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Wichita, KS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Drafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Drawing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Pull-down Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Drafting Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Views and Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Dimensions and Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Drawing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Additional options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Bottom Toolbar Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Graphic properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Drafting Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Starting a New Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Creating Views from a Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Orientation Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Projection View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Isometric View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Advanced Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Local Axis System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Unfolded View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Extracted View from 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Auxiliary View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Section Views and Section Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Detail Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Clipping Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Broken View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Breakout View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuration of Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Modifying Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Sheet Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Page Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Modifying Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

View Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

View positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Locating Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

View Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Restore Deleted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Updating Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Show/NoShow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Callout properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Callout Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Unbreak and Unclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Modifying Projection Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Dimensioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Creating Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Length/distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

General dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Dimensions with Intersection points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Chamfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Thread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Coordinate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Hole dimension table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Coordinate dimension table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Cumulated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Stacked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Fillet Radius Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Dimensions for curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Setup Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Modifying Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Pull Down Menu Tools, Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Geometrical Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Interruptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Generating Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

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Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Modifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Adding a Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Orientation Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Positional Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Attribute link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Replicate Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Query Object Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Isolate Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Element Positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Creating Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Balloon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Roughness Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Welding Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Weld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Markup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Center lines and Axis lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Area Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Modifying an Area Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Graphical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Creating an isometric view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Creating a view from a scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Generate balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Bill of Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Other views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Properties of a part in an assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Overload properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Cut, Copy and Paste views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Views of parts of an assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

View Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

2D Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Creating a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Drawing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

View plane definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Multiple view projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

2D Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

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Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Geometry in all viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Filter generated elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Problem #01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Problem #02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Problem #03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Problem #04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Problem #05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Problem #06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Problem #07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Problem #08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Problem #09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Problem #10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Problem #11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Problem #12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Problem #13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Problem #14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Problem #15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Mechanical Design - Drafting - General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Mechanical Design - Drafting - View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Mechanical Design - Drafting - Manipulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Annotation and Dress-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Mechanical Design - Drafting - Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

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Introduction

CATIA Version 5 Drafting

Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the

following topics:

- Creating drawings

- Creating views

- Modifying views

- Creating detail, broken, auxiliary and section cut views

- Dimensioning and marking up view geometry

- Creating text

- Using symbols, details and patterns in a drawing

- Creating and modifying basic geometry

- Using folding lines and multi-view projections to create view geometry

- Creating and using backgrounds

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Drafting

Currently, it is necessary for designers to create paper drawings and layouts of their parts

and assemblies. This course will cover the steps necessary to create multiple view drawings

and detail sheets of parts and assemblies. This will include all annotations and dimensions

that are necessary to finish a completed drawing.

The drafting workbench includes a variety of icons that allow for the creation of these

drawings. It is normally considered that the workflow should be from 3D to 2D. There are

some tools for generating 2D geometry independent of a 3D model but it is not a common

occurrence in most cases.

You should already have a good understanding of Part Design upon starting this course.

This will complete a basic cycle of events from designing your own parts and creating a

multiple view drawing. The course will also show how you can create a multiple sheet

drawing of an assembly as well as the detail drawings of the individual parts. Unfortunately

the industry still requires and depends heavily on paper drawings. There has been much

discussion on “paper-less” environments where the end users would just pull up the design

on the computer and analyze the areas of interest. In the future that may be the case but

until then this is an extremely important aspect of your V5 knowledge.

At any point it will be necessary to create drawings for technical publications and

handbooks. This class will also explore the options available to export pictures from

CATIA to wordprocessors that then could be used to create technical documents or even

web documents.

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Drawing Screen

This is how the drawing screen looks with two sheets and one empty view. Normally when

starting a new drawing you will only have one sheet and no views. Notice that this screen

looks a little different than the Part Design screen.

A Each sheet created in a drawing is represented in the specification tree. It is possible

to create many different sizes of sheets.

B Each view created in a drawing is represented in the specification tree under the

sheet the view belongs to.

C The current sheet is shown in each drawing. The different sheets are represented

along the top with tabs and you can change the current sheet by selecting the

appropriate tab.

D Each view created has a view axis that represents the orientation of the current view.It is possible to hide or show the view axis.

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Pull-down Menus

File

Page Setup You can change the Standard

that you want to use and based

on that standard you can change

the Sheet Style. You can also

insert a background view and

apply this to just the current

sheet or to all of the sheets.

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Edit

Find Finds text

Auto Search Allows you to select a portion of a profile and it will go ahead and select the

contiguous elements

Background Allows for the creation of title blocks and frames

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View

Drawing Overview Gives an overview window of the drawing, allowing you to zoom in

on an area of the geometry

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Insert

Views Inserts various types of views

Drawing Inserts drawing elements such as sheets

Dimensioning Creates dimensions

Generation Generates dimensions from constraints

Annotations Creates annotations

Dress Up Inserts additional features such as thread notation, arrows and

area fills

Geometry creation Creates geometric elements

Geometry modification Modifies geometric elements

Picture Inserts a picture (jpeg, tiff, bmp, etc.)

