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CATIA V5-6R2013

Product Enhancement Overview

John Montoya, PLM Technical Support

March 2015

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Overview of Enhanced Products


› Mechanical Design

• Part Design

• Assembly Design

• Interactive Drafting

• Sketcher

• Wireframe and Surface

• Generative Sheetmetal Design

• 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation

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› Shape Design & Styling

• Generative Shape Design & Optimizer

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› Machining

• Prismatic Machining

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Mechanical Design

Mechanical Design

› Part Design

› Enhanced Functionality

› Creating Circular Patterns

• You can create the specific staggered pattern configurations by rotating the

alternate circles of the crown with certain angle.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Remove Face Feature

• A new Fillet Propagation contextual command is available to get the tangent

continuous filleted faces of the selected face.

• The orange arrow remains available on the limiting element even after closing

the Face to Limit dialog box. Thus, you can change the orientation of the limiting

element without editing it.

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Mechanical Design

› Administration: Creating Thread Standards

• A new Unit node is available in the Standard Definition dialog box to define unit

of new standards.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Chamfer

• A new Corner Cap check box is available in the Chamfer Definition dialog box.

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Mechanical Design

› About Analyzing Wall Thicknesses

• The maximum limit to specify the number of values for color scale is 30.

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Mechanical Design

› Analyzing Wall Thicknesses

• A new Accurate Positioning contextual command is available to position a

section plane properly.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Variable Radius Fillets

• You can click at different points on the closed edge and apply the desired radius

values to create a variable radius fillet.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Mirrors

• A new Keep specifications check box is available in the Mirror Definition dialog

box.

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Mechanical Design

› Assembly Design


› Performing a Symmetry

• The new Include Children OGS and Ignore Hidden Geometries under GS

and OGS check boxes are available in the Assembly Symmetry Wizard dialog

box.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating an Angle Constraint

• You can now display the constraints and parameters, irrespective of the viewing

plane.

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Mechanical Design

› Managing Offset Constraint

• You can now display the constraints and parameters, irrespective of the viewing

plane.

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Mechanical Design

› Interactive Drafting

› New Functionality

› Creating a Tangent Arc

• You can now create a construction curve which concatenates a set of existing

curves and use this concatenated curve in constraint definition.

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Mechanical Design


› Creating Half Dimensions

• Your preferences for creating a regular or a half dimension is now taken into

account independently for dimension from an axis line to a geometry and from a

geometry to an axis line.

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Mechanical Design

› Dimension Tolerance Format s

• The new Tolerance Display Factor parameter has been added in the Format

Definitions reference.

• This new parameter affects tolerance properties.

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Mechanical Design

› Editing a Spline

• You can now manage the tangency angle and curvature for a given control point

of a spline.

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Mechanical Design

› Converting Standard into Construction Element

• You can now define whether the current element in edition is to be treated as a

construction element or a standard one.

• This enhancement also impacts a few other topics, namely, Editing Conic

Curves, Editing Connecting Curves, Editing a Spline, Editing Spline Offsets and

Editing Projection/Intersection Marks.

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Mechanical Design

› Breaking Elements

• You can now visualize the broken entity when using the Break command.

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Mechanical Design

› Sketcher


› Using a Semantic Edge

• You can now use an intersection edge or a tangent intersection edge from a 3D

part, directly as an input for a projection, intersection or an offset operation in a

sketch.

• This enhancement impacts a few other topics, namely, Offsetting Elements and


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Mechanical Design

› Creating Constraints with the Background Elements

• You can now have an option of choosing either projection or intersection of the

external geometry with the current sketch plane while constraining it with the

sketcher elements.

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Mechanical Design

› Ouput

• You can now create:

• A plane from a selected line of the sketcher.

• A 3D line from a selected point of the sketcher.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Curvilinear Distance Constraints

• You can now create a curvilinear distance constraint like any other dimensional

constraint of a sketch.

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Mechanical Design


› Creating a Tangent Arc

• The Concatenate Curve contextual command is available for concatenating a

set of existing connected curves.

› Editing a Spline

• You can now manage the tangency angle and curvature for a given control point of a spline.

› Breaking Elements

• You can now visualize the broken entity when using the Break command.

› Converting Standard into Construction Elements

• You can now define whether the current element in edition is to be treated as a

construction element or a standard one.

