Mechanical Design

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1)

CATIA V5R20
Mechanical Design
CATIA - Sheetmetal Design
Designs sheet metal parts in an intuitive and productive environment.

Product overview

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1) is

dedicated to the design of sheet metal parts.
Its feature-based approach offers a highly
productive and intuitive design environment. It
allows concurrent engineering between the
folded or unfolded representation of the part.

CATIA - Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1) can be

cooperatively used with other current or
future applications of CATIA Version 5 like representations
part design, assembly design and drawing Access to company-defined bending
generation. As sheetmetal design may start tables
from scratch or from an existing solid, Dedicated drawing extraction capability
communication between suppliers and includes unfolded view and user defined
contractors is empowered. extraction settings
Compliance with industry standards such
CATIA ? Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1) offers as DXF
the same ease-of-use and user interface
consistency as all CATIA V5 applications to
drastically reduce training cycle time and
unleash designer creativity. It is available as a Product Key Customer Benefits
native Windows interface across Windows
and UNIX for companies running mixed Feature-based Modeling
networks. CATIA Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1) offers
users design flexibility and functionality for the
creation of sheetmetal parts and assemblies.
Product Highlights Designs can be created from scratch or within
an assembly context. Dedicated sheetmetal
Dedicated Sheetmetal feature-based features including Wall (based on a user
modeling defined plane or perpendicular to an existing
Allows Folding/unfolding of the wall), Bend, Relief (rectangular and round),
sheetmetal part Wall cut (round, oblong), and Thin extrude are
Includes Reverse engineering from provided.
drafting Designs can be produced from an existing
Concurrent engineering between solid, using bend and wall auto-recognition
unfolded and folded part and auto bend creation from a sharp edge.

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Dress-up features such as Pocket and Pattern
are also provided.
Folding/unfolding capabilities
Give users the ability to carry out the
folding/unfolding of a sheetmetal part
Concurrent Engineering
Associative features can be created on both
folded and unfolded representations. At any
time during a design, with no prerequisite
operations, any sheetmetal feature can be
specified as a folded or unfolded part
representation.
Access to Company-defined Bending
Tables
The management of bend radius,
allowance and sheet thickness adheres to
company defined standards.
Integrated With Other CATIA Version 5
Applications
A Sketcher is included for rapid definition and
edition of sheetmetal part profiles. The
product is associative to the 3D part and
assembly definitions.
Sheetmetal feature recognition is based on
existing solids. Wall and bend recognition can
be performed on any developable solid, based
on solid geometry (independent from solid
design methodology). Associativity is
maintained between solids and the generated
sheetmetal features.
All sheetmetal specifications can be reused by
CATIA Knowledge Advisor 2 (KWA) to capture
corporate knowledge and increase the quality
of designs.
Dedicated Drawing Capability
In the context of the Sheetmetal part, a
drafting view of the part can be automatically
generated using the CATIA Generative
Drafting. CATIA Generative Drafting is
automatically enhanced with some new
features when used with CATIA Sheetmetal
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Design. The generated unfolded view for
example includes the representation of bend
axes,value and radius, line for
upward/downward bends and stamps, and
annotation in the drawing as well. The folded
view can be also added in the same sheet.
The generated drawings are completely
associative with the original design.
Compliance with Industry Standards
Deformation of the material during folding and
unfolding process can be managed through
the access to company defined bending
tables that includes the definition of bend
radius, allowance and sheet thickness and
stamping tools tables. This allows the user to
verify the design compliance with the
company-defined standards and to ensure the
design quality. Using the CATIA Generative
Drafting product, designers can also extract
documents in DXF format (the AutoCAD ASCII
format) for such downstream applications as
nesting and cutting.
Compatible with CATIA Version 4 Data and
Applications
V5 parts can be used by CATIA V4 for
downstream applications such as analysis,
digital mock-ups and assemblies. (This
requires Version 4 Release 2.0 Refresh 1.)
Existing CATIA V4 designs can be migrated to
V5 as necessary. For example, V5 Sheetmetal
feature recognition can be applied to a CATIA
V4 solid design.
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