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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Manual Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Part Design & Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Launching 3DEXPERIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Assembly Design Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Part Design Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Pull-down Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Part Design Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sketcher Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Sketcher Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Standard Icons
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Manipulating the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Three button mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Two button mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SpaceBall or SpaceMouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Searching the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Navigation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Authoring Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Creating a Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Renaming the Current Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Saving and Closing the Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Naming Convention & Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Deleting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating a Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Basic Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Basic Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Centered Rectangle * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Oriented Rectangle * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Parallelogram * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Centered Parallelogram * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Polygon * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Circle Through 3 Points * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Circle with Cartesian Coordinates * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Circle Tangent to 3 Elements * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Arc Through 3 Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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Arc Through 3 Points with Limits * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Arc * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Ellipse * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Infinite Line * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Bi-tangent Line * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Bisecting Line * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Line Normal to Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Axis Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Point by Using Coordinates * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Equidistant Points * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Intersection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Projection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Align Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Spline * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Connect Curve * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Parabola * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Hyperbola * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Conic * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Elongated Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Cylindrical Elongated Hole * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Keyhole * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Dimensional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Geometrical Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Operations on Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Tangent Arc * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Chamfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Trim and Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Hide/Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Basic Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Basic Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Multiple Profiles * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Multi-Pad and Multi-Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Shaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Thread/Tap * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Rib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Solid Combine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

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Multi-Section Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Remove Multi-Section Solids * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Close Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Thick Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Stiffener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Operations on Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Fillet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Chamfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Drafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Thickness * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Remove Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Replace Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Split Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Sew Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Modifying Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Interfacing with Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Constraining to Faces Versus Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Advanced Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

3D Elements on Sketch Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Construction Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Advanced Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Sketch Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Sketch Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Sketch Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Advanced Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Rectangular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Circular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
User-Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Exploding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Part Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Modifying Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Modifying Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Inserting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Scanning the Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Modifying Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Replacing Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Changing a Sketch Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Positioned Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Cut, Copy, and Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Reordering the Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Modifying Parts Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Inserting Bodies and Boolean Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Inserting Part Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Boolean operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

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Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Applying Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Delete Useless Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Delete All Except . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Recommended Modeling Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Sketcher considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Part Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Interactive Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Problem #1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Problem #2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Problem #3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Problem #4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Problem #5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Problem #6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Problem #7.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Problem #8.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Problem #9.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Problem #10.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Problem #11.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Problem #12.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Problem #13.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Problem #14.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Problem #15.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Problem #16.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Problem #17.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Problem #18.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Problem #19.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Problem #20.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Problem #21.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Problem #22.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Problem #23.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Problem #24.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Problem #25.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Problem #26.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Problem #27.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Problem #28.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Problem #29.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Problem #30.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Problem #31.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Problem #32.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Problem #33.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Problem #34.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Problem #35.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

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Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Customize - Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Customize - Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Customize - Action Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Customize - Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Customize - Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
General - PCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
General - Display - Tree Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
General - Display - Tree Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
General - Display - Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
General - Parameters and Measure - Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
General - Parameters and Measure - Constraints and Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Infrastructure - 3D Shape Infrastructure - General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Infrastructure - 3D Shape Infrastructure - Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Infrastructure - 3D Shape Infrastructure - 3D Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Infrastructure - 3D Shape Infrastructure - Graphic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Mechanical - Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Mechanical Design - Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Appendix C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Reference Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Offset from plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Parallel through point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Angle/Normal to plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Through three points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Through two lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Through point and line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Through planar curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Normal to curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Tangent to surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Mean through points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Appendix D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Measurement Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Measure Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Measure Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Measure Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Appendix E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Advanced Dress-Up Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Draft Both Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Advanced Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Automatic Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Automatic Filleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

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Introduction
CATIA Version 6 Part Design and Sketcher
Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the
following topics:

- Creating sketches

- Constraining sketches

- Modifying sketches

- Creating parts

- Modifying parts

- Performing boolean operations on parts

- Basic use of surfaces in part design

- Applying materials to parts

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Manual Format
It is important to understand the format of the manual in order to use it most effectively.
This manual is designed to be used along with an instructor; however, you will need to do a
lot of reading as well, in order to fully understand CATIA Version 6. The exercises in this
book will list steps for you to complete, along with explanations that try to inform you
about what you have just done and what you are getting ready to do. The actual steps are in
bold type and the information that follows the steps is for your benefit. Anything that
appears in italics refers to a message CATIA provides—this includes information in pull-
down menus, pop-up windows, and other messages.

An example of a step and its explanation is shown below (note: normally the lines will not
be there):

Select a location to the right of the origin. This specifies the other end point of the line.
You will continue specifying locations in order to complete your profile. It should appear
similar to the diagram shown below.