This enhancement also impacts a few other topics, namely, Editing Conic

Curves, Editing Connecting Curves, Editing a Spline, Editing Spline Offsets and


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Mechanical Design

› Sketcher

• You can now have a new setting using which you can choose the minimize

transformation mode when entering the Sketcher workbench.

• With this, the viewpoint transformation brings the sketch plane parallel to screen,

as close as possible to the initial viewpoint in 3D.

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Mechanical Design

› About Smartpicking Background Elements

• You can now directly use the background elements like existing geometry of a

sketch to position the future geometry to create.

• This way you can now manage the selection of background entities to define

their inputs.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Equidistant Points

• You can now create an equivalent dimension for all the rounds/equidistance

values instead of creating many individually modifiable formulae.

• With this, you can modify multiple distance values by modifying only one of the

parameters.

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Mechanical Design

› Wireframe and Surface


› Stacking Commands

• You can remove the unused contextual features by selecting the Remove

Unused Contextual Features contextual command.

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Mechanical Design

› Generative Sheetmetal Design


› Upgrading a Sheetmetal Feature

• You can now upgrade a sheetmetal part by right-clicking on it and selecting the

upgrade command.

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Mechanical Design


› Creating Walls From An Edge

• You can now define the wall on edge height with a new type of measurement.

› Folding and Unfolding Bends

• You can now choose an Angle mode during unfolding and a Radius mode

during folding/unfolding.

› Creating a Surface Stamp

• You can now create a surface stamp from a sketch which is not lying on the

same plane than the part body.

› Creating a Punch with a Die/Creating a Punch with Opening Faces

• You can now use a Sheetmetal Catalog containing User Defined Features (UDF)

or power copies in the User Stamp command.

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Mechanical Design

› 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation


› Creating an Axonometric View

• You can now create axonometric views from a 3D viewpoint. You can change the

view support of axonometric views.

› Creating Principle Views

• You can now create principal views by defining the first view and select additional

views.

• Captures are created and associated with each created views.

› Displaying a Tolerancing Capture

• You can now have the viewpoint of a capture according to the relative position of

the product/part instance.

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Mechanical Design

› Filtering Product Annotations

• You can now filter out 3D annotations at any product level in a product structure,

which are pointing to any broken, unloaded or deactivated part/product

instances.

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Mechanical Design


› Creating a Tolerance Capture

• The Capture command has been rewritten and a capture is now always

associated with a view\annotation plane.

› Managing 3D annotations in Result Annotation Set

• In a representation, links between annotations and geometries are imported.

When a geometry is selected, the annotations referencing it are highlighted and

vice-versa.

• The annotations can also be filtered by geometrical elements.

› Dimension Tolerance Formats

• The new Tolerance Display Factor parameter has been added in the Format

Definitions reference.

• This new parameter affects Tolerance Properties.

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Mechanical Design

› Customizing Settings

› Annotation

• The Capture Creation area has been moved in View/Annotation Plane tab.

› Display

• The Analysis Display Mode area is now shared between Display tabs of

Mechanical Design > 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation and

Infrastructure > 3D Annotations Infrastructure.

• The Annotations in Assembly Context area has been added and contains

options for filtering product annotations.

› View/Annotation Plane

• The Filtering View Display using a Capture area has been added and contains

options for tolerancing captures creation.

• The Capture Creation options have been moved from Annotation tab in the

Filtering View Display using a Capture.

• The Primary View area has been added and contains options for primary view

creation.

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Mechanical Design

› Documentation

› ViewPoint Toolbar

• This toolbar has been removed from the Tolerancing Captures workbench,

cameras are now managed using the View > Named Views command.

› Capture Options Toolbar

• This toolbar has been modified. From now, you can access the Capture

command only from Insert > Capture.

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Shape Design & Styling


› Generative Shape Design & Optimizer


› Creating Mid Surfaces

• You can now create a mid-surface from a pair of faces.

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› Creating a Curve from Equations

• You can now define a parametric curve from three Cartesian equations.

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› Axis System Construction Functions

• You can now create and valuate an axis system using rules or formulas.

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› Point Constructors Functions

• You can now convert a 2D point parameter into a 3D point by valuating a

parameter of type Point.

› Line Constructors Functions

• You can now create an axis feature as a Line using various geometrical shapes.

› Wireframe Constructors Functions

• You can now create and valuate the isoparametric curves using rules or

formulas.

