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2012-Lab11 - Structure Design PDF
2012-Lab11 - Structure Design PDF
Structure Design
Detailed Steps
Table of Contents
Boring Fixture..............................................................................................................................................3
Step (1): Create a Grid.............................................................................................................................4
Step (2): Place Members..........................................................................................................................5
Step (3): Create Planar Elements...........................................................................................................16
Step (4): Create Joints...........................................................................................................................22
Step (5): Modify Your Design.................................................................................................................22
Boring Fixture
The intent of the first part of this “step-by-step” exercises book is to let you practice the various ways of
using the Structure Design workbench for designing jig, foundation or other tooling. The other part of the
exercises book will enable you to enrich your tooling with using catalog parts and extract documents like
BOMs or drawings.
Next we will place members (beams) using the grid as support. If you don’t succeed in creating the grid in
step1, open Boring_Fixture CATProduct stored in …\Data_Student\Step2 directory.
6. Click on OK.
16. Modify the definition of the other infill to be created as shown below.
20. Place Beam_7 as shown below using intersection points of the grid.
21. Place Beam_8 as shown below using intersection points of the grid.
22. Define a new direction and a length value for the next two beams.
23. Place Beam_9 as shown below using intersection point of the grid as start point.
24. Place Beam_10 as shown below using intersection point of the grid as start point.
30. Key-in 1500 in the Offset field or slide the Offset handler.
31. Repeat on the right side with a Top Left anchor point.
32. Hide the grid.
We will now place all the plates, end plates and gussets using the Plate and End Plate menus.
If you don’t succeed in placing members in step2, open Boring_Fixture CATProduct stored in
…\Data_Student\Step3 directory.
We would like now instantiate both right and left gussets 4 times. To do that, as Structural plates are
CATPart, we will use the Assembly Design workbench.
34. Select the support for the plates as shown in the picture below.
35. Key-in 20 for Thickness.
And to finish with plates, we will place now the two end plates on top of the vertical beams.
We will now cut all the beams using the Join menu. If you don’t succeed in creating planar elements in
step3, open Boring_Fixture CATProduct stored in …\Data_Student\Step4 directory.
This last exercise will enable us to modify interactively the boring fixture by stretching the grid-support.
We will first insert the Boring_Fixture CATProduct in the Boring_Jig main product.
2. Look in Step5.
17. Move Boring_Fixture to reach the edge of the base plate of Base product as shown below.