Welcome to the Part Design User’s Guide. This guide is intended to help you get familiar with the Part Design product. It has been designed to show you how to create a part. There are several ways of creating a part. This book covers all the stages for creation of a part. This overview provides the following information: |
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Part Design in a Nutshell |
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The Part Design
application
makes
it possible to design precise 3D mechanical parts with an intuitive and
flexible user interface, from sketching in an assembly context to iterative
detailed design. Part Design application will enable you to accommodate
design requirements for parts of various complexities, from simple to
advanced. This application, which combines the power of feature-based design with the flexibility of a Boolean approach, offers a highly productive and intuitive design environment with multiple design methodologies, such as post-design and local 3D parameterization. As a scalable product, Part Design can be used in cooperation with other current or future companion products such as Assembly Design and Generative Drafting. The widest application portfolio in the industry is also accessible through interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable support of the full product development process from initial concept to product in operation. |
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Before Reading this Guide |
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Before reading this guide, you
should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows,
standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the
Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities
common to all Version 5 products.
The guide also describes the general layout of
V5 and the interoperability between workbenches. You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:
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Getting the Most out of this Guide |
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To get the most out of this
guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the step-by-step
tutorial Getting Started. This tutorial will
show you how to create a basic part from scratch. Once you have finished, you should move on to the next sections dealing with the handling of CATPart data, then the creation and modification of various types of features you will need to construct parts. This guide also presents other Part Design capabilities allowing you to design complex parts. You can also take a look at the sections describing the Part Design Workbench at the end of the guide. |
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Accessing Sample Documents |
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To perform the scenarios, you will
be using sample documents contained in the online/prtug/samples
folder.
When samples belong to capabilities common to different products, those samples will be found in the online/cfysm_XX/samples folder. For more information about this, see Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide. |
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Conventions Used in this Guide |
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To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, see the Conventions section. |