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Tools

Positioning Positions elements and dimensions

Analyze Analyzes your dimensions

Multi View (2.5 D) Used to project geometry to different

views

Dimension generation Analysis and filters for generating

dimensions from constraints

Import a generative view style Imports a view style

Reset All Defaults Resets the defaults

Import External Format Allows you to import an external file such as a dwg,

dxf or cgm

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Drafting Workbench

Views and Sheets

Changes workbenches

Selects geometry

Free rotation

Creates a front view

Creates an unfolded view

Extracts a view created in 3D

Creates a projection view

Creates an auxiliary view

Creates an isometric view

Creates an advanced front view

Creates an offset section view

Creates an aligned section view

Creates an offset section cut

Creates an aligned section cut

Creates a detail view

Creates a detail view using a

profile

Quick detail view

Quick detail view using a profile

Creates a clipping view

Creates a clipping view using aprofile

Creates a broken view

Creates a breakout view

View creation wizard

Creates a view configurationbased on front, top and left

Creates a view configuration

based on front, bottom and right

Creates a view configuration

based on all views

Creates a new sheet

Creates a new detail sheet

Creates a new view

Instantiate a 2D component

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Dimensions and Annotations

Creates a dimension

Creates chained dimensions

Creates cumulated dimensions

Creates stacked dimensions

Creates length/distance

dimensions

Creates angle dimensions

Creates radius dimensions

Creates diameter dimensions

Creates chamfer dimensions

Creates thread dimensions

Creates coordinate dimensions

Hole dimension table

Coordinate dimension table

Re-route dimension

Creates interruptions

Removes interruptions

Creates a datum feature

Creates geometrical tolerances

Generates dimensions from 3D

Generates dimensions from 3D

step by step

Generates balloons

Creates text

Creates text with leader

Replicates text

Creates a balloon

Creates a datum target

Text template placement

Creates a roughness symbol

Creates a welding symbol

Creates a weld

Creates a table

Imports a table from a CSV file

Creates center lines

Creates center lines with

reference

Creates threads

Creates threads with reference

Creates an axis lines

Creates axis lines and center lines

Creates an area fill

Creates arrows

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Drawing tools

Creates a point

Creates a point using coordinates

Creates equidistant points

Creates an intersection point

Creates a projected point

Creates a line

Creates an unlimited line

Creates a bitangent line

Creates a bisect line

Creates a line normal to a curve

Creates a circle

Creates a circle through 3 points

Creates a circle using coordinates

Creates a circle tangent to 3

elements

Creates an arc

Creates an arc through 3 points

Creates an arc through 3 points

using limits

Creates an ellipse

Creates a user-defined profile

Creates a rectangle

Creates an oriented rectangle

Creates a parallelogram

Creates a hexagon

Creates an elongated slot

Creates an elongated curved slot

Creates a keyhole

Creates a centered rectangle

Creates a centered parallelogram

Creates a spline

Creates a connect curve

Creates a parabola

Creates a hyperbola

Creates a conic

Creates rounded corners

Chamfers elements

Trims elements

Breaks elements

Quick trim

Closes elements

Generates the complement of an

element

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Drawing Tools Continued

Mirrors elements

Symmetries elements

Translates elements

Rotates elements

Scales elements

Offsets elements

Geometrical constraint

Constraint by dialog

Contact constraint

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Additional options

These options are available if you add these toolbars using the pull down menu View,

Toolbars.

Creates projected geometry in the current view using 2 other views

Modifies the 3D definition of the view plane

Shows geometry in all viewpoints

Analyses the dimensions positioning

Positions elements such as views and annotations

Aligns dimensions between each other or relative to geometry

Aligns a system of dimensions

Positions dimensions

Positions and orients objects

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Bottom Toolbar Changes

Tools Toolbar

Alternatively displays or hides sketcher grid

Activates the snap to grid option

Activates analysis display mode

Shows 2D constraints in active view

Creates 2D constraints detected in current view

Applies a visual filter on generated elements

Allows for selection of dimension systems

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Top Toolbar

Changes the current style for graphic properties

Text

Changes the current font

Changes the size of the font

Toggles the bold style for text

Toggles the italics style for text

Toggles the underline style for text

Toggles the strike thru style for text

Toggles the overline style for text

Toggles the superscript style for text

Toggles the subscript style for text

Changes the paragraph style to left

justification

Changes the paragraph style to

center justification

Changes the paragraph style to right

justification

Sets the anchor point position for

text

Sets up a frame around the text

Insert a symbol into some text

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Dimension

Dimension lines set to normal

Dimension lines set to be extended

Dimension lines set to use a leader with one part

Dimension lines set to use a leader with two parts

Changes the current tolerance style

Changes the tolerance

Changes the current numerical style

Changes the precision

Graphic properties

Changes the color

Changes the thickness

Changes the linetype

Changes point symbol

Changes the current layer

Copies the properties of the currently selected object

Change a pattern currently used in the drawing

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Drafting Basics

Starting a New Drawing

This will cover the necessary steps to create and modify a CATIA Drawing. There are a

couple different ways to start a CATIA Drawing. The first way is to start a model the same

way that you created a document in other classes, with pull down menu File or using the

equivalent icon in the bottom toolbar. Another way is to be in a document such as a part orassembly and then change to the Drafting workbench.

