Mechanical & Shape Engineer

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You want to Cover the end-to-end process for mechanical engineering & pre-production studies. You want to Reduce time to market with best-in-class detailed design apps. You want to Explore innovative solutions and concepts on single parts and large assemblies. You want to Define the right detailed design the first time reusing existing designs and templates. You want to Anticipate product manufacturing information through the full definition of 3D Tolerances & Annotations in the same model

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Onboarding: Onboarding: 6h40m on Engineering and 5h on platform collaboration.

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Learn about a complete and powerful set of applications to create and manage sophisticated mechanical products, including advanced surface, 3D annotations and static and kinematkcs simulation.

Discover the value and usage of your roles and learn about their main apps articulation

Explore the Mechanical and Shape Engineer Role

In this learning module, you will learn the key capabilities of the Mechanical and Shape Engineer role to create and easily manage a complex mechanical engineering project

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create assembly symmetry
📌 Design a sheet metal part
📌 Design parts using advanced Part and Surface modeling capabilities
📌 Perform a static study
📌 Create 3D Annotations
📌 Create Kinematic Simulations

3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical & Shape Engineer - Associate

This certification validates your knowledge and skills on the Mechanical & Shape Engineer role within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. You will be asked multiple-choice questions (MCQ) on creating different forms of 3D components such as solid and sheet metal parts. You will also be accessed on your ability to modify existing parts, analyze assemblies or parts and animate the mechanisms. Additionally, your knowledge will be tested on creating parts and assemblies for manufacturing purposes.

Explore the Project Planner Role

In this module, you will learn how to collaboratively innovate through flexible team-based project planning and execution.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create a Team Project and add members
📌 Add and assign Tasks
📌 Add Task Dependencies and Milestones
📌 Add Project content
📌 Add a Task Deliverable and update the status
📌 Create a sub-project
📌 Add cross-project Dependencies

Explore the Product Release Engineer Role

In this learning module, you will learn how to manage the engineering definition of products from early definition to final validation in collaboration across disciplines to easily complete and validate the product structure to advance product innovation.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Manage Engineering Items
📌 Evaluate Geometry in 3Dplay
📌 Duplicate Engineering Definition
📌 Organize Engineering Content
📌 Initiate Advanced Definition
📌 Execute Design Changes
📌 Implement Work Under Change Action
📌 Release Engineering Definition

Explore the Business Process Player Role

In this learning module, you will learn how to instantiate new processes, execute tasks assigned to you through a business process or monitor process activity.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Manage Engineering Items
📌 Manage and execute tasks
📌 Trace Exchange
📌 Monitor business process through graphical view

Deep dive into the most important features of the key Apps and their practical usage in projects

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Discover powerful features of Assembly Design

Discover advanced features of Assembly Design

Discover Life Cycle Management, Data Exchange with OEMs, Task Management, Issue and Change Management, Using Dashboards 

Practice CATIA Part Design

In this learning module, you will learn how to create 3D models using the CATIA Part Design app. You will also learn how to use different feature-based tools to build a 3D model. Further, you will also learn how to add parameters, reuse data, create models using tables, and modify a model.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create and constrain 2D sketches
📌 Design fully associative models in 3D
📌 Design reusable features
📌 Parameterize a model
📌 Use Multibody Boolean operations

Practice CATIA Drafting

This learning module will teach you how to create drawings using the Drafting app. You will learn how to create projection views and section views of a 3D model or an assembly and add the required dimensions.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create simple projection views and section views of 3D parts and assemblies
📌 Position the views on a drawing sheet
📌 Add dimensions and annotations to the views

Practice CATIA Assembly Design

In this learning module, you will learn how to create and manage assemblies and sub-assemblies in the design context. You will manage the positioning of parts and analyze assemblies. You will also learn how to modify the design in the assembly context.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create and manage assemblies
📌 Manage the positioning of parts
📌 Create engineering connections to specify the degrees of freedom of components
📌 Modify design in the assembly context
📌 Create flexible assemblies
📌 Calculate, declare, and examine the weight distribution of assemblies
📌 Replace components

Practice CATIA Generative Shape Design

In this learning module, you will learn how to use the Generative Shape Design app to create curves and surfaces. You will also learn how to analyze the wireframe and the surface quality and rectify the detected defects and connect the geometries smoothly. Further, you will learn how to apply resilient modeling techniques to facilitate easy updation of part during design change.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create curves and improve the quality of the imported wireframes
📌 Create surfaces based on the wireframe geometries
📌 Assemble, re-limit and connect the surfaces smoothly to achieve the topology
📌 Analyze the surface quality and heal the defects
📌 Apply resilient modeling techniques

Practice CATIA Mechanical Systems Design​​​​​​​

This learning module will teach you how to create the architecture of a mechanism using simple wireframe elements and then complete the mechanism by adding 3D representations. You will also learn how to create a more complex mechanism using existing mechanisms, and finally how to animate the result.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create a new mechanism
📌 Manage the mechanism behavior
📌 Include alternative representations to complete the mechanism
📌 Create a new macro mechanism from existing sub-mechanisms
📌 Animate the mechanism

