### Working with CATIA Captures

The CATIA v5 and later versions of the CATIA software provide the ability to add "captures" directly into the CATIA part model. Captures store visibility, view orientation, translation, and scaling information of CAD elements. Generally, captures are also used to make many GD&T elements readable on the model.

Planner 2010 MR3 and later provides you with tools to work with these captures inside the Graphics Display window. The captures are supported through the CATIA v5 DCT and DCI.

Portion of a CATIA Model Showing Captures (the GD&T or other text-like CAD elements)

PC-DMIS Planner adds the CATIA Captures into the View Setup dialog box providing you with the ability to orient the view to desired captures.

Using the View Setup dialog box to Orient the Screen View to Captures

The drop-down lists in the View Setup dialog box hold the view orientations associated with the captures.

The View Setup Dialog Box Showing Captures in a drop-down list

You can orient the screen to a CATIA capture by simply selecting it from the drop down list on the desired colored view or views. Click Apply to preview the orientation change. When you click OK, the orientation for that view will change to that capture.

For information on the other View Setup dialog box operations, see the "Setting Up the View" topic.