The first method will be discussed now. This is useful if you want to just start a new

drawing and begin modeling in 2D.

Select the new icon in the bottom toolbar. This allows you to create a new

document. The document that is created depends on the selection you make: either an

analysis, drawing, part, or product.

Select Drawing. This will allow you to create a new type of document called a

CATDrawing.

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Select OK . This will open the New Drawing window. This is used to determine the

drawing’s standard, sheet style and orientation.

Standard You have several standards to choose from the most common ones

being ASME, ANSI, ISO and JIS .

Sheet Style Defines the size of the sheet, in terms of ASME you have A through F

sizes along with Letter and Legal. The Width and Height will be

specified in the corresponding locations. In addition to those options

you have a J U.S. Standard .

Orientation Defines the orientation, whether it is Portrait or Landscape.

Set the Standard to be ASME, Sheet Style to be A ANSI and the orientation to be

Landscape. Select OK . The new drawing is started and formatted according to the settings

you specified in the New Drawing window.

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Change the name to be Drafting Sheet 1 but do not press Enter. The name has been

changed to Drafting Sheet 1. You can also change the scale and the format of the sheet here

if you want, but you cannot change the standard of the sheet. You can change the

Projection Method , which determines if it should use first angle or third angle projection

when creating views. The Generative views positioning mode changes where the axis of the

drawing will be. Print Area deals with exact area of the drawing that you wish to print.

Select OK. This closes the Properties window and returns you to the drawing.

Sometimes more than one sheet is needed to contain the entire drawing. CATIA V5 allows

you to add sheets to the drawing and also delete them.

Select the new sheet icon. A new sheet is created and added to your drawing. The

sheet is the same size as the first sheet. You can switch between the two sheets using the

tabs at the top of the drawing or by double selecting on the sheet name in the specification

tree.

The new sheet uses the same scale as the first sheet. You will now delete the sheet you just

created.

Select Sheet.2 from the specification tree and press the Delete key on the keyboard. A

Confirm Sheet Delete window appears. This lets you know that the deletion cannot beundone.

Select OK . The sheet is deleted.

Close this document. You will now create a new drawing using an alternate method.

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Open the Pawl Hookdocument. Notice that this is a part that has already been created.

You will now enter the Drafting workbench.

Change to the Drafting workbench. You can change workbenches by using the pull down

menu Start or by using the change workbench icon. A New Drawing Creation window

appears.

Notice that the standard, format, orientation and scale are all set to what you used last time.

You can change those settings by using the Modify button and this will open the New Drawing window that you saw earlier.

You now have the option of choosing an empty sheet, similar to what you did when you

created a new drawing earlier, or you can choose one of the automatic layouts. The four

options are empty sheet; all views; front, bottom and right; or front, top and left.

Choose the empty sheet option and select OK . This will create a drawing just like before

with one sheet that is empty. For purposes of understanding the other three layouts, pictures

are shown below with the result of each one.

This is the all views option. Notice that all the views are generated and appear in thedrawing, but they do not fit on the sheet. You will learn more about views later in this

course.

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This is the front, bottom and right option.

This is the front, top and left option.

You can play around using the various options and then close all documents when you

are finished.

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Creating Views from a Part

There are many types of views that can be created in CATIA Drafting. This section is

designed to cover all of the various types of views that can be created. As discussed earlier

you can create a drawing in one of two ways, you can either begin a drawing with an empty

sheet or with a configuration of views. Initially you will be starting a new drawing with an

empty sheet.

Before you begin, make sure that you do not have any other windows open in CATIA.

Open the Viewsdocument. You should notice that this is a part. You will be creating

views for this part.

Start a new drawing with an empty sheet, the settings should be ASME Standard, D

ANSI Sheet Style and Landscape orientation. You do not want any views in the initial

drawing. You can always assume ASME Standard and Landscape orientation for all

exercises unless otherwise specified.

Change your window configuration to be Tile Horizontally. You can do this by using thepull down menu Window, Tile Horizontally. It should appear similar to the diagram shown

below.

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Front View

The first view created is normally the front view. You can create a front view by defining

the 3D object that you want to use and defining the plane that should be used to define the

view.

Select the front view icon. This will allow you to define a plane from a 3D objectand create the front view.

Select the plane shown below from the part. This will define the plane that you want to

use for the front view.

The diagram shown below should appear in your drawing window.

Notice that the part appears in the drawing window and you have a blue orientation circle in

the upper right-hand corner of your window. This circle allows you to orient your view

before actually creating it. Once the view is oriented the way you want it then you can

either select on the center dot or select outside the blue circle to create the view. You are

going to investigate the various options that you have available for orienting the view.

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Orientation Circle

You can select on the right or left arrows to rotate your part inside the view to give you a

different plane in which to create your front view. The same goes for the up and down

arrows but it rotates your part in the other direction. This will rotate the part 90 degrees

with each selection. The two curved arrows will rotate your part within this plane either

clockwise or counterclockwise. The amount that it rotates defaults to 30 degrees but you

can edit the angle. You can also use the green knob to rotate your part around by selecting it

and dragging it around the circle, it defaults at 30 degrees but it can be edited as well.

