CATIA Training

Foils

Sheetmetal
Design V5R8
Update

Version 5 Release 8
February 2002
EDU-CAT-E-SMD-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 Sheet Metal product.

Targeted audience
Current V5R7 users of Sheet Metal

Prerequisites:
.5 day Catia V5R8 Fundamentals
:
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Table of Contents

1. Sheet Metal Walls

Walls from an edge
Walls on an Edge
Extruded Walls

2. Sheet Metal Walls on Existing Parts

Creating walls from an existing Part

3. Sheet Metal Bends and Flanges

Bend Extremities Visuals

4. Sheet Metal Cut Outs, Flat Pattern Mode and Features

Creating Corners
Creating Chamfers

5. Defining a Stamp Feature

User Defined Stamps

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Sheet Metal Walls

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

Walls from an edge

Walls on an Edge
Extruded Walls

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Creating walls from an edge V5R8

New Wall on Edge Definition panel with the ability to have a wall on
edge created with reference in height or length.

Height = the
orthogonal
projection from
the top or bottom
of the wall on
edge to the
reference wall.

Length = the
absolute value
of the wall on
edge without
bend.
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Walls on an Edge
Select the edge to
2 attach the wall too Key in the new values and select a
3
dimension options

V5R8
Select the
wall on edge
icon

4 To reverse sketch
profile direction,
select this button

5 Select the “With Bend”

option to automatically
create the bend

6
Select OK to
create the wall

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Creating Extruded Walls V5R8

Ability to create an extrusion with a sketch made of lines and arcs of circle,
provided there are no tangency discontinuities between the different
elements.
Key in the new values and select a
Select the 3
dimension options
1 Extrusion
icon

Select the Sketch

2

4 Select OK to create

Note: the Up to plane or Up to surface

capabilities are not available, and you cannot
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 Sheet Metal Walls on Existing Parts

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the
new capabilities found within defining walls on existing parts

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 Creating walls from an existing Part V5R8
New Walls Recognition Definition dialog box

2 Wall creation modes:

Part body recognition: the whole solid is
processed and walls are created wherever
possible.

Only selected faces: only explicitly selected

faces of the solid are processed and the
corresponding walls are created.

Compulsory walls - are faces from which the walls are to be generated when there might be an
ambiguity. For example, if the initial part is a box, you will need to select two opposite inner faces
and outer faces on the other two sides of the box, in order to avoid overlapping when generating the
walls.

Internal profiles recognition mode:

As cut out wall: generates walls with inner contours (no cutout feature is generated)
One cut out by wall: regardless of how many pockets there are on a face of the solid, only one
cutout feature is generated per wall
One cut out by profile: for each inner contour on the sketch-based solid, a cutout feature is
generated
None: whether there are pockets on the solid faces, or not, no cutout feature is created in the
resulting Sheet Metal features.
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Recognizing Walls on Parts
3

2 Select the Face

V5R8 Select the
Definition
of the Reference parameters
Wall

Select the
Recognize
icon

4
The thickness of the shell and the radius of the The Tree is
Fillet are taken as the default values in the updated with the
SheetMetal Parameters. New Walls

5
Select the
Unfold icon

Changes to Geometry will have to be done from

the original creation geometry in the Part Design
workbench
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Sheet Metal Bends and Flanges

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the new
capabilities found within the Generative Sheet Metal workbench to create
bends and flanges

Bend Extremities Visuals

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Bend Extremities Visuals V5R8

New Bend Extremities Visuals

The “Left” and “Right” text to visualize the different bend extremities

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Sheet Metal Cut Outs, Flat Pattern Mode
and Features
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and apply the new
capabilities found within the Generative Sheet Metal workbench in …

Creating Corners
Creating Chamfers

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Creating Corners V5R8
New checkbox filter selection options to select :
ALL Convex Edges
ALL Concave Edges If you check the Convex Edge(s)
button and you select a concave
edge, a warning is issued indicating
that you did not select an edge
corresponding to the active type.

Once you have selected an edge,

you can no longer modify the
checkbox options, unless you
cancel the selection.
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Creating Corners

2
1 Select the Select the edge(s)
Corners
icon
You have two ways to
create Corners: select
each edge or select the
“Select All” button

3
Key in the radius
value

V5R8
4 Select OK

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Creating Chamfers V5R8
Ability to create chamfers for sharp edges or weld areas.

Two Modes:

Sharp Edges Weld Areas

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Creating Chamfers

2
1 Select the Select the type:
Chamfer
icon You have two ways to
create Chamfers: select
Sharp edge or Weld icon

3
Select the edge(s)

4
Select options and
Key values

V5R8
5 Select OK

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 Defining a Stamp Feature
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify and
apply the new capabilities found within the Generative Sheet
Metal workbench in …

User Defined Stamps

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User Defined Stamps (Punch & Die / Opening & Cutting Faces)
New user interface for User Defined Stamp definition.

Punch & Die

Opening and Cutting Faces

V5R8

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 User-Defined Stamping Feature

1 2 Select the Define the User-Defined Stamp

surface to 3 Parameters and select the
Select the User stamp Punch and/or Die bodies in the
V5R8
Stamping icon tree.

4
Select OK to validate

Pre-Selecting two edges allows location constraints for the

feature to be created.
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To Sum Up

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

Creating Walls from an edge

Creating Walls on an Edge
Creating Extruded Walls
Creating walls from an existing Part
Bend Extremities Visuals
Creating Corners
Creating Chamfers
Creating User Defined Stamps

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