Mechanical & Shape Designer

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You want to create sheet metal parts and assemblies.

You want to create Parts and assemblies.

You want to create complex shapes and surfaces.

You want to use CATIA.

⌚ Estimated time

Onboarding: 6h 40m

🧑‍🏫 Your learning path starts here

Learn about a powerful set of applications built to allow the creation and management of sophisticated mechanical projects, including advanced & complex surface design.

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

Explore the Mechanical and Shape Designer Role

In this module, you will discover and practice the key capabilities of the Mechanical & Shape Designer role. You will also learn how to create and manage a complete mechanical project.

Key concepts covered:
📌 Leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform collaboration capabilities
📌 Create parts using various methods
📌 Design surface geometries
📌 Build sheet metal parts
📌 Import and modify external CAD models
📌 Construct and modify assemblies
📌 Animate and validate kinematic simulations
📌 Validate the manufacturability of parts
📌 Generate part and assembly drawings

3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical & Shape Designer [hands-on] - Associate

This certification validates knowledge and skills on the Mechanical & Shape 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 & Shape Designer role. Prepare this exam by watching our video

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, Project Planning, 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

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 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 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

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