CATIA Basics

Working With A Session:

1. A Session is defined by a set of models and a SESSION MANAGER.
2. The SESSION MANAGER configures a CATIA session and manages the data accessed
by the user.
3. Working with a session is working in context; this allows you to visualize your digital
mock-up and to perform various simulations.
4. A session is stored in a SESSION-type file. It must be considered as a temporary work
environment save.
5. No data transfer capability is provided on a session.
Hints & Tips:
1. When a model has been once active, you can see a (emptyset symbol)
or () at the end of the model name in the Window Menu Bar.
2

Displaying the working plane parallel to the screen on workstation:

Select view current 2D plane or key in p to work in the current 2D plane

Warning about Circles: Circles are created in CATIA with a break point
located at the 3 Oclock position. i.e while creating limit points on circle,
one centre point and another point at 3 Oclock position will be created.

Methodology-Visualizing different thickness:

If we cannot visualize the different thickness on the screen, display the local
Transformation window with the STD option and set the thickness
option to ON.
5. Forcing colours: During the design phase, we may want to highlight an area
of our part. The colour forcing option allows us to force the same colour onto the
elements.

6. About the Colour Palette: Activate the local transformation window(PF4 key or
Mouse buttons 1 and 3) select COL option. The colour palette has two zones:
The first six boxes manage the colour of the CATIA graphics screen.
The others manage the palette of available colours in model
7. Creating Standard Model: To avoid having to customize model standards each
Time while creating a new part, we can create a standard model for which we set the
standards we need before saving it for subsequent use. Then each time when we need a
new model, we read the standard model instead of creating a new one.
8. Selection: while selecting a contour or profile, we can use *SEQ or *PRF instead
Of selecting all the contours or pressing Autosearch.
9. Applying Filters: The filter we apply is supposed to let us see the geometry only, but we
can see the axis system even though it is on layer 0. The current layer is always displayed.
If we create geometry, we create it in the current layer. We have to be able to see the
elements we are creating. To be sure to display only the geometry we want, ensure that
the current layer is an empty layer.

DITTO:
An image (or occurance) of the geometric elements of a detail which is transferred
into another workspace is called ditto.
A ditto can be used as a single element, but its constituent geometric elements can be
used for further creations in the receiving workspace.
If the geometric elements of the initial detail are modified, all the dittos are
automatically updated
The ditto mode is useful:
1. To keep a subset independent from the rest of the model
2. To place several identical subsets in the model, while creating them only once in the
model (memory space saving)
3. To allow easy modification of a repetitive subset. Such a modification is applied to each
occurrence of the model
Applns.: Mainly used in designing
1) Piping and
2) Tubing
DRAFTING:
Dimension is composed of several elements called dimension components,dimension
line,extension line, leader,tolerence,associated text, numerical value and end symbols.
Dual dimensionis created like a simple dimension, the tolerence is displayed in the numerical
format as expected. Main value and dual value are tolerenced with defferEnt tolerence types.
Dimension system is a set of simple dimensions created one after the others. To create a
dimension system, the presentation mode has to be defined. Either chain mode or stacked
mode must be used.
In Chain mode, simple dimensions appear one after the other
In stacked mode, simple dimensions are positioned one above the other,in parallel, all
dimension values are expressed in relation to acommon reference point.
DESCRIPTIONS :
Descriptionse groups of parameters which are used to defined asingle concept and are
managed as a whole. There are five types of descriptions.
1) numerical display format , which enables youn to express numerical value of a model
in the unit we want.
2) Framing of a dimension text can be constant or can vary according to the extent
rectangle.
3) Character graphic aspects, ie character font, slant, spacing, hight ,width and
width/hight ratio.