Select the right arrow until you turn it all the way around back to the original

orientation. You should have to select the right arrow four times. The diagrams below

show what your part should look like after each selection.

Select the up arrow until you turn it all the way around back to the original

orientation. You should have to select the up arrow four times. The diagrams below show

what your part should look like after each selection.

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Select the right curved arrow three times. You should notice the green knob now turning

around the circle as well as the part turning. The diagrams below show what your part

should look like after each selection.

Notice that it rotated the part 30 degrees each time. You can modify that by selecting the

third mouse button while on the curved arrow and choose the Edit Angle option.

Using the third mouse button select on the right curved arrow and choose the Edit

Angle option. The Angle window should appear.

Change the Rotating angle to 45 degrees and select OK . Now when you select on the

curved arrows they will rotate the part 45 degrees instead of 30 degrees.

Select the left curved arrow two times. This should turn your part back to its original

orientation.

You can also use the green knob to rotate your part. All you have to do is select the green

knob and while holding the button down, drag it around the circle. This also defaults to 30

degree increments. You can change the settings for how the green knob works by using the

third mouse button. You have to be very careful when trying to select the green knob

because if you select off of it and outside the blue circle the view will be created

automatically. You are now going to change the angle of your part to be at 90 degrees.

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Using the third mouse button select on the green knob. Make sure you are on the green

knob when you press the button. This will give you the following options.

Free hand rotation Allows you to rotate the part at any angle

Incremental hand rotation Allows you to rotate the part at a given increment

Set increment Sets the amount of the increment for Incremental hand

rotation

Set current angle to Allows you to specify an angle that you want to rotate the part

Select the Set current angle to option and choose 90 deg from the menu. This rotatesyour part to be at 90 degrees. You are now ready to create the actual view since you have it

oriented the way you want.

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Using the third mouse button select the Front view from the specification tree and

choose Properties. Notice that it is underlined, this also signifies that it is the active view.

Visualization and Behavior

Display view frame Toggles the display of the view frame

Lock View Locks the settings so they can not be changed

Visual Clipping Allows you to display just a portion of the view

Scale and Orientation

Angle Sets the orientation angle of the view

Scale Sets the scale of the view

Dressup All options toggle if you want to see those elements in the view or not and

how those elements will be displayed

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View Name Allows you to specify a name for the view or the 2D component when valid

Generation Mode

Only generate parts larger than Specifies the minimum size a part can be and

still be generated

Enable occlusion culling Allows you to turn on occlusion culling which

will only load the parts that are used in that

view instead of loading all of them

View generation mode Changes how the view is generated, Exact is

all of the geometry, CGR is the external

appearance of the object and Raster is an

image

Generative view style Defines the style that was used to generate this view, this

option is only available if you have turned off the Prevent

generative view style creation option under pull down menu

Tools, Options

You will work more with the properties as you develop more views.

Select Close. This will return you to the drawing. You are now ready to create some more

views.

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Projection View

This view is created by using an existing view, usually the front view, and then selecting a

position for the view. The view that gets created depends on where you select. If you select

to the left of the view then you get the left view. Projection views are created orthogonally

to the active view.

Select the projection view icon. It is located under the front view icon. You can

now position the cursor and select the view that you want to create.

Position the cursor to the left of the front view and select. You should have seen a

preview of the part before you selected. Your drawing should appear similar to the diagram

shown below.

A closer look at the view is shown below.

The blue frame means that it is not the active view.

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Select the projection view icon again and create the top view. Your drawing

should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

A closer look at the view is shown below.

You can move the views around within the sheet. The default setting is for the views to

align with each other. Therefore you can only move the left view right and left and you can

only move the top view up or down. You move the view by selecting on the frame of the

view with the first mouse button and while holding the button down, drag the view with the

mouse. If you move the front view around, all the other views will move with it. You will

learn how to make the views not align later in this course.

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Move the views around so that it appears similar to the diagram shown below.

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Isometric View

To create an isometric view you orient your part in Part Design the way you want it and then

using the appropriate icon you select the body and the isometric view is generated.

Change the configuration of your windows to Tile Horizontally.

Select the isometric view icon. It is located under the front view or projection view

icon. This will allow you to select the part to create an isometric view.

Select the part from the Part window. The preview of the isometric view appears in your

drawing. Once again you can use the orientation circle to orient the view in what ever

position you like.

Select outside the blue circle to create the view. It should appear similar to the diagram

shown below. Note: only the view is shown below.

Move the isometric view so that your drawing appears similar to the one shown below.

Save your drawing and close all documents.

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Advanced Front View

The advanced front view option works exactly the same as the front view option except that

you can specify additional information during the creation of the view. Examples of the

information that can be specified are the view name and view scale.

Open the Advanced Front View document. You are going to create a new drawing

using the advanced front view option.


ANSI Sheet Style and Landscape orientation. You do not want any views in the initial

drawing. You can always assume ASME Standard and Landscape orientation for all

exercises unless otherwise specified.

