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NEW and ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITIES from CATIA V5 R22 to R27

Speaker: Ray Olson with RAND 3Da division of RAND Worldwide

Focusing on the following Workbenches

� Importance of the Program Directory.

� Sketcher.

� Part Design.

� Generative Shape Design.

� Drafting.

� Assembly Design.

� Machining.

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Sketcher New and Enhanced Functionality

OutputYou can now create a plane from a selected line of the sketcher or a 3D line from a

selected point of the sketcher.

Converting Standard into Construction

Elements

You can now define whether the current

element in edition is to be treated as a

construction element or a standard one.

Creating Curvilinear Distance Constraints

You can now create a curvilinear distance

constraint like any other dimensional constraint

of a sketch.

Creating Equidistant Points

You can now create an equivalent dimension for all the

rounds/equidistance values instead of creating many individually

modifiable formulae. With this, you can modify multiple distance

values by modifying only one of the parameters.

Sketcher V5-6R2013 (R23)



Sketcher

You can now have a new setting using which you can choose the minimize

transformation mode when entering the Sketcher workbench. With this,

the viewpoint transformation brings the sketch plane parallel to screen, as

close as possible to the initial viewpoint in 3D.

About Smartpicking Background Elements

You can now directly use the background elements like existing geometry of a

sketch to position the future geometry to create. This way you can now manage the

selection of background entities to define their inputs.




Aligning Points

You can now align a number of points

horizontally, vertically or along a

direction.

About Dragging Using SmartPick

You can now drag the geometries using SmartPick and position them with respect to

each other or with the other background elements.

Instantiating Fix Together Items

You can now instantiate a Fix Together item from an existing Fix Together item.

Creating Chamfers

You can now enter the length value as the first input in

Sketch tools when Hypothenuse and Angle or First Length

and Angle options are selected while creating a chamfer.




Creating Polygons

You can now create a polygon with a number of sides ranging

from three to 100 in R25 & R26 only.

V5-6R2017 (R27) ONLY Creating Polygons

The feature is enhanced as follows, the maximum number of sides of a polygon is now 24. The

default polygon you can create is a hexagon. The default mode of creation of a polygon is with an

in circle

Analyzing a Curve by Porcupine Analysis

You can now perform porcupine analysis on curves to create a visual representation of the point,

tangent, and curvature continuity of curves.

Quickly Creating Dimensional/Geometrical Constraints

You can now choose to display the dimensional constraints as you sketch the geometry.




Creating Profile Offsets

You can now offset an entire profile and manage the offset between the base profile and

the offset profile.

Analyzing Sketched Geometry

You can check and change the orientation of the profile of the sketch under analysis.

Preview while Chamfering and Cornering

You can now display the preview while chamfering and cornering multiple vertices.


Part Design New and Enhanced Functionality

Part Design V5-6R2013 (R23)

Creating Circular Patterns

You can create the specific staggered pattern configurations by rotating the alternate circles of the

crown with certain angle.

Administration: Creating Thread Standards

A new Unit node is available in the Standard

Definition dialog box to define unit of new standards.

Creating Chamfers

A new Corner Cap check box is available in the

Chamfer Definition dialog box.

Creating Remove Face Features

A new Fillet Propagation contextual command is available to get the tangent continuous filleted

faces of the selected face.

The orange arrow remains available on the limiting element even after closing the Face to Limit

dialog box. Thus, you can change the orientation of the limiting element without editing it.

Creating Mirrors

A new Keep specifications check box is available in the Mirror Definition dialog box.



Part Design V5-6R2014 (R24)Creating Hole Standards

You can now create new hole standards from the existing standard files.

Metric_Cap_Screws and Socket_Head_Cap_Screws

Thread Standards Management

You can now specify main diameter of thread/tap as reference for standards management.

Migrating Thread Standards

You can now migrate thread standards file from .txt format to .xml format.



Part Design V5-6R2014 (R24)Creating Holes

For blind type holes, V-Bottom is now the default bottom type.

Working with Patterns

You can now edit the patterning features easily to switch from single to multiple features and vice

versa. This functionality is available for rectangular patterns, circular patterns, and user patterns.

You can now copy and paste multiple patterning features.

You can now powercopy multiple patterning features.

For rectangular patterns, you can now create patterns with identical instances in both directions, and

set the staggered step value to half of the spacing between instances.

Boolean Performance

A new mode for Boolean operations now allows fast update of the design sequence when a non-

impacting modification is performed at the beginning of the design cycle. This enhancement is

available for the following commands Assemble, Remove, Add and Intersect.

