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CATIA V5 DRAFTING

AUTOMOTIVE CATIA DRAWINGS

Archana Tamrakar4/6/2011

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Contents1. OBJECTIVE.............................................................................................................................................3

2. INPUT FROM CLIENT.............................................................................................................................3

3. WORK PROCEDURE...............................................................................................................................3

A. FOR CREATING FRONT VIEW.........................................................................................................3

B. FOR CREATING PROJECTION VIEW................................................................................................4

C. FOR CREATING SECTION VIEWS.....................................................................................................5

D. FOR CREATING DETAIL VIEW.........................................................................................................8

E. FOR CREATING ISOMETRIC VIEW................................................................................................10

F. FOR CREATING ADVANCED FRONT VIEW....................................................................................11

G. FOR CREATING AUXILIARY VIEW.................................................................................................12

H. FOR CREATING CLIPPING VIEW...................................................................................................13

I. EDITING VIEW PROPERTIES.........................................................................................................16

J. GENERATING DIMENSIONS.........................................................................................................17

K. EDITING DIMENSION PROPERTIES...............................................................................................25

L. CREATING ANNOTATIONS...........................................................................................................31

M. DRESS-UP.....................................................................................................................................33

N. GEOMETRY CREATION.................................................................................................................34

O. GEOMETRY MODIFICATIONS.......................................................................................................34

P. SPECIFICATIONS (F3)...................................................................................................................36

Q. STANDARD TOOLBAR..................................................................................................................36

R. UPDATE (CTRL+U)........................................................................................................................37

S. VIEW TOOLBAR............................................................................................................................38

T. HATCHING...................................................................................................................................38

U. FILLING TITLE BLOCK....................................................................................................................39

V. CREATING CATDUA FILE:.............................................................................................................41

W. MISCELLANEOUS.........................................................................................................................43

4. DELIVERY ITEMS / OUTPUT :...............................................................................................................46

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CATIA V5 DRAFTING IN AUTOMOTIVE CATIA DRAWINGS

1. OBJECTIVE

Creation of Drawing similar to reference PDF file and as directed by client.

2. INPUT FROM CLIENT

A. Reference PDF fileB. Drawing Template (already shared by client at the start of the project)C. Word file (for Specific Drawing instructions given by client)D. CATPART/CATASSEMBLYE. Excel File For 2d points import (If required)F. Word File for Export and Import of points from Cat Part to Excel file.G. CATIA V5 R19 (Software)

3. WORK PROCEDURE

A. FOR CREATING FRONT VIEWi. First Open the Template in which Drawing is to be made. Then do ‘save as’ by

name of the part, whose Drawing is to be made.ii. Open that PART.

iii. In the “View” Toolbar click “Front View” option.

iv. In every Part there is “FEATURE FOR 2D DRAWING”. Under this option there is “PLANE FOR FRONT VIEW”. Select this plane for getting Front view (If plane is not given then try to get front view similar to reference PDF using “XY/YZ/ZX plane” or any main surface of the part)

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v. The Catia window automatically switches to drawing (Front view is seen inside Green Box).

vi. Click anywhere in the drawing if the view inside the green Box is needed, else change the view orientation by rotating or flipping the Compass next to the view.

vii. By clicking on the Triangle (shown in the above fig.), view can be flipped and by clicking on the curved arrow, view can be rotated, in either direction.

viii. The view cannot be edited after it is generated.

B. FOR CREATING PROJECTION VIEWi. Activate the front view and from the “View” Toolbar click on the “Projection

View” option.

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ii. There are 4 possible options of creating projection view i.e. Left view, Right view, Top view and Bottom view. These are obtained when cursor is moved towards Left, right, below and above the view respectively.

iii. Not necessarily that all the projection views should be created, it depends upon the requirements of client.

iv. The view cannot be edited after it is generated.

C. FOR CREATING SECTION VIEWSi. Select the view from which section view is required.

ii. In the “View” Toolbar, go to “Sections” and Select “Offset Section view” .iii. Click on the starting point and then double click on the end point.iv. Move the cursor in the direction where section view is needed.

v. Then click and Section view will be generated.vi. There are four types of Section Views:

1. Offset Section view :

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2. Aligned Section view : Create the profile by clicking on the points (more than 2 points on the main view) through which the view has to

pass.

3. Offset Section cut : Only Hatched portion will be visible.

4. Aligned Section cut : This view is generated similar to Aligned Section view.

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In this also only Hatched portion will be visible.

vii. Section view can be edited by double clicking on the section line. An Editing Window will open and section line turns to green (refer below figure).

viii. An “Edit/Replace” toolbar will appear for editing purpose (refer below figure).

ix. In the “Edit/Replace” toolbar, go to “Replace Profile” , to completely define a new section in place of the previous one. Select starting and end point

of the section and double click. Then go to “End Profile Edition” in the

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same toolbar to exit from this editing window.

x. For reversing the direction of the section, click on “Invert Profile Direction”

Then go to “End Profile Edition” in same toolbar to exit from this editing window.

