Mechanical Designer

The CATIA Mechanical Designer role allows the users to create and complete advanced mechanical products and parts, from conceptual to detailed phases.

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You want to create Parts and assemblies. You want to create sheet metal parts and assemblies using CATIA.

You want to collaborate efficiently through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

You have onboarded on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  

⌚ Estimated time

Onboarding level: 10h on mechanical and 5h on platform collaboration

🧑‍🏫 Your learning path starts here

Learn how to use the Mechanical Designer Role and its Apps and get certified as a 3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer - Associate.

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

Explore the Mechanical Designer Role

In this learning module, you will learn to design and modify mechanical parts and assemblies using design methodologies such as solid modeling and surface modeling. You will assess their manufacturability. You will also learn about the know-how of parametric design and concurrent engineering.

Key Concepts Covered:
📌 Create associated parts using various disciplines like mechanical parts, mechanical sheet metal, and plastic parts
📌 Design surface geometries
📌 Build sheet metal parts
📌 Reuse and modify external CAD models
📌 Construct and modify assemblies
📌 Validate the manufacturability of parts
📌 Generate part and assembly drawings
📌 Create and use component families and smart mechanical components

3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer [hands-on] - Associate

This certification validates knowledge and skills on the Mechanical Designer role within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This exam proposes hands-on challenges that will require you to design and modify parts and assemblies. You will also be asked multiple-choice questions (MCQ) on how to create 3D parts, create and modify assemblies, analyze parts and drafting. This exam includes exercises that require a 3DEXPERIENCE platform access including the apps related to the Mechanical Designer role. Prepare this exam by watching this video. 

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 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

This learning module will teach you 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 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 Wireframe and Surface

This 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 Sheet Metal Design

In this 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

3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer - Professional

This certification assesses your knowledge and skills with CATIA modeling techniques after initial training and a minimum of three months of regular practice using CATIA Mechanical Design core products (Part Design, Assembly Design, and Drafting).The exam proposes hands-on challenges based on industrial use cases that will require you to design, modify and analyze parts and assemblies. Understanding of design intent and drafting principles is assessed in multiple-choice questions.

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Practice CATIA Smart Mechanical Components

In this 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

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