Mechanical Design
CATIA - Part Design 2 (PDG)
CATIA V5R19
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Mechanical Design
CATIA - Part DesignDesign complex parts with highly productive and robust modelingfeatures in an intuitive environment
Product overview
This CATIA-P2 offers a new generation CATIA
product for part design with one interface on
NT and UNIX. Interoperates with CATIA
Version 4 data and methodologies.
The "smart-solid" design kernel combines
high productivity feature-based toolsets and
boolean methodologies, delivering a flexible
solution enabling multiple design approaches.
CATIA - Part Design 2 (PDG) can be used
with CATIA V5 applications like Assembly
Design, Drafting, Wireframe & Surface
Product Highlights
Provides an Associative, feature based
hybrid modeller Interoperable with CATIA
V4
Incorporating thread specifications, on
hole definitions and circular pads and
holes.
Includes Flexible, post-design 3D
parameterization
Creates Sketches and 3D designs in
assembly context
Makes designs easier to understand
across the entire enterprise with Part
Structure Editor, speeding up initial design
and changes
Expanded hybrid modelling capability
shape design products
Product Key Customers Benefits
Feature-based, Hybrid Modeling
PDG performs associative feature based
hybrid modeling, involving either IGES or
CATIA V5 surfaces. Reference elements or
geometrical specifications, including Points,
Lines, Planes, and Curves generated by the
CATIA Wireframe and Surface product works
within a V5 part design. Sketched features
with perpendicular or un-perpendicular,
multi-contoured profiles include Pads and
Pockets Shafts, Grooves, Ribs, Slots and
Stiffeners.
Sketching and 3D Design
Sketching and 3D design is performed in an
assembly context with user controled
associativity. Sketching and design is based
on the DCM-2D solver (from the D-Cubed
Company). Full variational sketching supports
locally constrained profiles and automatic
constraints recognition, as well as
auto-dimensioning of a sketch or of specified
elements of a sketch. Direct input of
dimensions is supported. Predefined contours
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include oblong, hexagons and key hole.
A post-sketch refinement of constraint sets
with parameters and equations can be
performed. PDG has the capacity to create
construction elements, so as to simplify the
definition of sketches and constraints.
Offers Relational Design capabilities
PDG's modification management enables
Sketch Wireframe or Surface Elements used
in one existing feature to be replaced by
another one. Sketch support (plane or face)
can be changed. An assistant system
manages the deletion impact, allowing
and children to be deleted and features to be
replaced or re-routed. Another assistant
manages the modification impact, showing
the geometry to be replaced and highlighting
bodies to be updated. It has the capability to
isolate features, keeping the geometry alone
without any history.
Flexible post-design and local 3D
parameterization offers the ability to add
design constraints either during the feature
creation or after the design is completed, by
adding 3D constraints across the features.
Under-constrained designs are allowed and
over constrained designs are possible. In such
cases, CATIA will alert the user, asking for a
decision on which constraint to remove.
PDG's Part Structure Editor makes it easier to
understand designs and make changes to the
design. The reuse of a part shape within
another part facilitates concurrent engineering.
CATIA V4 Interoperability
PDG is interoperable with CATIA Version 4
applications and data. V5 parts can be used
by CATIA V4 (requiring V4 Release 2.0
Refresh 1). Existing V4 designs can be
migrated to V5.
PDG is interoperable with CATIA Version 4
applications and data. V5 parts can be used
by CATIA V4 (requiring V4 Release 2.0
Refresh 1). Existing V4 designs can be
migrated to V5.
ABOUT CATIA V5R19
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