drafting and dimensioning 98. a properly dimensioned drawing of a part is very important to the...
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DRAFTING and DIMENSIONING
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A properly dimensioned drawing of a part is very important to the manufacturing outcome. With CATIA, it can be a very simple process.
This simple Guide Block will show basic dimensioning formats.
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There are a few simple ways to go from Part Design to DRAFTING. If you double click the Part Design icon (top right hand corner) you will access a navigation window as shown. From here, you can pick DRAFTING.
Part Design icon
Choose DRAFTING
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Another way to do it is to click the START drag-down menu and choose DRAFTING.
Drafting
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The NEW DRAWING CREATION dialog box will appear. The first thing to do is pick your automatic layout.
Next, you can choose MODIFY and change ISO and ANSI standards, number of sheets and orientation, scale and others.
Orange shows it has been chosen
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Quickly the drawing is generated. All of the views we asked for in proper orientation to each other.
This drawing is now ready for dimensions. Since the front view is highlighted, we can start there.
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Click on DIMENSIONING from the toolbar…
…And then choose a curved surface to dimension.
Chosen surface
DIMENSIONING
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If default is DIAMETER, this is what you will see. If you wish to dimension a RADIUS, highlight the line and right click on it.
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When DIMENSION TYPE appears, notice that it is default to Diameter. Highlight RADIUS Center and click on it.
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Your dimension is now a Radius. Lengthen and shorten the dimension line by dragging it.
Click and
Drag
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You can add notes before and after the dimension by clicking on the red triangles
Red triangles
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This text box will appear. Simply click in the empty field next to “Text After” and type the note. Click on OK when you’re done and your note will appear in the drafting.
Type note here
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In this example, “TYP” was typed to indicate the dimension is TYPICAL for these radii.
After you have clicked in the box to enter
your note as seen on the previous page,
press the “Space Bar” once to leave a space
between the dimension and your note as seen here
1 Space
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All lines can be done in the same way. Simply pick them and click on Dimension. If you are working on a large drawing, this single line picking would be rather tedious. There is another way…
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Click on GENERATING DIMENSIONS Step By Step. This will allow CATIA to do the dimensioning for you one at a time, every few seconds, whatever timeout you choose.
Generating Dimensions icon
Click here to start the dimensioning.
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Once all of the automatic dimensioning is finished, you will get an ANALYSIS of what was done.
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After the Auto Dimension, you may want to go back and make changes. This is as simple as highlighting the dimension and making the appropriate change.
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