Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant: CATIA V5 Training

Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant
Student Notes:
CATIA V5 Training
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Prismatic Machining
Preparation
Assistant
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Version 5 Release 19
January 2009
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About this course

Student Notes:
Objectives of the course

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Define 2.5 Axis Milling operations in CATIA V5
- Create prismatic machinable features
- Form a link between Design and Manufacturing
Targeted audience
NC Programmers
Prerequisites
Students attending this course should have knowledge of CATIA V5
Fundamentals, Numerical Control Infrastructure, Prismatic Machining
4 hours

Student Notes:
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
About Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant 5
Accessing the Workbench and the Toolbar 6
Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant: User Interface 7
Global Feature Recognition 8
Global Feature Recognition: General Process 9
Global Feature Recognition: Basic Options 10
Global Feature Recognition: Advanced Options 18
Global Feature Recognition: Automatic Pattern Creation 19
Local Feature Recognition 20
Local Feature Recognition: General Process 21
Automatic Pattern Creation for machinable Axial Features 22
Results of the Global/Local Feature Recognition 23

Student Notes:
Introduction
In this lesson, you will learn basics of Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant.

Student Notes:
About Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant
Using its Machinable Features Recognition technology, Prismatic Machining

Preparation Assistant allows Prismatic Machinable Features creation for all kinds of
CATIA Design Parts, even those with no Design Feature specifications.
It is totally integrated with the Prismatic Machining and Advanced Machining products.
Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant offers the following main capabilities:

Automatically creates all Prismatic Machinable Features of a Design Part
Locally creates a Prismatic Machining Feature of a Design Part
Machinable Features integration in Prismatic Machining product
Management of recognized Prismatic Machinable Features in Manufacturing View
(Presentation, Edition, Highlight)

Student Notes:
Accessing the Workbench and the Toolbar
You will become familiar with different methods to access the workbench and the toolbar.
from A - Start menu

or B - File menu + New
or C - Workbench Icon
A Start Menu
C See Tools + Customize + Start menu for
the content of this Welcome Box
B Blank Manufacturing CATProcess to start
For accessing toolbar:

View > Toolbars > Prismatic Machining Preparation

Student Notes:
Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant: User Interface
Prismatic Machining Workbench
Drilling Operation Creation

Pocketing Operation Creation
Facing Operation Creation
Profile Contouring Operation Creation
Curve Following Operation Creation
Prismatic Machining Product
Groove Milling Operation Creation
Point To Point Operation Creation
Prismatic Roughing Operation Creation
4 Axis Pocketing Operation Creation
Global feature recognition

Local feature recognition
Automatic pattern creation for machinable axial features
Prismatic Machining Preparation

Assistant Product

Student Notes:
Global Feature Recognition

This lesson will show you how to prepare a design part for manufacturing, by
automatically creating all recognizable prismatic machinable features.

Student Notes:
Global Feature Recognition: General Process
Click the Global Feature Recognition icon
The Global Feature Recognition dialog box

appears.
The Selection Type option allows you to run the

feature recognition on:
One or several bodies
One or several selected faces

Student Notes:
Global Feature Recognition: Basic Options (1/8)
Tapered Hole
Tapered hole is characterized by:
origin point and direction
hole depth, diameter and
angle
extension type: blind or
through.
Counterbored Hole
Counterbored hole is Simple Hole
characterized by: Simple hole is characterized
origin point and direction by:
hole depth and diameter origin point and direction
counterbore depth and hole depth and diameter
diameter extension type: blind or
extension type: blind or through
through. bottom type: flat or V.
Countersunk Hole
Counterdrilled Hole Countersunk hole is characterized
Counterdrilled hole is by:
characterized by: origin point and direction

origin point and direction hole depth and diameter
hole depth and diameter countersink angle and
countersink angle diameter
counterbore depth and counterbore depth
diameter extension type: blind or
through.

