

To perform the scenarios, you will use sample documents contained in the C:\Program Files\Dassault Systèmes\B10doc\online\prtug\samples folder.

When samples belong to capabilities common to different products, those samples will be found in the C:\Program Files\Dassault Systèmes\B10doc\online\cfyug\samples folder.