Toggles the visual grid on the sketch plane. You can adjust its spacing in the CATIA options under Mechanical Design > Sketcher Snap to Point:
Her real project began as a dare. The university's annual design sprint had a theme: "Make the impossible function." Teams had made bridges that folded, chairs that sang, and bicycles that rode themselves. Maia, a quiet third-year with a knack for seeing geometry where others saw clutter, decided to build a clock that told time by the way light wove through it. catia+v5+sketch+tools
Solid lines that contribute to 3D features like Pads or Pockets. Construction Elements: Toggles the visual grid on the sketch plane
Shortcuts for common shapes like rectangles, oriented rectangles, and elongated holes. Maia, a quiet third-year with a knack for
Her clock's face would not be numbers but petals—twelve overlapping blades that opened and closed with the hour, their intersections scattering slivers of light across a translucent dial. To generate those blades she used sketch tools like a sculptor uses chisels: sketch a base profile, offset to create thickness, use patterning to duplicate with precision. Each blade began as a constrained profile: three splines, two tangencies, a fixed point on the origin. The constraint was her language. It told Maia how the pieces could move relative to each other when the mechanism actuated. Where others saw restrictions, she saw choreography.