4) Tolerancing.
Multitolerencing, it is used to deter

CATIA V5R8 Packages

REQUIREMENT FOR FCS LCA TRAINER
A. Mechanical Design
1.CATIA Mechanical Design 1 (MD1)
Provides the tools needed to perform 3D part and assembly design and the generation of
production drawings. In addition, it includes integrated real-time rendering capabilities and
supports data exchange using common industry standards, including the CADAM drawing
data format.
2.CATIA Mechanical Design 2 (MD2)
Provides all of the tools required to address the advanced 3D design of parts and assemblies
in the context of the full-scale digital mock-up, and generation of production drawings. In
addition, it includes integrated real-time rendering capabilities. Customers benefit from a
highly productive solution which is natively interoperable with other CATIA Version 5 solutions
and
which offers integration tools for compatibility with CATIA Version 4 and data interfaces to
most frequently used industry standards. These capabilities make it a configuration of choice for
existing
Version 4 customers. Customers also benefit from a seat definition which can be easily and
seamlessly upgraded by adding shape design capabilities, thus allowing the design of more
complex
parts with hybrid modelling methodologies.
3.CATIA Extended Mechanical Design 1 (XM1)
Perfectly suited to industrial machinery or consumer goods and many other SME
subsegments, the XM1 configuration is a 3D product creation package with comprehensive
part and assembly design features, as well as associative drawing extraction capabilities.
Designers will find all of the required 2D drafting capabilities for efficient drawing
production. To match industrial requirements, the configuration includes sheetmetal design
and wireframe and surfacing features. In addition, import/export of IGES and STEP data
make collaborative design in the extended enterprise very easy. Users managing large
assemblies will also appreciate other powerful product analysis features such as distance
measurement, dynamic sectioning and clash detection.
4.CATIA Extended Mechanical Design 2 (XM2)
Perfectly suited to industrial machinery or consumer goods and many other SME
subsegments,
the XM2 configuration is a 3D product creation package with comprehensive part and
assembly
design features and associative drawing extraction capabilities. Furthermore, all necessary
2D drafting features for efficient drawing production are included.
As a CATIA P2 configuration, this solution offers advanced 3D oriented productivity
features. Graphical analysis of the degrees of freedom of a component allows the user to
quickly understand how the component is constrained. Advanced use of user defined

features to capture design intent and easily instantiate best practices. To meet
industrial requirements, the configuration includes advanced sheetmetal design and
wireframe
and surface capabilities.

B.Mechanical Engineering
5.CATIA Mechanical Engineering 1 (ME1)
Provides the tools needed to engineer 3D parts and assemblies and generate production
drawings.
Intuitive stress testing functions make early part pre-validation tools available to all
designers. In
addition, it includes integrated real-time rendering capabilities and data interfaces to the most
common industry standards, including CADAM drawings.
6.CATIA Mechanical Engineering 2 (ME2)
Provides all of the tools required to address the advanced 3D engineering of parts and
assemblies
in the context of the full scale digital mock-up, and generation of production drawings. It
includes
intuitive design stress analysis capabilities which allow early pre-validation of designs by the
designers. Customers benefit from a high productivity solution which is natively
interoperable with
other CATIA Version 5 solutions and which offers integration tools for compatibility with
CATIA
Version 4 and data interfaces to most frequently used industry standards. These capabilities
make it
a configuration of choice for existing Version 4 customers. Customers benefit from a seat
definition
which can be easily and seamlessly upgraded by adding shape design capabilities or
additional
advanced assembly analysis tools, thus allowing engineering of more complex parts with
hybrid
modelling methodologies or structural prevalidation of assemblies.

C.Wireframe and Surfaces

7.CATIA Wireframe and Surface 1 (WS1)
Enriches existing mechanical part design with wireframe and basic surface features.
8.CATIA Wireframe and Surface 2 (WSF)
Enriches existing mechanical part design with wireframe and numerous basic surface
features.

D.Sheet Metal
9.CATIA Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1)
Designs sheet metal parts in a very intuitive and productive environment.
10.CATIA Sheetmetal Design 1 (SD1)
Provides all the tools needed to design sheetmetal parts and assemblies and to generate
related
production drawings. In addition, it includes data interfaces to the most common industry
standards,

including CADAM drawings.

11.CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 (SD2)
Provides all of the tools required to produce advanced sheetmetal parts and assemblies, to
generate
production drawings, to verify the feasibility of creating and manufacturing a part, and to
provide
an interface to most common sheetmetal manufacturing tools on the market. It includes data
interfaces to the most frequently used industry standards, including CADAM drawings.