Thread / Tap

A new option lets you specify the main diameter of thread/tap as a reference for thread standards

management.



Part Design V5-6R2015 (R25)Creating Chamfers or Fillets Using Vertex Selection

You can now create fillets or chamfers on three concurrent edges by selecting a common vertex.

User Interface Enhancement

The Chordal Edge Fillet, Constant Edge Fillet, and Variable Edge Fillet commands are now

accessible from a single dialog box.

Positions and Anchors in User Pattern

You can now define Points, axis systems, geometric sets, and ordered geometric sets in the 3D as

positions for pattern instances, also Axis systems as anchors.

Creating Mirror Features

A warning message now appears if the object to mirror contains non-movable elements or sub-

elements. You can now mirror the thick surface and close surface features.



Part Design V5-6R2016 (R26)Creating Splits

You can now split an element by extrapolating the splitting surface in curvature when it is intersecting

at least one of the edges of the element.


You can now easily detect incorrect inputs with the help of improved error message and diagnostics.

Creating Tritangent Fillets

You can now define several limiting elements while creating a tritangent fillet. You can create and

define sweeps or extracted elements, for example, as limiting elements.

Creating Patterns

You can now insert Part Design features such as pads, pockets,

shafts, grooves, and holes, on the fly, while creating a pattern.

Creating User Patterns

You can now quickly define the required number of axis systems as

positions for instances, along with the defined curve, normal to the

surface.



Part Design V5-6R2017 (R27)Creating Shafts

You can now define the various limits like Up to next, Up to last, Up to plane, or Up to surface while

creating a shaft.

Creating Grooves

You can now define the various limits like Up to next, Up to last, Up to plane, or Up to surface while

creating a groove.

Creating Hole Standards

You can now define hole standards with an optional parameter to manage thread description.


The faces causing errors while using the Remove Face command are now highlighted and labeled.

Creating Mirrors

The wireframe preview of a feature now appears while mirroring and its mirror is created with the same direction and

limiting specifications.


GSD New and Enhanced Functionality

Generative Shape Design V5-6R2013 (R23)

Creating Mid Surfaces

You can now create a mid-surface from a pair of faces.

Creating a Curve from Equations

You can now define a parametric curve

from three Cartesian equations.??This command is only available with the

Generative Shape Optimizer product??




Defining an Axis System

You can now define an axis system that distinguishes between default

computation and no selection input. You can also create an axis system

according to a robot (compass) definition.

Creating Multiple Points and Planes

You can now edit instances and spacing of points or planes created

using the repetition command.

Extrapolating Surfaces

You can now quickly create extrapolated surfaces by selecting the boundary of a

feature.




Working with the Sharpness Mode

You can now accurately detect the edges' sharpness and display all edges detected as sharp when the

Shading with Edges without Smooth Edges view mode is active.

Resizing Infinite Elements

You can resize the graphical representation of features with infinite geometry.

When the Shading with Edges without Smooth Edges view mode is selected, sharp edges are displayed

as black lines. However, for performance reasons, some sharp edges are not displayed at all.

The Sharpness mode allows to display all edges detected as sharp feature.




Joining Surfaces or Curves

The Check manifold option is enabled for surfaces.

You can now generate non-manifold objects by joining

surfaces and have the possibility to prevent the creation

of such configuration.


A new option Spacing is available in

Parameters list which allows you to create

points and planes over the whole distance of

the selected support curve or between the point

selected and the curve's extremity.




Trimming Geometry

There is a new check box Keep all pieces. You can select all input geometry at once, keep all sides,

and generate a non-manifold result.

Creating a Helix

You can now create a Helix by specifying any two of the three required parameters.


You can now create Mid Surfaces from complex models by offsetting the faces.

Creating Chamfers

You can now create a standard, C0 or C1 type of edge feature in chamfers by selecting the required

filter.

Creating Points

You can now swap between the extremities if either of them is set as the default reference point

when creating a point on a curve.





The mid surface feature can now automatically compute the length used to offset the surface. A new

mode now allows you to extract a mid surface from a solid or a volume, and an offset ratio is

provided.

Extracting Geometry

Two new propagation types are provided: Protrusion and Depression. Protrusions and/or

depressions of a surface can be selected quickly. Also, the base surface can be selected without its

protrusions and/or depressions. Two cells belong to a protrusion if their union is convex. Two cells

belong to a depression if their union is concave. Depression/Protrusion propagation modes are only

available if the element to extract is a surface.

