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CATIA® is the world’s engineering and design leading software used for product 3D CAD design excellence. It is used to design, simulate, analyze, and manufacture products in a variety of industries. Mar 15, 2021 The built-in CATIA video recorder is an essential tool when working with animations in kinematics, fitting simulator, human modeling, etc. When the default video settings are used, however, the resulting video files are quite large, making them difficult to share through a company. Here’s how to control the video file size in CATIA V5. CATIA - which stands for C omputer A ided T hree-dimensional I nteractive A pplication - is the most powerful and widely used CAD (computer aided design) software of its kind in the world. CATIA is owned/developed by Dassault Systems of France and until 2010, was marketed worldwide by IBM. View CATIA V5 Screen Shots Test-drive CATIA V5. CATIA V5 is Dassault Systems' computer-aided drafting and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software solution that allows you to define and make the tools needed to manufacture products. CATIA is predominately used by design, tooling, and manufacturing engineers, commercial and consumer designers, and users of other CAD/CAM software programs.

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Draft Analysis: Compute the draft angles of all surfaces in a part for use in Injection Molding and Casting processes.

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CATIA File Formats Supported

CATPART, CATPRODUCT, CATDRAWING, CGR, 3DXML
CATIA File Extensions – .catpart, .catproduct, .catdrawing, .cgr, .3dxml

System Requirements

Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10
32-bit and 64-bit systems
1280 X 1024 or higher, with support for 32-bit color
4GB RAM or more

3D CAD Formats Supported

CATIA V5 and V6 Parts and Assemblies
NX, Parasolid, I-DEAS Parts and Assemblies
Creo, and Pro/ENGINEER Parts and Assemblies
SolidWorks Parts and Assemblies
Inventor Parts and Assemblies
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By Iouri Apanovitch, Senior Technical Training Engineer, Rand 3D

Catia V5 Vs Solidworks

The built-in CATIA video recorder is an essential tool when working with animations in kinematics, fitting simulator, human modeling, etc. When the default video settings are used, however, the resulting video files are quite large, making them difficult to share through a company.

Here’s how to control the video file size in CATIA V5.

Before starting the recording, select (Setup) icon to open the Video Properties dialog box, at the top of which you will see the Format pull-down list.

The default VFW Codec option records the video in an uncompressed AVI file. It provides the best video quality, at the cost of a very large file size. A one-minute-long video can be as large as 2Gb or more.

The DirectShow option lets you create smaller, MPEG-compressed files. Select the Movie tab and click Compressor Setup button to open the compression options.

If you don’t see the two compression options shown above (DV Video Encoder and MJPEG Compressor), it means that you need to install the codecs. To do that, run the file 3DSMJPEGVFWSetup.exe located in the codebin sub-folder of the CATIA install directory.

Using either of the two codecs creates smaller files, of course at the cost of quality. The MJPEG Compressor results in the smallest files.

You can also use the Rate in Frames per Second (FPS) setting to further reduce the file size. However, be aware the very low FPS rate may result in your video appearing ‘jerky.’

Lastly, you can use either Area or Fixed Area options to limit the captured area and to reduce the file size even further.

The final recommendation – test the settings by yourself on a sample recording, to make sure you hit the right balance between the video quality and the file size.

About the Author

Catia V5 Drawing

Iouri’s primary area of expertise is product analysis and simulation with FEA tools such as SIMULIA/Abaqus, Autodesk Simulation, Mechanica, including linear and non-linear simulations, dynamics, fatigue, and analysis of laminated composites.