E.Hybrid Design
12.CATIA Hybrid Design 2 (HD2)
Provides all of the tools required to perform advanced 3D design of mechanical parts,
assemblies
and in particular complex shapes in the context of the full scale digital mock-up, including
generation of production drawings. Customers benefit from a highly productive solution
which is
natively interoperable with other CATIA Version 5 solutions and which offers integration
tools for
compatibility with CATIA Version 4 and data interfaces to most frequently used industry
standards,
which make it a configuration of choice for existing Version 4 customers.
F.Part Design
13.CATIA Part Design 1 (PD1)
Designs parts in a highly productive and intuitive environment.
14.CATIA Part Design 2 (PDG)
Designs complex parts with highly productive and robust modeling features in an intuitive
environment.

G.Assembly Design
15.CATIA Assembly Design 1 (AS1)
Defines mechanical assembly constraints, automatically position parts and checks assembly
consistency.
16.CATIA Assembly Design 2 (ASD)
Easily defines mechanical assembly constraints, automatically position and constrain parts
and
checks assembly consistency.

H.Drafting
17.CATIA Generative Drafting 1 (GD1)
Generates associative drawings from 3D part and assembly designs.
18.CATIA Generative Drafting 2 (GDR)
Generates associative drawings from 3D part and assembly designs with assistance to
manage complex schema.

19.CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1)

Addresses all 2D design and drawing production requirements.
20.CATIA Drafting 1 (DR1)
Provides the tools needed to produce industrial drawings. It includes data interfaces to the
most
frequently used industry standards, including CADAM drawings.
I.Functional Tolerancing and Annotation
21.CATIA 3D Functional Toleracing and Annotation 1 (FT1)
Defines and manages tolerance specifications and annotations on 3D parts.
22.CATIA 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation 2 (FTA)
Defines and manages tolerance specifications and annotations on 3D parts, with dynamic
assistance for standards compliance checking.

J.Drawing Production
23.CATIA Drawing Production 2 (DP2)
This configuration provides all of the required 2D drafting capabilities for production of
industrial
drawings, either from 3D parts or using a pure 2D methodology. As a CATIA P2
configuration, this
solution offers integration tools for compatibility with CATIA Version 4. It includes data
interfaces
to most frequently used industry standards, including CADAM drawings.

K.Digital Mock-up
24.CATIA DMU Navigator 1 (DN1)
Performs collaborative DMU review using powerful visualisation, navigation and
communication tools.
25.CATIA DMU Navigator 2 (DMN)
Performs advanced collaborative DMU review, packaging and pre-assembly using
optimum visualisation, navigation and communication tools.
26.DMU Space Analysis 1 (SP1)
Performs DMU verification using interference detection, section analysis,
measurement and 3D geometry comparison tools.
27.DMU Space Analysis 2 (SPA)
Performs optimum DMU verification using advanced interference detection and
analysis, superior sectioning analysis, measurement, distance analysis and 3D geometry
comparison tools.
28.DMU Fitting Simulator 2 (FIT)
Defines, simulates and analyses assembly/ disassembly operations for digital
mock-ups of all sizes.
29.DMU Kinematics Simulator 2 (KIN)
Defines, simulates, and analyses mechanisms for digital mock-ups of all sizes.

30.DMU Optimizer 2 (DMO)

Creates alternate representations of products or assemblies for size reduction, intellectual
property protection or facilitate packaging management.
6. 31.DMU Engineering Analysis Review 2 (ANR)
Provides an easy to use capability to visualise and perform DMU reviews of engineering
analysis
studies.

L. Ergonomics and Anthropometry

7. 32.Human Builder 2 (HBR)
Creates and manipulates standard digital humans for early human-product
interaction analysis.
8. 33.Human Measurements Editor 2 (HME)
Creates detailed digital humans for advanced human factors analysis and
global target audience accommodation.
9. 34.Human Posture Analysis 2 (HPA)
Examines, scores, and iterates whole body and localised postures to determine operator
comfort and performance in the context of a new design.
10. 35.CATIA Human Activity Analysis 2 (HAA)
Maximises human comfort, safety, and performance through a wide range of tools
and methods that specifically analyse how a manikin will interact with objects in
the virtual environment.

