Generative Shape Design & Optimize - Part 7 ppsx

Using Tools Generative Shape Design provides powerful tools to help you manage and analyze your surfaces and wireframe geometry. Display parents and children: select the feature under study, the Tools -> Parent / Children command and use the diverse contextual commands to display parents and children. Scan Toolbar Quick selection: click the icon, and select the element. Scan the part and define local objects: Select the the Edit - > Scan or Define in Work Object command, click the buttons to move from one local feature to the other, then the Exit button. Tools Toolbar Update your design: select the element and click the icon or use the contextual menu Define an axis-system: set the origin and X, Y, and Z directions Use the historical graph: select an element, click the icon and work in the graph Work with a support: click the icon and select a plane or surface as support element Work with a 3D support: click the icon and select a define the 3D support type: Reference or Local Snap on a point: snap to the nearest intersection point when working with a support Work on support activity: define the default current support to be selected when a working support is required Create plane systems: select a plane system type, a direction, and an origin. Create datums: click the icon to deactivate the History mode Perform a temporary analysis: select this mode once you enter the Offset command in order to check the connections between curves or surfaces 362 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Insert elements: click the icon to automatically insert a new element after its main parent Keep the initial element: click either icon to retain or not the element on which you are performing an operation. Display only the current body: click the icon to display only the features of the current geometrical set (or ordered geometrical set) and therefore greatly improve the application performances whenever you edit these features. Instantiate PowerCopies: click this icon to manage and browse catalogs. Instantiate PowerCopies: Select the Insert -> Instantiate From Document command, select the document or catalog containing the powercopy, complete the Inputs within the dialog box selecting adequate elements in the geometric area. Select bodies using the body selector: click the combo, choose a body, release the combo Analysis Toolbar Check connections between surfaces: select the surfaces, and set the analysis type and parameters Check connections between curves: select two curves, specify the type of analysis (distance, tangency, curvature) and set the analysis parameters Perform a draft analysis: select the surface, set the analysis mode and color range parameters, and manipulate the surface Perform a surfacic curvature analysis: select the surface, set the analysis mode and color range parameters, and manipulate the surface Perform a curvature analysis: select a curve or surface boundary, specify the curvature comb parameters (spikes number and length, orientation, etc.) Apply a dress-up: set the display options then apply or remove the visualization options on selected elements. Display information on elements: click the icon and select any element Constraints Toolbar Create constraints: select the element to be constrained 363 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Create constraints on several elements: multi-select element and check the adequate options Annotations Toolbar Create a text with leader: click this icon, select a face and enter your text in the dialog box Create a flag note with leader: click this icon, select the object you want to represent the hyperlink, enter a name for the hyperlink and the path to the destination file View/Annotation Planes Create a projection view/annotation plane: click this icon and select a planar element. Create a section view/annotation plane: click this icon and select a planar element. Create a section cut view/annotation plane: click this icon and select a planar element Apply Material Toolbar Apply a material: select an object, click the icon, and select a material Miscellaneous Apply a thickness: select a surface, the Tools -> Thin Parts Attribute command and define the thickness Analyze using parameterization: select the Tools -> Parameterization Analysis command and define a filter for your query Manage groups: choose the Create Group contextual menu on a geometrical set and select the group's elements Edit groups: choose the Edit Group contextual menu on a group Collapse/Expand groups: choose the Collapse/Expand Group contextual menu on a group Move groups: choose the Change Body contextual menu and select a new geometrical set 364 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Repeat objects: select an object, choose the Object Repetition menu item and key in the number of object instances Stack commands: right-click an editable field, choose the contextual menu item allowing the creation of another element. Select using multi-selection: select one or more elements through the Multi-Selection dialog box and validate you modification to return to the current command Select using multi-output: select several elements, click OK. The Multi Output feature appears in the specification tree, grouping elements Manage multi-result operations: select the element(s) to keep in case the result in not connex 365 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Displaying Parents and Children The Parent and Children command enables you to view the genealogical relationships between the different components of a part. It also shows links to external references and explicitly provides the name of the documents containing these references. If the specification tree already lets you see the operations you performed and re-specify your design, the graph displayed by the Parent and Children capability proves to be a more accurate analysis tool. We recommend the use of this command before deleting any feature. Open the Parent_R9.CATPart document. 1. Select the feature of interest, that is Pad1. 2. Select the Tools -> Parent/Children command (or the Parent/Children contextual command). A window appears containing a graph. This graph shows the relationships between the different elements constituting the pad previously selected. 366 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 If you cannot see the element of interest in the specification tree because you have created a large number of elements, right-click this element in the graph then select the Center Graph contextual command: the element will be more visible in the specification tree. 3. Position the cursor on Pad 1 and select the Show All Children contextual command. You can now see that Sketch 2 and Sketch 3 have been used to create two additional pads. Here is the exhaustive list of the diverse contextual commands allowing you to hide parents and children. These commands may prove quite useful whenever the view is overcrowded. ● Show Parents and Children ● Show Children ● Show All Children ● Hide Children ● Show Parents ● Show All Parents ● Hide Parents 4. Position the cursor on Sketch.1 and select the Show Parents and Children contextual command. We can see that Sketch.1 has been created on xy plane. Moreover, you can see that it is a published element. 