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CATIA V5-6R2015

Product Enhancement Overview

John Montoya, PLM Technical Support

March 2015

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Overview of Enhanced Products


› Mechanical Design

• Part Design

• Interactive Drafting

• Generative 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

• Advanced Machining

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Mechanical Design

Mechanical Design

› Part Design

› Enhanced Functionality

› Creating Chamfers or Fillets Using Vertex Selection

• You can now create fillets or chamfers on three concurrent edges by selecting a

common vertex.

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Mechanical Design

› User Interface Enhancement

• The Chordal Edge Fillet, Constant Edge Fillet, and Variable Edge Fillet

commands are now accessible from a single dialog box.

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Mechanical Design

› Positions and Anchors in Pattern

• You can now define:

• Points, axis systems, geometric sets, and ordered geometric sets in the 3D

as positions for pattern instances.

• Axis systems as anchors.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Mirror Features

• A warning message now appears if the object to mirror contains non-movable

elements or sub-elements.

• You can now mirror the thick surface and close surface features.

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Mechanical Design

› Interactive Drafting

› New Functionality

› Creating Polygons

• You can now create a polygon with number of sides ranging from three to 100.

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Mechanical Design


› Inserting Images

• You can now change the orientation of the image freely by specifying angle.

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Mechanical Design

› Working with Dimension Systems

• You can now group, regroup, or ungroup dimensions.

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Mechanical Design

› Arrows and Annotations

• You can now:

• Snap the arrows or annotation leaders along privileged directions

• Orient the annotations along the vertical direction by pressing the Alt key or

along the selected reference by pressing the Ctrl key

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Mechanical Design

› Customizing Settings

› Administration

• You can now configure the default behavior of an item in the property toolbars.

The configurations available are:

• Fix value

• Value based on element type

• Value based on style

• Value based on style (No overload)

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Mechanical Design

› Generative Drafting


› Inserting Images

• You can now change the orientation of the image freely by specifying angle.

› Working with Dimension Systems

• You can now group, regroup, or ungroup dimensions.

› Arrows and Annotations

• You can now:

• Snap the arrows or annotation leaders along privileged directions

• Orient the annotations along the vertical direction by pressing the Alt key or

along the selected reference by pressing the Ctrl key

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Mechanical Design


› Administration



• Fix value




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Mechanical Design

› Sketcher


› Creating Polygons

• You can now create a polygon with number of sides ranging from three to 100.

› Analyzing a Curve by Porcupine Analysis

• You can now perform porcupine analysis on curves to create a visual

representation of the point, tangent, and curvature continuity of curves.

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Mechanical Design


› Quickly Creating Dimensional/Geometrical Constraints

• You can now choose to display the dimensional constraints as you sketch the

geometry.

› Setting Constraint on an Arc of a Use-edge

• You can now set a curvilinear constraint on an arc of a use-edge to know, and

manage its dimension.

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Mechanical Design

› Select Boundary Edges

• You can now use a contextual command to select the boundary edges of faces

to project them on a sketch plane, or intersect with one.

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Mechanical Design

› Wireframe and Surface


› Creating Planes

• You can now use a ratio parameter to create a plane normal to a curve. This ratio

will position the plane at a give point on the curve corresponding to this ratio.

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Mechanical Design

› Extracting Geometry

• Two new propagation types are provided: Protrusion and Depression.

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Mechanical Design

› Generative Sheetmetal


› Recognizing Features From an Existing Part

• The command has been revamped:

• A new Split tab lets you split or tear the part to avoid overlapping on the recognized result.

• You can select edges to create bends.

• Walls, Bends and Stamps tabs have been merged into a single tab named Features.

• Faces to keep and Faces to remove boxes have been removed as their functions can be accessed through the Faces to ignore box.

• The Color list has been replaced by the Color Selector panel which lists features and their associated color and can be customized.

• The Bends Allowance tab has been replaced by the Bends Customization tab and now includes the Global K-Factor.

• A context menu is now available on the label of the edge for bend to edit the radius, K-Factor, define the extremities, and swap extremities.

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Mechanical Design

› Recognizing Features From an Existing Part

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Mechanical Design

› Extruding

• You can now manage bend extremities when extruding a profile. If you create a

feature on the extruded profile, the bend extremities may be recomputed to

ensure a consistent result.

