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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Manual Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Part Design & Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Launching 3DEXPERIENCE with My3DE app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Part Design Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Pull-down Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bottom Toolbars in Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Right-Side Toolbars in Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Sketcher Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Bottom Toolbars in Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sketch Tools Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Right-Side Toolbars in Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Working with Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Types of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Opening an existing document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Saving a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Closing a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating a new model from an existing model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Manipulating the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Three button mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Two button mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SpaceBall or SpaceMouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Basic Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Basic Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating a new part with a new sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Saving and closing the part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Oriented Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Parallelogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Elongated Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Cylindrical Elongated Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Keyhole Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Centered Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Centered Parallelogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Three Point Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Circle Using Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Tri-Tangent Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Three Point Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Three Point Arc Starting With Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Parabola by Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Hyperbola by Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Conic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Infinite Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Bi-tangent Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Bisecting Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Line Normal to Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Point by Clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Point by Using Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Equidistant points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Intersection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Projection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Align Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Dimensional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Geometrical Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Operations on Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Tangent Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Chamfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Relimitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Practicing with Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Hide/Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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Basic Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Basic Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Multiple Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Multi-Pad and Multi-Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Shaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Rib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Solid Combine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Stiffener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Multi-Sections Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Removed Multi-Sections Solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Operations on Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Edge Fillet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Face-Face Fillet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Tritangent Fillet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Chamfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Draft Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Draft Reflect Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Thickness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Thread/Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Remove face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Replace face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Modifying values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Interfacing with Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Advanced Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

3-D Elements on Sketch Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Construction Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Advanced Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Sketch Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Translate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Rotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Sketch Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Sketch Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

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Advanced Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Part Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
AxisToAxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Affinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Modifying Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Modifying Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Inserting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Scanning the Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Modifying Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Replacing Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Changing a Sketch Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Positioned Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Cut, Copy, and Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Reordering the Specification Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Inserting Bodies and Boolean Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Inserting Part Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Boolean operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Part Design Using Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Sew Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Thick Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Close Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Applying Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Delete Useless Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Problem #1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Problem #2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Problem #3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Problem #4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Problem #5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Problem #6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Problem #7.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Problem #8.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Problem #9.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Problem #10.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
Problem #11.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Problem #12.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Problem #13.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Problem #14.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

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Problem #15.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Problem #16.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Problem #17.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Problem #18.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Problem #19.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Problem #20.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
Problem #21.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Problem #22.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Problem #23.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Problem #24.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Problem #25.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Problem #26.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Problem #27.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Problem #28.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Problem #29.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Problem #30.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Problem #31.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Problem #32.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Problem #33.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Problem #34.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Problem #35.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Customize - Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Customize - User Workbenches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Customize - Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Customize - Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Customize - Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
General - PCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
General - Display - Tree Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
General - Display - Tree Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
General - Display - Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
General - Parameters and Measure - Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
General - Parameters and Measure - Constraints and Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Infrastructure - Product Structure - Product Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Infrastructure - Part Infrastructure - General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Infrastructure - Part Infrastructure - Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Infrastructure - Part Infrastructure - Part Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Mechanical Design - Part Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Mechanical Design - Sketcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

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Appendix C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Material Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Shape Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
List mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Applying a material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Properties of a material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Rendering - Lighting tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Rendering - Texture tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Feature Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Appendix D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Reference Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Offset from plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Parallel through point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Angle/Normal to plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Through three points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Through two lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Through point and line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Through planar curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Normal to curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Tangent to surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Mean through points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Appendix E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Measurement Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Measure Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Measure Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Measure Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Appendix F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Advanced Dress-Up Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Draft Both Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Advanced Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Automatic Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Automatic Filleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

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Introduction
CATIA Version 5 Part Design and Sketcher
Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the
following topics:

- Creating sketches

- Constraining sketches

- Modifying sketches

- Creating parts

- Modifying parts

- Performing boolean operations on parts

- Basic use of surfaces in part design

- Applying materials to parts

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Manual Format
It is important to understand the format of the manual in order to use it most effectively.
This manual is designed to be used along with an instructor; however, you will also need to
do a lot of reading in order to fully understand CATIA Version 5. The exercises in this
book will list steps for you to complete, along with explanations that try to inform you of
what you have just done, and what you are getting ready to do. The actual steps are in bold
type, and the information that follows the steps is for your benefit. Anything that appears in
italics refers to a message CATIA provides—this includes information in pull-down menus,
pop-up windows, and other messages.

An example of a step and its explanation is shown below (note: normally the lines will not
be there):

Select a location to the right of the origin. This specifies the other end point of the line.
You will continue specifying locations in order to complete your profile. It should appear
similar to the diagram shown below.

As you can see, the desired action blends in with the text, except that it appears in bold. The
information following the step explains what that step accomplished and where you are
going next. It is important to read this information in order to better your understanding of
CATIA Version 5.