Creating Planes

You can now use a ratio parameter

to create a plane normal to a curve.

This ratio positions the plane at a

given point on the curve corresponding

to this ratio.




Scanning a Part and Defining In Work Objects

The user interface has been improved.


The error diagnostic is improved and the face causing the error is now highlighted in red color.

Smoothing Curves

You can now select multiple curves to be smoothed.


You can now automatically compute the threshold thickness.

Creating Fill Surfaces

You can now have a better control of the deviation.

Extrapolating Curves

You can now extrapolate wires on both extremities.

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Extrapolating Surfaces (curvature mode only)

You can now extrapolate a surface on multiple sides.

You can now extrapolate a surface up to a geometrical element.

You can now set a maximum Deviation value between the obtained and the theoretical result

surface.

Creating Extruded Surfaces

While creating an extrude, by default, a normal direction to the plane, on which the profile lies is

selected.

Defining an Axis System

You can now specify an existing axis system as reference when creating a new axis system.


You can now create multiple axis systems along a curve.

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Creating 3D Tags

You can create 3D tags on geometrical features by selecting points or vertices as leader points.

Creating a Mid Surface

When creating a mid surface by a thickness threshold (Automatic Mid Surface Extraction) method, a more

desirable mid surface result is now obtained with defeatured L junction.

With the Face Pairs creation mode, the mid surface is now created at an offset from the selected face instead of the

paired face.

Revolving Surfaces and Volumes

You can now set the limit types as dimension or up-to-element for revolving surfaces and volumes. See Creating

Revolved Surfaces and Creating revolved Volumes.

Joining Surfaces or Curves

You can now automatically remove the lost edges for join features.

Creating Projections

You can now select different extrapolation modes while projecting wires on surfaces.

Creating Offset Surfaces

You can now automatically compute and remove the tricky faces in an offset feature.


Drafting New and Enhanced Functionality

Drafting V5-6R2013 (R23)

Creating Half Dimensions

Your preferences for creating a regular or a half dimension is now taken into account

independently for dimension from an axis line to a geometry and from a geometry to an axis line.

Dimension Tolerance Formats

The new Tolerance Display Factor parameter has been added in the Format Definitions reference.

This new parameter affects tolerance properties.

Positioning a View

You can now align (i.e translate and/or rotate) a view along with a reference view from the

selection of various alignment elements contained in the views at stake.

See Generative Drafting User's Guide > User Tasks > Positioning a View.

Unique names

You can now have an option to check the uniqueness of names of sheets or views.

Annotation Positioning

You can now:

Create a text on a dimension's extension line.

Create a text leader extremity on the center of datum target's upper compartment.

Create an annotation body with snappingon a target annotation's attachment point and automatically remove the

created leader, if any.





Working with Dimension Systems

You can now:

Add one or several dimensions to a compatible dimension system.

Transfer one or several dimensions from a dimension system to another compatible dimension system.

Remove one or several dimensions from a dimension system.

Creating a Geometrical Tolerance

You can now control the availability of engineering symbols to be inserted in the various fields of Geometrical

Tolerance dialog box based on the Drafting standard.

Administration

The new Naming Uniqueness section allows you to verify the naming uniqueness of views or sheets.

See also Creating Views and Defining a Sheet.


Inserting Images

You can now choose the orientation reference of the image as sheet or the 2D component.

You can also orient the image freely by specifying an angle.

Working with Dimension Systems

You can now:

Group Dimensions, Regroup Dimensions & Ungroup Dimensions




Arrow and AnnotationLeader Orientation

You can now snap the leaders of texts, balloons, datum features, datum targets, geometrical tolerances,

coordinate dimensions, welding symbols, instantiation of the text, tables, or labels along privileged

directions.

Creating Arrows

You can now conveniently create the arrow head before the tail.

Annotation Body Orientation

You can now orient the annotations of the texts, balloons, datum features, datum targets, geometrical

tolerances, coordinate dimensions, welding symbols, instantiation of the text, tables, or labels along the

vertical direction by pressing the Alt key.

Administration

You can now configure the default behavior of an item in the property toolbars. The configurations

available: Fix value, Value based on element type, Value based on style and

Value based on style (No overload)

Manipulators

You can now snap arrows, leaders, and annotations on the privileged directions.




Changing Frame Sizes for Fixed Frames

You can have multiple fixed size frames for annotations in the same drawing. You can change the size

of the frames and manage several fixed sized frames using standard files.

