What are macros in Catia?

How do I record a macro in CATIA?

Select the Tools->Macro->Start Recording… command from the standard menu bar then in the Record Macro dialog box displayed, specify the path of an external file. Press the Start button to start the macro recording. From now on, all the interactions are recorded in the CATScript file you have just specified.

In which programming language CATIA is written?

In the editor, go to Files > Preferences > Settings and choose Files. Here you can choose how you CATScript or catvbs will look in the editor. Personally I prefer not to assign a new editor in CATIA but if you want, you can do it in Tools > Options > General > Macros.

What is Catia automation?

A few examples where automation in CATIA is useful includes creating, analyzing, measuring, modifying, translating, optimizing surfaces, solids, wireframes and other tasks like batch script for the conversion of CAT drawing files to PDF, import of points from an Excel spreadsheet to a 3D CAD model, export of data from …