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Complex Step
A complex step is an open multi-sided recess.
Specifications on part:
A bottom stamp as a hard stamp
A top element as a top limit
A boundary comprising a series of
ordered faces with hard and soft
qualifications
Results in Prismatic Machining Area:

A depth from top to bottom
A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour with a series of
elements qualified as soft and hard
A Minimum Corner Radius
A Minimum & Maximum Channel Width
Minimum Corner
Maximum Channel Radius
Width
Minimum Channel
Width

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Complex Cutout
A complex cutout is a multi-sided opening through the part.
A bottom element as a bottom limit
A boundary comprising a series of ordered faces
A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour
Complex Pocket
A complex pocket is a closed multi-sided recess.
A boundary comprising a series of ordered faces
A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour

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Blind Slot
A blind slot is a specific step with two parallel lines and a
corner between them. It has an open boundary.
A boundary comprising a series of 4 ordered faces with
hard and soft qualifications
A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour with 4 elements: 2 lines, 1 half circle
and one other element
Through Slot
A through slot is a specific step whose contour is two parallel
faces as a hard boundary and two other faces as limits.

A boundary comprising a series of 4 ordered faces with
hard and soft qualifications

Student Notes:
Tab Holes
The purpose of this option is to recognize complex
holes (multi-diameter holes) that are not Standard Part
Design Features (Counterbored Holes, Countersunk
Holes).
If the option is activated, several simple holes will be

created to fit with the tab holes.
If the option is not activated, the holes belonging to the
tab holes are not created (default behavior).
Merge of Co-Axial Holes

This option is used to automatically merge
co-axial holes that share the same
parameters (Diameter, Tolerance).
In Global Feature Recognition, the hole
extremity has to be blind to be recognized.
In Local Feature Recognition, full through
holes can be recognized.
Hole Filtering
When this option is selected, axial
machinable features are created only for

the holes of the selected bodies with
technological results.
The option is available only when the
The blue hole will generate a single hole if the option is
‘Hole’ feature is selected. activated or 4 separate holes if the option is not activated.

Student Notes:

A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour with 4 elements: 2 lines and two other
elements
Islands Management
Islands can be recognized and associated to
Pocket and Step machinable features.
A bottom stamp as a hard stamp Top Island
A boundary comprising a series of Bottom
ordered faces
A top plane
A bottom plane
A wireframe contour
As islands are relimited by the Top of the

Prismatic Machining Area, you need to be Linking motion upper than
careful when you create the operation. Macros the top plane but in
can go through Islands collision with the Island

Student Notes:
Improved Milling Feature Recognition

The machining features can be recognized, in which:
Top face is not parallel to bottom face (inclined)
Top face is non-planar
The milling areas (with non-planar or inclined top

element) are now taken into account for feature
creation (Prismatic Machining Area). The feature
recognition is done with respect to the bottom
face only.
Inclined Top face Non-planar Top face
The machining pocket feature can be recognized in

which hole is intersecting with the pocket.
Feature recognition provides a Prismatic Machining

Area corresponding to a Complex Pocket. The
boundary can be defined by a hard boundary only. An
imaginary contour at the intersection of Hole and Slot,

is automatically defined to close the hard contour.
Hard boundary

Student Notes:
User Information after global feature recognition

A pop-up displays user information at the end of the
feature recognition process in Global or Local mode
The following information are displayed:

List of input bodies selected
Total Number of faces in all input bodies
Number of faces used for features creation
Number of machining features recognized &
created by type
All recognized machinable features are added to the

Manufacturing View

Student Notes:
Global Feature Recognition: Advanced Options
Machining Direction
If needed, specify a preferred machining direction for
through features by selecting a face, line or an edge.
The through features (Holes & Cutout) are created
according the selected direction (Top plane)
If the option ‘Create Features only in this direction’ is

activated, all the created features will have the same
machining direction
Hole / Pocket or Cutout

If needed, specify a Hole limit diameter. If a diameter
has a greater value than this limit, a circular pocket
or cutout is created rather a hole.
Tapered Holes
You can choose to ignore the fact that the hole type
is tapered during feature recognition.
In this way, you can force chamfered holes to be
recognized as simple holes.

