CATIA V5-6R2015 Product Enhancement Overview

Overview of Enhanced Products

Overview of Enhanced Products Mechanical Design Part Design Interactive Drafting Generative Drafting Sketcher Wireframe and Surface Generative Sheetmetal Design 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation 3

Overview of Enhanced Products Shape Design & Styling Generative Shape Design & Optimizer 4

Overview of Enhanced Products Machining Prismatic Machining Advanced Machining 5

Part Design Enhanced Functionality Creating Chamfers or Fillets Using Vertex Selection You can now create fillets or chamfers on three concurrent edges by selecting a common vertex. 7

User Interface Enhancement The Chordal Edge Fillet, Constant Edge Fillet, and Variable Edge Fillet commands are now accessible from a single dialog box. 8

Positions and Anchors in Pattern You can now define: Points, axis systems, geometric sets, and ordered geometric sets in the 3D as positions for pattern instances. Axis systems as anchors. 9

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. 10

Interactive Drafting New Functionality Creating Polygons You can now create a polygon with number of sides ranging from three to 100. 11

Enhanced Functionality Inserting Images You can now change the orientation of the image freely by specifying angle. 12

Working with Dimension Systems You can now group, regroup, or ungroup dimensions. 13

Arrows and Annotations You can now: Snap the arrows or annotation leaders along privileged directions Orient the annotations along the vertical direction by pressing the Alt key or along the selected reference by pressing the Ctrl key 14

Customizing Settings Administration You can now configure the default behavior of an item in the property toolbars. The configurations available are: Fix value Value based on element type Value based on style Value based on style (No overload) 15

Generative Drafting Enhanced Functionality Inserting Images You can now change the orientation of the image freely by specifying angle. Working with Dimension Systems You can now group, regroup, or ungroup dimensions. Arrows and Annotations You can now: Snap the arrows or annotation leaders along privileged directions Orient the annotations along the vertical direction by pressing the Alt key or along the selected reference by pressing the Ctrl key 16

Sketcher New Functionality Creating Polygons You can now create a polygon with number of sides ranging from three to 100. 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. 18

Enhanced Functionality Quickly Creating Dimensional/Geometrical Constraints You can now choose to display the dimensional constraints as you sketch the geometry. Setting Constraint on an Arc of a Use-edge You can now set a curvilinear constraint on an arc of a use-edge to know, and manage its dimension. 19

Select Boundary Edges You can now use a contextual command to select the boundary edges of faces to project them on a sketch plane, or intersect with one. 20

Wireframe and Surface New Functionality Creating Planes You can now use a ratio parameter to create a plane normal to a curve. This ratio will position the plane at a give point on the curve corresponding to this ratio. 21

Extracting Geometry Two new propagation types are provided: Protrusion and Depression. 22

Generative Sheetmetal Enhanced Functionality Recognizing Features From an Existing Part The command has been revamped: A new Split tab lets you split or tear the part to avoid overlapping on the recognized result. You can select edges to create bends. Walls, Bends and Stamps tabs have been merged into a single tab named Features. Faces to keep and Faces to remove boxes have been removed as their functions can be accessed through the Faces to ignore box. The Color list has been replaced by the Color Selector panel which lists features and their associated color and can be customized. The Bends Allowance tab has been replaced by the Bends Customization tab and now includes the Global K-Factor. A context menu is now available on the label of the edge for bend to edit the radius, K-Factor, define the extremities, and swap extremities. 23

Recognizing Features From an Existing Part 24

Extruding You can now manage bend extremities when extruding a profile. If you create a feature on the extruded profile, the bend extremities may be recomputed to ensure a consistent result. 25

Sheetmetal Shared Package You can define a distance rule between two sheetmetal features. Editing the Sheet and Tool Parameters You can now define several bend radiuses in a design table. 26

3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Enhanced Functionality Creating Texts You can now snap an annotation leader on the privileged directions when creating or modifying an annotation leader. 27

Managing 3D Annotations in 3D XML Files You can now review a 3D XML document containing the V5 assembly annotation set capture. Semantic Support of ISO 5459:2011 You can now have semantic support of the ISO 5459:2011 standard. Accordingly, the following enhancements are made: The normative references for ISO 5459:2011 are displayed for the annotation set. New interface is available for editing the datum reference frames. New interface is available for defining the datum features. The Theoretically exact size, Contacting Feature, and Projected Extension options are now added to the dialog box. 28

Customizing Settings Administration You can now configure the default behavior of an item in the property toolbars. The configurations available are: Manipulators Fix value Value based on element type Value based on style Value based on style (No overload) A new section, Orientation, allows you to define whether to snap automatically when orienting a leader on privileged directions. 29

Shape Design & Styling

Shape Design & Styling Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Enhanced Functionality Creating a Hole You can now choose the axis direction, either parallel to punch direction or normal to support surface, using the Axis Normal to Surface option. You can now create axis lines of finite or infinite length directly from the hole dialog box using the Finite Axis and Infinite Axis options. Analyzing Light Distances between Two Sets of Elements A new Distance Analysis command has been created to facilitate any future improvement, development, and evolution. The new command includes exactly the same functionalities as the old one. The dialog box looks slightly different. 31

Shape Design & Styling Analyzing Light Distances between Two Sets of Elements A new Distance Analysis command has been created to facilitate any future improvement, development, and evolution. The new command includes exactly the same functionalities as the old one. The dialog box looks slightly different. 32

Shape Design & Styling Creating Mid Surfaces 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. 33

Shape Design & Styling Creating 2D-View Sections You can now swap the computation order of the corners concerned using the manipulators appearing in the work area between the corresponding vertices. Deforming Elements According to Shape Morphing You can now automatically create coupling points between the reference and target elements. You can now valuate the reference and target elements from the geometrical set selection. 34

Shape Design & Styling Extracting Geometry Two new propagation types are provided: Protrusion and Depression. 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. Working with a 3D Support You can now modify and move the grid with the enhanced manipulation possibilities. 35

Machining

Machining Prismatic Machining Enhanced Functionality Pocketing, 4-Axis Pocketing 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 aluminum, you can take advantage of the concentric tool path style and drastically reduce air cut motions using the zig-zag mode. 37

Machining Advanced Machining Enhanced Functionality Cavities Roughing 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 aluminum, you can take advantage of the concentric tool path style and drastically reduce air cut motions using the zig-zag mode. 38

V5-6R2015 Machining Highlights New strategy for hard material machining maximises the machining efficiency while protecting the cutters. The adaptive concentric ensures the load on the cutter is as closed as possible to the max allowed without never exceeding. New option in Roughing allows to control the tool position on soft boundary and avoid overloading the tool during the first pass New Capability allows to save machining time by cleaning the walls upward in roughing New parameters in Activities Process Table allows user to check, edit, multiselect those parameters and increase the productivity