Also, you will find that the exercises build upon themselves. Later exercises often assume
you know how to do certain steps which have been covered earlier in the course. If you did
not learn what you need to know from an exercise, you will probably want to review it
several times before moving onto more advanced sections. The advanced sections assume
that you have a good understanding of the previous sections. Therefore, fewer steps will be
provided. Eventually, you are expected to be able to create parts without any steps.

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Part Design & Sketcher
CATIA Version 5 uses the Sketcher workbench as its principal method to create profiles.
These profiles can be constrained using many different types of constraints. The first
objective of the course is to learn how to use the Sketcher workbench and constrain profiles
to the desired specifications. If you have used the Dynamic Sketcher from CATIA
Version 4, this will look very similar. Otherwise, it is a new environment and it can be
frustrating at first, especially if you already know CATIA Version 4. However, in time, you
will find that it is a very powerful method for creating profiles, and it is also easy to use.

The second objective of the course is to use these sketches in Part Design. The sketches are
two-dimensional cross-sections to be used for designing three-dimensional shapes. There
are several different shapes that can be made, as well as various operations that can be
performed on them. By combining these shapes and operations, you can design a variety of
parts.

The third objective of the course is to familiarize you with the advanced methods of creating
sketches and parts. This includes using construction geometry and projecting three-
dimensional geometry onto sketch planes. You will use basic formulas to set up typical
values at multiple locations, as well as complex formulas to provide a more dynamic sketch.
In terms of Part Design, you will learn how to use multiple parts and perform boolean
operations on them.

The fourth objective is to become efficient at modifying your designs. You can modify
either by changing the parameters of a part operation, or by editing the sketch that was used.
This is a fairly simple process in CATIA Version 5, and it is the real strength of Part Design.

The fifth objective is to introduce the use of wireframe and surfaces in the part design
process, as well as apply various materials to your design. It is only meant to be an
introduction, not a complete course on these subjects.

In conclusion, you should be able to design many parts using the Sketcher and Part Design
workbenches in an efficient manner. As mentioned before, you may find it frustrating at
first, but very natural by the end of the course.

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Profile
The Profile tool is one of the more commonly utilized icons when defining sketches. It
creates shapes by connecting arcs and lines through a series of user-selected points. Both
simple and complex shapes can be created in the same operation. Upon selecting the
Profile tool, additional icons appear in the Sketch tools toolbar.

Line Creates a straight line segment

Tangent Arc Creates an arc that is tangent to the previous element

within the profile

Three Point Arc Creates an arc starting at the current point, followed by
a passing point and an end point

The Profile command will remain active until it is terminated in one of four ways: 1)
double-selecting in space, 2) re-selecting the Profile icon, 3) pressing the Esc key, or 4)
closing the shape by re-selecting its start point; this will only end the command if the entire
shape is created in one operation.

While sketching with the Profile tool, thin, blue lines and blue, geometric constraints will
occasionally appear. If a location is selected when blue constraints are visible, those same
constraints will be created after the profile operation is complete. The thin, blue, solid lines
indicate that coincidence constraints will be created. The thin, blue, perforated lines
indicate that elements are aligned, but no constraints will be created.

The following exercises will step through creating various shapes using the Profile tool.
The first profile to be demonstrated is shown below.

Select the Profile icon.

Select the origin point of the sketch plane. This defines the start point of the profile.

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Select a location straight above the origin. Ensure the line is blue before selecting the
next point. Doing so will create a vertical constraint.

Select straight to the right of the previous location. Ensure the line is blue before making
the next selection. It should appear similar to below.

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Select straight below the previous location and on the H axis. A vertical constraint and a
coincidence constraint are created. The coincidence constraint is between the end point of
the new line and the sketch’s H axis.

Note: At any point during the profile’s creation, selecting the Undo icon or Ctrl+Z will
undo the previous selection. You can undo as many selections in a row as necessary.

Select a location straight to the left of the previous end point. A horizontal constraint is
created, and the line turns green. When an element is fully green, it is iso-constrained and
cannot be moved. This will be discussed more later.

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Select a location straight above the previous point. It should appear similar to below.

Select a location straight to the left of the previous location.

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Select a location straight below the previous point and on the V axis.

Select the sketch origin again for the last point. By selecting the same location for the
start and end points in a single operation, the Profile command is automatically exited. The
sketch should appear similar to below.

Save the document as Profile1 and close it.

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The second profile to be demonstrated is shown below. It will utilize the Three Point Arc
tool in the Sketch tools toolbar.

Select the Profile icon, then select the origin point of the sketch plane. This
defines the start point of the profile.