D. FOR CREATING DETAIL VIEWi. Detail view is basically enlarged view of some portion in the main view.

ii. In the “View” Toolbar, go to “Details” and Select “Detail view” .iii. Select the portion (with the help of circle) which is to be enlarged, and then

click on the drawing, Detail view is generated.

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iv. There are four types of Detail Views:

1. Detail view

2. Detail View Profile : Instead of circle selection, closed contour can be drawn.

3. Quick Detail View

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4. Quick Detail View Profile

v. Detail view can be edited in the similar way as section view is edited by double clicking the view boundary, except an option of “Invert Profile Direction” since an area is selected via circle or any profile therefore it will not have direction to invert.

E. FOR CREATING ISOMETRIC VIEW

i. In the “View” Toolbar select “Isometric View” option.ii. Go to Part; Select any face of the part to generate view.

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iii. The Catia window automatically switches to drawing. Isometric View comes inside the Green Box (Shown in below fig.).

iv. One can rotate and flip the view using compass box seen next to the view(like Front view)

v. Click on the drawing for generation of the view.vi. The view cannot be edited after it is generated.

F. FOR CREATING ADVANCED FRONT VIEW

i. In the “View” Toolbar select “Advanced Front View” option.A Dialogue Box (refer below figure) will appear for entering view name and its scale. Make required changes and then click ok.

Go to Part and select the feature or face, with which front view need to be generated.Place the cursor on the feature, if it is feasible to get the view, then an “Oriented Preview:” Box appears at the bottom right side of the screen,

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showing that the whole image will be generated like this (Refer below figure).

ii. Click on the feature. The Catia window automatically switches to drawing (Front view is seen inside the Green Box)

iii. One can rotate and flip the view using compass box seen next to the view (like Front view).

iv. Click on the drawing for generation of the view.v. The view cannot be edited after it is generated.

G. FOR CREATING AUXILIARY VIEW

i. In the “View” Toolbar choose “Auxiliary View” option.

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ii. Select the Starting and End Point for the view (This forms the reference line from which the view is needed).

iii. Click on the drawing for generation of the view.iv. Auxiliary view can be edited in the same manner as Section view.

H. FOR CREATING CLIPPING VIEWi. Clipping view is clipping some portion from the main view. Only that portion

will be visible in the view which is clipped.

ii. In the “View” Toolbar, go to “Clippings “and Select “Clipping view” .iii. Like detail view, select the portion which is to be clipped, then click anywhere

in the drawing.

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iv. Some feature is made visible excluding the non required portion of the main view. It will not change the view scale, just makes selected portion visible.

v. There are four types of Clipping Views:

1. Clipping view

2. Clipping view profile : Instead of circle, selection is done by closed contour.

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3. Quick Clipping view

4. Quick Clipping view Profile

vi. Clipping view cannot be edited once it is generated.

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I. EDITING VIEW PROPERTIES i. Right click on the view, box shown below will appear

Go to Properties, a dialogue box will appear (refer above figure). There is an option of “Lock View”, enable it to lock the view (Disable it to unlock the view), Locking means no more changes can be made. “Scale”, “View name” can be changed here. Make required changes.Click on “Apply” for having a look at the changes made, or can click on “ok”.

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J. GENERATING DIMENSIONSi. Dimensioning Toolbar:

In this Toolbar, mostly used two tools are Dimensions and Tolerancing.

1. Dimensions :

a. Dimensions :

After clicking on the dimension tool, below toolbar will appear.Select two elements of the view for dimension creation and click on the drawing.

i. Projected Dimension : according to the type of element, it automatically aligns dimension line to horizontal, vertical or direction of the element (force dimension on element).

ii. Force Dimension on Element

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iii. Force horizontal Dimension on view

iv. Force vertical Dimension on view

v. Force Dimension along a direction : In this first select the direction and then select element, there are three ways to give direction-

1. Dimension along direction

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2. Dimension perpendicular to direction

3. Dimension along fixed angle in view

vi. True length Dimension

vii. Intersection point detection : This will help where anchor activates exact point such as center point of a circle (refer below figure). By clicking on this option, possible points will be visible as elements of dimension.

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b. Chained Dimensions

c. Cumulated Dimensions

d. Stacked Dimensions

e. Length/Distance Dimensions

f. Angle Dimensions

g. Radius Dimensions :

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h. Diameter Dimensions : Select the circle.

i. Chamfer Dimensions : Click on the chamfered element to have Chamfer Dimension (refer below figure)

In the Tool Palette there are other Formats : a) Length x Angle,b) Angle x Length, c) Length. Use required Format.

j. Thread Dimensions

k. Coordinate Dimensions

l. Hole Dimension table

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m. Coordinate Dimension Table : It is used when 2D points have to be imported from Excel document provided by client. Select the whole view in which points need to be projected to get the coordinate dimension table.

