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CATIA V5 Expert Mechanical Designer
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Introduction
The goals of the CATIA V5 Expert Mechanical Designer course are to teach you how to start a complex design
project from its specifications (top down approach) and complete it by reusing existing designs.
This course focuses on the advanced skills and concepts that enable you to create robust designs.
Course Design Philosophy
This course is designed based on a process- or task-based approach to training. Rather than focus on individual
features and functions, this course emphasizes the process and procedure to complete a particular task. By
using case studies to illustrate these processes, you will learn the necessary commands, options, and menus
within the context of completing a design task.
Using the Student Guide
This student guide is intended to be used in a classroom environment under the guidance of a certified CATIA
instructor. The examples and case studies are designed to be demonstrated by the instructor.
Exercises/Case Studies
This course illustrates the process-based approach in two ways: exercises and case studies. Exercises give you
the opportunity to apply and practice the material covered during the lecture/demonstration portion of the course.
They are designed to represent typical design and modeling situations. Extra exercises have been included in
this guide to accommodate those students who may wish to practice more modeling. Case studies provide a
context in which you would use particular tools and methods, and illustrate the process flow you would typically
use for a project.
Case Study
Each lesson in this course contains a case study, which help explain the skills and concepts
covered in the lesson. These models help relate the topics discussed in each lesson. It is
important to remember that the topics discussed in each lesson can be used in many applications,
do not have to be used together. They have been brought together to help understand why you
might use these methods and tools. In this lesson you will at the end of the chapter work on a
warm up exercise that will help you to recall what you learned in in the Fundamentals course.
Stages in the Process
The linear steps
described in the stages
of the process are not
hard fast design rules
for the most part. In the
particular examples
used in the lessons, it is
one possible way of
creating the geometry.
Each lesson explains the material in steps.
These steps outline how you will create the
part or assembly in the case study. Each step
contains the information you need to complete
the case study and maintain its design intent.
It is important to remember that these steps do
not have to be used together. They have been
brought together for the purposes of the case
study. In each lesson try to think of other uses
for each step.