Mechanical Design

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 2 (SMD)

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Mechanical Design
CATIA - Sheetmetal Design
Designs sheet metal parts in a very intuitive and productive environment

Product overview

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 2 is a new

generation CATIA product dedicated to the
design of SheetMetal parts. Its feature-based
approach offers a highly productive and
intuitive design environment. It allows
concurrent engineering between the folded or
unfolded representation of the part.

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 2 can be

cooperatively used with other current or Enables concurrent engineering between
future applications of CATIA Version 5 like the functional part representation and
part design, assembly design and drawing part representation to be
generation. As sheetmetal design may start manufactured
from scratch or from an existing solid, Delivers dedicated drawing generation
communication between suppliers and capability
contractors is empowered. It includes many Ensures compliance with industry
standard design features,for stamped, standards
bended or rolled parts and compliant with Includes an intuitive, task-optimized, user
E&E and F&A industries requirements. interface
Provides native integration with other
CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 2 offers the same CATIA Version 5 applications
ease of use and user interface consistency as (knowledgeware, part design, machining,
all CATIA V5 applications to drastically reduce drafting...)
training cycle time and unleash designer
creativity. It also provides multiple
interoperability functions with CATIA V4
sheetmetal products. ... Product Key Customer Benefits

Tools Dedicated to Sheetmetal

Product Highlights CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 product is
dedicated to the design of sheet metal parts.
Dedicated tools for sheet metal Its features-based approach offers a highly
feature-based modeling productive and intuitive design environment.
Simultaneously work with folded and
unfolded representation of the
part Folding/unfolding capabilities

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The CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 product give generated using the CATIA Generative
users the ability to carry out the Drafting. CATIA Generative Drafting is
folding/unfolding of a sheetmetal part automatically enhanced with some new
features when used with CATIA Sheetmetal
Feature-based Modeling Design 2. The generated unfolded view for
CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 provides sheet example includes the representation of bend
metal-specific features most commonly used axes,value and radius, line for
in the industry. SMD provides general features upward/downward bends and stamps, and
such as cut out stamps, holes and flanges for annotation in the drawing as well. The folded
complex parts; dedicated features for bended view can be also added in the same sheet.
part such as wall, wall on edge, bend, The generated drawings are completely
extrude, and for rolled parts, rolled wall and associative with the original design.
hopper features. Rather than having to deal
with plain geometry, sheet metal designers Compliant with Industry Standards
can work in the language they already know.
CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 permits creation Deformation of the material during folding and
of associative features on both folded and unfolding process can be managed through
unfolded representations of the part. A cutout the access to company defined bending
performed, for example, on the unfolded tables that includes the definition of bend
representation of the part will automatically radius, allowance and sheet thickness and
and simultaneously be reflected on the folded stamping tools tables. This allows the user to
representation. This can be done at any time verify the design compliance with the
during design creation and without any company-defined standards and to ensure the
prerequisite operation. With a the design quality. Using the CATIA Generative
folding/unfolding features we can work on Drafting product, designers can also extract
partiel unfolded state of the [Link] global documents in DXF format (the AutoCAD ASCII
design into manufacturing process can be format) for such downstream applications as
optimized thanks to standardization features nesting and cutting.
such as user defined stamps
Intuitive User Interface
Concurrent Engineering
Thanks to the unique CATIA Sheetmetal
CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 enables Design 2 multi-body capabilities, designers
concurrent engineering between the functional can decompose parts following a logical
shape of the part (as defined though the initial representation, thus simplifing partbodies
requirements) and the definitive shape exchange and enabling a better
including manufacturing constraints. The user understanding of the design. CATIA
can start a design from an existing solid (for Sheetmetal Design 2 provides the user with a
example provided by his contractor) and sketcher that allows rapid definition and
identify walls, bends and cutouts from the edition of sheet metal part profiles. It also
geometry. This capability is enabled by the offers an intuitive Sheetmetal Structure Editor
auto recognition and auto-bend features. If a that considerably eases design understanding
change is performed in the conceptual design, and design changes. These capabilities
the detailed design will be automatically perform in exactly the same way than in
updated. Using CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2, CATIA Part Design, which ensures a rapid
the communication between suppliers and learning curve.
contractors is thus empowered.
Integrated With Other CATIA Version 5
Dedicated Drawing Capability Applications

In the context of the Sheetmetal part, a CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 is natively

drafting view of the part can be automatically integrated with other CATIA Version 5

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applications 5, such as knowledgeware,
part design, machining and drafting. On
top of CATIA Part Design or CATIA
Generative Drafting, CATIA Sheetmetal
Design 2 can also benefit from the power
of the CATIA Knowledgeware product
family. All sheet metal specifications can
be captured to build, manage and reuse
the corporate knowledge of the company
and thus increase the quality of the design
while at the same time reducing the time to
market.

Compatible with CATIA Version 4 Data And

Applications

Parts created in V5 can be used in CATIA

V4 (Release 2.0 Refresh 1 or later) for
downstream applications such as analysis
and manufacturing. V4 designs can be
migrated in V5. For example, V5 sheet
metal feature recognition can be applied to
a V4 solid design

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