Catia Sheet Metal Design PDF
Catia Sheet Metal Design PDF
Catia Sheet Metal Design PDF
Preface
What's New?
Getting Started
Basic Tasks
Workbench
Description
Customizing
Glossary
Index
Tasks
Choose the Sheet Metal Design item from the Start menu.
The Sheet Metal toolbar is displayed and ready to use.
You may add the Sheet Metal Design workbench to your Favorites, using the Tools -> Customize
item. For more information, refer to CATIA V5 - Infrastructure User's Guide.
Defining the Sheet Metal Parameters
This task shows you how to configure the sheet metal parameters.
icon .
2. Select the left edge.
The Wall Definition
dialog box opens.
By default, the Material Side is set to the outside and the Sketch Profile to the
top.
4. Reverse the Sketch Profile.
5. Click OK.
The wall is created.
CATIA displays this creation in the specification tree:
8. Press OK to validate.
9. Select the Wall on Edge icon again.
10. Select the front edge.
The Wall Definition
dialog box opens with
the parameters
previously selected.
11. Enter 30 mm in the Length field.
12. Press OK to validate.
13. Relimit the last wall:
Select
Sketch.4
Place the
cursor and
right-click on
the top
edge: the
contextual
menu is
displayed.
Select
Mark.1
object ->
Isolate
Click the top
edge left
extremity
and drag it
10 mm to
the right
Click the top
edge right
extremity
and drag it
10 mm to
the left
2. Click the
Sketcher icon
Cutout icon .
The Pocket
Definition dialog
box is displayed
and CATIA
previews a cutout
with default
parameters.
2. Click this icon again to refold the part for the next task.
Extracting Drawings
from the Sheet Metal Part
This task shows how to create the Sheet Metal Part views in the Drafting workbench.
This icon is added to the Drafting toolbar providing the Sheet Metal workbench is present.
Theme
Managing the Default Parameters
This section explains and illustrates how to use or modify various kinds of
features.
The table below lists the information you will find.
Using Sheet Metal Design assumes that you are in a CATPart document.
Editing the Sheet and Tool
Parameters
This section explains how to change the different sheet metal parameters.
Physically, the neutral fiber represents the limit between the material
compressed area inside the bend and the extended area outside the bend.
Ideally, it is represented by an arc located inside the thickness and centered
on the bend axis. Therefore the K Factor always has a value between 0 and
0.5.
When you define the sheet metal parameters, a literal feature defines the
default K Factor, according to the DIN standard:
K = (0.65 + log(R / T) / 2) / 2
This formula can be deactivated or modified using Knowledge Advisor
workbench.
When a bend is created, the bend K Factor and the bend allowance literals
are created.
Two cases may then occur:
If the Sheet Metal K Factor has an activated formula and uses the
default bend radius as input parameter, the same formula is activated
on the bend K Factor with the bend radius as input.
Else the bend K Factor is a formula equal to the Sheet Metal K Factor.
The bend allowance literal is equal to a formula representing the use of the
bend K Factor. This formula is fairly complex and it is strongly recommended
not to delete it.
V = α * (R + k * T) – 2 * (R + T) * tan ( min(π/2,α) / 2)
Though it is possible to deactivate the formula to enter a fixed value.
Finally, the bend flat width is computed from the bend allowance value.
Creating a Sheet Metal Part from an
Existing Solide
This section explains and illustrates how to create and use various kinds of features.
The table below lists the information you will find.
Using Sheet Metal Design assumes that you are in a CATPart document.
Recognizing Thin Part Shapes
This task illustrates how to create a Sheet Metal part using an existing solide.
icon .
2. Indicate a face to be the
reference wall.
The walls are generated from the
Part Design geometry.
The Walls Recognition.1 feature
is added in the tree view.
At the same time, the Sheet Metal parameters are created, deduced from the Part
geometry.
The solide is now a Sheet Metal part. All the features are displayed in the specification tree.
You can modify the parameters and add new features from the Sheet Metal workbench to
complete the design.
Generating Bends from Walls
This task explains two ways to generate the bends in the Sheet Metal part.
The Scenario1.CATPart document is still open from the previous task.
If not, open the Scenario1_2.CATPart document from the \online\samples\sheetmetal directory.
Bends icon .
icon .
The bends are created.
Bend.3 is modified.
Adding a Sheet Metal Feature
This task shows you how to complete the design by adding an oblong wall-cut across the bend area on the unfolded
view.
The Scenario1.CATPart document is still open from the previous task.