Select a location straight above the origin. For all line segments in this profile, ensure the
line is blue before selecting the next point.

Select a location straight to the right of the previous point. It should appear similar to
below.

Select the Three Point Arc icon in the Sketch tools toolbar. The arc will begin at
the last profile location specified.

Select up and to the right of the previous location. This defines a point that the arc will
pass through.

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Move the mouse cursor down and to the right of the previous location, then click in
space when you see a thin, blue, solid line appear. This location should be straight across
from the start of the arc. Once the three point arc is complete, the Line icon in the Sketch
tools toolbar is automatically selected. A coincidence constraint is created between the last
point of the arc and the second profile line. It should appear similar to below.

Select straight to the right of the previous location.

Select straight below the previous point and on the H axis.

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Select straight to the left of the previous location.

Select straight above the previous location.

Select straight to the left of the previous location. It should appear similar to below.

Select the Three Point Arc icon in the Sketch tools toolbar. The arc will begin at
the last profile location specified.

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Select up and to the left of the previous location. This defines a point that the arc will
pass through.

Move the mouse cursor down and to the left of the previous location, then click in
space when you see a thin, blue, solid line appear. This location should be straight across
from the start of the arc. Once the three point arc is complete, the Line icon in the Sketch
tools toolbar is automatically selected. A coincidence constraint is created between the last
point of the arc and the last line segment. It should appear similar to below.

Select straight to the left of the previous location.

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Select straight below the previous location. It should appear similar to the diagram
shown below.

Select the sketch origin again for the last point. By selecting the same location for the
start and end points in a single operation, the Profile command is automatically exited. The
sketch should appear similar to below.

Save the document as Profile2 and close it.

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Basic Part Design

The next section covers the basic use of the Part Design workbench. It consists of three
parts: basic shapes, operations on shapes, and interfacing between Part Design and Sketcher.

Basic Shapes
Many shapes can be created using the Part Design icons. The following exercises will
demonstrate the use of these icons and their various options. The usefulness of each icon
depends upon the part being created. It is important to understand how to use each tool in
conjunction with sketches to produce a final part. The first tools to be discussed are found
in the Sketch-Based Features toolbar.

Pad
The Pad tool creates a solid by extruding a sketch in a linear direction. A sketch or a
profile can be created on-the-fly by pressing the third mouse button in the Selection field.
An existing sketch can be modified by selecting the Sketch icon within the Pad Definition
window.

Open the Pad1 document, then select the Pad icon. It has a black arrowhead
beside it. Selecting the black arrowhead will display additional, related icons.

The Pad Definition window appears.

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Select the More >> button. The expanded window should look like below.

Type

Dimension Extends the pad a specified distance

Up to next Extends the pad to the next side of a solid

feature

Up to last Extends the pad to the last face of an existing

part

Up to plane Extends the pad to a specified plane

Up to surface Extends the pad to a specified surface

Offset Offsets the pad from the chosen limit; only

available when a Type other than Dimension is
selected. A positive value extends the pad; a
negative value retracts it.

Profile/Surface

Selection Specifies the sketch to be padded; a surface can

also be used

Thick Adds a constant wall thickness to the profile

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Reverse Side Reverses the side that an open profile is
padded

Mirrored extent Extends the pad the same length in both directions; a
second limit cannot be specified when this option is
selected. Only available when the Type is Dimension.

Reverse Direction Extends the pad in the opposite direction

Direction

Normal to profile Extends the pad normal to the sketch plane

Reference Extends the pad in a user-specified direction; if

a plane or a planar face is chosen, the extrusion
direction is normal to it

Thin Pad

Thickness1/2 Specifies the wall thickness to be applied

Neutral Fiber Splits the Thickness1 value in half, thereby

applying the distance equally to both sides

Merge Ends Extends or trims the pad to existing material

Select Sketch.1. This defines which sketch will be padded. It can be selected graphically or
from the tree.

Change the Length value of the First Limit to 4.0, the select Preview. A solid appears in
the graphical area.

Select the Mirrored extent checkbox option, then click Preview. The value is doubled so
that the pad is extended 4.0 inches in both directions from the sketch plane.

Select Mirrored extent to turn it off, then click Preview. The pad extends four inches in
only one direction again.

Select the Reverse Direction button and click Preview. The pad extends in the opposite
direction.

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Select OK. It is created similar to below.

The sketch was automatically hidden. This will be the case for most sketch-based features
due to a default setting in CATIA.

Select the Pad icon. The Pad Definition window appears.

Select Sketch.2. This specifies the sketch to be padded.

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Change the Type drop-down menu to Up to next and select Preview. The new pad stops
at the inside wall of the first pad. It should appear similar to below.

