Catia V5.3 - ASSEMBLY DESIGN mode
Assembling your individual parts into one assembly is very simple and user friendly in Catia. The first thing to do is gather up your parts. Here we have a simple plate with a hole in the middle.
BASIC ASSEMBLY DESIGN
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There is a number of ways to
enter ASSEMBLY DESIGN mode.
Any ONE way will do it.
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Assembling your individual parts into one
assembly is very simple and user friendly
in Catia. The first thing to do is gather up
your parts. Here we have a simple plate
with a hole in the middle.
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We are going to take this one inch
diameter rod and insert it through the hole
in our plate using the ASSEMBLY DESIGN
features. Ensure that you have saved your
parts to a convenient location for quick
access later.
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Now you are in Assembly mode.
Notice on the beginning of the new
specification tree it says product.
Your product will be the assembly
of the parts you made.
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This is your PRODUCT STRUCTURE toolbar. It is
how you will bring in your parts you have made
and saved. Single click “Product” in your
specification tree, and then click INSERT
COMPONENT. From here you can instead click
NEW PART and draw one as needed. Other
options are also here self-evident by their names.
New Component
New Par t
I nser t Component
M anage Repr esentati ons
Repl ace Component
Fast M ul ti I nstanti nati on
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Here is the first part brought in using Insert
Component. It’s existence is reflected in the
specification tree. Now we will bring in the
next part the same way.
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Both parts are now in the Assembly
environment, and both are reflected in the
tree. They enter the environment in
approximately the same orientation that
they were saved. You can now move and
orient them the way you wish. Catia will
help you here.
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This is your CONSTRAINTS toolbar for use in
assemblies. They are also named in a self-
explanatory manner. COINCIDENCE and CONTACT
constraints will be used most.
Coi nci dence
Contact
Offset
Angl e
Fi x components
Fi x together
Qui ck constr ai nts
ReUse patter n
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The first skill you will want to learn here
is how to manually move parts around
relative to one another. Pick the face of
the Plate and prepare to move it.
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Grab the COMPASS from the top right corner
of your screen. Put your cursor on the red
square of the compass and click and drag it to
the highlighted part.
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flagpole
Once on your part, the compass becomes
green when active. As you move your
cursor over it, different parts will turn
orange. The orange part highlighted
represents the way the part will rotate.
Picking the “flagpole” will move the part
in a linear motion.
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Once you have moved the parts relative
to one another, since we are locating
round parts we will use COINCIDENCE
RESTRAINT. Choose this and then pick
the centerlines of the two parts
involved.
Centerline chosen
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As you pick the second
centerline, Catia will
automatically constrain them.
If Catia does not immediately
line them up, click the
UPDATE icon.
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Here are the two parts with a
coincidence constraint applied ,
ready to be put together. We
can do this manually.
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Pick the face of the rod and put the
compass there. Grab the “flagpole”
and slide the rod into the hole
roughly half way. We will constrain it
exactly in a moment.
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Here is your part ready for the final
constraint. We will constrain it so that half
the rod sticks out of either side of the
plate.
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Choose OFFSET constraint and then
pick the plate face and the rod face.
In the dialog box that pops up,
enter the offset. Here we will use
2.5 inches.
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Finally, here is your part
ready to be DRAFTED and
put into production.
Notice all the constraints
are reflected in the
specification tree.
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