Mechanical Design

CATIA - Part Design 2 (PDG)

CATIA V5R19

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Mechanical Design

CATIA - Part DesignDesign complex parts with highly productive and robust modelingfeatures in an intuitive environment

Product overview

This CATIA-P2 offers a new generation CATIA

product for part design with one interface on

NT and UNIX. Interoperates with CATIA

Version 4 data and methodologies.

The "smart-solid" design kernel combines

high productivity feature-based toolsets and

boolean methodologies, delivering a flexible

solution enabling multiple design approaches.

CATIA - Part Design 2 (PDG) can be used

with CATIA V5 applications like Assembly

Design, Drafting, Wireframe & Surface

Product Highlights

Provides an Associative, feature based

hybrid modeller Interoperable with CATIA

V4

Incorporating thread specifications, on

hole definitions and circular pads and

holes.

Includes Flexible, post-design 3D

parameterization

Creates Sketches and 3D designs in

assembly context

Makes designs easier to understand

across the entire enterprise with Part

Structure Editor, speeding up initial design

and changes

Expanded hybrid modelling capability

shape design products

Product Key Customers Benefits

Feature-based, Hybrid Modeling

PDG performs associative feature based

hybrid modeling, involving either IGES or

CATIA V5 surfaces. Reference elements or

geometrical specifications, including Points,

Lines, Planes, and Curves generated by the

CATIA Wireframe and Surface product works

within a V5 part design. Sketched features

with perpendicular or un-perpendicular,

multi-contoured profiles include Pads and

Pockets Shafts, Grooves, Ribs, Slots and

Stiffeners.

Sketching and 3D Design

Sketching and 3D design is performed in an

assembly context with user controled

associativity. Sketching and design is based

on the DCM-2D solver (from the D-Cubed

Company). Full variational sketching supports

locally constrained profiles and automatic

constraints recognition, as well as

auto-dimensioning of a sketch or of specified

elements of a sketch. Direct input of

dimensions is supported. Predefined contours

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include oblong, hexagons and key hole.

A post-sketch refinement of constraint sets

with parameters and equations can be

performed. PDG has the capacity to create

construction elements, so as to simplify the

definition of sketches and constraints.

Offers Relational Design capabilities

PDG's modification management enables

Sketch Wireframe or Surface Elements used

in one existing feature to be replaced by

another one. Sketch support (plane or face)

can be changed. An assistant system

manages the deletion impact, allowing

and children to be deleted and features to be

replaced or re-routed. Another assistant

manages the modification impact, showing

the geometry to be replaced and highlighting

bodies to be updated. It has the capability to

isolate features, keeping the geometry alone

without any history.

Flexible post-design and local 3D

parameterization offers the ability to add

design constraints either during the feature

creation or after the design is completed, by

adding 3D constraints across the features.

Under-constrained designs are allowed and

over constrained designs are possible. In such

cases, CATIA will alert the user, asking for a

decision on which constraint to remove.

PDG's Part Structure Editor makes it easier to

understand designs and make changes to the

design. The reuse of a part shape within

another part facilitates concurrent engineering.

CATIA V4 Interoperability

PDG is interoperable with CATIA Version 4

applications and data. V5 parts can be used

by CATIA V4 (requiring V4 Release 2.0

Refresh 1). Existing V4 designs can be

migrated to V5.

PDG is interoperable with CATIA Version 4

applications and data. V5 parts can be used

by CATIA V4 (requiring V4 Release 2.0

Refresh 1). Existing V4 designs can be

migrated to V5.

ABOUT CATIA V5R19

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