Modeling A Bent Pipe In CATIA Tutorial for beginners

This tutorial exercise provides step by step instruction on modeling a bent pipe using CATIA. Follow the steps shown below. Step One Open CATIA by double clicking the Icon which would be in your desktop if you are using Windows and believe it to be the same for UNIX also. The screen would be as in Figure 1.

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Step Two Click File menu from top of your screen and click new file option from the menu list as shown in Figure 2.

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Step Three Then a small dialogue box appears as shown in Figure 3. Select part from the list and click OK. Then a default part with name part1 is opened.

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Step Four Select yz plane from specification tree as shown in Figure 4.

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Step Five Select Sketcher workbench by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 5.

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Step Six Now let us select Circle tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 6 or select fromInsert > Profile > Circle > Circle menu Figure 7.

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Step Seven Draw a circle as shown Figure 8.

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Step Eight Now select Constraint tool by clicking the icon in the tool bar as shown in Figure 9.

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Step Nine Now just click on the circle and the diameter of the circle would be displayed as shown in Figure 10. When you double click on the diameter value Constraint Definitiondialogue box appears where you can see present diameter value as shown in Figure 11. Now let us change the value of diameter to 100mm and click ok, as shown inFigure 12.

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Figure 12. Step Ten Now let us sketch one more circle inside the present one, with 98 mm diameter as shown in figure 13.

Figure 13. Step Eleven Exit sketcher workbench by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14. Step Twelve Select zx plane as shown in Figure 15.

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Step Thirteen Select sketcher tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 16.

Figure 16. Step Fourteen Select Line tool by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17. Step Fifteen Sketch a line as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18. Step Sixteen Now let us edit the corner of the line by clicking Corner tool from toolbar as shown in Figure 19.

Figure 19. Step Seventeen Select two line whose corner should be edited as shown in Figure 20.

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Step Eighteen The corner with existing radius would be as shown in Figure 21, which can be edited later.

Figure 21. Step Nineteen Select other two lines whose corner has to be edited as shown in Figure 22.

Figure 22. Step Twenty The resultant corner (second) would be as shown in Figure 23.

Figure 23. Step TWenty One Now let us double click on the radius to change the parameters as per our requirement, then Constraint Definition dialogue box pops up as shown in Figure 24. {You can see present radius in the below image.}

Figure 24. Step Twenty Two Change both the radius of the corners to 60 degrees and set the remaining dimensions as shown in Figure 25.

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Step Twenty Three Exit Sketcher workbench by clicking the icon in the toolbar as shown in Figure 26.

Figure 26. Step Twenty Four Select Rib tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 27 or go to Insert > Sketch-Based Features > Rib menu as shown in Figure 28.

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Figure 28. Step Twenty Five When Rib Definition dialogue box appears select sketches for Profile andCenter Curve and click ok as shown in Figure 29.

Figure 29. Step Twenty Six The resultant bent pipe would be as shown in Figure 30.

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