CATIA Training

Foils

Generative
Drafting
V5R8 Update

Version 5 Release 8
January 2002
EDU-CAT-E-GDR-UF-V5R8

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Course Presentation

Objectives of the Course

Upon completion of this course you will be able to identify and apply the
new or enhanced capabilities found within the V5R8 Generative Drafting
product.

Targeted audience
Current V5R7 users of Generative Drafting

Prerequisites:
.5 day V5R7 Generative Drafting Fundamentals
or V5R7 Generative Drafting Update
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Table of Contents

1. Generating Views
Placing Part in Show / No Show, drawings update
Creating Front View with Local Axis System
Creating an Advanced Front View
Projecting points from 3D

2. Editing View Properties

Callout elements

3. Creating a BOM (Bill of Materials)

Updating an Associative BOM

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Generating Views

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the new
capabilities found within the Generative Drafting workbench to create…

Placing Part in Show / No Show, drawings update

Creating Front View with Local Axis System
Creating an Advanced Front View
Projecting points from 3D

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Placing Part in Show / No Show, drawings update V5R8

Ability to have a Part Body swapped to visible or invisible space and

the corresponding generated views to be updated

Show PartBody Hide PartBody

Note: When using a CATProduct,

hiding or showing a CATPart will
also provide a drawing update.
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Creating Front View with Local Axis System V5R8

Ability to take into account a local axis system when creating a view.
The generated view origin is the projection of the origin of the local axis
system selected in the view plane.

Projection Origin

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Creating an Advanced Front View V5R8

New icon with the ability to make several choices at view creation, such as
view name, view scale.

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Projecting points from 3D V5R8

Ability to project points from 3D (no construction elements).

From Menu Tool => Options

Note: Through the Configure button, the point

symbol can be the same as the 3D point or one
selected from a system list.

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Editing View Properties

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the new
capabilities found within the Generative Drafting workbench to edit view
properties of…

Callout elements

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 Callout elements V5R8
Ability to choose the callout elements size not to be dependant on the
view scale

Example of 2:1 View scale

Checked Un-Checked

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Updating a BOM (Bill of Material)

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the new
capabilities found within the Generative Drafting workbench to …

Update an Associative BOM

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 Update an Associative BOM V5R8
Ability to update a BOM on a drawing when a part is added or deleted to
the product structure.

Example: Remove Collar CATPart and

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To Sum Up

In this course you have seen the new or enhanced capabilities within the
Generative Drafting workbench for V5R8 in:

Placing Part in Show / No Show and update drawings

Creating Front View with Local Axis System
Creating an Advanced Front View
Projecting points from 3D
Modifying Callout elements
Updating Associative BOM (Bill of Material)

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