What you'll learn:
- Learn automation strategies for design optimization
- CAD automation tasks via Python scripts
- How to use online documentation for trouble shooting
- Develop a self-proposed project
- Access to CATIA objects
- Use the CATIA workbenches and commands through python
Automate CATIA with Python – Generate Simulation-Ready Geometry for CAE and FEA
Stop wasting hours on repetitive modeling tasks in CATIA. Learn how to automate geometry creation, sketching, and part design using Python, and unlock the full power of one of the world’s leading CAD platforms.
This course shows you how to streamline your CATIA workflows, reduce errors, and create simulation-ready geometries for use in CAE and FEA software such as ANSYS Mechanical, Abaqus, SIMULIA, Altair HyperMesh, MSC Nastran, Siemens Simcenter, and Autodesk Inventor Nastran. You’ll also learn how to generate CATIA outputs for CFD tools like STAR-CCM+, Fluent, and OpenFOAM for end-to-end simulation automation.
No Visual Basic or Excel macros required — this course focuses exclusively on Python, the most versatile and accessible scripting language in engineering automation.
What You’ll Learn
Automate repetitive design tasks and speed up 3D modeling in CATIA
Generate parametric geometries ready for meshing and simulation
Customize CATIA workflows to meet project and industry requirements
Integrate CATIA with CAE software such as ANSYS, Abaqus, and HyperMesh
Access and control advanced CATIA features using Python scripting
Strengthen your Python skills for engineering, design, and manufacturing automation
Course Structure Overview
Introduction – Course overview, setup, and environment configuration
Automating Sketches – Script 2D sketches and geometric constraints
Hybrid Bodies Creation – Build reference geometries in Generative Shape Design
Part Design Operations – Automate the creation of 3D solids and features
Surface Modeling – Generate and control advanced surface models with Python
Scripting with PyCATIA – Real-world examples for automated component generation
All Python scripts demonstrated in this course are provided for download and can be reused in your own projects.
Why Take This Course
Eliminate manual modeling tasks and save hours per design iteration
Produce clean, consistent models ready for CFD and FEA simulation
Improve interoperability between CATIA, ANSYS, Abaqus, and HyperMesh
Enhance your technical skill set with practical Python-based CAD automation
Increase your efficiency, accuracy, and career potential in engineering design
Enroll today and take control of CATIA through Python automation.
Create better models, faster — and seamlessly prepare them for simulation in the leading CAE and FEA platforms.