As you can see, the desired action blends in with the text except that it appears in bold. The
information following the step explains what that step accomplished and where you are
going next. It is important to read this information in order to better your understanding of
CATIA Version 6.

Also, you will find that the exercises build upon themselves. Later exercises often assume
you know how to do certain steps which have been covered earlier in the course. If you did
not quite pick up what you needed to know from an exercise, you will probably want to
review it several times before moving onto more advanced sections. The advanced sections
assume that you have a good understanding of the previous sections. Therefore, fewer steps
will be provided. Eventually, you are expected to be able to create parts without any steps.

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Part Design & Sketcher
CATIA Version 6 uses the Sketcher workbench as its principal method to create profiles.
These profiles can be shaped and located via many different types of constraints. The first
objective of the course is to learn how to use Sketcher and how to constrain profiles to the
desired specifications. Sketcher is a very powerful method for creating profiles, and it is
easy to use.

The second objective of the course is to use these sketches in Part Design. The sketches
define two-dimensional cross-sections to be used for design three-dimensional shapes.
There are several different shapes that can be made, as well as various operations that can
be performed on them. By combining these shapes and operations, you can design a variety
of parts.

The third objective of the course is to familiarize you with the advanced methods of
creating sketches and parts. This includes using construction geometry and projecting
three-dimensional geometry onto the sketch plane. It also includes the use of formulas to
set up typical values at multiple locations, as well as more complex formulas to provide a
more dynamic sketch. In terms of part design, you will learn how to use multiple parts and
how to perform boolean operations on them.

The fourth objective is to become efficient at modifying your designs. You can modify
your design either by changing the parameters of a part operation, or by modifying the
sketch that was used. This is a fairly simple process in CATIA Version 6, and it is the real
strength of Part Design.

The fifth objective is to introduce the use of wireframe and surfaces in the part design
process, and how to apply various materials to your design. This is meant only to be an
introduction, and it is not a complete course on these subjects.

In conclusion, you should be able to design many parts using the Sketcher and Part Design
workbenches in an efficient manner. As mentioned before, you may find it frustrating at
first, but it should feel very natural by the end of the course.

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Profiles
This section will discuss the Profile icon. It is perhaps the most commonly used icon when
defining sketches. The following exercises demonstrate the usefulness of the Profile icon,
and how to utilize it effectively. It can create simple shapes and complex shapes within one
operation.

The typical method of using the Profile tool is to specify the corner points of the desired
shape. CATIA will generate lines between those points until you either select on the
Profile icon again, double select a location in the workspace, or select the starting point to
close the profile. You can also use sub-options that appear in the Sketch tools toolbar to
generate curves as you are defining the profile. Alternatively, you can generate a tangent
curve by using the first mouse button while sketching with the Profile icon. This will be
done in a later exercise.

When defining a profile, the geometry may turn blue, or blue constraint symbols may
appear. This indicates that a constraint will be created if a location is selected at that
moment. It is useful for defining horizontal and vertical lines, or for defining tangencies
with arcs and circles.

You will now build several profiles to practice using the various capabilities of the Profile
icon. The first profile you are going to build looks like the one shown here.

Select the Profile icon. It should be highlighted.

Select the origin point of the sketch plane. This specifies the starting point for your
profile. When you specify the next location, make sure the line appears blue before
selecting in the workspace. This will place a vertical constraint on your element
automatically.

Note: If the automatic constraints become problematic while you are sketching, you can
hold down the Shift key to temporarily ignore constraints. Once you release Shift,
constraints will be recognized again.

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Select a location above the origin. If the line turned blue before you selected the second
location, it should appear with the vertical constraint on it like the one shown below. Make
sure when you specify the other locations that those elements also appear blue before
selecting in the workspace.

Select a location to the right of the previous location. It should appear with the
horizontal constraint on the element and look similar to the diagram shown below.

Select a location below the previous location and on the H axis. It should appear similar
to the diagram shown below. You might notice a little, green circle appear. This is a
coincidence constraint. This coincidence constraint forces the end point to be aligned with
the H axis. This and other constraints will be discussed in more detail later on.

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Select a location to the left of the previous location. You may have noticed that the first
vertical line and the shorter horizontal line both turned green. This means they are iso-
constrained. Constraints will be discussed with greater detail in later exercises.

Select a location above the previous location. It should appear similar to the diagram
shown below.

Select a location to the left of the previous location.

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Select a location below the previous location. Your sketch should look similar to what is
shown here.

