An Introduction to CATIA V6 Release 2012 is a collection of tutorials meant to familiarize you with CATIA's Mechanical Design and Shape workbenches. Designed for beginners, this book assumes that you have no previous experience using CATIA.

The book's hands-on approach is designed to get you right into CATIA and start drawing right from the start. You will learn by doing, not just reading. The author helps you explore all the major features of CATIA and directs you to CATIA's online documentation for a more detailed description of the commands when appropriate.

The workbenches covered in this book are; Sketcher, Part Design, Assembly Design, Drafting, Generative Surface Design, and Imagine and Shape.

Preceding each tutorial is a brief description of the workbench, toolbars, and commands to be used and focused on within the tutorial.