Student Notes:
Global Feature Recognition: Automatic Pattern Creation
Allows creating machinable axial features and machining patterns in a single step
During the creation of the machinable axial features,

machining patterns are automatically created to
group them according some parameters:
Diameter
Depth
Hole Type
Hole Extension
Tolerance Value (H7, Min/max)
Color
Thread parameters
Counter Diameter
The parameters have to be identical or in the same

range (between minimum & maximum values) to be
grouped automatically in the same machining pattern

Student Notes:
Local Feature Recognition

In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare a design part for manufacturing by manual
machinable features creation.

Student Notes:
Local Feature Recognition: General Process
Select the Local Feature Recognition icon
The Local Feature Recognition dialog box

displays.
With the combo-box you can select the type of

feature to be recognized
In the 3D view, locally select one or several

faces that will allow the feature to be
recognized
To deselect a selected face, just reselect it and

to deselect all selected faces, click Remove
All.

Student Notes:
Automatic Pattern Creation for Machinable Axial Features
This lesson shows you how to create automatically a machining pattern of

Axial Features
After the creation of the machinable axial features,

machining patterns can be created to group them
according some parameters:
Diameter
Depth
Hole Type
Hole Extension
Tolerance Value (H7, Min/max, …)
Color
Thread parameters
Counter Diameter
The parameters have to be identical or in the same

range (between minimum & maximum values) to be
grouped them in the same machining pattern.

Student Notes:
Results of the Global/Local Feature Recognition (1/3)
Select the Manufacturing View icon in the Machining Features toolbar

Right-click the Manufacturing View object and select the Sort ‘by Machinable Features’ command
Double-click the feature in the tree
A dialog box appears showing all the characteristics of the feature
For through machining feature, use MB3 to reverse the machining direction
All Machinable Features can be fully machined with Prismatic Machining strategies by creating elementary
Machining Operations or applying complex Machining Processes in both drilling and milling domains.

Student Notes:
For Prismatic Machining Area, computed parameters can be displayed to help the user to
choose the right tool or parameters manually or through knowledgeware.
Minimum Corner
Maximum Channel Radius
Width
Minimum Channel
Width

Student Notes:
The manufacturing view can be used to

display the Machining features list, the
Machining patterns list,
All the created Prismatic Machining Areas,
Machinable Axial Features, Machining
Patterns can be easily deleted if they are not
used by any machining operation using the
contextual menu
Machining Patterns have to be deleted
before the Machining Axial Features used by
them
Co-Axial holes sharing the same parameters
(Diameter, tolerance) can be merged
manually after Global Feature Recognition.

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About this course

Objectives of the course

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Using its Machinable Features Recognition technology, Prismatic Machining

Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant offers the following main capabilities:

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from A - Start menu

B Blank Manufacturing CATProcess to start

For accessing toolbar:

View > Toolbars > Prismatic Machining Preparation

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Drilling Operation Creation

Global feature recognition

Automatic pattern creation for machinable axial features

Prismatic Machining Preparation

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Global Feature Recognition

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Click the Global Feature Recognition icon

The Global Feature Recognition dialog box

The Selection Type option allows you to run the

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characterized by: origin point and direction

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Results in Prismatic Machining Area:

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A bottom stamp as a hard stamp

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If the option is activated, several simple holes will be

Merge of Co-Axial Holes

machinable features are created only for

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Results in Prismatic Machining Area:

As islands are relimited by the Top of the

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Improved Milling Feature Recognition

The milling areas (with non-planar or inclined top

The machining pocket feature can be recognized in

Feature recognition provides a Prismatic Machining

imaginary contour at the intersection of Hole and Slot,

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User Information after global feature recognition

The following information are displayed:

All recognized machinable features are added to the

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If the option ‘Create Features only in this direction’ is

Hole / Pocket or Cutout

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During the creation of the machinable axial features,

The parameters have to be identical or in the same

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Local Feature Recognition

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Select the Local Feature Recognition icon

The Local Feature Recognition dialog box

With the combo-box you can select the type of

In the 3D view, locally select one or several

To deselect a selected face, just reselect it and