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CATIA: Advanced Surface Design: Version 5, Release 20 Student Guide
CATIA: Advanced Surface Design: Version 5, Release 20 Student Guide
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Version 5, Release 20
Student Guide
Revision 1.0
June 2011
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Surface Design Overview........................................... 1-1
Surfacing Tools in CATIA V5 ....................................... 1-3
1.2
1.3
1.4
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2.2
2.3
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2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
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6.3
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11.3
11.4
12.2
12.3
12.4
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Chapter 1
This chapter serves as an overview of wireframe and surface design fundamentals and
the typical surface design process.
9Design Intent
9Tree Organization
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Figure 11
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GSD User
Interface
The interface for the GSD workbench is similar to the Part Design
workbench. The primary difference is that the toolbar options change
to GSD-specific tools, as shown in Figure 12.
Workbench symbol
Sketcher access
Surfaced part
Specification tree
Workbench tools
Prompt
General tools
Figure 12
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When creating solid features, all faces of the feature must be defined
in one step. The intersections of solid features are immediately
calculated and consumed in the model. With surfaces, the contours of
the model can be individually created as separate features. These
multiple surfaces can then be joined to generate a final solid feature.
As a result, simple surfaces have the benefit of being able to yield
complex results.
General Steps
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Figure 13
Once the wireframe geometry has been created, surface features can
be created to define the internal and external boundaries of the
model. Surface features can be created independent from the rest of
the model or by using existing wireframe and surface geometry as a
reference. Common surface types include:
Extruded
Revolved
Spherical
Offset
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Figure 14
Join
Split
Trim
Extract
Transform
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The model shown in Figure 15 uses the Join option to define the
resulting surface shape.
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When you finish creating surface features, you are ready to create
solid geometry. At this point, your model contains a surface
representation of the 3D model. This can be a closed surface or an
open surface depending on your design intent.
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Figure 16
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Surface
Modeling
Methods
Boundary
Slab
Hybrid
Boundary
Figure 17
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Slab
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Figure 18
Figure 19
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Hybrid
Figure 110
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Boundary
Representations
Figure 111
Recommended practices
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Figure 112
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The specification tree can become very long and messy in large
models. You should already be familiar with some techniques to
organize the tree, including inserting and changing geometrical sets to
help separate and order like elements. Renaming features and
geometrical sets also makes updating and investigating a model
easier. The Autosort command is also helpful in managing the
feature order in a geometrical set. Other tools exist to help organize
the specification tree.
Groups
Group created to
only display spline
Expanded group
displays all features
Collapsed Group
Expanded Group
Figure 113
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If a group was the active geometrical set, any new feature added to
the model would not be displayed in the specification tree until the
group was expanded. For example, a point is added to the model, but
not as an input to Group-Geometrical Set.1. The point is not displayed
unless the group node is expanded.
AutoSort
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Figure 114
All new features are now added to the active group. Features can be
removed from the group by right-clicking on the group node and
selecting Edit Group. This only applies to features created in the
Generative Shape Design workbench.
AutoSort is a command that organizes the features in a geometrical
set. When AutoSort is performed on a geometrical set, the features
are reordered by the order in which CATIA updates the features.
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Figure 115
Select a
geometrical set.
Figure 116
Figure 117
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Mask
The ability to create a mask was added to the R16 version of the
Generative Shape Design workbench. A mask is used to simplify the
display of a part model.
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Figure 119
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Figure 120
Figure 121
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You can place the bounding box using the Coordinates or Position &
Dimensions option in the Mask Type pull-down menu, as shown in
Figure 122. With the Coordinates option, you place the box relative
to selected points or vertices from the model.
Figure 122
Figure 123
Only one mask can be active at a time. The symbol of an active mask
displays in red. The active mask is circled in Figure 124.
You can create multiple masks for a single part. CATIA lists all masks
under the Masks node of the specification tree, as shown in
Figure 123.