Change the configuration of your windows to Tile Horizontally.

Select the advanced front view icon. It is located under the front view or isometric

view icon. A View Parameters

window appears. You can specify the View name

and theScale for the view before you create the actual view.

Change the View name to be Large View and the Scale to be 2.0 and select OK .

Select the face shown below.

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Create the view. You can create the view by selecting on the sheet or by selecting the

center of the orientation circle. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

You should notice that the name of the view is Large View and it has a scale of 2:1 just likeyou specified. You will now create a front view using a local axis system.

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Local Axis System

When you create a view from your part, you have the option to select an axis system that

you want to use as the view axis. If you do not select an axis system before selecting the

part then it will use the global axis as the view origin.

Select the front view icon. You are going to select an axis system first and thendefine the plane for orientation.

Select Axis System.1 from the specification tree in the part and then select the same

face as before. You will probably have to expand the Axis Systems branch in order to see

the actual axis system.

Create the view. The view is created similar to the diagram shown below.

Notice that the view axis is in the location of the local axis system from the part instead of

using the global axis position.


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Unfolded View

The unfolded view option is used to create a view of a sheetmetal part created in CATIA. It

is defined similar to the front view but it unfolds the view for you onto the drawing. This

option only works with parts created using the sheetmetal options available in CATIA.

Open the Unfolded Viewdocument. You should notice that this is a part with Sheet

Metal Parameters. You will be creating an unfolded view of this part.


ANSI Sheet Style, Landscape orientation. You do not want any views in the initial

drawing. You can always assume ASME Standard , Landscape orientation for all exercises

unless otherwise specified.

Change your window configuration to be Tile Horizontally. You can do this by using the

pull down menu Window, Tile Horizontally.

Select the unfolded view icon. It is located under the front view or advanced frontview icon. This will allow you to select a face of the part to create an unfolded view.

Select the face of the part shown above. The preview of the unfolded view appears in

your drawing.

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Select outside the view to create the view. It should appear similar to the diagram shown

below. Note: only the view is shown below.

If the axis lines do not appear in your view, change the Properties of the view to show

Axis under Dress Up. Notice that the view shows the sheetmetal part as if it was unfolded.This will give you an accurate view of the actual piece of sheetmetal that would be required

to bend into the desired shape.

Note: This is very different than creating a front view of this part using the same face. The

diagram below shows you what the front view would have looked like.

It is important to remember that this option only works if the part was created with the

sheetmetal options.


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Extracted View from 3D

The extracted view option will create a view extracted from a part that has a view defined.

It is defined by selecting a view that was created in other operations. This exercise will

show you how to use this option with a view generated for functional dimensioning and

tolerancing.

Open the Extracted View

document. You should notice that this is a part with a Annotation Set that includes a Front View. You will be extracting a view from this FD&T

view.


ANSI Sheet Style, Landscape orientation. You do not want any views in the initial

drawing. You can always assume ASME Standard , Landscape orientation for all exercises

unless otherwise specified.

Change your window configuration to be Tile Horizontally. You can do this by using the

pull down menu Window, Tile Horizontally.

Select the view from 3D icon. It is located under the front view or unfolded view

icon. This will allow you to select a FD&T view from the part.

Select the FrontView from the specification tree of the part. It should show you a

preview of the view in the drawing window. It is important to note that the view created in

FD&T should use the same standard as the sheet that is defined.

Select outside the view to create the view. It should appear similar to the diagram shown

below. Note: only the view is shown below.

It is important to remember that this option only works with parts that have views defined

from a previous operation such as functional dimensioning and tolerancing.


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Auxiliary View

The last projection view that will be covered is the auxiliary view. This is used to create a

view that is not orthogonal to an existing view but is looking at a particular side of the part.

It is defined by selecting an element that defines a view plane in the current view.

Open the Auxiliary Viewdrawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and not the

CATPart . You should see a drawing that contains a Front view and a Top view.

You are going to create a view looking at the angled side of the Front view as shown above.

Select the auxiliary view icon. It is located under the front view or view from 3D

icon. This will allow you to select an existing line to define the orientation of the view or

you can define a start point and end point to define your own line. Either way it will create

a view looking at your part normal to the defined line.

Select the line shown above from the Front view. This will define your auxiliary view to

look at the slanted portion of the part. You now need to define where you want the auxiliary

callout to be positioned.

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Select somewhere to the right of the angled line. Now you can define the position for

your view.

Select to the right of your auxiliary callout. The view should appear similar to the

diagram shown below.

You can always reposition your auxiliary view by selecting on the frame and moving it.

This method used an existing line but it is important to remember that you can define your

own line by selecting a start point and an end point.


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Section Views and Section Cuts

Section views and section cuts are views that show the profile of a part at a position, with

the areas that contain material being filled with a pattern. If the part has a material applied

to it then the pattern will display based upon that material. The difference between a section

view and a section cut is that a section view will show what geometry lies beyond the cut

line whereas a section cut will only show what exists at the cut line. The cut line can be

either a single line or it may have jogs in it to show a cut through the same part at different

places. Also available are aligned section views and aligned section cuts. The aligned style

allows there to be cut lines that are not parallel and the resulting view is shown

perpendicular to the cut lines.

