CATIA
CATIA
CATIA
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
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
Product Structure
Part Design
Assembly Design
Sketcher
Drafting (Interactive and
Generative)
Wireframe and Surface
Freestyle Shaper
Digital Shape Editor
Knowledgeware
Photo Studio
4D Navigator (including
kinematics)
Manufacturing
Finite Element Analysis
Current
Application
Menu Bar
Online Help
File Toolbar
Application
Tool Bar
View Toolbar
Selecting an Application
Display Commands
Fly Through
Fit View
Layer control
Pan
Rotate
Zoom
Normal View
Standard Views
View Types: Shaded/
Hidden Line/ Wireframe/
User Defined
Hide/ Show
Hide
Swap Visible Space
Properties
Lecture 1
Pan
Rotate
Zoom
Copy/ Paste
Geometry entities can be
copied and pasted from one
part to another.
Paste Special allows you to:
Paste a complete copy
with history
Paste a linked copy
Paste the result without
linking
Undo/ Redo
Allows you to undo previous
actions
Redo repeats an action that
has been undone
Hide/ Show
Update
Lecture 1
Lecture 1
Base Features
Pad
Pocket
Shaft
Slot
Hole
Groove
Dress-up Features
Fillets
Chamfers
Transformation Features
Reference Elements
Point
Line
Plane
Draft Shell
Thickness
Translation
Rotation
Mirror
Pattern
Scale
Geometry Operations
Constraint Creation
Tools Toolbar
Geometry Creation
Snap to point
Construction Geometry
Constraint
1.
2.
3.
4.
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Dimension
Up To Next
Up To Last
Up To Plane
5.
6.
7.
Lecture 2
Move Toolbar
Manipulate
Snap
Explode and Assembly
Constraints Toolbar
Coincidence
Contact
Offset
Angular
Anchor
Fix Together
Mating Conditions
Contact Constraints
1.
2.
3.
4.
Warning
If you copy a.CATProduct file it will still point to the original part
files
Boolean Operations
Transforming Parts
Assigning Materials
Calculating Mass Properties
Tools->Options->Infrastructure->Product Structure
Specification Tree -> Parameters
Wireframe Toolbar
Create Point
Create Line
Create Plane
Create Projections
Create Intersections
Create Circle
Create Spline
Corner
Create Parallel Curves
Create Boundary Curves
Surface Toolbar
Extrude Surfaces
Surface of Revolution
Offset Surface
Sweep Surface
Create Filling Surface
Loft Surface
Blend Surface
Extract Geometry
Operations Toolbar
Transformations Toolbar
Join
Split, Trim
Transform
Tools Toolbar
Update
Axis
Snap to Point
Translate
Rotate
Create Symmetry
Scale
Affinity (irregular scaling)
Views Toolbar
Automatic Dimension
Creation
Auto-dimension
Semi-Automatic Dimensions
Geometry Creation
Point
Line
Circle
Arc
Profile
Curve
Pre-Define Profiles
Relimitations Toolbar
Corner
Chamfer
Trim
Break
Annotation
Transformations Toolbar
Text
Symbols
Dimensions Toolbar
Create Dimension
Create Tolerance
Dress up Toolbar
Centreline
Thread
Axis
Fill
Arrow
Create a
new
Drawing
using File
-> New
Select the
drawing
Format
and Scale
Mesh Specification
Toolbar
Restraints Toolbar
Create Clamp
Create Slider
Create Ball Joint
Loads Toolbar
Equipment Toolbar
Create Pressure
Create Distributed Force
Create Acceleration
Compute Toolbar
Image Toolbar
Visualise
Visualise
Visualise
Visualise
Deformations
Von Mises Stresses
Displacements
Principle Stresses
Analysis Toolbar
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Visualise Results