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Overview Conventions Getting Started Entering the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer Workbench Using the Sew Surface Capability Using the Advanced Draft Capability Filleting While Keeping an Edge User Tasks Workbench Description Index
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Overview
This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with Cast and Forged Part Optimizer product. This overview provides the following information:
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Cast and Forged Part Optimizer in a Nutshell Before Reading this Guide Getting the Most out of This Guide Accessing Sample Documents Conventions Used in this Guide
Wireframe and Surface User's Guide: explains how to create wireframe geometry and surfaces.
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Conventions
Certain conventions are used in CATIA, ENOVIA & DELMIA documentation to help you recognize and understand important concepts and specifications.
Graphic Conventions
The three categories of graphic conventions used are as follows:
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Graphic conventions structuring the tasks Graphic conventions indicating the configuration required Graphic conventions used in the table of contents
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functionalities that are new or enhanced with this release allows you to switch back to the full-window viewing mode
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Index
Text Conventions
The following text conventions are used:
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The titles of CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA documents appear in this manner throughout the text. File -> New identifies the commands to be used. Enhancements are identified by a blue-colored background on the text.
Select (menus, commands, geometry in graphics area, ...) Click (icons, dialog box buttons, tabs, selection of a location in the document window, ...) Double-click Shift-click Ctrl-click Check (check boxes) Drag Drag and drop (icons onto objects, objects onto objects)
Drag Move
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Getting Started
Before getting into the detailed instructions for using Detailed Molded Part Version 5, the following tutorial aims at giving you a feel as to what you can do with the product. It provides a step-by-step exercise based on a realistic design scenario showing you how to use key functionalities for creating a complex part. The main tasks covered in this section are: Entering the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer Workbench Using the Sew Surface Capability Using the Advanced Draft Capability Filleting While Keeping an Edge
All together, the tasks should take about ten minutes to complete. The final part will look like this:
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The only pre-requisite for this task is to have a current CATIA V5 session running. 1. Select File -> New and then select Part from the dialog box, or click the Cast and Forged Part Optimizer icon from the Welcome to CATIA V5 dialog box. The Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench is displayed, ready to use. The commands for creating features are available to the right of the window. 2. To perform this tutorial, open the GettingStarted.CATPart document. For information on where sample documents are installed by default, see Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.
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2. Apply the Hide/Show contextual command onto Yellow Surface if it is not visible. 3. Select Blend.1 as the the surface you wish to sew onto the body. Arrows appear in the geometry, indicating the side where material will be added or kept. Clicking an arrow reverses the given direction.
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4. Use the Hide/Show contextual command to hide Blend.1. This operation lets you see the faces to be removed. 5. Click the Faces to remove field, then select the vertical face as shown: The selected face turns purple.
6. In the Faces to remove field, right-click to select the Tangency propagation contextual command. All faces tangent to the selected face are now part of the selection, as indicated in the field and on the part. All of them will be removed.
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7. Click OK to confirm. Blend.1 is sewn onto the faces. The Sew Surface feature is created.
7. Use the Hide/Show contextual command to show Blend.1 again. You can see Blend.1 and the sewn surface.
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In case the icon is not displayed in the workbench, select View -> Toolbars > Advanced Draft to access it. The Draft Definition (Advanced) dialog box is displayed as well as an arrow indicating the default pulling direction (xy plane) in the geometry area.
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2. Specify that you wish to draft two faces from their reflect lines by clicking both icons as shown:
The Faces to draft options are no longer available. Now, three draft modes are proposed.
Draft Modes
The three draft modes available are:
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Driving/driven: the angle value you specify for one face affects the angle value of the second face. Independent: you specify two angle values that apply to both faces respectively. Fitted: you specify a minimum angle value for one side and the application ensures that both sides are adjusted onto the parting element.
3. Set Fitted.
1st Side
4. To define the first draft angle value, enter 3deg as the minimum draft angle value.
Neutral Element
5. The Neutral Element frame is reserved for the face you wish to draft. Click No selection from
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The application is going to detect the reflect line from this neutral face, and therefore the face that will be affected by the draft operation.
Pulling Direction
In the Pulling Direction frame, you can notice that the Selection field indicates that a pulling direction has been defined by default as indicated by the arrow in the geometry area. If you wish to change this pulling direction, you just need to click the field and select the element of your choice as the new pulling direction. Note that contextual commands creating the pulling directions you need are also available from the Selection field: r Create Line: For more information, see Creating Lines.
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Create Plane: see Creating Planes. X Axis: the X axis of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the direction. Y Axis: the Y axis of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the direction. Z Axis: the Z axis of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the direction.
If you create any of these elements, the application then displays the corresponding icon in front of the Selection field. Clicking this icon enables you to edit the element.
Parting Element
7. Click the Parting Element tab to define the parting element.
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8. Check the Use parting element option and select Extrude.2 (the blue surface) as the parting element.
9. Enter 0.1mm, if not already set, in the Parting Line Adjustment field. This option adjusts the smoothness of the transition zone on the draft surface. A transition zone occurs when a neutral element that was driving becomes driven, or vice versa. A zero parting line adjustment would yield a sharp edge on the draft surface. Usually, the default value (0.1mm) is most of the time efficient.
2nd Side
10. To define the other side to be drafted, click the 2nd Side tab.
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Neutral Element
11. In the Neutral Element frame, click No Selection from the combo list and select the face as shown:
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Note that the reflect line of the face you selected as the first side is now displayed in pink. 12. Click OK to confirm. The part now looks like this:
Taking a closer look at the result, you can notice that both sides are adjusted onto Extrude.2.
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In case you wish to know both angle draft values finally used to draft both sides of the part, you can use the Draft Analysis capability.
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4. Fillet the the edge as shown using 4mm as the radius value and setting the Tangency propagation mode.
4. To create the variable radius fillet, click the Variable Fillet icon
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6. Click the point at the right extremity. 7. Enter 15mm in the Radius field to edit the radius value at this point. 8. Click Preview to get an idea of what the fillet will look like.
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9. Click the point at the other extremity. 10. Enter 5mm in the Radius field to edit the radius value at that point. 11. Click Preview. The preview lets you see that an edge is affected by the fillet. In the image below, the cursor shows you this edge.
12. To preserve this edge from the fillet operation, click More from the dialog box. You can access aditional options.
13. Click the Edges to keep field. 14. Select the edge you do not want to fillet. It becomes pink.
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15. Click OK to confirm. The variable radius fillet is created. The fillet is trimmed by the kept edge, as shown by the cursor:
16. Using the Graphic Properties capabilities, color the fillet to make it more visible. The final part looks like this:
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User Tasks
The different commands available in this workbench are described in Part Design User's Guide gathered into two chapters:
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. They are
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Workbench Description
To access the information on the icons and commands available in Cast and Forged Part Optimizer, refer to the Workbench Description available in Part Design User's Guide .
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Index
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advanced draft features
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Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench entering command Advanced Draft Draft Analysis Edge Fillet Sew Surface Variable Fillet creating advanced draft features edge fillet features sew surface features variable fillet features
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Draft Analysis
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edge fillet features entering Cast and Forged Part Optimizer workbench
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P
Part Design commands
S
sew surface features
V
variable fillet features