Open the Section Views and Cutsdrawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and

not the CATPart . You should notice that the Front view is active since the outline is red.

You are going to want the Top view to be active since you are going to create a section view

using the Top view.

Double select on the Top view. The frame of the Top view should change to red. Before

you define the cut line you will want to open the Section Views and Cuts part.

Open the Section Views and Cutspart and Tile Horizontally. You do not have to have

this part opened in order to create a section view but it will show you the cut plane in the 3D

part as you define the cut line.

Select the offset section view icon. This will allow you to define a cut line in your

top view.

Select to the first location to define the beginning of your section cut as shown below.

Move your mouse over to the second location as shown above but do not select the

location.

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You should notice the cut plane appears in the part window as you are defining the cut line.

It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

Double select at the second location. Since this is the end of your cut line you must

double select. You can now position your section view.

Position the view above the Top view as shown below. You should notice the section

arrows appear on your cut line.

Note: You also have the option of selecting circular edges to define the cut lines. If you

select on a circle it will automatically use its center point as the cut line location.

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You are now going to create a section cut.

Select the offset section cut icon. It is located under the offset section view icon.

This will allow you to define cut lines but instead of generating a section view it will

generate a section cut.

Define your cut lines as shown below. The numbers show the order of selection. Makesure you double select your last location.

Position your view to the right of the Top view as shown below.

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You should notice that the section cut does not show any geometry other than what the cut

line actually touches. That is the difference between a section cut and a section view.

Make the Front view active. You can do this by double selecting on the Front view. You

are going to create an aligned section view using the Front view.

Select the aligned section view icon. It is located under the offset section view oroffset section cut icon. With this option you can create cut lines that are not parallel.

Define your cut lines as shown below. The numbers show the order of selection. Make

sure you double select your last location.

Position the view down and to the left of the Front view. The view is positioned normal

to one of the cut lines.

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Change the Properties of the aligned section view to not show Hidden Lines. It should

appear similar to the diagram shown below.

You have the option of creating aligned section views or cuts, however this exercise onlyshows you the option of creating an aligned section view. Creating an aligned section cut is

done in the same manner except you use the aligned section cut icon. Feel free to try

the option out on your own.

The next item that will be discussed in terms of section views and cuts is that you have the

option of using a planar surface or an actual plane from your 3D part to define the cut line.

Make sure you have the part window and the drawing displayed with Tile

Horizontally. This will enable you to see what is going on in both windows. Make sure the

Front View is still active.

Create a plane in your part that is offset from the xy plane 0.25 inches.

Go back to your drawing and select the offset section view icon. You may have to

update your views since you made a change to your part. If you do just select the update

icon.

Select the created plane from your part. Notice the cut line automatically appears in your

Front view. The cut line is not associated or linked to the plane and can be modified in the

drafting workbench.

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Position the view under the Front view as shown below.

You can also create a sketch in your part that can be used to define a section line. When you

use a sketch to define a section line, the section line is associated or linked to the sketch. If

you want to modify the section line you would need to open the part and modify the sketch

and then update your views. If you erase the sketch that was used to define the section line,

then the section line would no longer be linked and it would be converted to a normal

section line that could be modified within the drafting workbench.


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Detail Views

A detail view is a partial view of a part that is usually at a higher scale to make it easier to

see. CATIA allows for the creation of four different detail views. You can either use a

circle or a profile callout. Besides choosing what you want to use as a callout, you can

either create the detail view so that it uses the 2D projection to determine the detail view or

it can generate the view from the 3D definition. The quick detail options use the 2D

projection to generate the view.

Open the Detail Viewsdrawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and not the

CATPart . You should notice that the Front view is active since the outline is red. You are

going to create a couple of detail views to draw attention to various areas that may be hard

to understand with the current views.

Select the quick detail view icon. It is located under the detail view icon. This will

allow you to define a circular callout to define the detail view. Since you are using the

quick option this will utilize the 2D projection to define the detail view. A Tools Palette

window appears. This window appears on a variety of icons and will show the availableoptions for the icon selected. In this case you can specify an exact radius for the callout.

You are going to define the radius by selecting a location instead of keying in a value.

Select the center of your circle and define your radius as shown below. This will define

the area that is used in the detail view. A preview of the area of the view should appear for

you to position on your sheet.

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Position the detail view to the right of the Front view. You should see the view appear

similar to the one shown below. Also you should note that view defaulted to a scale of 2:1.

You can adjust this scale by changing the properties of the view.

Notice that the view name corresponds with the letter assigned to your circle callout. This

was created using the quick detail option. Next, you will create a detail view not using thequick option.

Make the rightmost isometric view active. You can do this by double selecting on the

view.

Select the detail view profile icon. It is located under the detail view or quick detail

view icon. This option will let you use a profile to define the callout. You can do this by

selecting the endpoints of lines defining the profile. You can either close the profile

yourself or you can double select to end the profile definition. If you double select, the

profile will close automatically using a line connecting the last and first point defined.

