DRAFTING TECHNIQUES I

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Here is a basic shape. From here, we will do some advanced
drafting once we put this shape on a sheet as a drawing.

Select this face, then

go to drafting.

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From these simple drawings there are many things you
can do to make your drawing more descriptive.

The view you

picked will now
be the front view

Adding a Title Block…

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The first thing that needs to be done is to make
the background active by going to EDIT and
then BACKGROUND.

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Once in Background, you will notice that the new
toolbars you have a much more “sketcher” like, and one
of them is FRAME CREATION. This is the one that
you click on to make a border and title block.

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Once Frame Creation is chosen, the Insert Frame and Title Block
dialog box will pop up. This is where you can add and modify the
border constraints for your drawing, and add a title block size
constraint if one is required.

Once you have chosen what you want and clicked on

OK, don’t forget to go back to EDIT and turn the
Working Views back on.
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Now we can add an isometric view of our drawing. The
first to do is click on the ISOMETRIC VIEW icon and
chose the view of the drawing that you wish the isometric
to be of.

Here we’ll use the front view.

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Catia will ask you for a plane on the 3D part for it to draw from. The easiest thing to do
here is click on VIEW and chose TILE HORIZONTALLY. Now you can see all of your
work, and when you pick a plane (as shown) you will see it automatically update itself into
your drawing (as shown). The 3D part in your drawing can be moved until you click on a
place for it to stay, then it will become a line drawing.

Move your 3D part to where you want it

Choose a plane here

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Now we have an ISOMETRIC view of our part. There are many other
drawing features Catia offers. A few are as follows…

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Hidden Lines. To add them, pick the view you
wish, go to Edit and pick Properties.

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Once in Properties, move
down to the Dressup box and
activate the HIDDEN LINES
box then click OK.

Highlight this box

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 Click
Click here
here to
to finish
start

Another thing to add is a SECTION VIEW. Choose the Section View icon, draw the line
through the part to be sectioned (as prompted) and place the view by clicking one more time
once it is placed where you want it.
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A DETAIL can be added by clicking on the Detail icon and making the circle
around the part to be viewed when prompted. Click once to start the circle
and again to end it.

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Place the SCALE circle where the you want the detail view
to be. Click once to place the circle.

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Your detail view is now finished, with the correct balloon indicating and identifying it. If
other details are made on the same drawing, they will be numbered sequentially.

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Another useful tool is the CLIPPING. It is like the detail view, but in reverse. Click
on the Clipping icon and place the circle the same way as you do a detail.

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The difference between DETAIL and CLIPPING is what you are left with. Here, you are
left with only what was inside the circle, scale 2:1. The final view is placed be clicking
once where you want it to finally be.

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You may have need to change the hatching on a section view you have done.
This is accomplished by choosing the hatching (as shown) and going to
“properties” in the “edit” menu.

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 Click PATTERN TABLE

Then choose your pattern

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