Figure 124
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Exercise 1a
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Goal
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Figure 128
Design
Considerations
Figure 129
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Figure 130
Design
Considerations
Figure 131
Currently, the NewSurfaces geometrical set contains four fill
surfaces. Later in the exercise, you will develop additional surfaces to
create a complete skin for the Y-Pipe.
5. Hide NewSurfaces.
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Figure 133
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Figure 134
Figure 135
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4. Click
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Design
Considerations
Figure 136
Right-click in
Tangent Dir field
Figure 137
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8. Click
9. Ensure that the two reference planes are visible in the model, as
shown in Figure 138.
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Figure 138
Extremum.1
Extremum.8
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Figure 139
2. Show the NewSurfaces geometrical set.
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Figure 140
4. Click
(Spline) and select the two Extremum points that have
been shown.
Figure 141
6. Click
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Figure 142
2. Click
(Fill) and select the four boundary curves shown in
Figure 143.
Figure 143
3. Show OriginalSurfaces.
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Figure 146
Design
Considerations
Since your goal is to create solid geometry from a surface model, all
surfaces (extrude and fill) need to behave as a single element for a
thick surface feature creation to be successful. To help keep the
geometry organized, you will insert a new geometrical set to hold the
Join feature that will be created in this task.
Name: JoinedSurfaces
1. Select Insert > Geometrical Set and enter the following as shown
in Figure 147:
Figure 147
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2. Click
(Join).
Design
Considerations
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All nine surfaces should be listed in the Join dialog box, as shown in
Figure 149. (Listing order might be different in your model.)
Figure 149
6. Click
. The join is added to the JoinedSurfaces body as
shown in Figure 150.
Figure 150
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Figure 151
3. Use
(Thick Surface) to create a 2mm thick solid from Join.1
in the direction shown in Figure 152.
Figure 152
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4. Select Tools > Hide > All Geometrical Sets to hide all wireframe
and surface geometry that is still shown. The completed model
displays as shown in Figure 153.
Figure 153
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Goal
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9
9
9
Figure 155
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(Extrude) is located in
the Surface toolbar.
Figure 156
(Offset) displays in
the Surfaces toolbar.
Direction arrow
Figure 157
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Body Offset
Figure 158
Wheel Extrude
Figure 159
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Click
to
toggle which portion of the
surface is kept in the Split
operation.
Wheel Offset
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2. Click
(Split). Select Wheel Offset as the element to cut. The
cutting elements are Body Offset, Swept Surface.1, and Base.
The completed split displays as shown in Figure 160.
Split surface
Figure 160
Figure 161
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Figure 162
9. If not already done, hide Body Offset, Base, and Wheel Inside
Split.
10. Split Swept Surface.1. The cutting element is Wheel Outside
Split. The completed split displays as shown in Figure 163.
11. Rename the split as [Body Split].
Body Split
Figure 163
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(Projection) displays
in the Wireframe toolbar.
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Figure 164
Figure 165
7. Hide 1/4 Panel - Door Profile and Front Project Sketch.
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Figure 166
35mm radius
11. Using the Edge Fillet tool place fillets on the edges of the wheel
well as shown in Figure 167.
15mm radius
Figure 167
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Figure 168
Figure 169
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3. Click
in the Group dialog box. The specification tree
displays as shown in Figure 170. Note that only the selected
features display in the group. This tool simplifies the specification
tree.
Figure 170
Figure 171
5. Right-click on Group-Geometrical Set.1 and select Geometrical
Set.1 object > Collapse Group. The specification tree only
displays the features placed in the group.
6. Save the model and close the file.
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Exercise 1c
Using a Mask
In this exercise, you will open a part that contains imported surface
data. You use the mask functionality to create two mask states of the
model. The third and final mask that you create will be used to return
the model to a state that displays all geometry in the part.
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Goal
Figure 172
1. Click
Figure 173
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A bounding box displays around the model. Each side of the box
has a green handle, as shown in Figure 174.
Green handles on each side of the box
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Figure 174
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Figure 175
Figure 176
4. Click
. Note that Mask.1 has been added to the
specification tree.
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Figure 177
2. Click
Figure 178
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Figure 179
Figure 180
2. Save the model and close the file.
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