› Operations Constructors Functions

• You can now disassemble a feature (surface or curve) and generate a volatile list

containing domains or cells of the feature.

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› Defining an Axis System

• You can now define an axis system that distinguishes between default

computation and no selection input.

• You can also create an axis system according to a robot definition.

› Deforming Elements According to Shape Morphing

• You can now define several limit elements for shape morphing and selectively

keep some parts of the feature frozen.

• You can now shape morph a wireframe using limiting elements.

› Creating Adaptive Swept Surfaces

• You can now use a freely positioned sketch for creating adaptive swept surfaces.

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› Creating Multiple Points and Planes

• You can now edit instances and spacing of points or planes created using the

repetition command.

› Creating Points

• You can now create a point on a curve by setting either origin or extremity as the

default reference point.

› Creating 2D-View Sections

• You can now selectively open or close the thickness of a feature for analysis.

• You can now also change the order in which the corners are computed at the

sharp vertices.

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› Simplifying Surfaces

• You can now visualize the points that exceed the maximal deviation when

simplifying the surfaces.

› Extrapolating Surfaces

• You can now quickly create extrapolated surfaces by selecting the boundary of a

feature.

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Machining

Machining

› Prismatic Machining


› Add PP Word in Machining Patterns and Axial Operations

• You can insert and display PP Word instructions before any hole in the

Machining Pattern and Axial Machining Operations.

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Machining

› Create a Pocketing Operation for Machining Closed Pockets

• A new command in geometry panel of Pocketing and Profile Contouring

operations is added for the selection of a permanent representation of a PMA

feature from the 3D viewer.

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Machining

› Create a Profile Contouring Operation – Side Step First

• This provides the following benefits to the user: Reduce overall machining time,

remove unnecessary connecting motions between the guides, and each guide

would be machined completed and then the tool would move to the next guide.

• This would reduce the number of operations the user has to create currently in

order to achieve the result of completing machining on each guide and then

moving to the next guide.

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Machining


› Pocketing Machining Operations

• Three new strategies Concentric, Inward Spiral Morphing, and Outward

Spiral Morphing are added in the Tool Path Style.

• These strategies are dedicated to hard material milling and ensure:

• Constant amount of material removal and load on the tool for Concentric

strategy.

• Continuous cutting motion without retract and maximum stepover to control

the load on the tool for Spiral Morphing.

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Machining

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Machining

› Profile Contouring Operation

• The following enhancements increase automation and productivity:

• Control of the side to machine: instead of relying on the orientation of the

first curve, you can select a 3D point to indicate the material side without

ambiguity.

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Machining



• Improved Processing of Join in Profile Contouring: Chain curves form a

join in contiguous sets and process each set as a guide contour.

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• Control of the Tool Axis Motion in Profile Contouring: A parameter

Smoothing tool path along Tool Axis (%) is added in the Stepover tab to

smooth the tool path and avoid motions along the tool axis direction.

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Machining



• Support of Multiple Contours: No need to split the Profile Contouring

operation into several operations.

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Machining

› Improved Collision Check and Collision Avoidance

• Ability to include the Part from Part Operation in the collision check performed

on macro for the following Machining Operations:

• Profile Contouring, Groove Milling, Pocketing, Facing, Curve Following, 4x

Pocketing and Trochoid Milling Machining Operations.

• The Part from Part Operation check box is added in the Collision Checking

dialog box and the Collision Checking button is added where needed in

the Geometry tab.

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Machining

• Improved Intermediate Stock Management in Axial Machining Operations

• A Drill through stock up to bottom check box is added in the Geometry tab.

This helps to perform the axial operation start from top of the stock up to bottom

of the stock in case of Through hole .

• A Spot drill to part check box is added in the Geometry tab of the Spot

Drilling Machining Operation. It allows the drilling from the intermediate stock up

to the part (and ensures the spot-drilling depth/diameter on the part).

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Machining

• Prismatic Roughing

• When the tool is in contact with a revolution surface, you can choose to generate

an arc interpolation output.

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Machining

• 3D Viewer of Prismatic Machining, Machinable Axial Feature and Machining

Pattern

• This gives you the capability to identify a Prismatic machining area feature

visually in 3D viewer by moving the cursor over feature or selection in

manufacturing view.

• This also gives you the capability where the system would add representations of

Prismatic Machining Area Feature and Machinable Axial Features in 3D viewer.

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