M. Tubing 3D
36.CATIA Tubing Design 2 (TUB)
Provides a complete set of tools to create, modify, analyse, and document tubing designs.

N.Stress Analysis
37.CATIA Generative Part Structural Analysis 1 (GP1)
Addresses transparent and automatic structural analysis for parts, integrating the
simulation and design specifications.
38.CATIA Generative Part Structural Analysis 2 (GPS)
Addresses transparent and automatic stress and vibration analysis on parts
39.CATIA Generative Assembly Structural Analysis 2 (GAS)
Addresses transparent, integrated and automatic stress and vibration analysis for
assemblies of parts of any type: surface, solid, and hybrid.
5) mine tolerencing form.
1. What is the difference between point/int lim-on and lim-off?
lim-on: Creates the point by intersection & Projection can be done
with in the limits of the Selected elements.
Lim-off: Creates the point by intersection & Projection can be done
Outside the limits of the Selected elements.
2. What is the difference between surf1/geo extra and limit2/extrapol?

Geo-extra: extrapolates a new surface which is in the form of ruled

Surface.
Extrapolate: creates non-ruled surface thus changing original surface
Definition.
3. What is the use of form tool function?
Used to: a. to connect skin(or face) elements ? connect
b. to relimit skin(or face) elements ? relimit
c. to break skin(or face) elements ? break
4. What is the difference between face, surface and skin?
a. Faces are infinitely thin elements that represent the bounded exterior
defn. of a part. Faces can be planar or built on existing surfaces.
b. Skin are infinitely thin elements that are incorporate or group a series
of faces together to completely define a feature of part.
c. Surfaces are infinitely thin elements that are used to define a bounded
contour in space. Surface is parent.
5. What is hlr and nhr explain?
Hidden line removal
No hidden line removal
Purpose : Visualisation of solids in different modes.
6. What is the difference between isolate and separate?
Isolate: Deletes logical links between elements.
Separate: Separates lines , curves & faces from their links with other
elements ex: A curve is considered as separate when it is linked
to only one surface.
7. Is it possible to change pattern as required to existing pattern?
Yes
8. What is the difference between parametric and nonparametric modeling?
a. Relational model is parametric. i.e. one to one relation.
If any change in dimension that may reflects on other dimensions.
b. Developing a solid by using surface, face, solid primitives etc.,
There is no one to one relation.
9. Which is the better to split the solid a) surface b) plane c) face?
Plane
10. What is the difference between spine and spline?
a. Spine: Creates a curve passing thro point on a plane & normal to
one or more other planes.
b. Spline: Creates a curve passing thro several points having tangential
& curvature continuity.
11. How you will delete the surface if the face is created by surface?
First erase face & then surface.
12. What are master w/s and detail w/s?
Master w/s: Model w/s
Detail w/s: We can have any no. of detail w/s, that can be called in
model w/s.

13. What is difference between curve1 project and combine?

Project: Perpendicular projection of a curve on to plane, surface, face etc,.
Combine: Unspecific projection of a curve on to plane, surface, face etc,.
14. Is it possible to split by using sewing operation
Yes
15. Diff. b/w surf1 connect & surf2 fillet
Connect: Creates a fillet surface that connects two existing surfaces,
Planes, or planar faces.
Fillet: Creates a fillet surface that connects two existing surfaces,
Planes, or planar faces using spine.
16. What is functional surface
A FSUR is an element that defines a face on a solid. The displayed in
non-hidden mode.
17. Purpose of IUA
IUA: Interactive users application, used to customize the CATIA users command.
18. How you will convert ccv into crv
Using limit1 ? Appr ccv
i.e., Approximate compound curve or composite curve.
19. How you are setting attribute to a particular file
Standardization of model file by Permanent setting of layers, graphics etc,.
as per Company standards for their project.
20. Is it possible to do shell operation to sphere
Yes
21. Difference between surf1+cylinder & surf1+depth
Cylinder: Extending a curve thro space in a linear direction with
given length Surface created length is equal to PAI * D.
Depth: Extending a curve thro space in linear direction with given length.
22. How many types of environment is available to start Catia
a. From desktop [motif]
b. From console [dterm]