Mechanical Design

CATIA - Tooling Design 1 (TG1)

CATIA V5R20
Mechanical Design
CATIA - Tooling Design
Deliver to Automotive suppliers, E & E, Consumers Goods an ideal
generic Tooling Design toolset.

Product overview

Dedicated to Generic & user Tooling

Component management, CATIA - Tooling
Desing 1 (TG1) provides to small mold
makers a toolset to support the end to end
process. This new product covers all
productivity features such as positioning and
multi instance management and also delivers
all needed features for process integration up
to drafting and manufacturing (drilling,
splitting, propagation of user intent).
Moreover, the product includes a rich content Editable Blocks of Concurrent
through catalogs and samples. Engineering

Product Highlights
Product Key Customer Benefits
CATIA - Tooling Design 1 (TG1) products
offers the following main functions: Tooling Design Workbench and Contextual
Menus (instance management, splitting
Tooling Design Workbench and capabilites)... The Die designer is
Contextual Menus (instance management, benefiting from a dedicated workbench to
splitting capabilities ) support all his tasks including Component
Huge gain of productivity through instantiation, Drilling operations.
Windows native User Interface for short Convenient Contextual menus provide
training cycles productive simultaneous management of
Definition of General Mechanics Component and Drillings. Dedicated icons
Components read from Catalogs and for Die Components are available in the
including powerful embedded Drilling Specification Tree.
capabilities
Definition of General Die Components Huge gain of productivity through
such as Inserts, Sliders, Retainers, Lifter, Windows native User Interface for short
Ejection Systems, Guiding Components training cycles ... Icon based, flexible and
User Defined Components adaptable scalable approach, from beginners &
to any Die context casual users using pull down menus and
Generation of dedicated and panels, to advanced users using
customizable Bills of Materials (BOMs) contextual menus, keyboard shortcuts.

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Preview and direct mouse-based PCS, PEDROTTI ).
manipulations and specification during
feature creation, modification and drag and Thousands of configurations are available,
drop. Full support of Windows user in these standard catalogs and associated
interface standards such as pull down Design Tables.
menus, messaging, on-line help,
select-action approach, multi-windowing, Regarding other types, specific catalogs
icon docking reorganization. Dynamic including samples are provided.
users interface including fast mouse-based
3D graphical manipulations and a copilot The components are identified by some
concept allowing the contextual main parameters (Nomenclature, L, D,etc),
pre-selection (by means of highlight) of accessible by the catalog interface and
allowed graphical entities. Contextual specific to the component type. At the
HTML documentation browser. instantiation time the system will configure
the parameter of the component and will
Definition of General Mechanics update the it's nomenclature to be used in
Components and General Die Components the BOM of the Die assembly
read from Catalogs and including powerful
embedded Drilling capabilities ... Tooling User Defined Components adaptable to
Design Workbench provides a rich variety any Die context ... User components can be
of Components types, namely : created and stored within user catalogs.
The user component can be of an already
Base Components (Insert, Slider, defined type (e.g. Leader Pin or Ejector
Retainer, Lifter) Pin) or no particular type, as a free form
Ejection Components (EjectorPins, component. User components are
Ejector, FlatEjectors, EjectorSleeves, managed with their associated holes as is
CorePin, AnglePin,StopPin) done for the standard components.
Guiding Components (LeaderPin,
Bushing) Generation of Bills of Materials
Fixing Components (CapScrews, Die designers can generate dedicated and
CounterSunkScrews, LockingScrews) customizable Bills of Materials (BOM's)
Locating Components (Sleeves, and automatic Nomenclature from the
LocatingRing, DowelPin) configuration of the component. Textual
Miscellaneous Components format, HTML or XLS (Excel) formats can
(EyeBolt, Springs,SupportPillars) be generated interactively. BOM can be
The Die Designer can automatically create based on User-defined attributes.
components including standard definition Attributes can be defined either externally
from catalogs (Catalog Browser Selection, via a file (.txt or .xls) or manually. Specific
Filter management , Parameters and formats can also be defined (subset of
Design Tables ) and automatic definition of user-defined attributes) and re-used for
Drillings Information ( ?Associated Holes? ) BOM generations. Listing Reports
according to Tooling Design rules ( Drill including assembly trees and attributes of
Hole, TapHole for Threads , Pads, Pockets each component can be generated.
)

Regarding Fixing Components, Dowel

pins, Springs and User Components,
already defined components are available
with respect to the main standards of the
market (DME, DME-AMERICA , EOC,
FUTABA , HASCO , MISUMI , RABOURDIN
, STRACK , NATIONAL, MEUSBURGER,

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