Catia V5 Lecture Notes
Catia V5 Lecture Notes
Catia V5 Lecture Notes
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Lecture Notes
On
CATIA (Software)
Prem Kumar Soni
Asst. Prof.
LNCT Bhopal
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CONTENT
1. Lecture 1 3. Lecture 3
Introduction Wireframe and Surface
Software Overview Drafting
Part Design and
Sketching 4. Lecture 4
2. Lecture 2 Finite Element Analysis
Product Structure and Data Exchange
Assembly Parameters and
Modelling Formulas
More advance Part
Design
Overview
CATIA v5 is an Integrated Computer Aided Engineering
tool:
Incorporates CAD, CAM, CAE, and other applications
Completely re-written since CATIA v4 and still under
development
CATIA v5 is a native Windows application
User friendly icon based graphical user interface (GUI)
Based on Variational/ Parametric technology
Encourages design flexibility and design reuse
Supports Knowledge Based Design
Philosophy of CATIA V5
1. A Flexible Modelling environment
Ability to easily modify models, and implement design
changes
Support for data sharing, and data reuse
2. Knowledge enabled
Capture of design constraints, and design intent as well as
final model geometry
Management of non-geometric as well as geometric design
information
3. The 3D Part is the Master Model
Drawings, Assemblies and Analyses are associative to the 3D
parts. If the part design changes, the downstream models with
change too.
CATIA v5 Applications
Product Structure Freestyle Shaper
Online Help
Application
Tool Bar
File Toolbar
Display Commands
Hide/ Show
Fly Through
Hide
Fit View
Swap Visible Space
Layer control
Pan Properties
Rotate Display Characteristics for an
Zoom object are set by selecting the
Normal View entity, then pressing the right
mouse button and selecting
Standard Views
Properties from the menu
View Types: Shaded/ Hidden
Line/ Wireframe/ User Defined
Getting Help
The online help library can be accessed by selecting
the Help -> Contents, Index and Search command
The Help home page provides a search facility, and
allows you to browse by application.
Every CATIA task has a getting started guide
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Lecture 1
Getting Help from the CATIA
Community
For general information about CATIA from IBM and Dassault
Systemes refer to:
www.catia.com
Part Design
The Part Design application is used to create solid
models of parts
Solid parts are usually created from 2D profiles that
are extruded or revolved to form a base feature
The Part Design task is tightly integrated with a 2D
sketching tool
A library of features is provided to allow user to add
additional details to a base part
Parts can be modified by selecting their features in the
specification tree
Parts are stored in files with the extension .CATPart
Part Design
Base Features Dress-up Features
Translation
Rotation
Point Mirror
Line Pattern
Scale
Plane
Sketcher
The sketcher is used to create 2D sketches of designs,
and apply constraints to the sketched geometry
The sketcher is now the main environment for
developing 2D profiles that will be used to build solid
models (but traditional 2D wireframe techniques are
available in the Wireframe and Surface application)
The sketcher provides a flexible environment for
creating and modifying 2D geometry
Sketcher
Geometry Operations
Entering the sketcher
Click on the Sketcher icon or
select Start -> Mechanical
Design -> Sketcher Constraint Creation
Sketching Example
1. Click on the Sketcher icon 4. Apply constraints to define the
2. Select the 2D plane to sketch on exact geometry required
(may be a plane, or the face of an
existing part), and the sketching
window will appear
3. Sketch the profile
Sketching Tips
To edit an existing sketch ensure that you select the sketch from the
specification tree, or select an element in the sketch. (If you do not
do this you will create a new sketch instead of modifying the
existing one)
Solids can only be created from sketches that form a single closed
boundary
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Modifying a Part
All parts created in Part Design can be edited at any time in the life
of the part
The parameters used to create a feature can be accessed by double
clicking on the feature definition in the product specification tree or
on the part geometry
For example to change the height of a pad you should double click
on the pad node in the specification tree.
