Mechanical 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 using existing designs. You want to Anticipate Product Manufacturing Information through the full definition of 3D Tolerances & Annotations in the same model.

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Onboarding: 4h 30m

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Learn how to enhance your mechanical product design quality & alternatives, Increase the number of studies using complex mechanism design and static simulation.

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Explore the Mechanical Engineer Role

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

Key concepts covered:
📌 Create assembly symmetry
📌 Design a sheet metal part
📌 Perform a static study
📌 Create 3D Annotations
📌 Create Kinematic Simulations

3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Engineer - Associate

This certification validates your knowledge and skills on the Mechanical 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 assessed 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.

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 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

Practice SIMULIA Static Study

This course 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 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 3D Tolerancing and Annotation​​​​​​​

In this 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 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 how to assemble, re-limit and connect the geometries smoothly. You will also learn how to analyze the wireframe and the surface quality and rectify the detected defects.

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

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

This 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 Quality Rules Reuse

In this 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 Mechanical Systems Experience​​​​​​​

In this 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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