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CAST and FORGED Part Optimiser
CAST and FORGED Part Optimiser
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Overview
Conventions
Getting Started
Entering the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer Workbench
Using the Sew Surface Capability
Using the Advanced Draft Capability
Filleting While Keeping an Edge
User Tasks
Workbench Description
Index
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Overview
This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with Cast and Forged Part Optimizer
product.
This overview provides the following information:
Wireframe and Surface User's Guide: explains how to create wireframe geometry and surfaces.
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Conventions
Certain conventions are used in CATIA, ENOVIA & DELMIA documentation to help you recognize and
understand important concepts and specifications.
Graphic Conventions
The three categories of graphic conventions used are as follows:
Identifies...
estimated time to accomplish a task
a target of a task
the prerequisites
the start of the scenario
a tip
a warning
information
basic concepts
methodology
reference information
information regarding settings, customization, etc.
the end of a task
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Index
Text Conventions
The following text conventions are used:
The titles of CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA documents appear in this manner throughout the text.
Double-click
Shift-click
Ctrl-click
Drag
Drag
Move
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Getting Started
Before getting into the detailed instructions for using Detailed Molded Part Version 5, the following tutorial
aims at giving you a feel as to what you can do with the product. It provides a step-by-step exercise based on
a realistic design scenario showing you how to use key functionalities for creating a complex part.
The main tasks covered in this section are:
Entering the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer Workbench
Using the Sew Surface Capability
Using the Advanced Draft Capability
Filleting While Keeping an Edge
All together, the tasks should take about ten minutes to complete. The final part will look like this:
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The only pre-requisite for this task is to have a current CATIA V5 session running.
1. Select File -> New and then select Part from the dialog box, or click the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer icon
from the Welcome to CATIA V5 dialog box.
The Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench is displayed, ready to use. The commands for creating features are
available to the right of the window.
2. To perform this tutorial, open the GettingStarted.CATPart document. For information on where sample documents
are installed by default, see Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.
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2. Apply the Hide/Show contextual command onto Yellow Surface if it is not visible.
3. Select Blend.1 as the the surface you wish to sew onto the body.
Arrows appear in the geometry, indicating the side where material will be added or kept. Clicking
an arrow reverses the given direction.
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4. Use the Hide/Show contextual command to hide Blend.1. This operation lets you see the faces
to be removed.
5. Click the Faces to remove field, then select the vertical face as shown:
The selected face turns purple.
6. In the Faces to remove field, right-click to select the Tangency propagation contextual
command. All faces tangent to the selected face are now part of the selection, as indicated in the
field and on the part. All of them will be removed.
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7. Click OK to confirm.
Blend.1 is sewn onto the faces. The Sew Surface feature is created.
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In case the icon is not displayed in the workbench, select View -> Toolbars > Advanced Draft
to access it.
The Draft Definition (Advanced) dialog box is displayed as well as an arrow indicating the
default pulling direction (xy plane) in the geometry area.
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2. Specify that you wish to draft two faces from their reflect lines by clicking both icons as shown:
The Faces to draft options are no longer available. Now, three draft modes are proposed.
Draft Modes
The three draft modes available are:
Driving/driven: the angle value you specify for one face affects the angle
value of the second face.
Independent: you specify two angle values that apply to both faces
respectively.
Fitted: you specify a minimum angle value for one side and the application
ensures that both sides are adjusted onto the parting element.
3. Set Fitted.
1st Side
4. To define the first draft angle value, enter 3deg as the minimum draft angle value.
Neutral Element
5. The Neutral Element frame is reserved for the face you wish to draft. Click No selection from
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The application is going to detect the reflect line from this neutral face,
and therefore the face that will be affected by the draft operation.
Pulling Direction
In the Pulling Direction frame, you can notice that the Selection field indicates
that a pulling direction has been defined by default as indicated by the arrow in the
geometry area. If you wish to change this pulling direction, you just need to click
the field and select the element of your choice as the new pulling direction.
Note that contextual commands creating the pulling directions you need are also available
from the Selection field:
If you create any of these elements, the application then displays the corresponding icon in
front of the Selection field. Clicking this icon enables you to edit the element.
Parting Element
7. Click the Parting Element tab to define the parting element.
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8. Check the Use parting element option and select Extrude.2 (the blue surface) as the parting
element.
9. Enter 0.1mm, if not already set, in the Parting Line Adjustment field.
This option adjusts the smoothness of the transition zone on the draft surface. A transition zone
occurs when a neutral element that was driving becomes driven, or vice versa. A zero parting line
adjustment would yield a sharp edge on the draft surface. Usually, the default value (0.1mm) is
most of the time efficient.
2nd Side
10. To define the other side to be drafted, click the 2nd Side tab.
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Neutral Element
11. In the Neutral Element frame, click No Selection from the combo list and select the face as
shown:
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Note that the reflect line of the face you selected as the first side is now displayed in pink.
12. Click OK to confirm. The part now looks like this:
Taking a closer look at the result, you can notice that both sides are adjusted onto Extrude.2.
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In case you wish to know both angle draft values finally used to draft both sides of the part, you can use
the Draft Analysis capability.
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4. Fillet the the edge as shown using 4mm as the radius value and setting the Tangency
propagation mode.
4. To create the variable radius fillet, click the Variable Fillet icon
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12. To preserve this edge from the fillet operation, click More from the dialog box.
You can access aditional options.
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16. Using the Graphic Properties capabilities, color the fillet to make it more visible.
The final part looks like this:
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User Tasks
The different commands available in this workbench are described in Part Design User's Guide
gathered into two chapters:
Basic Tasks
Advanced Tasks
. They are
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Workbench Description
To access the information on the icons and commands available in Cast and Forged Part Optimizer, refer to the
Workbench Description available in Part Design User's Guide
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Index
A
advanced draft features
C
Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench
entering
command
Advanced Draft
Draft Analysis
Edge Fillet
Sew Surface
Variable Fillet
creating
advanced draft features
edge fillet features
sew surface features
variable fillet features
D
Draft Analysis
E
edge fillet features
entering
Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench
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P
Part Design commands
S
sew surface features
V
variable fillet features
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