Change the Type drop-down menu to Up to last and select Preview. The pad extends
through the entire part now.

Change the Type drop-down menu to Up to plane. A plane must be specified in order to
limit the pad.

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Select Plane.1 from the geometrical set in the tree and click Preview. The pad stops at
the plane.

The Up to surface option works very similar, except that the pad is limited by a surface
rather than a plane. A face can act as a surface, as well.

Select the More >> button. The window expands.

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Turn off the Normal to profile checkbox option and select in the Reference field, then
choose the angled edge shown below and click Preview. This forces the pad to extend
parallel to the line. It still stops at the plane.

Select Normal to profile. The pad extends normal to the sketch plane again.

Select in the Limit field for the First Limit, then select the angled face closest to the
sketch. A planar face can be used with the Up to plane option. The pad stops at the
selected face.

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Change the Type drop-down menu for the Second Limit to Up to plane, then select the
angled face furthest from the sketch and click OK. The pad extends all the way through
the part. It should appear like below.

Open profiles in sketches can be used to create pads or pockets, as long as they are closed by
other faces in the existing part.

Save and close the document.

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Open the Pad2 document. This exercise will demonstrate the Thin Pad options.

Select the Pad icon, then select Sketch.1. The Pad Definition window appears,
along with the Feature Definition Error window. The error is triggered because the sketch
contains open profiles. This will not be a problem as long as the Thick option is used, or as
long as the open profile is limited by the existing solid.

Select Yes to the Feature Definition Error window, then turn on the Thick option. The
Thin Pad section of the Pad Definition window become available.

Turn on the Neutral Fiber option and enter 0.1 for Thickness1. This specifies that the
pad will have a constant wall thickness of 0.1 inches, split evenly on either side of the
sketch plane.

Reverse the direction of the pad so that it extends downward, then change the First
Limit to Up to surface and select the bottom, outside surface of the part. The pad will
match the contour of the selected face.

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Select OK. It should look like below.

Save and close the document.

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Open the Pad3 document and select the Pad icon, then select Sketch.1.

Ensure the Type is Dimension, then change the Length to 0.75 and select OK. The pad
should appear similar to below.

Select the Pad icon and pick Sketch.2.

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Ensure the Type is Dimension, then change the Length to 0.75 and select OK. When
two, solid features within the same body intersect, they are automatically merged together.

Keep this document open for the next exercise.

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Pocket
The Pocket tool removes material from a solid by extruding a sketch in a linear direction.
As with the Pad icon, a sketch or a profile can be created on-the-fly by pressing the third
mouse button in the Selection field. An existing sketch can be modified by selecting the
Sketch icon within the Pocket Definition window.

Select the Pocket icon. It has a black arrowhead beside it. Selecting the black
arrowhead will display additional, related icons.

The Pocket Definition window appears.

Select the More >> button. The expanded window should look like below.

The options here are exactly the same as the Pad tool. The major difference between a
pocket and a pad is that a pocket is removed from the solid instead of added to it.

Type

Dimension Extends the pocket a specified distance

Up to next Extends the pocket to the next side of a solid

feature

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Up to last Extends the pocket to the last face of an
existing part

Up to plane Extends the pocket to a specified plane

Up to surface Extends the pocket to a specified surface

Offset Offsets the pocket from the chosen limit; only

available when a Type other than Dimension is
selected. A positive value extends the pocket;
a negative value retracts it.

Profile/Surface

Selection Specifies the sketch to be pocketed; a surface

can also be used

Thick Adds a constant wall thickness to the profile

Reverse Side Reverses the side that a profile is pocketed

Mirrored extent Extends the pocket the same length in both directions;
a second limit cannot be specified when this option is
selected. Only available when the Type is Dimension.

Reverse Direction Extends the pocket in the opposite direction

Direction

Normal to profile Extends the pocket normal to the sketch plane

Reference Extends the pocket in a user-specified

direction; if a plane or a planar face is chosen,
the extrusion direction is normal to it

Thin Pad

Thickness1/2 Specifies the wall thickness to be applied

Neutral Fiber Splits the Thickness1 value in half, thereby

applying the distance equally to both sides

Merge Ends Extends or trims the pocket to existing material

Select Sketch.3. This specifies which sketch will be pocketed.

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Change the Type drop-down menu to Up to next and select OK. The direction of the
pocket automatically reversed so that it intersects the existing solid. It should appear similar
to below.

By using Up to next as the pocket’s limit instead of a dimension, the pocket will always be
linked with the length of the element it is cutting through. Thus, if the pad’s thickness is
increased, the pocket’s length will automatically increase as well.

Save and close the document.

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