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Mechanical Design

› Sheetmetal Shared Package

• You can define a distance rule between two sheetmetal features.

› Editing the Sheet and Tool Parameters

• You can now define several bend radiuses in a design table.

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Mechanical Design

› 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation


› Creating Texts

• You can now snap an annotation leader on the privileged directions when

creating or modifying an annotation leader.

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Mechanical Design

› Managing 3D Annotations in 3D XML Files

• You can now review a 3D XML document containing the V5 assembly annotation

set capture.

› Semantic Support of ISO 5459:2011

• You can now have semantic support of the ISO 5459:2011 standard.

Accordingly, the following enhancements are made:

• The normative references for ISO 5459:2011 are displayed for the

annotation set.

• New interface is available for editing the datum reference frames.

• New interface is available for defining the datum features. The

Theoretically exact size, Contacting Feature, and Projected Extension

options are now added to the dialog box.

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Mechanical Design


› Administration



• Fix value




› Manipulators

• A new section, Orientation, allows you to define whether to snap automatically

when orienting a leader on privileged directions.

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Shape Design & Styling


› Generative Shape Design & Optimizer


› Creating a Hole

• You can now choose the axis direction, either parallel to punch direction or

normal to support surface, using the Axis Normal to Surface option.

• You can now create axis lines of finite or infinite length directly from the hole

dialog box using the Finite Axis and Infinite Axis options.

› Analyzing Light Distances between Two Sets of Elements

• A new Distance Analysis command has been created to facilitate any future

improvement, development, and evolution. The new command includes exactly

the same functionalities as the old one. The dialog box looks slightly different.

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› Analyzing Light Distances between Two Sets of Elements

• A new Distance Analysis command has been created to facilitate any future

improvement, development, and evolution.

• The new command includes exactly the same functionalities as the old one.

• The dialog box looks slightly different.

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› Creating Mid Surfaces

• The mid surface feature can now automatically compute the length used to offset

the surface

• A new mode now allows you to extract a mid surface from a solid or a volume,

and an offset ratio is provided.

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› Creating 2D-View Sections

• You can now swap the computation order of the corners concerned using the

manipulators appearing in the work area between the corresponding vertices.

› Deforming Elements According to Shape Morphing

• You can now automatically create coupling points between the reference and

target elements.

• You can now valuate the reference and target elements from the geometrical set

selection.

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› Extracting Geometry

• Two new propagation types are provided: Protrusion and Depression.

› Creating Planes

• You can now use a ratio parameter to create a plane normal to a curve. This ratio

positions the plane at a given point on the curve corresponding to this ratio.

› Working with a 3D Support

• You can now modify and move the grid with the enhanced manipulation

possibilities.

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Machining

Machining

› Prismatic Machining


› Pocketing, 4-Axis Pocketing

• The Concentric tool path style has been enhanced to reduce the machining time:

• For external domains, the number of small passes in concave areas has

been reduced.

• For closed pockets that are large enough and convex, the tool path is

optimized by mixing concentric and offset motions (both respecting the

radial engagement). The result is a shorter machining time.

• For softer material like aluminum, you can take advantage of the concentric

tool path style and drastically reduce air cut motions using the zig-zag

mode.

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Machining

› Advanced Machining


› Cavities Roughing

• The Concentric tool path style has been enhanced to reduce the machining time:

• For external domains, the number of small passes in concave areas has

been reduced.

• For closed pockets that are large enough and convex, the tool path is

optimized by mixing concentric and offset motions (both respecting the

radial engagement). The result is a shorter machining time.

• For softer material like aluminum, you can take advantage of the concentric

tool path style and drastically reduce air cut motions using the zig-zag

mode.

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New strategy for hard material machining maximises the machining efficiency while protecting the cutters. The adaptive concentric ensures the load on the cutter is as closed as possible to the max allowed without never exceeding.

New parameters in Activities Process Table allows user to check, edit, multi-select those parameters and increase the productivity

New Capability allows to save machining time by cleaning the walls upward in roughing

New option in Roughing allows to control the tool position on soft boundary and avoid overloading the tool during the first pass

V5-6R2015 Machining Highlights

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