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CATIA V4 Classes
Design Fundamentals
Duration: 40 Hours
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $1500.00
Course Description
Design Fundamentals introduces students to the CATIA environment and guides them through essential design principles. Design Fundamentals is a function based class, which may be broken down into two separate Sections. 1. The CATIA Environment and 2. Design Essentials.
CATIA Environment introduces students to the layout of CATIA Version 4. Students will progress through a series of processes in order to identify the different areas within the CATIA environment.
Design Essentials introduces students to "Best Practices" for creating simple automotive parts (i.e. castings, stampings, etc.). Students will progress through a series of processes beginning with identifying the driving features of a part. They will then generate a wire frame representation of a part. Followed by surfacing and facing. Finally either a skin or a volume will be created to finish the product. Students will then perform section cutting and part analysis to complete the essential design process.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the CATIA V4 Design Fundamentals Course, the student is able to:
· Creating wire frame representations of a part.
· Performing surface operation to define three-dimensional curvature.
· Perform facing operations to define the part.
· Perform skin or volume operations to close the part.
· Cut various sections through a part.
· Perform analysis on part parameters.
The instructor performs a series of lectures, domonstrations, exercises and oral quizzes to evaluate the student’s comprehension of the course material.
Solid Design Methodology
Duration: 40 Hours
Prerequisite: Design Fundamentals
Cost: $1500.00 |
Course Description
Solid Design Methodology guides students through the "Best Practices Methodology". This methodology optimizes the use of solid design by guiding the designer through the best procedure for developing a part. The procedure is dependent on how the part will be manufactured. Solid Design Methodology may be broken down into four sections. 1. Dynamic Sketcher, 2. Primitive Management, 3. Contextual Features, 4. Advanced Methodologies.
Dynamic Sketcher introduces students to a faster and more efficient way to create and constrain two-dimensional contours. These profiles are used for defining driving shapes and features of a part. Primitive Management introduces students to "Best Practices" for creating automotive parts (i.e. castings and stampings). Students will progress through a series of processes beginning with identifying the driving features of a part. They will then generate these features into parametrically driven geometry called Solids. Students will then perform Boolean operations to form the primitives into a logical tree formation. Ultimately, students will be able to modify the solid to incorporate changes to the part.Contextual Features continues to use "Best Practices" for creating parts. Students will progress through a series of processes beginning with identifying the secondary features (i.e. draft, fillets, chamfers, etc.) of a part. They will then generate these secondary features onto the driving structure of a part. Ultimately, students will be able to modify the solid to incorporate changes to the part.
Advanced Methodologies is an advanced session which introduces students to the creation and modification of geometrically challenging parts, using such techniques as complex solid creation, contour reuse, trim assistant, and multi-model linking.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the CATIA V4 Solid Design Methodology Course, the student is able to:
· Creating and modifying a constrained contour.
· Creating and modifying a solid primitive.
· Managing a constructed solid geometry (CSG) Tree.
· Creating and modifying contextual features. (i.e. draft, fillet, etc.)
· Creating and modifying multi model links.
· Troubleshooting flawed solids.
The instructor performs a series of lectures, domonstrations, exercises and oral quizzes to evaluate the student’s comprehension of the course material.
Generative Shape Modeling
Duration: 40 Hours
Prerequisite: Design Fundamentals
Cost: $1500.00
Course Description
Generative Shape Modeling introduces students to the latest innovation in CATIA Technology. The "Skin" function either replaces or works in conjunction with many of the current functions used to create surfaced and faced geometry. The benefits of GSM are: (1) to reduce the time necessary to create new parts; (2) increase the ease of modification for current parts and; (3) prepare designers for the transition to Version 5 by detailing how V4 processes, will adapt to V5. GSM introduces students to the SKIN function. They will perform a series of operations beginning with identifying the different options found in the "Skin" function. They will compare and contrast with the functions "Surf 1" and "Surf 2".
Students will then be introduces students to "Best Practices" for creating parts (i.e. castings and stampings). The student will progress through a series of processes beginning with identifying the driving features of a part. They will then generate these features into constraint driven geometry called Skids (*SKD). Ultimately, the student will be able to modify the *SKD to incorporate changes to the part.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the CATIA V4 Generative Shape Modeling Course, the student is able to:
• Create and modify thin-walled parts using the SKIN function.
• Navigate within the Part Editor Window.
• Group features with respect to the Bill of Materials.
• Manage Multi-Model links.
• Use the BEAM function.
• Determine update failure cause.
• Navigate within the Part Editor Window.
• Cut sections on a SKD.
• Perform analysis in the SKD environment.
• Extract explicit elements from a SKD.
The instructor performs a series of lectures, demonstrations, exercises and oral quizzes to evaluate the student’s comprehension of the course material.
Draw Mode
Duration: 16 Hours
Prerequisite: Design Fundamentals
Cost: $600.00
Course Description
Drawing Process introduces students to a faster and more efficient way to project three dimensional models into various two dimensional views of a drawing. (i.e. plan, front, section, detail, auxiliary isometric, etc.) This course provides all of the "Best Practices" tools used to create and layout a drawing, covering not only various projections, placement of views, text and dimensioning, but how to modify them as well.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the CATIA V4 Draw Mode Course, the student is able to:
· Set up the default menu in Auxview 2.
· Create standard and complex views.
· Add and remove call outs.
· Modify location, scale and rotation of views
· Modify line type, hidden lines, thickness axis, fillet representation and patterns.
· Invert and filter views.
· Create clipping (break away) from a view.
· Perform quick dimensions.
• Perform quick text.
The instructor performs a series of lectures, demonstrations, exercises and oral quizzes to evaluate the student’s comprehension of the course material.
Kinematics
Duration: 24 Hours
Prerequisite: V4 Fundamentals
Cost: $900.00
Course Description
CATIA VKinematics provides users an environment to design in context and/or quickly evaluate existing CAD designs through visual examination, interference, clearance, fit checking, and measuring. The design data, being mathematically simplified, allows for large groups of geometry to be accessed and evaluated simultaneously.
This includes exploding assemblies, annotating parts, quickly and accurately relocating parts, creating animations, and optimizing the parts for use
Helpful previous skills include: Knowledge of CATIA V4, CDV, Windows, VPM, CDM, 4-D Navigator, and Unix. These skills will allow the user to more quickly and efficiently reach the objectives of kinematics.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the CATIA V4 Kinematics Course, the student is able to:
• Measure clashes
• Create formulas
• Run a kinematic
The instructor performs a series of lectures, domonstrations, exercises and oral quizzes to evaluate the student’s comprehension of the course material.
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