๐ŸŽ“ Success Path: Mechanical and Shape Designer

Mechanical & Shape Designer

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

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Your profile

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.

โŒš Estimated time

Onboarding: 6h 40m

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ 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.

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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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform collaboration capabilities
๐Ÿ“Œ Create parts using various methods
๐Ÿ“Œ Design surface geometries
๐Ÿ“Œ Build sheet metal parts
๐Ÿ“Œ Import and modify external CAD models
๐Ÿ“Œ Construct and modify assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ Animate and validate kinematic simulations
๐Ÿ“Œ Validate the manufacturability of parts
๐Ÿ“Œ Generate part and assembly drawings
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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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create and constrain 2D sketches
๐Ÿ“Œ Design fully associative models in 3D
๐Ÿ“Œ Design reusable features
๐Ÿ“Œ Parameterize a model
๐Ÿ“Œ 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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create simple projection views and section views of 3D parts and assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ Position the views on a drawing sheet
๐Ÿ“Œ 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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create and manage assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ Manage the positioning of parts
๐Ÿ“Œ Create engineering connections to specify the degrees of freedom of components
๐Ÿ“Œ Modify design in the assembly context
๐Ÿ“Œ Create flexible assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ Calculate, declare, and examine the weight distribution of assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ 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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create curves and improve the quality of the imported wireframes
๐Ÿ“Œ Create surfaces based on the wireframe geometries
๐Ÿ“Œ Assemble, re-limit and connect the surfaces smoothly to achieve the topology
๐Ÿ“Œ Analyze the surface quality and heal the defects
๐Ÿ“Œ Apply resilient modeling techniques

Practice CATIA Mechanical Systems Designโ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create a new mechanism

๐Ÿ“Œ Manage the mechanism behavior

๐Ÿ“Œ Include alternative representations to complete the mechanism

๐Ÿ“Œ Create a new macro mechanism from existing sub-mechanisms

๐Ÿ“Œ Animate the mechanism
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Master CATIA Drafting

This module will teach you how to manage drawing sheets and views in the Drafting app. You will also learn how to use advanced tools to dress-up, annotate views and customize the Drafting app.

Key concepts covered:
๐Ÿ“Œ Finalize the drawing sheet
๐Ÿ“Œ Work with large assemblies
๐Ÿ“Œ Customize the drafting app
๐Ÿ“Œ Perform administrative tasks
๐Ÿ“Œ Add Bill of Material

Practice CATIA Engineering Templates Reuse

In this module, you will learn how to create customized features by reusing the power copy and user feature.

Key concepts covered:
๐Ÿ“Œ Create customized features using templates

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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Automate the design modifications
๐Ÿ“Œ Analyze and create reports

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:
๐Ÿ“Œ Explore different apps used for the sheet metal design and explain their advantages
๐Ÿ“Œ Define sheet metal parameters
๐Ÿ“Œ Create sheet metal parts using walls, bends and cutouts
๐Ÿ“Œ Manage folded and unfolded views
๐Ÿ“Œ Create stamped features and flanges
๐Ÿ“Œ Prepare part for manufacturing with sheet metal order process, DXF file and drawings
๐Ÿ“Œ Manage the design change
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