In “Axis System” change it to “3D absolute axis system”.

Go to “Columns” and change it to “Index: 1, 2, 3…”

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Then Click Ok. A table with x, y, z coordinates (for corresponding points on the view) appears in the window. Click on the drawing to place the table.

2. Tolerancing

a. Datum Feature : Click on the element, a dialogue box appears. Enter the Text for Datum.Datum is decided by client we only need to make it in the

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drawing as in the reference PDF. Basically Datum is used for positioning of the part in fitment.

b. Geometrical Tolerance : Click on the element, and then click on the drawing, a dialogue box will appear (refer below figure)

Click on “Insert Symbol” , various option will be browsed, first

symbol is for Diameter(generally used) as shown in below fig.

Moving Next to “Tolerance”, we have following options. Use options similar to reference PDF.

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Fill required block (similar to reference PDF) and click ok.

K. EDITING DIMENSION PROPERTIESi. Right clicking on the dimension, will give the Properties of Dimension in the

dialogue box. This will be useful to change following things in reference to PDF file.

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1. Value:

2. Tolerance:

Browsing Main Value get the list of Tolerance type. Mostly used option is 2nd option .Enter the “Upper value” and “Lower value”.

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Example:

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3. Dimension Line:

4. Extension Line

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5. Dimension Text:

Clicking on the dimension, highlights red triangle before and after the dimension value. Again clicking on the red triangles, adds prefix and suffix text for the dimension value.

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6. Font

7. Text

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L. CREATING ANNOTATIONS

i. Mainly “Text” Tools are used

1. Text : After clicking on this icon, click on the required element or anywhere in the drawing, a text box will appear for entering the text.

2. Text with Leader : After clicking on this icon, it asks for the leader point, click on the required leader point. Then a window appears to enter the text.

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3. Balloon :

4. Datum Target : After clicking on this icon, click on the required element, then click on the drawing, a dialogue box will appear “Datum Target Creation” (refer below figure). There is two blank space provided to fill upper and lower half of the circle (balloon).

When diameter sign is not clicked

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When diameter sign is clicked, it gets added to the upper Text.

Then click ok

M. DRESS-UP

i. Axis and Threads:

Under this various options are:

1. Center Line : Click on the circle( any circular element to create center line)

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2. Center Line with Reference : Select the element and then reference to create center line with reference to another element.

3. Axis Line : Select two vertical or horizontal lines (or elements) to create axis line.

N. GEOMETRY CREATION

i. Sometimes additional geometry needs to be created according to the reference PDF file.

ii. Points, line, circle, arc etc… can be created.

O. GEOMETRY MODIFICATIONSGenerally Re-limitations options are used.

i. Re-limitations: When Geometry is created, modifications can be made by using Re-limitations

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REFERENCE ELEMENT

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1. Corner : Two lines or elements can be joined by making corner.

2. Chamfer : Two lines and element can be joined by making chamfer.

3. Trim : Two lines and element can be joined by extending the two lines or elements.

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4. Break : A single element is split in two individual elements, given the break point or line.

P. SPECIFICATIONS (F3)Also known as Specification tree appears left side of the screen.

Q. STANDARD TOOLBARIn Standard Toolbar (common for all workbenches e.g. Drafting, Part design, Assembly etc...), there are ten options (These options also exist under File and Edit Menu)

1. New (Ctrl+N): Creates a new part, assembly or drawing document.

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2. Open : Opens an existing document. The document can be a part, assembly, drawing or CATIA V5 model document, or a document containing supported standard interface data.

3. Save (Ctrl+S): Saves the active document with its name, location and format.

Note: After every changes made in the document save it, to reduce rework and loss of data.

4. Quick Print (Ctrl+P): Print the active document in default printer with default printer settings.

5. Cut (Ctrl+X): Removes the selection from the active document and places it on the clipboard.

6. Copy (Ctrl+C): Copies the selection to the clipboard.

7. Paste (Ctrl+V): Inserts the contents of the clipboard at the selected location. This command is only available if you have cut or copied an object.

8. Undo ( Ctrl+Z): Reverses the last action.

9. Redo ( Ctrl+Y): Repeats the last cancelled actions.

10. What’s This (Shift+F1): Provides help on toolbar icons

R. UPDATE (CTRL+U)i. Update views from current sheet.

ii. If Update icon is active, then click on it to update current sheet, so that drawing or part will get updated.

Active InActive

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iii. In the Specification Tree if any view is seen like this (refer below figure), that means it needs to be updated.

