CATIA V5
Dr Ahmed Kovacevic
City University London
School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Room CM124, Phone: 8780, E-Mail: Design@city.ac.uk
www.city-design.tk
www.staff.city.ac.uk/~ra600/intro.htm
Course Schedule
• Lecture 1
• Introduction
• Software Overview
• Part Design and Sketching
• Lecture 2
• Product Structure and
Assembly Modelling
• More advance Part Design
• Lecture 3
• Wireframe and Surface
• Drafting
• Lecture 4
• Finite Element Analysis
• Data Exchange
• Parameters and Formulas
Lecture 1
CATIA Overview
• CATIA v5 is an Integrated Computer Aided
Engineering tool:
! Incorporates CAD, CAM, CAE, and other applications
! Completely re-written since CATIA v4 and still under development
! CATIA v5 is a native Windows application
! User friendly icon based graphical user interface
! Based on Variational/ Parametric technology
! Encourages design flexibility and design reuse
! Supports Knowledge Based Design
Lecture 1
CATIA v5 Philosophy
• A Flexible Modelling environment
! Ability to easily modify models, and implement design changes
! Support for data sharing, and data reuse
• Knowledge enabled
! Capture of design constraints, and design intent as well as final
model geometry
! Management of non-geometric as well as geometric design
information
• The 3D Part is the Master Model
! Drawings, Assemblies and Analyses are associative to the 3D
parts. If the part design changes, the downstream models with
change too.
Lecture 1
CATIA v5 Applications
• Freestyle Shaper
• Digital Shape Editor
• Knowledgeware
• Photo Studio
• 4D Navigator (including
kinematics)
• Manufacturing
• Finite Element Analysis
• Product Structure
• Part Design
• Assembly Design
• Sketcher
• Drafting (Interactive and
Generative)
• Wireframe and Surface
Lecture 1
CATIA User Interface
Menu Bar
View Toolbar
Application
Tool Bar
File Toolbar
Current
Application
Online Help
Lecture 1
Interacting with CATIA (1)
• Selecting an Application
! Use the Start menu to select an
application
• Working with Files
! Use the File menu t