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Instead, you should use CATIA’s native Standard Definition editor, which requires running CATIA in admin mode. While an XML file can be opened and modified with any freely available XML editor, or even with a text editor such as Notepad, I do not recommend doing so, because tag names in the standard’s XML file do not necessarily match the drafting attribute names described in the CATIA’s documentation. – What should be the line type and thickness for the cross-section views? How should the fillets be represented? Etc.ĭrawing standards in CATIA are stored in plain XML files.

Generative View Styles: These define how the drawing views are generated from 3D.

Upon installation, CATIA provides several default drafting standards, such as ISO, ANSI, ASME, and JIS.

For example – Which units should be used for the dimensions? How the tolerances should be displayed? What kind of arrows should be used in the dimension lines? How are threaded holes displayed? Etc.

Drafting Standards: These define all the attributes for the default drafting elements used in CATDrawings, such as dimensions, texts, annotations, etc.

There are two categories of drawing standards in CATIA: IMPORTANT: Please make sure you read my previous post first, otherwise a lot of the info below may not make sense.

In this post, I will explain how to use the admin mode to customize drafting standards. In my previous post CATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 1: Setting Up I explained how to set up CATIA to run in admin mode.