Define the profile as shown below. The arrows point to the corresponding endpoints.

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Position the view to the right of the isometric view. It should appear similar to the

diagram shown below.

Notice that this view does not show the profile line past the edges of the part, in otherwords, the detail view is trimmed to the part edges. This is because the view is using the 3D

definition to define the view instead of the 2D projection.

You will now create two other detail views to better illustrate the difference between the

quick detail view and the regular detail view.

Make the Bottom view active.

Select the detail view icon. It is located under the detail view profile icon. This will

allow you to define a circular callout. The Tools Palette window appears.

Define a circle as shown below.

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Position the detail view to the right of the Detail B view. It should appear similar to the

diagram shown below. Once again, notice that the view is trimmed to the edges of your

part. Unlike the quick detail option that you used the first time which shows the entire

circle.

Make the leftmost isometric view active.

Select the quick detail view profile icon. It is located under the detail view icon.

This will allow you to define a profile to use as the callout.

Define a profile similar to the one shown below.

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Position the view above the Detail C view. You should notice that the profile definition

does not stop at the edges of the part, instead the entire profile is shown. This is because the

quick options use the 2D projection and not the 3D definition.

Hopefully this exercise gives you a good example of the difference between the various

detail view options.


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Clipping Views

Clipping views are similar to detail views in the way they can be defined. You have the

option of either using a circle or a profile to define the clipping area just like the detail view.

However the difference is that a clipping view actually changes the current view to just

contain the clipping area. This option is used when the whole part would be too large and

you are only interested in a section of the part. By default the clipped view will maintain its

scale ratio.

Open the Clipping Viewsdrawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and not the

CATPart . You should notice that the Auxiliary view is active since the outline is red.

Select the clipping view profile icon. It is located under the clipping view icon. You

are going to define a profile that you want the auxiliary view to contain instead of it

showing the entire part.

Define the profile as shown below. This is done the same way as you defined a profile for

a detail view.

Notice that the view automatically changes after you finish defining the profile.

It is important to understand that this did not create a new view but changed the existing

view to only show the clipped area. The clipping view option will do the same thing except

you define a circular area instead of using a profile.

Save your drawing and close all of the documents.

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Broken View

A broken view is used when you have a long section that is not important to be seen in the

view. This option will allow you to define the two ends of the break and then it will modify

the view so that section will not appear. Breakout lines are generated to show where the

breaks occur.

Open the Broken View

drawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and not theCATPart . You should notice that the Front view is active and that the Left view extends

past the sheet. You are going to use the broken view option to modify the Left view to show

the two ends of the beam leaving out the middle section.

Make the Left view active.

Select the broken view icon. You are going to define two break lines that will define

the area to remove when modifying the view.

Select inside the beam edges at the location shown below. Once you select the locationyou can either create the broken view to break horizontally or vertically. In this case you

want the break to be vertical.

Select above the previous location. You will now be able to define the other break line so

that it can remove the area between them.

Select inside the beam edges at the location shown below.

Select outside the view on the sheet. The broken view is generated. However the view is

still partially off the sheet and the label is to the right of the actual geometry.

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Drag the text underneath the geometry. You can drag the text if you hold the first mouse

button down while on the text.

Drag the view over to the right until it is completely on the sheet. You can drag the

view by holding the first mouse button down on the frame of the view. The finished

drawing should look similar to the one shown below.

You can define more than one break in a view but it has to be in the same direction. That

would be useful if there was a pocket removed out of the middle of the beam and you

wanted to break the view in order to show the two ends and the pocket definition.


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Breakout View

A breakout view is used when you have a current view that needs to have a section removed

in order to better see the definition that is behind the section. Hidden lines could be used to

show the definition but sometimes it is not very clear because of the number of hidden lines.

You can define a profile of the section that you want removed in the view and then you have

the option of using a 3D viewer to define the depth of removal using another view. This

will modify the existing view to show the breakout.

Open the Breakout Viewdrawing. Make sure you open the CATDrawing and not the

CATProduct . You should notice that the Front view is active. There are two top views, one

with hidden lines and one without. The one with the hidden lines is a little congested

because of the hidden lines of the bracket. In this particular case you are more concerned

with what the top view looks like without the top of the bracket.

Make the left Top view active.

Select the breakout view icon. It is located under the broken view icon. You aregoing to define the break out area to remove when modifying the view.

Define the profile as shown below. The Tools Palette window appears allowing you to

specify the length and angle of each linear section. You can define this profile exactly the

same way as you defined a profile using the detail or clipping option.

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After you define the profile a 3D Viewer window should appear.

The 3D Viewer allows you to see a preview of the depth of the removal and you can use the

orange line to define the depth of the cut. If you use the line in the 3D Viewer it is not

linked to any geometry and is only an approximate location. You can also define the depth

by selecting an element in another view and it will be linked to that element. In addition,

you can specify a Reference element and a Depth using the available options.

Animate Allows the 3D Viewer window to change as you position your

cursor in another view.