S. VIEW TOOLBARi. In View Toolbar (common for all workbenches e.g. Drafting, Part design,

Assembly etc...), there are six options:

1. Fit All In : Zooms in or out so that all the selected geometry optimally fills the available space.

2. Pan : Pans the view.

3. Zoom In : Zooms in the document.

4. Zoom Out : Zooms out of the document.

5. Hide/Shows (Space) : Alternatively displays hide and show objects.

6. Swap visible space : Makes no-show space visible. This shows all the hidden features. Significance - if the feature is hidden, it can be seen by clicking on this and if wanted can again be made “Shown” (unhide).

T. HATCHING

Hatching is the cut section of the part. Right Click on the hatched portion and go to Properties, a dialogue box will appear where pattern, pitch, angle, Offset color, line type, thickness, etc… can be changed.

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On clicking button next to “Type: Hatching”, following pattern option will be visible

Select the Pattern and click ok.

Generally used pattern is with Angle: 45, pitch: 4, and Offset: 0.

U. FILLING TITLE BLOCKTitle Block is in the Bottom Right corner of the drawing. It should be filled before delivering a drawing to the client.

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For editing it, go to Menu bar -> Edit -> Sheet Background”. There are various boxes to fill (Refer below figure).

i. WEIGHT and VOLUME: Go to Part, right click on the part number, click on the properties, select “Mass” tab. Copy Mass and Volume from it and paste them in the title box.

ii. Status Value of Drawing is by default INITIAL/INITIAL, Change it to RELEASED/RELEASED as instructions given by client. Don’t change until and unless asked to do so.

iii. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.

iv. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.

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v. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.vi. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.

vii. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.viii. Fill the part number through which views are created.ix. Fill the Drawing name. Part Number is same as Drawing Number.x. Fill accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client.xi. Blank Space at the bottom is given to enter PART NAME / DESCRIPTION. Fill

accordingly as PDF reference or directed by client or Go to Part, right click on the part number, click on the properties, select “Product” tab. Copy from it and paste it in the title box.

xii. : Page is always 1 OF 1 , if there are more than 1 sheet inside Drawing then give 1 OF 2 for 1st sheet and 2 OF 2 for 2nd sheet.

xiii. : Enter the scale of Front view.

V. CREATING CATDUA FILE:i. Doing CATDUA in the file removes unnecessary things and errors.ii. Go to File click “Desk”, right click on the CAT file click “CATDUAV5…”

A Dialogue box will appear (refer below figure)

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Enable “open html output file” and “clean” option. Click “Run”.

iii. A Report of CATDUA will be generated in Internet explorer. Save the file in the folder where its respective part and drawing is saved.

iv. Click “Exit” and Close “Desk”

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W. MISCELLANEOUSi. A view is not active, when it is enclosed in ‘blue dotted rectangular box’

View is activated by double clicking on it. Then it becomes enclosed in red dotted rectangular box. This is the range of the view and its content (i.e. dimension we put, annotations we create, etc...)

ii. Whenever view is generated, by default view axis (refer below figure, blue L shaped) is also visible when we double click on it.

Select it and Hide it using Hide option .

Selecting this turns orange in color then click on Hide option .Now the view appears as shown in below figure.It is mandatory that axis system is hidden by this method only (required by

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client).

iii. Always keep in mind that whatever tools used other than view generation, respective view should be activated before using the tools.

iv. Double click the tool to perform action more than one time.v. Geometrical Tolerance can be attached to Dimension also

Text and geometrical tolerance can be fixed with the dimension by Creating “positional link” and “orientation link”. This option will come by right clicking on text or geometrical tolerances.

vi. Arrows of the dimension line should be outwards when the dimension value is outwards from the element. (Required by Client)

If the value lies inside the dimension line , then arrows will be inwards.(Refer below figure)

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vii. Curve Edges have more than one anchor point. Press Ctrl Key (Dimension will

be stationary)place the cursor on Yellow Dot , possible anchor points will get visible in blue, drag this yellow dot to change the anchor point.

viii. By default view is generated with its view name showing scale also.ix. Remove Main View Name i.e. Front view, Right View, Left View, Top View,

Bottom View, and Auxiliary View as its scale is mentioned in the TITLE BLOCK. Keep View name of Section View, Detail View as its scale will be different from the main views or refer to PDF file given.

x. Lock all the views before delivering drawing to the client.xi. Do the CATDUA and save the file before delivery.xii. Save the PDF format of the CAT Drawing made in the same folder.

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xiii. Go to Tools->Customize ->Commands.Shortcuts can be assigned or changed here for any tool or command.

4. DELIVERY ITEMS / OUTPUT : a. CAT Part (given by client)b. CAT Drawingc. Reference PDF filed. Saved PDF filee. CATDUA filef. Excel file(If given by the client)

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