CATIA CORE TOOLS Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application MICHEL MICHAUD Mc Graw Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto
CONTENTS Foreword Preface Acknowledgments The Dassault Systemes Success Story xiii xv xvii xix Chapter 1 Getting Started 1 1.1 Launching the Software 1 1.2 Basic File Formats 3 1.3 Resolution 3 1.4 Interface 4 1.5 Basic File Management 8 1.6 Accessing Help 15 1.7 CATIA Setting Files (.CATSettings) 21 1.8 In-Work Behavior 21 1.9 Ergonomics 22 Chapter 2 Basic Settings 23 2.1 Setting Basic Parameters and Options 23 2.2 Units 24 2.3 Sketcher Grid 28 2.4 Drafting Defaults 28 2.5 Customizing the Start Menu 32 2.6 Changing the Language 33 2.7 Icon Size 35 2.8 Toolbars Location Reset 37 2.9 Toolbar Locking 37 Chapter 3 Visualization 39 3.1 Using the Mouse 39 3.2 Using the Transformation Pad 41 3.3 View Toolbar 42 vii
viii CONTENTS 3.4 View Pull-Down Menu 57 3.5 Customized Toolbar 71 3.6 Center Graph and Reframe On Contextual Commands 71 Chapter 4 Rough Overview 73 4.1 Part File Creation 73 4.2 Before Creating the First Sketch: Sketching Methodology 78 4.3 Entering and Exiting a Sketch 83 4.4 Basic Sketching Tools 85 4.5 Sketch Analysis 122 4.6 Constraints 127 4.7 Basic Modeling Tools 141 4.8 Drawing Creation 157 4.9 View Extraction 159 4.10 Printing 169 Chapter 5 Sketcher 173 5.1 Sketch vs. Position Sketch 173 5.2 Profile Definition 177 5.3 Selection Options 198 5.4 Constraints 200 5.5 Operations 204 5.6 Visualization 205 5.7 Extra Tools 208 5.8 Edition of Entities 217 Chapter 6 Part Design 221 6.1 Sketch-Based Features 221 6.2 Dress-Up Features 244 6.3 Surface-Based Features 255 6.4 Transformation Features 259 6.5 Insertions 270 6.6 Boolean Operations 278 6.7 Constraints 283 6.8 Analysis 289 6.9 Extra Tools 292 Chapter 7 Assembly Design 303 7.1 Creating a.catproduct File 303 7.2 Identifying Components 304
CONTENTS ix 7.3 Inserting Components 306 7.4 Displacing Components 309 7.5 Creating Multiple Instances 315 7.6 Constraining Parts 316 7.7 Working in a Part or in a Product 324 7.8 Using a Part Catalog 326 7.9 Organizing the Product Specification Tree 330 7.10 Numbering Parts 331 7.11 Creating Scenes 331 7.12 Saving Products 333 Chapter 8 Drafting 335 8.1 Creating a Drawing File 335 8.2 Drawing Creation Tools 337 8.3 View Creation Tools 341 8.4 View Properties 369 8.5 Updating a Drawing 372 8.6 Dress-Up Tools 374 8.7 Dimensioning 380 8.8 Dimension Edition 402 8.9 Element Generation 406 8.10 Annotations 408 8.11 2-D Drawing 421 8.12 Sheet Background 427 8.13 2-D Component Creation 428 8.14 Using a Catalog 430 8.15 Assembly Drawing 430 8.16 Printing 434 Chapter 9 Generative Shape Design 439 9.1 Reference Elements 439 9.2 Curve Creation Tools 465 9.3 Surface Creation Tools 474 9.4 Curve and Surface Operation Tools 486 9.5 Advanced Functions 497 Chapter 10 DMU Kinematics 501 10.1 Kinematics Considerations 501 10.2 Kinematic Mechanism Creation Sequence 503
x CONTENTS Chapter 11 Functional Tolerancing and Annotations 535 11.1 Make the Appropriate Settings 535 11.2 Create the Necessary Supporting Geometry 543 11.3 Create the Necessary Views for the Representation of the Part 547 11.4 Semantic and Syntactic Annotations 551 11.5 Create Datums and Datum Reference Frames 553 11.6 Create Semantic Dimensions 556 11.7 Create Captures 572 11.8 Check and Edit the Model 578 11.9 Save the Model Properly 579 Chapter 12 Aerospace Sheet Metal Design 581 12.1 Opening the Aerospace Sheet Metal Workbench 581 12.2 Defining Sheet Metal Parameters 583 12.3 Creating Support Web 586 12.4 Creating a Range 587 12.5 Creating a Cut Out 589 12.6 Creating a Joggle 589 12.7 Creating Holes 590 12.8 Creating Stampings 592 12.9 Creating a Pattern 593 12.10 Unfolding/Folding a 3-D Part 595 12.11 Extracting a 2-D Unfolded View 595 Chapter 13 Composites Design 597 13.1 Opening the Composites Design Workbench 597 13.2 Defining Composites Parameters 598 13.3 Preparing the Part 607 13.4 Ply Definition 609 13.5 Ply Rattening 612 13.6 Duplicating Existing Plies 615 13.7 Creating a Solid for the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) 616 13.8 Exporting Rattened Plies 618 Chapter 14 Reverse Engineering 621 14.1 Importing/Exporting a Cloud of Points 622 14.2 Aligning the Scanned Model 624 14.3 Generating Geometry from the Cloud of Points 633
CONTENTS xi Chapter 15 Cool Tools 643 15.1 File Conversion 643 15.2 File Corruption 653 15.3 Basic Feature Recognition 653 15.4 Parameters 655 15.5 Design Table 671 15.6 Catalogs and Libraries 675 15.7 Assembly Skeleton Structure 685 15.8 Power Copy 689 15.9 Customized Toolbars and Commands 695 15.10 Websites 698 15.11 Certification 704 Conclusion 715 Command Index Chapters 717 Command Index Global 729 Index 741