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Employability Skills for Automobile and Aeronautical Industry

Amity Institute of Technology

Dr. Anil Kumar

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Module I: CAD (based on any one of the Software Creo/CATIA)

Contents

Descriptors/Topics
Sketching; Part Modelling; Assembly; Kinematic Simulation

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Difference between CATIA and Creo (Essentially, Both are software engineers can use
to design, virtually construct and
analyse products.)
CATIA (Costlier than Creo) Creo
• Make- French company “Dassault • Make-PTC Product (Parametric
Systems Product” and marketed by Technology Corporation) (formerly
IBM. known as Pro/ENGINEER, Co
• CATIA is a competitor for Create, and Product View.)
Unigraphics • CREO is more of a competitor
• This software is very popular CAD of SolidWorks
software and it has more commands • This is also a very good software.
than Creo. the user interface of this the part modelling in this software is
software is excellent. SURFACING very good. Draft command is
environment is excellent in CATIA. excellent. the core companies use
Most of the companies which works Creo like Whirlpool etc. Creo play a
on plastic engineering prefer Catia. main role to establishing
Even the automobile companies manufacturing plant. Automation,
prefer CATIA, Aeronautical, robotic, assembly line, and complete
Automotive, Shipping Industry & industry Establishment.
industry like turbine engine
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CATIA 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
❑ Based on Variational/ Parametric technology
❑ Encourages design flexibility and design reuse
❑ Supports Knowledge Based Design

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CATIA v5 Philosophy
• A Flexible Modelling environment
❑ Ability to easily modify models, and implement design changes
❑ Support for data sharing, and data reuse
• 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
• 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.

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CATIA v5 Applications
• Product Structure • Freestyle Shaper
• Part Design • Digital Shape Editor
• Assembly Design • Knowledgeware
• Sketcher • Photo Studio
• Drafting (Interactive and • 4D Navigator (including
Generative) kinematics)
• Wireframe and Surface • Manufacturing
• Finite Element Analysis

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CATIA User Interface

Menu Bar Current
Application

Application
Tool Bar

File Toolbar
View Toolbar
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A new Part Design workbench file

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The Sketcher workbench is a set of tools that helps you create and constrain 2D geometries.
Features (pads, pockets, shafts, etc...) may then be created solids or modifications to solids
using these 2D profiles. You can access the Sketcher workbench in various ways.
Two simple ways are by using the top pull down menu (Start – Mechanical Design –
Sketcher), or
by selecting the Sketcher icon.
Choose a plane to sketch on.
To exit the sketcher, select the Exit Workbench icon.

The Sketcher workbench contains the following standard workbench specific toolbars.

•Profile toolbar: The commands located in this toolbar allow you to create simple geometries
(rectangle, circle, line, etc...) and more complex geometries (profile, spline, etc...).
•Operation toolbar: Once a profile has been created, it can be modified using commands
such as trim, mirror, chamfer, and other commands located in the Operation toolbar.
•Constraint toolbar: Profiles may be constrained with dimensional (distances, angles, etc...)
or geometrical (tangent, parallel, etc...) constraints using the commands located in the
Constraint toolbar.

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• User Selection Filter toolbar: Allows you to activate different selection filters.

• Visualization toolbar: Allows you to, among other things to cut the part by the sketch plane
and choose lighting effects and other factors that influence how the part is visualized.

• Tools toolbar: Allows you to, among others things, to analyze a sketch for problems, and
create a datum.

• The Sketch tools Toolbar: The Sketch tools toolbar contains icons that activate and deactivate
different work modes. These work modes assist you in drawing 2D profiles. Reading from left
to right, the toolbar contains the following work modes; (Each work mode is active if the icon
is orange and inactive if it is blue.)

 Grid: This command turns the sketcher grid on and off.

 Snap to Point: If active, your cursor will snap to the intersections of the grid lines. .

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 Construction / Standard Elements: You can draw two different types of elements in
CATIA a standard element and a construction element.

*A standard element (solid line type) will be created when the icon is inactive
(blue). It will be used to create a feature in the Part Design workbench.

*A construction element (dashed line type) will be created when the icon is active
(orange). They are used to help construct your sketch, but will not be used to create
features.

 Geometric Constraints: When active, geometric constraints will automatically be

applied such as tangencies, coincidences, parallelisms, etc...

 Dimensional Constraints: When active, dimensional constraints will automatically

be applied when corners (fillets) or chamfers are created, or when quantities are
entered in the value field. The value field is a place where dimensions such as line
length and angle are manually entered

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•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

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Entering the sketcher • Geometry Operations

Click on the Sketcher icon
or select Start -> Mechanical
Design -> Sketcher • Constraint Creation
Exiting from the Sketcher
Click on the Exit icon to
leave the sketcher and return to • Tools Toolbar
the 3D workspace
Geometry Creation – Snap to point
– Construction Geometry
– Constraint

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• The Sketcher is a parametric design tool

• It allows you to quickly draw the approximate shape of a design, and then
assign constraints to complete the shape definition
• Constraints can be applied as:
– Driving Dimensions – dimensions that control
the size of a geometric entity
– Geometric Constraints – geometric
relationships such as parallel, perpendicular,
tangent, collinear

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1. Click on the Sketcher icon 4. Apply constraints to define the

2. Select the 2D plane to sketch exact geometry required
on (may be a plane, or the face
of an existing part), and the
sketching window will appear
3. Sketch the profile

4. Click on the exit icon to quit the

sketcher
5. Sketch is transferred into the
3D modelling environment

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• 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)
• If the sketch goes purple while you are constraining it is over-
constrained. Generally it is best to Undo the last constraint and
examine existing constraints to find the problem before
continuing
• Solids can only be created from sketches that form a single
closed boundary
• The profile icon allows you to create complicated profiles
including lines and arcs. See the online help for more
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1. Click on the Pad icon to 4. Select the limit type from:

create an extruded part – Dimension
– Up To Next
2. Select the sketch containing
– Up To Last
the profile you want to – Up To Plane
extrude (note the sketch is 5. Type in the length if required
treated as a single entity) 6. Check the extrude direction
3. The Pad definition window arrow
will appear 7. Click on OK to create the
Part

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