Select the origin point of the sketch again. As long as you create the entire profile at one
time, selecting the start point again will close the profile and end the command. You can
undo selections in the middle of creating your profile by using the Undo icon, or by using
the Ctrl Z keyboard shortcut. The Undo icon is a standard icon so it is available on
each of the toolbar sections.

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The sub-options for the Profile icon are available within the Tools Palette toolbar and are
shown below.

Line

Tangent Arc

Three Point Arc

You will now perform a sketch with the Profile icon by using the Three Point Arc sub-
option. It allows you to define an arc without having to exit the Profile command.

Select the Profile icon. The next profile you are going to build looks like this.

Select the origin point of the sketch plane. This specifies the starting point for your
profile. When you specify the next location, make sure the line appears blue before
selecting in the workspace. This will place a vertical constraint on your element
automatically.

Select a location above the origin. If the line appeared blue before you selected the
second location, it should appear with the vertical constraint on it like the one shown below.
Make sure when you specify the other locations for the lines that they also appear blue
before selecting in the workspace.

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Select a location to the right of the previous location. It should appear similar to the
diagram shown below.

Select the Three Point Arc icon from the Tools Palette toolbar. This icon will
allow you to specify a location for the arc to pass through and a location for the arc to end
at. The arc will begin at the last location specified, which, in this case, is the endpoint of
the horizontal line.

Select up and to the right of the previous location. This specifies the location that the arc
should pass through. The next point specifies the endpoint of the arc.

Select down and to the right of the previous location. This location should be straight
across from the start of the arc. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.
Notice how the Three Point Arc icon in the Sketch tools toolbar automatically turned off
and the Line icon turned back on.

Select to the right of the previous location.

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Select below the previous location, on the H axis. It should appear similar to the diagram
shown below.

Select to the left of the previous location.

Select above the previous location, as shown below.

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Select to the left of the previous location.

Select the Three Point Arc icon, then select up and to the left of the previous location.
This is the location that the arc will pass through. The next point specifies where the
arc will end.

Select down and to the left of the previous location. This location should be straight
across from the start of the arc. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Select to the left of the previous location.

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Select below the previous location. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Select the origin point of the sketch again. CATIA closes the profile and exits the Profile
command.

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Pad
The Pad option allows you to use a sketch and extrude it in a linear direction to produce a
solid pad. You can create a sketch or profile on-the-fly by pressing the third mouse button
while in the Selection box. This allows you to use one of the available options to define a
profile if you did not already have one created. When you create a pad, the Pad Definition
window appears as shown here.

Initially, the window will appear with only the First Limit displayed. You must select the
More >> button to see the Second Limit and Thin Pad options. Since the options are the
same for both limits, they will only be discussed once.

Type

Dimension Allows you to enter a length value

Up to next Extends to the next feature of an existing part

Up to last Extends to the last feature of an existing part

Up to plane Extends to a specified plane, which is its Limit

Up to surface Extends to a specified surface, which is its Limit

Profile/Surface

Selection Specifies which sketch will be used; you have the option to
modify the sketch using the Sketcher icon next to the box.
You can also select a surface to use as your profile.

Thick Toggles the Thin Pad option. This allows you to add a wall
thickness to the elements that make up the sketch.

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Reverse Side Reverses the side an open profile will use to determine its
shape

Mirrored extent Applies only when the Type is set to Dimension; the pad will extend
the same distance in both directions, thereby eliminating the need for
a second limit

Reverse Direction Extrudes the pad in the opposite direction

Direction

Normal to profile Forces the pad to extrude normal to the sketch plane

Reference Extrudes the pad along a user-specified direction

Thin Pad

Thickness1/2 Specifies the wall thickness that will be applied to each sketch
element

Neutral Fiber Forces the sketch element to be in the center; the wall
thickness is added to both sides equally

Merge Ends Extends or trims the elements to existing material

When you select a Type other than Dimension, you will have the option to specify an Offset
value from the corresponding limit.

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Open the PDAS - Pad1 document. There are two sketches already created for you.

Select the Pad icon. You will be able to create a pad using one of the sketches. This
exercise is going to cover the various methods that you can use to create pads. A Pad
Definition window should appear similar to the one shown below.

Select Sketch.1 from either the graphical area or the tree. This will be the profile for the
pad feature. You are going to use the basic option of keying in a length for the First Limit.
You will also preview what the Mirrored extent and Reverse Direction options do.

Change the Length to 4.0. Do not press Enter yet. Doing so will automatically create the
pad with the specified value. For now, you are going to want to Preview the pad in order to
see what CATIA is doing until you understand the different options.

Select Preview. A preview of the pad appears. You will now change some of the other
options to see the differences between them.

