CATIA Training

Exercises

Sketcher

Version 5 Release 10 December 2002 EDU-CAT-E-SKE-FX-V5R10

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Table of Contents
1. Sketching Simple Profiles : Recap Exercise 2. Sketching Pre-Defined Profiles : Recap Exercise 3. Editing Profiles : Recap Exercise 4. Operations on Profiles : Recap Exercise 5. Setting Constraints : Recap Exercise I 6. Setting Constraints : Recap Exercise II 7. Managing Sketches : Recap Exercise 8. Master Exercise: Gasket Presentation 9. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 1) 10. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 2) 11. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 3) 12. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 4) 13. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 5) 14. Master Exercise: Gasket (Step 6) p.3 p.6 p.8 p.10 p.12 p.14 p.16 p.18 p.21 p.24 p.26 p.28 p.30 p.35

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Exercise
Sketching Simple Profiles: Recap Exercise
5 min.

Create a simple profile made up of Lines, a Spline, an Arc, and an Axis Extra Credit : Create a solid of revolution from your profile and shell it

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Sketching Simple Profiles
Pt5

1- Lines 2- Spline

3- Arc
4- Axis

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Do It Yourself (2/2)
Sketching Simple Profiles

1- Lines 2- Spline

3- Arc
4- Axis

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Sketching_Simple_Profile.CATPart

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Sketching Pre-Defined Profiles Recap Exercise
10 min.

Create two Pre-Defined profiles - a Hexagon and a Keyhole Extra Credit : Extrude a solid Pad from your profile

Create two Pre-Defined profiles - a Hexagon and a Keyhole Extra Credit : Extrude a solid Pad from your profile

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Do It Yourself
Create these profiles by freehand Optional: Please check with your Instructor if you have any questions on how to create a pad from your profile

Pt1

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Sketching_Predefined_Profiles.CATPart

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Exercise
Editing Profiles : Recap Exercise
10 min.

Create a Rectangle Modify the rectangular profile

Surfaces

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Create these profiles by freehand
1- Create the Rectangle 2- Modify the length and width of the rectangle by dragging lines 3- Modify the entire shape of the rectangle by dragging its endpoints
Pt1

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Editing_Profile.CATPart
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Exercise
Operations on Profiles : Recap Exercise
15 min.

Design in Context Project 3D Elements into your Sketch Trim your profile with Corners and Chamfers

Surfaces

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Do It Yourself
In order to get into your Sketch plane: Select the Sketcher Icon and the plane
1- Project the Splines from the Supports 2- Draw two horizontal lines passing through the projected Splines then trim them using the Corner and Chamfer tools 3- Optional: Extrude a Pad using your profile
Pt1

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Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Operations_On_Profiles.CATPart

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Exercise
Setting Constraints : Recap Exercise I
15 min.

Create constraints and dimension between the sketch and 3D geometry

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Make the circle in your Sketch concentric to the cylinder on the Male part. Put a dimension on the circle. Dimension the rectangularPt5 profile with respect to the faces on the Male part Optional: Create the Female Pad from your profile

Pt1

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Setting_Constraints_1.CATPart
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Exercise
Setting Constraints : Recap Exercise II
15 min.

Study a mechanism using the Sketchers Animate Constraint tool

Surfaces Wireframe

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Do It Yourself
Make the 62 degree angle vary from 62 to - 62 to study the constraints existing between the different geometrical elements
Pt5

Pt1

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Setting_Constraints_2.CATPart
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Exercise
Managing Sketches : Recap Exercise
10 min.

Create an Angled Plane Change the Sketch Support of the part to this new plane

Surfaces

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1- Create a plane at 45 Degrees to the XY plane using the line provided 2- Change the Sketch Support for Sketch.1 to this new plane

Pt1

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Recap_Managing_Sketches.CATPart

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Master Exercise
Gasket: Presentation
55 min.