If not, open the Scenario1_3.CATPart document from the \online\samples\sheetmetal directory.
5. Activate Part3.
3. Enter 2 mm in the
Radius field, and 3 mm
in the Length field.
icon .
3. Enter 3 mm in the
Radius field, and 8 mm
in the Length field.
.
2. Select a point on the top
face.
The Point Stamp Definition
dialog box opens, providing
default values.
3. Change the value in the
different fields, if need be:
Height H,
Radius R1,
Radius R2,
Angle A,
Diameter D.
4. Click OK to validate.
4. Click OK to validate.
.
2. Select Sketch.4, the curve
previously defined.
The Curve Stamp Definition
dialog box opens, providing
default values.
4. Click OK to validate.
The specification tree indicates
that the curve stamp has been
created.
Surface Stamp
This task shows you how to create a surface stamp by specifying the punch geometrical parameters.
The Stamping.CATPart document is still open from the previous task.
If not, open the Stamping4.CATPart document from the \online\samples\sheetmetal directory.
4. Click OK to validate.
4. Click OK to validate.
The specification tree indicates that
the louver has been created.
Stiffening Rib
This task shows you how to create a stiffness rib by specifying the punch geometrical parameters.
4. Click OK to validate.
The specification tree indicates the
stiffness rib has been created.
Patterning
In this task, you are going to create cutouts according to a pattern.
CATIA allows you to define two types of patterns: rectangular and circular
patterns.
These features make the creation process easier.
Open the Scenario3.CATPart
document from the Samples/sheet
metal directory.
The Sheet Metal part looks like this:
.
The Rectangular Pattern Definition
dialog box is displayed. Each tab is
dedicated to a direction to define the
location of the duplicated feature.
To know more about patterns, refer to CATIA - Part Design User's Guide.
Interoperability
In a CATPart document, you may have Part Design features and Sheet Metal features
according to the following rules:
Part Design features can be created before Sheet Metal features.
a Part Design feature can also be created after Sheet Metal features as long as
the part is in folded view.
in the unfolded view, the Part Design feature will not be displayed.
it is no longer possible to create Sheet Metal features after this last Part Design
feature in folded view.
1. Create
two walls
with an
Automatic
Bend.
2.Switch to
Part
Design
workbench.
3. Launch
the
Sketcher
and draw
an oblique
line in the
yz plane.
4. Click the
icon to
create a
Stiffener.
The CATIA - Sheet Metal Design Version 5 application window looks like this:
Click the hotspots to display the related documentation.
Menu Bar
Toolbars
Menu Bar
The Menu Bar and items which are available in CATIA - Sheet Metal Design
workbench are the standard ones.
The tools and commands are described in the V5 CATIA - Infrastructure User's
Guide.
Refer to the CATIA Menu Bar section.
Toolbars
This section describes the various icons available in the Sheet Metal Design
workbench.
The toolbars are located in the application window border.
The last icon is available whenever you are in the Drafting workbench.
icon
appears
opposite the
Thickness and
Bend radius
fields.
The parameters
are now in gray,
indicating that
you can no
longer modify
the values.
6. Click OK.
The parameter values are updated in the Sheet Metal Parameters dialog box.
7. Click the
Bend Radius
Design Table
icon .
8. Select line 2
and click OK.
The parameter
values are
updated in the
Sheet Metal
Parameters
dialog box.
9. Create a
bend.
The Bend
Definition dialog
box displays a
design table for
the Bend
Radius.
The default
mode, it's to say
the formula:
Bend Radius =
Part Radius is
deactivated.
6. Click OK.
The parameter values are updated in the Sheet Metal Parameters dialog box.
At that time, the parameters Thickness and Bend radius are driven by the design
table.
They are now in gray, indicating that you can no longer modify the values.
Note that if you create a bend, there is no design table: it's the formula which is used.
C
cutout a feature corresponding to an opening through a feature
the shape of the opening corresponds to the extrusion of a profile.
E
extrusion a feature created by extruding a profile and adding thickness
F
flange a feature created by sweeping a profile along a spine
the different flanges available are:
simple and swept flange, hem and tear drop
P
pattern a set of similar features repeated in the same feature or part
profile an opened or closed shape including arcs and lines created by the profile command in the
Sketcher workbench
R
reference wall the first created wall; when unfolding the part, it is the fixed wall.
S
stamp a feature created by embossing sheet metal
the different stamps available are:
point, extruded hole, curve, surface, bridge, louver and stiffening rib.
W
wall a feature created by adding thickness to a profile