Depth Definition

Reference element Specifies the element that you want to use as the depth and

you have the additional option of defining a Depth from that

element.

Select the Animate option in the 3D Viewer window.

Move the cursor to the Front View. Notice that the image changes to show the Front view

orientation.

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Select the bottom dashed line of the bracket as shown below. This will define the depth

of the breakout.

Select OK . Even though the position may change as you move the cursor to the OK button

it should keep the selection specified. The breakout view takes affect and the Top view

changes. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below.

This option can be very useful to show an area of internal material, rather than using hidden

lines. You should notice that this option only modifies an existing view just like the broken

view and clipping view options.


This finishes the discussion on creating views individually. You will now investigate the

configuration options available.

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Configuration of Views

There are four options to create a configuration of views on your sheet. Three of them are

preset configurations and the other one is a creation wizard that lets you define the

configuration. The three that are preset are Front, Top and Left; Front, Bottom and Right;

and All views. You will experiment with the presets and then create your own

configuration using the wizard.

Open the Conf igurationpart. You will be creating views for this part.

Start a new drawing with an empty sheet using the same options as before. You do not

want any views in the initial drawing.

Change your window configuration to be Tile Horizontally.

Select the front, top and left icon. It is located under the view creation wizard icon.

You now must select the part that you want to use to create the views.

Select the top circular face of the part as shown below. You should see a preview of the

three views in the drawing.

You can move your cursor inside the other view boxes and it will show you the preview of

that view. You also have the option of orientating the views using the blue orientation

circle.

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Select outside one of the views. This creates all three views.

Select undo until the three views disappear. You are going to use the other two preset

options next.

Select the front, bottom and right icon. It is located under the view creation wizard

or front, top and left icon.

Select the same face as you did before.

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Select outside one of the views. This creates all three views.

Select undo until the three views disappear. You are going to use the last preset option

next.

Select the all views icon. It is located under the view creation wizard or front, bottom

and right icon.

Select the same face as you did before.

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Select outside one of the views. This creates all of the views.

As you can see these options are very easy to use and they provide a quick method of

creating multiple views. However, you do not have the option of specifying which views

you get or their location with respect to one another. That is what the view creation wizard

allows you to do.

Select undo until the views disappear.

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Select the view creation wizard icon. It is located under the all views icon. This

will open a View Wizard window.

Front, Right, Top configuration

Front, Left, Top configuration

Front, Right, Bottom configuration

Front, Left, Bottom configuration

All views except Rear configuration

All views configuration

Third angle projection Determines how the projection views will be created

Toggles link to main view Toggles between having the projection views linked to

the main view or not having them linked

Minimum distance between each view The minimum distance between view frames

The main view is what all of the projection views will be linked to, meaning if you move

that view all the other views will move with it. You can specify which view is the mainview by selecting the view with the third mouse button and choosing the Set as main view

option. It is important to note that only the front view or isometric view can be used as the

main view.

You can also remove a view from the configuration that you choose by selecting the view

with the third mouse button and choosing the Delete option.

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Select the all views except rear configuration from the window. This icon is

referred to as Configuration 5 when you have your mouse on it. The configuration should

appear inside the window.

Delete the Left and Bottom view. You can do this by selecting the view with the third

mouse button and choosing Delete. The main view should be the front view and the

projection views should be linked to the main view. The green box around the Front viewsignifies that it is the main view.

Change the Minimum distance between each view to be 1.5 inches.

Select Next. This will take you to the next step. The View Wizard window changes as

shown below.

Front view

Rear view

Top view

Bottom view

Left view

Right view

Isometric view

Clears the preview area of all

views

These options allow you to add additional views to your configuration. You can also drag

the existing views to different locations in order to design the proper configuration.

Drag the Front view down one spot. You can do this by pressing and holding the first

mouse button while on the view and then move the mouse down.

Drag the Right view, Top view and Isometric view down one spot.

Select the rear view option. It appears in the window in the upper left location. You can

now position the view by moving the mouse.

Position the Rear view above the Top view.

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Select the isometric view option and position it above the other Isometric view. Your

View Wizard window should appear as shown below.

Select Finish. It now wants to know what body to use for the view creation.

Select your part on the top circular surface. A preview of the views appears just like it

did with the preset configurations.

Select outside one of the views. The views should generate. Notice that they do not fit on

the specified sheet. You will learn how to modify your views and their layout later.

As you can see this is an easy way to create projection and isometric views. However, if

you want unfolded, FD&T, auxiliary, section, detail, clipping, broken or breakout views you

still have to use the options discussed earlier.


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Creating Views - Review, Page 67 © Wichita State University

Review

In this exercise you will create a set of views from an already created part.

Open the View Reviewdocument and save with your initials.

Start a new drawing with an empty sheet using the same options as before. You do not

want any views in the initial drawing.

Create a Front, Right and Top view and position them similar to the diagram shown

below. You can use any method you want to create those views.

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Creating Views - Review, Page 68 ©Wichita State University

Create a section view going through the center of the Front view and position it as

shown below.

Create a detail view and position it as shown below. Remember to make the section

view active before you try to create the detail view from it.

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