Overview
Conventions
What's New?
Getting Started
Using Surfaces and Curves
Joining Surfaces or Curves
Extrapolating Surfaces
Extracting Geometry
Creating Intersections
Creating Projections
Creating Boundaries
Entering the Part Design Workbench
Creating a Pad
Drafting a Face
Filleting an Edge
Editing the Pad
Mirroring the Part
Sketching a Circle from a Face
Creating a Pocket
Shelling the Part
User Tasks
Opening a New CATPart Document
Sketch-Based Features
Creating Pads
Using the Sub-Elements of a Sketch
Creating Up to Next Pads
Creating Up to Last Pads
Creating Up to Plane Pads
Creating Up to Surface Pads
Creating Pads or Pockets from Surfaces
Creating Pads Not Normal to Sketch Planes
Creating Multi-Pads
Creating Drafted Filleted Pads
Creating Pockets
Creating Multi-Length Pockets
Creating Drafted Filleted Pockets
Creating Thin Solids
Creating Shafts
Creating Grooves
Creating Holes
Creating Holes on Non-planar Faces
Locating Holes
Creating Threaded Holes
Creating Ribs
Trimming Ribs and Slots
Creating Slots
Creating Stiffeners
Creating Multi-sections Solids
Creating Removed Multi-sections Solids
Creating Solid Combines
How Sketches are Located in the Specification Tree
Dress-Up Features
Creating Edge Fillets
Creating Variable Radius Fillets
Reshaping Corners
Creating Face-Face Fillets
Creating Chordal Fillets
Creating Tritangent Fillets
Creating Chamfers
Creating Basic Drafts
Creating Advanced Drafts
Creating Variable Angle Drafts
Creating Drafts with Parting Elements
Creating Drafts from Reflect Lines
Creating Shells
Creating Thicknesses
Creating Threads and Taps
Creating Remove Face Features
Creating Replace Face Features
Surface-Based Features
Creating Splits
Creating Thick Surfaces
Creating Close Surface Features
Creating Sew Surfaces
Transformation Features
Creating Translations
Creating Rotations
Creating Symmetries
Transforming Elements From an Axis to Another
Creating Mirrors
Creating Rectangular Patterns
Creating Circular Patterns
Creating User Patterns
Exploding Patterns
Creating Scalings
Transforming Geometry by Affinity
Reference Elements
Creating Points
Creating Lines
Creating Planes
Modifying Parts
Editing parts, bodies, features
Updating Parts
Deleting Features
Deleting Useless or Unreferenced Elements
Deleting Boolean Operations Performed within OGSs
Deactivating Elements
Reordering Features
Reordering Sketch-based Features
Setting Constraints
Setting 3D Constraints
Setting constraints
Modifying Constraints
Replacing Elements
Replacing Elements
Replacing a Body
Changing a Sketch Support
Displaying and Editing Properties
Part Properties
Bodies Properties
Features Properties
Creating Annotations
Annotation Associativity
Creating an Automatic Default Annotation
Querying 3D Annotations
Replacing geometrical elements
Handling Parts
Handling Parts in a Multi-Document Environment
Creating Technological Results
Hybrid Design
Creating Bodies (Hybrid Design)
Creating Features
Location of Operating Bodies in Boolean Operations
Visualization
How to Integrate the Surface World into Solid Modeling
Graphic Properties (Hybrid Design)
Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment
Associating Bodies
Inserting a New Body
Inserting a Body into an Ordered Geometrical Set
Managing Geometrical Sets
Managing Ordered Geometrical Sets
Inserting Features into a New Body
Assembling Bodies
Intersecting Bodies
Adding Bodies
Removing Bodies
Trimming Bodies
Remove Lump
Changing a Boolean Operation Into Another One
Editing Copy/Paste Body Link
Using Tools
Editing a List of Elements
Defining Current Objects
Scanning the Part and Defining In Work Objects
Performing a Draft Analysis
Performing a Surface Curvature Analysis
Analyzing Taps and Threads
Creating Datums
Isolating Geometric Elements
Applying a Material
Extracting Geometry
Displaying Parents and Children
Defining An Axis System
Publishing Elements
Working With a Support
Managing the Background Visualization
Measuring Elements
Measuring Between
Measuring Distances between Geometrical Entities
Customizing Measure Between
Measuring Angles
More about Measure Cursors
More about the Measure Between Dialog Box
Measuring Item
Measuring Properties
Customizing Measure Item
More about the Measure Item Dialog Box
Measuring Inertia
Measuring 2D Inertia
Exporting Measure Inertia Results
Notations Used
Inertia Equivalents
Principal Axes
Inertia Matrix with respect to the Origin O
Inertia Matrix with respect to a Point P
Inertia Matrix with respect to an Axis System
Moment of Inertia about an Axis
3D Inertia Properties of a Surface
Updating Measures
Using PowerCopies
Creating PowerCopies
Instantiating PowerCopies
Saving PowerCopies into a Catalog
Instantiating Power Copies Using Step By Step Instantiation
Instantiating Power Copies Using Part Comparison Instantiation
Instantiating a Power Copy From a VB Macro
Reusing your Design
Cutting, Copying, Pasting
Optimizing Part Design Application
Managing User-Defined Features
About User Features
About the User Feature Definition Window
Creating a User Feature
Creating a User Feature
About NLS User Features
Creating a NLS User Feature
Saving a User Feature in a Catalog
Instantiating a User Feature
Instantiating a User Feature From a Catalog, From a Document, From a Selection
Instantiating a User Feature From a VB Macro
Instantiating a User Feature Using the Knowledge Pattern
Modifying a User Feature
Debugging a User Feature
Using the Parent/Children Debug Command
Assigning a Type to a User Feature
Referencing User Features in Search Operations
User Features: Useful Tips
User Features: Limitations
Managing Part and Assembly Templates
About Part and Assembly Templates
About the Document Template Definition Window
Creating a Part Template
Creating a Document Template Containing Meta Inputs
Instantiating a Part Template
Adding an External Document to a Document Template
Instantiating a Document Template Containing Meta Inputs
Document Templates: Methodology
Document Templates: Limitations
Workbench Description
Part Design Menu Bar
Sketch-Based Features Toolbar
Dress-Up Features Toolbar
Surface-Based Features Toolbar
Transformation Features Toolbar
Reference Elements Toolbar
Boolean Operations Toolbar
Sketcher Toolbar
Constraints Toolbar
Analysis Toolbar
Annotations Toolbar
Tools Toolbar
Insert Toolbar
Measure Toolbar
Part Design Specification Tree Icons
Miscellaneous Symbols
Symbols Reflecting Incidents in the Geometry Building
Referenced Geometry
Customizing
Display
General
Part Document
Tolerancing
Display
Manipulators
View/Annotation Plane
Frequently Asked Questions
Draft Features
Edge Fillets
Glossary
Index