In this exercise you will have the chance to try out various tools for Sketching and Constraining by designing a profile for a Gasket. You will test the integrity of your Sketch by extruding the solid Gasket using the Pad tool from the Part Design Workbench Finally, you will see how easy it is to modify a sketch

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Design Intent: Gasket

A Gasket is a part used to make a joint fluid tight. It can be made of rubber, foam, or other industrial polymers that conform to the contours of adjacent parts thus providing an airtight or liquid tight seal between the parts.

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Design Process: Gasket

1 Sketching Simple Profiles 2
Sketching Pre-Defined Profiles

Editing Profiles

6 3 Step 6: Replacing the Sketch

Performing a Symmetry

4 5

Fully Constrain the Gasket

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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 1) - Sketching Simple Profiles
10 min.

In this step you will: Set up the Sketching Mode Use Simple Profile tools to sketch half of the Gasket

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Do It Yourself (1/2)
Sketch the profile shown on the right. The outer profile should be sketched with one use of the Profile tool. The Sketching mode should be set so that only Horizontality, Verticality, and Tangency Constraints are automatically created. Place the circles roughly as shown. Turn off the automatic creation of Constraints and Dimensions when sketching the circles.

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step1.CATPart
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Do It Yourself (2/2)
Hints: Go to Tools/Options/Part/Sketcher (in the Menubar) to set Grid Auto detection parameters

Switch Sketching mode in the Tools toolbar

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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 2) - Sketching Pre-Defined Profiles
5 min.

In this step you will: Add a slot on the Gasket

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Sketch the slot in the location shown on the right using a PreDefined Profile tool. Set the sketching mode to automatically create Horizontality, Verticality, and Tangency constraints

Save your model for the next step

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step2.CATPart
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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 3) - Editing Profiles
5 min.

In this step you will: Edit the slot on the Gasket

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Do It Yourself
Change the center of the top arc on the slot to H=0 and V=20 Change the center of the bottom arc on the slot to H=0 and V=-20 Save your model for the next step

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step3.CATPart
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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 4) - Performing a Symmetry
In this step you will: Create the symmetrical elements of the Gasket

10 min.

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Do It Yourself
Perform a symmetry operation on the outer profile and the two circles (Refer to previous page) in one step. Use AutoSearch to select the outer profile then use the CTRL key to select the two circles Automatically create Symmetry Constraints (Hint: Turn on Dimensional Constraints Mode) Use the Search tool under Edit in the Menubar to select all the Symmetry Constraints and NoShow them. Save your model for the next step

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step4.CATPart
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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 5) - Fully Constraining the Gasket
20 min.

In this step you will:

Completely constrain the Gasket by using a combination of Geometric and Dimensional Constraints You will then create the actual solid Gasket using the Pad tool from the Part Design Workbench. Successfully creating a Pad will also help verify that your Sketch was correctly defined.

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Do It Yourself (1/4)
Create the Geometric and Dimensional Constraints shown on the next page. Create a Relation between the two 10 mm radius dimensions. Access the Pad tool in the Part Design Workbench and create a thickness of 5mm. for the Gasket. (Please check with the Instructor on where the Pad tool is located if you have trouble finding it) Save your model for the next step

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step5.CATPart

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Do It Yourself (2/4)
Turn the page if you want Hints :

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Do It Yourself (3/4)
Hints: You dont have to constrain the left side of the Gasket because the geometry there is already constrained by the Symmetry Constraints (in No-Show). Put a Coincidence Constraint between the points that lie on top of one another where the right and left profiles meet. This is a Coincidence Constraint between the center of this corner and the lower horizontal line.

These type of dimensions are all off the HV Axes (not the Symmetry Construction line of the Elongated Hole)

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Do It Yourself (4/4)
Result

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Master Exercise
Gasket (Step 6) - Replacing the Sketch
5 min.

In this step you will:

Modify the Gasket by replacing its Sketch with a new REV B Sketch

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Do It Yourself (1/2)
Replace your original Sketch for the Gasket with the other sketch. Refer to next page for required result. Save your model for your own reference.

Load: CATSKE_Ex_Master_Step6.CATPart

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Do It Yourself (2/2)
END of GASKET exercise !

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