Updating Welding Symbols with Standard Switch

The welding symbols are now automatically updated when the drawing standard is switched. During

the switch, a symbol is not displayed if it is unavailable in the target standard.

Creating a Datum Target

It is now possible to create a movable datum target and specify a square reference area for the datum

target, in accordance with ASME Y14.5 2009 standard.


Changing Frame Sizes for Fixed Frames

You can customize the names for the multiple fixed size frames of the same type.

Administration

You can now ensure naming uniqueness for sheet and view names by distinguishing between:

Single byte character set (SBCS) and double byte character set (DBCS)

Lowercase and uppercase


Assembly Design New and Enhanced Functionality

Assembly Design V5-6R2013 (R23)

Performing a Symmetry

The new Include Children OGS and Ignore Hidden Geometries under GS and OGS check boxes are

available in the Assembly Symmetry Wizard dialog box.

Creating an Angle Constraint

You can now display the constraints and parameters, irrespective of the viewing plane.

Managing Offset Constraint

You can now display the constraints and parameters, irrespective of the viewing plane.


No enhancements in this release.








Machining New and Enhanced Functionality

Machining V5-6R2012 (R22)

There are no new or enhanced functionalities in this release for all machining workbenches.


Add PP Word in Machining Patterns and Axial Operations

You can insert and display PP Word instructions before any hole in the Machining Pattern and Axial Machining

Operations.

Improved Collision Check and Collision Avoidance

Ability to include the Part from Part Operation in the collision check performed on macro for the following

Machining Operations: Profile Contouring, Groove Milling, Pocketing, Facing, Curve Following, 4x Pocketing

and Trochoid Milling Machining Operations. The Part from Part Operation check box is added in the Collision

Checking dialog box and the Collision Checking button is added where needed in the Geometry tab.

Improved Intermediate Stock Management in Axial Machining Operations

__A Drill through stock up to bottom check box is added in the Geometry tab. This helps to perform the axial

operation start from top of the stock up to bottom of the stock in case of Through hole .

__A Spot drill to part check box is added in the Geometry tab of the Spot Drilling Machining Operation. It

allows the drilling from the intermediate stock up to the part (and ensures the spot-drilling depth/diameter on

the part).

Lathe Machining New Functionalities

Start Limit in Rough Turning

A Start element selection is provided in the Geometry tab to limit input stock in a Rough Turning Machining Operation.




There are no new or enhanced functionalities in this release for all machining workbenches.


3-Axis Surface Machining Enhanced Functionality

Roughing, Spiral Milling

The Concentric tool path style has been enhanced to reduce the machining time:

For external domains, the number of small passes in concave areas has been reduced.

For closed pockets that are large enough and convex, the tool path is optimized by mixing concentric and offset

motions (both respecting the radial engagement). The result is a shorter machining time.

For softer material like aluminium, you can take advantage of the concentric tool path style and drastically reduce

air cut motions using the zig-zag mode.

Roughing

__A new parameter (Overhang) imposes a radial engagement of the tool on the soft boundary trajectory, thus

controlling the load on the tool. For new programs, this option is activated by default, for existing programs,

the behavior is unchanged.

__A new parameter (Upward rework step) optimizes the Roughing machining time: The downward roughing

planes are computed with large steps, then the remaining material on the wall is removed with upward smaller

axial steps.




Advanced Machining New Functionality

Stiffener

This new machining operation lets you machine inclined and horizontal stiffeners in one shot.




NC Manufacturing Infrastructure Enhanced Functionality

Design Change

When analyzing the geometry specified on a Machining Operation, you can now use new commands

to:

reframe the main viewer on the selected geometry

center the specification tree on the selected geometry.

These commands are available in the Geometry Analyzer dialog box.

ResourcesWhen you modify the total length value (ST) of a tool assembly, you can now select the Assembly total length linked

to tool gage check box to keep the height value of the last stage of the tool holder.

Prismatic Machining Enhanced Functionality

Drilling Intersecting Deep Holes

When drilling intersecting deep holes, you can now reduce the feedrates and spindle speeds using the

following parameters: In the Strategy tab page:

DeepHole LeadIn: specifies the start point of the feeds and speeds reduction.

DeepHole LeadOut: specifies the end point of the feeds and speeds reduction.

In the Feeds and Speeds tab page:

DeepHole Reduced Feed in Percentage: specifies in percentage the value of the feedrates and spindle

speeds reduction.

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