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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have probably used the Inertia measure function in CATIA to get mass and inertia measures but did you know that you can automate those measurements as well?  The inertia object that you may use in your programs works just like the interactive command and provides all the same capabilities you are used to.  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=476&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got the idea for this article from a reader of this blog.  He sent me an email asking what would be the best way to extract some information from thousands of drawings in an automated way.  That information in his scenario is the value of a handful of parameters that are attached to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=464&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Announcement) New Learning Series topic added today &#8211; Loops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick announcement that I added a new topic to the learning series today discussing loops.  This topic discusses important techniques for using loops and includes many example code snippets that you can run in CATIA to practice and better understand the concepts.  Check it out! Understanding the Visual Basic language Loops &#60;&#8211; New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=456&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working with restricted interfaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often times when coding in VBA, you may get an error message that says, “Function or interface marked as restricted, or the function uses an Automation type not supported in Visual Basic.”  In this article, I will explain the reason for this error and present a good strategy to deal with it. When does the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=445&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten compelling reasons to develop your code in VBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There certainly are many choices for code development tools at your disposal out there.  Visual Basic is the most popular language for CATIA automation programming but it has many flavors such as VBScript, VBA, VB6 and VB.NET and each has its own development environment / editing tools.  I use all of these tools at different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=422&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Announcement) New Learning Series topic added today &#8211; Arrays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick announcement that I added a new topic to the learning series today discussing arrays.  Check it out! Understanding the Visual Basic language Arrays &#60;&#8211; New topic added today General programming principles Understanding the CATIA object model For more information, visit the Learning Series page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=418&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Announcement) Learning series started today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to a series of articles aimed at transforming those who are new or inexperienced CATIA V5 automation programmers into very proficient ones.  There are a lot of people out there who want to learn how to program CATIA V5 but never do because it they are so busy with their primary job role which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=409&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developing proper names to use in product relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing proper names to use in product relations In the last article, I introduced some scenarios where you need to develop the proper name of an object to use in a part relation. This article follows up by discussing some other scenarios where the relation is created in a product and refers to various objects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=346&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developing proper names to use in part relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 01:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when you may need to create a relation (formula, rule, law, etc.) using automation.  CATIA refers to parameters, geometry and other objects inside those relations based on their name so to accomplish this you will need to understand how to develop those names properly.  There are many different ways to express the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=332&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CATIA V5 programming fundamentals &#8211; Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I frequently get asked all kinds of questions about the best way to learn to write CATIA automation scripts.  I also get a lot of questions about how to do things that are actually very straightforward.  There are similar types of questions all over the web.  Don’t get me wrong, questions are good – I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=v5vb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10506247&amp;post=325&amp;subd=v5vb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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