The original feature dialogue will appear on the screen
When you have modified the feature parameters the part will
automatically update. The part turns red briefly to indicate that it
is out of date
Assembly Design
The Assembly Design application allows you to
create a product model from a number of separate
parts
The parts in a product assembly are not joined
together, but assembled as they would be in a
physical assembly
The product assembly structure is hierarchical and
allows you to model complex product relationships
Constraints can be applied between the parts in
assembly to define relationships between them
Assembly Design
Product Structure Tools Move Toolbar
To copy an entire assembly use File -> Save All As… , specify a new location for the
.CATProduct file, then click on the Propagate button.
Transforming Parts
Solid features can be transformed using the transform
functions
Assigning Materials
To Assign a material click on the Materials Icon on the
toolbar
Select a material from the material library
Click on the part you wish to assign the material to,
1. then click on Apply Material and OK. The material
will appear on the properties branch in the spec tree
Note: You may need to change the option settings
To make the parameters branch of the specification
tree visible. To do this select
Tools->Options->Infrastructure->Product Structure
Specification Tree -> Parameters
Create Point
Create Line
Extrude Surfaces
Create Plane Surface of Revolution
Create Projections Offset Surface
Create Intersections Sweep Surface
Create Circle Create Filling Surface
Create Spline Loft Surface
Corner
Blend Surface
Create Parallel Curves
Extract Geometry
Create Boundary Curves
Translate
Join
Rotate
Split, Trim
Create Symmetry
Transform
Scale
Tools Toolbar
Affinity (irregular scaling)
Update
Axis
Work with Support
Snap to Point
Create Datum (deactivate History)
Generative Drafting
The Generative Drafting Application allows you to
create engineering drawings from parts or assemblies
Generative Drafting automatically lays out
orthographic projections of a part onto a drawing sheet
Traditional Drafting functions can be used to annotate
the drawing layout
Drawings are stored in files with the extension
.CATDrawing
Generative Drafting
Views Toolbar Automatic Dimension
Creation
Interactive Drafting
Allows you to create engineering drawings without
first creating a 3D part
Provides 2D drawing functionality to create geometry
layouts
Provides dimension and dress-up facilities for drawing
annotation
Can be used to add additional information to a drawing
created using Generative Drafting
Interactive Drafting
Geometry Creation Relimitations Toolbar
Point
Corner
Line
Chamfer
Circle
Trim
Arc
Profile Break
Curve Annotation
Pre-Define Profiles
Transformations Toolbar
Text
Symbols
Translate, Rotate, Scale, Mirror
Interactive Drafting
Dimensions Toolbar Dress up Toolbar
Drafting Example
The drawing sheet will appear
Create a new on the screen
Drawing using
File -> New…
Select the
drawing
Format and
Scale
Drafting Example
Use File -> Open… to open the
3D part you want to generate a
drawing from
It is useful to arrange the screen
so that you can see both views
before continuing
Use the View Creation toolbar to A preview of the view will
create a new view appear in the corner of the 3D
window
Click on the drawing sheet to
generate the view
Click on the Front View icon,
then select a plane on the 3D
model to specify the view
orientation
Drafting Example
You can generate orthographic Sections and detail views can
projects from an existing view also be generated from existing
using the Projection View icon views
Check the online help for more information about the types of entities
that can be translated
Use File -> Save As… , then select the desired type in
the Save As Type box to export a file in an external
format
Exported geometry does not have any history
associated with it
Check the online help for more information about the
types of entities that can be translated
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Lecture 3
Create Clamp
Local Mesh Size
Create Slider
Create Connections
Create Ball Joint
Create Virtual Parts
Loads Toolbar
Equipment Toolbar
Create Pressure
Created distributed and lumped Create Distributed Force
masses Create Acceleration
Analysis Toolbar
5. Visualise Results
Knowledge Advisor
CATIA stores information about a part in form of
parameters
Formula function – allows you to create new
parameters and create relationships between existing
parameters.
Rules function – allows you to define design rules
relating to design parameters in a part or product
Parameters and Relations are displayed in the
specification tree
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