Select Mirrored extent, then select Preview. As you can see, instead of the pad extending
in only one direction, it now extends four inches on both sides. Your sketch is being used
as the mirror plane.

Select Mirrored extent again to turn it off, then select Preview. Now you are going to
reverse the direction of the pad so that it will extend in the opposite direction only.

Select Reverse Direction, then select Preview. The pad is still going to be four inches
wide. This is the side you want to create the pad on.

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Select OK. The pad should appear similar to the diagram shown below. The sketch was
automatically hidden after being used by the pad. This is due to a setting under the pull
down menu Preferences.

You are now going to explore the other Types you can use to define limits for your pads.

Select the Pad icon. The Pad Definition window appears.

Select Sketch.2. This specifies the sketch you want to use for the next pad.

Select Reverse Direction so that it extends toward the other pad. Now you are going to
see what the other Types allow you to do.

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Change the Type to Up to next and select Preview. Notice that the pad only goes to the
next side of the other pad. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Change the Type to Up to last and select Preview. Notice that the pad goes all the way to
the last side of the previous part. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Change the Type to Up to plane. When you use this option you have to specify a plane or
a planar side that you want the pad to be limited by.

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Select the plane indicated below, then select Preview. Notice that the pad goes up to the
plane and then stops. It should appear similar to the diagram shown here.

You may have to rotate the part around in order to see the limitation better. The Up to
surface option works very similar to the Up to plane option, except that you can specify a
surface instead of a plane.

The Offset field is now available, and you are able to enter both positive and negative
values. A positive value will extend the pad beyond the limit by the specified amount,
whereas a negative value will stop the pad short of the limit by the specified amount.

Enter 0.25 for the Offset, then select Preview. From the side, you can see that the pad
extends past the selected limit plane.

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Select the More >> option. This expands the window to reveal more options. Your
window should appear similar to this.

Currently, the Direction is specified as Normal to Profile. You will turn this off and specify
an element to be used for the direction instead.

Turn off the Normal to Profile option and select in the Reference field, then select the
angled edge closest to the origin as shown below and select Preview. The pad extrudes
in the direction of the line and stops at the plane specified earlier. It should appear similar
to the diagram below.

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Select Normal to Profile. The direction is once again normal to the sketch plane. You will
now use a First Limit and a Second Limit together to create the pad.

Under the Second Limit, change the Type to Up to plane, then select the face indicated
below and click Preview. Your pad will now exist between the plane selected for the First
Limit and the selected face for the Second Limit, plus the offset value. You can use faces
for the Up to Plane option as long as they are planar. You can also use planes for the Up to
Surface option.

Change the Type for the First Limit to Up to Surface and select the face closest to
Sketch.2, then enter 0.0 for the Offset and select Preview. Your pad should appear as
depicted below.

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Select OK. The final part should look similar to the image below.

This exercise showed most of the options available when creating a pad. There are other
shapes you will see that have some of the same options. Hopefully, you have a good
understanding of what each option allows you to do.

Note: Open profiles (sketches) can be used to create pads or pockets, as long as they will be
closed by the other faces of your existing part. You will see this demonstrated in the next
exercise.

Save and close the document.

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Open the PDAS - Pad2 document. A sketch has already been created. You are going to
use the Thin Pad options to finish the model.

Select the Pad icon. This will allow you to create a pad using the sketch. The Pad
Definition window appears.

Select Sketch.1. A Feature Definition Error window appears. It is because your sketch
contains some open profiles. However, this is okay since you will be using the Thick
option.

Select Yes, then select the Thick option. Whenever you are using an open profile, you
will want to select the Thick option before doing anything else. Otherwise, you will
continue to receive error messages until it is turned on.

Turn on Neutral Fiber and enter 0.1 for Thickness1. This option splits the specified
thickness in half, distributing the solid evenly in both directions. Make sure the directional
arrow in the graphical area is pointing toward the existing solid. If it is pointing away,
select the Reverse Direction button.

Change the First Limit to Up to surface and select the outer face of the part. You will
have to rotate it in order to select the outside surface.

Select OK. Your part should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Save and close the document.

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Open the PDAS - Pad3 document. There are three sketches already created for you.

Select the Pad icon. The Pad Definition window appears.

Set the Type to Dimension with a Length of 0.75, then select Sketch.1 and click OK. The
pad should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Select the Pad icon again, then select Sketch.2.

Set the Type to Dimension with a Length of 0.75, then select OK. Your part should look
like this.

Do not close the document; you will continue to use it for the next exercise.

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