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Creating the front and end slabs

Creating the front and end slabs - CATIA Tutorial

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Creating the front and end slabs

[Narrator] Now I want to create the slabs for the front and the ends. I'm going to go ahead and hide the two slabs that I've created already. And next step is to go in and sight down the direction you want to create your slab in, which is going to be down the Y. And, before I create that new slab, I need to right mouse click on the compass and I want to take my privilege plane and make it my ZX plane. Once that is set, I can now draw in the planer patch that I need for that front. Next thing I'm going to do is change my distance analysis again, just double click on that. My surface is this. My target is this. The front, select OK and proceed to fit to geometry. I want to fit this to this target. I have really good deviation, less than a quarter of a mil and select OK. Now I want to do the ends. So, once again, I want to sight down and click on my X, right mouse click, this is my YZ plane…

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