Practice CATIA Sheet Metal Design

In this learning module, you learn about the importance of sheet metal design. You will learn how to design a sheet metal part and make it ready for manufacturing. You will learn to define the sheet metal parameters and create a part using basic features.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Explore different apps used for the sheet metal design and explain their advantages
📌 Define sheet metal parameters
📌 Create sheet metal parts using walls, bends and cutouts
📌 Manage folded and unfolded views
📌 Create stamped features and flanges
📌 Prepare part for manufacturing with sheet metal order process, DXF file and drawings
📌 Manage the design change

Practice SIMULIA Static Study

This learning module is an introduction to performing linear static simulations in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. The Static Study app enables designers to perform strength and deflection calculations under static conditions to validate product performance to guide design modifications. Designers can experience product performance virtually so that they can make better-informed design decisions early in the design cycle, when the cost of design change is low and opportunity is high.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Search for simulation data in the database
📌 Open the simulation for modification
📌 Perform a simulation using the Static Study app
📌 Review simulations stored in a database and generate reports	

Practice CATIA Generative Wireframe and Surface

This learning module will teach you how to use the Generative Wireframe and Surface app to create curves and surfaces. You will learn to efficiently assemble, re-limit and connect geometries. You will also learn to analyze the wireframe and the surface quality and rectify the detected defects.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create curves and improve the quality of imported wireframes
📌 Create surfaces using wireframe geometries
📌 Assemble, re-limit and connect the surfaces to achieve topology
📌 Analyze surface quality and heal defects

Practice CATIA 3D Tolerancing and Annotation​​​​​​​

In this learning module, you will learn how to annotate a 3D part. You will learn how to create annotation planes and how to add and manage 3D annotations on these planes. You will also learn how to create 3D views and use them to create 2D drawing views. You will also be able to create annotations on assemblies.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Add 3D annotations to a part
📌 Manage and position the annotations
📌 Manage the 3D geometry associated to the annotations

Practice CATIA Quality Rules Reuse

In this learning module, you will learn how to share corporate knowledge stored in the rule bases and leverage it across the company to ensure design compliance with the established standards. You will also learn to create reports and manage their template.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Automate the design modifications
📌 Analyze and create reports

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Practice CATIA Smart Mechanical Components

In this learning module, you will learn how to define and reuse smart mechanical components. You will also learn how to define component specifications and place the component on the component specifications. Additionally, you will learn to define adaptive components.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Define smart mechanical components
📌 Specify the various types of smart mechanical components type
📌 Define component specifications (anchors)
📌 Instantiate, reuse, place, move or delete smart mechanical components
📌 Create adaptive components

Practice CATIA 3D Annotation Insight

In this learning module, you will learn how to use the 3D Annotation Insight app to review and filter 3D annotations information contained within part and assembly documents. You will also learn how to hide / show annotations and captures, use the dimensioning and
tolerancing annotations to enhance understanding and improve the decision making.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Access and visualize the view, capture and annotation review features
📌 Query and filter 3D annotations
📌 Show/Hide individual as well as all annotations of a given type
📌 Display FTA captures
📌 Remove the FTA clipping plane of a capture
📌 Filter 3D annotations

Practice CATIA Bent Part Design

This learning module will teach you how to use the Bent Part Design app to create and modify a sheetmetal part. You will learn how to define the sheetmetal parameters and create features such as walls, bends, cutouts and corners. You will also learn different techniques for multi-selecting the objects and constraining the parts.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Define and modify the sheetmetal parameters
📌 Create a sheetmetal part using the wall and bend features
📌 Manage the folded and unfolded views of parts
📌 Create cutouts, chamfers and corners
📌 Constrain the parts

Practice CATIA FreeStyle Shape Design

In this learning module, you will learn how to create flawless, styled shapes from scratch using 3D free-form curves and surfaces or using digitized data. You will also learn how to analyze and enhance the quality of existing curves and surfaces.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create styled shapes using digitized data
📌 Create surfaces using the curve-based and the surface-based approaches
📌 Analyze and enhance the quality of curves and surfaces

Practice CATIA Mechanical Surface Refinement

In this learning module, you will learn how to use the CATIA Mechanical Surface Refinement app to modify and refine a mechanical surface in order to improve the surface quality.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create a preliminary surface design
📌 Analyze the result and identify problem areas
📌 Modify the design using styling surfaces
📌 Refine the design
📌 Complete a high quality surface design

Practice CATIA Digitized Shape Preparation

In this learning module, you will learn how to create a cloud of points and then process those points. You will also learn how to mesh the clouds, improve the mesh characteristics, align the cloud of points and perform deviation analysis.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create a cloud of points
📌 Process the points of a cloud
📌 Mesh the clouds
📌 Improve the mesh characteristics
📌 Align the cloud of points
📌 Perform deviation analysis

Practice CATIA Mechanical Systems Experience​​​​​​​

In this learning module, you will learn how to define behaviors by manually recording an animation and by using laws. You will also learn how to include the analysis of measurements and accelerations. Furthermore, you will learn how to generate traces, swept volumes and snapshots which can be used while reviewing the simulation results.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create a scenario manually or by using laws
📌 Include measurement and interference analyses
📌 Generate results
📌 Create snapshots for a review
📌 Export the final simulation

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