by Ascent -. Center for Technical Knowledge (Author)
The CATIA V5-6R2015: Sheet Metal Design student guide enables students to create features that are specific to the sheet metal modeling process. Students are provided with a process-based approach to creating sheet metal models. Each step in the process is discussed in depth using lectures and several hands-on practices. This student guide focuses on the Generative Sheet Metal Design workbench.
Topics Covered
- Generative Sheet Metal Design workbench
- Sheet Metal terminology
- Sheet Metal process
- Sheet Metal parameters
- Primary wall creation - Profile, Extruded, Rolled, and Hopper
- Defining walls
- Secondary walls - Wall on edge (automatic and sketch based), Tangent, Swept
- Cylindrical bends
- Bends from flat
- Unfolded view
- Corner relief
- Point and curve mapping
- Creating standard stamps - surface stamp, bead, curve stamp, flanged cutout, louver, bridge, flanged hole, circular stamp, stiffening rib, dowel
- Punch and die
- Punch with Opening Faces
- Sheet Metal features - Corners, chamfers, cuts and holes
- Feature duplication
- Patterning - rectangular patterns, circular patterns
- User patterns
- Converting a solid part to sheet metal
- Output to DXF and drawing
Prerequisites
CATIA V5-6 R2015: Introduction to Modeling
Author Biography
ASCENT develops and produces a wide range of courseware offerings, knowledge products, and courseware for the industry's leading engineering software tools from Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, and PTC. ASCENT's team is comprised of courseware developers, engineers, instructional designers, architects, and technical writers who work together to create training solutions that work for our clients. Our curriculum group specializes in the creation of blended education programs that incorporate the best of expert-led and technology-based training offerings to create the most effective course content and ensure that users achieve maximum productivity from their chosen engineering tools. We also work to meet our client's needs by offering different levels of customization for classroom-training curriculum.