367 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 5. Now, select EdgeFillet1 in the graph. The application highlights the fillet in the specification tree, in the graph and in the geometry area. 6. Position the cursor on EdgeFillet1 and select the Show Parents and Children contextual command. The parent Pad.1 is displayed. ● Double-clicking on the components alternately shows or hides parents and children. ● The Edit contextual command can be accessed from any element. For example, right-click EdgeFillet.1 and select Edit. The Edge Fillet dialog box appears. You can then modify the fillet. When done, the Edge Fillet dialog box closes as well as the Parents and Children window close and the fillet is updated. 7. Close the window and select MeasureEdge3 from the specification tree. 8. Select the Tools -> Parent/Children command. The graph that displays shows Pad.2 as MeasureEdge3's parent. 368 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 9. Select the Show All Parents contextual command. Sketch.2 as Pad.2's parent is now displayed. In turn, Sketch.2's own parent Pad.1 is displayed and so on. 369 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Quick Selection of Geometry This task shows how to access rapidly to sub-elements in the geometry without scrolling in the specification tree and while already being in a command. You simply identify the generating element of the final element, without necessary trace the parents, especially if the generating element is not visible. Open the QuickSelect1.CATPart document. 1. Click the Offset icon to perform an offset of the Extrude.2 surface. The Offset Surface Definition dialog box appears. When you want to select the Extrude.2 surface as the Surface to offset, you notice that the root surface is not visible in the 3D geometry as it is in no show. In order to retrieve this surface, you can use the Quick Select shared capability. 2. Click the Quick Select icon. 3. Move the pointer over the geometry. Just like in the regular selection mode, the element is highlighted in the geometry area, and the object name is highlighted in the specification tree. Moreover, the identity of the pre-selected element is displayed in the status bar: 370 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 4. Click the element (Split.1). Information is displayed on the whole geometry: ● in green: the feature selected using the standard selection tool ● in red: its direct parents ● in purple: the "generating" element, that is the feature generating the underlying surface/curve where you initially selected the element. If you display the element's graph using the the Show Historical Graph icon , you can better relate the elements to its "parents: 371 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 [...]... this sub-element which is selected as the in work object Likewise, this feature is edited when double-clicking a sub-element To display 3D parameters attached to Part Design features, check the Parameters of features and constraints option in the Tools -> Options -> Infrastructure -> Part Infrastructure -> Display Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Page 381 Updating Your Design. .. available in Tools -> Options -> Mechanical Design -> Assembly Design -> General tab If checked, this option lets the application update the part when needed q manual update, available in Tools -> Options -> Mechanical Design -> Assembly Design -> General tab, it lets you control the updates of your part You simply need to click the Update icon whenever you wish to integrate modifications Non-updated wireframe... otherwise you would obtain over-constrained systems Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Page 390 Version 5 Release 14 The display mode of the axes is different depending on whether the three-axis system is right-handed or lefthanded and current or not THREE-AXIS SYSTEM CURRENT AXIS DISPLAY MODE right-handed yes solid right-handed no dashed left-handed yes dotted left-handed no dot-dashed Editing an Axis... deactivated features 7 Click the Last arrow to move to the last feature, that is Point.2 Moving to the next or last feature enables to update elements that are not up-to-date 8 Click the First to Update consequently update it icon to move to the first element to be updated and Version 5 Release 14 Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Page 379 If both geometry and part are up-to-date, an information... icon Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Page 375 Scanning a Part and Defining In Work Objects This task shows how to scan the part and define a current object without taking the complete part into account Therefore, it is useful for the analysis of the better understanding of the part design Both geometrical sets and ordered geometrical sets can be scanned Open the Scan1.CATPart... You can also define axes through coordinates Right-click the Z Axis field and select the Coordinates contextual command The Z Axis dialog box appears 6 Key in X = -1 , retain the Y and Z coordinates, and click Close The axis system is modified accordingly, and is now lefthanded Page 3 87 Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Page 388 7 Click More to display the More dialog box The... dialog box Version 5 Release 14 Page 373 Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Page 374 The Quick Select dialog box closes and you return to the Offset Surface Definition dialog box The Surface field is valuated with the Fillet.1 surface you previously selected 7 Specify the Offset 8 Click OK to create the offset surface q q q You can double-click on any arrow, not necessarily the... Isolate: sets the axis system apart from the geometry q Set as Current/Set as not Current: defines whether the axis system is the reference or not The Under the axis system node option is not available when editing an axis system Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Using the Historical Graph This command is only available with the Generative Shape Design 2 product This task shows... spacing and Graduations options are defined in Tools -> Options -> Shape -> Generative Shape Design Please refer to the Customizing section for further information 7 Click OK in the dialog box The element (identified as Working support.xxx) is added to the specification tree Creating an infinite plane from a limited planar surface Open the WorkOnSupport3.CATPart document 1 Click the Work on Support icon... features of the part are now scanned in the order of display in the specification tree The current position in the graph corresponds to the in work object Internal elements of sketches, part bodies and bodies, ordered geometrical sets, and elements belonging to a geometrical set are not taken into account by this mode Version 5 Release 14 Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Page 376 1 Click the Display . Mechanical Design -& gt; Assembly Design -& gt; General tab. If checked, this option lets the application update the part when needed. ● manual update, available in Tools -& gt; Options -& gt; Mechanical. a sub-element. To display 3D parameters attached to Part Design features, check the Parameters of features and constraints option in the Tools -& gt; Options -& gt; Infrastructure -& gt; Part Infrastructure. Infrastructure -& gt; Display. 380 Page Generative Shape Design & Optimizer Version 5 Release 14 Updating Your Design This task explains how and when you should update your design. The