Catia v5 sketcher

AIRBUS UK

CATIA V5 Foundation Course

Foundation Course Sketcher
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CATIA V5 Foundation Course

Contents Session 3 – The Sketcher Workbench ......................................3
An Introduction to Sketcher ...................................................................................... 4 Renaming a Node name on the Specification Tree ................................................... 5 Accessing the SketcherWorkbench.......................................................................... 6 Selecting a Sketch Plane ....................................................................................... 7 The Sketcher Workbench .......................................................................................... 8 Sketcher Toolbars and Icons ................................................................................... 10Selecting and Positioning Geometry....................................................................... 12 The Profile Toolbar ................................................................................................. 14 The Profile Icon................................................................................................... 14 Pre-DefinedProfiles............................................................................................ 18 Circles and Arcs .................................................................................................. 22 2D Splines ........................................................................................................... 24 Conical Shapes.................................................................................................... 25 Lines .................................................................................................................... 26 Axis Line ............................................................................................................. 29 Points................................................................................................................... 29Editing the Definition of an Element ...................................................................... 32 The Operations Toolbar .......................................................................................... 33 Create 2D Fillets.................................................................................................. 33 Relimitation or Trimfunctions............................................................................ 36 Transformation Tools.......................................................................................... 39 3D Geometry....................................................................................................... 45 Cutting the Part by Sketch plane ......................................................................... 49Constraints............................................................................................................... 50 Constraint and Element Colours ............................................................................. 51 The Constraints Toolbar.......................................................................................... 53 Create Constraints using a dialogbox................................................................. 53 Create Constraints by selecting elements............................................................ 54 Create Automatic Constraints ............................................................................. 56 Animates Constraints .......................................................................................... 58 Managing...