Ansys spaceclaim 2015 usersguide

Table of contents Copyright information 16 End user license agreement 18 Introduction 32 User's Guide 32 Welcome window 34 Tutorials 36 Text tutorials 36 Self-paced training tutorials 37 Text tutorials 38 Self-paced training tutorials 38 Bracket and knob assembly 38 Sheet metal tutorial 39 SpaceClaim objects 40 Design mesh objects 42 Locking and unlocking objects 47 The SpaceClaim interface 48 Structure tree 51 Selection panel 55 Layers 62 Groups 65 Views 69 Status bar 72 Options panel 73 Properties 74 Keyboard shortcuts 80 Using a multitouch screen 83 Mouse and touch gestures 92 Using the radial menu 93 Selecting 95 Clip with plane www.SpaceClaim.com 103 Clip with volume 107 Box-selection 109 Free form selection 114 Select using polygon 117 Select by painting 119 Select using boundary 121 Component selection 123 Changing your display 124 Showing and hiding objects 125 Orienting designs 126 Spinning your design 128 Panning your design 131 Zooming in and out 132 Rotating your design 134 The home view 135 Viewing the sketch grid head-on 137 Selecting a view 138 Snapping to a view 140 Applying a graphics style 142 Displaying edges 144 Applying colors 146 Making objects transparent 149 Line styles 151 Style painter 152 Rendering style 153 Displaying in multiple windows 155 Splitting the design window 156 Switching between windows 157 Maximizing the design window 158 Displaying workspace tools 159 Sketch grid styles 161 Displaying lightweight components 163 www.SpaceClaim.com Working with SpaceClaim documents 165 Creating, opening, and saving documents 165 Importing and exporting 169 Copy-paste from other applications 192 Printing 193 Journals and logs 196 SpaceClaim file format 198 Designing 202 Design modes 204 Editing in cross-section 206 Cut, copy, paste 209 Dimensions 211 Detaching 215 Undo and redo 216 Checking geometry 217 Sketching in 3D 218 Sketching 220 Editing a sketch 227 Copying a sketch 230 Sketch plane 231 Moving the sketch plane 233 Layout curves 235 Moving in 2D 237 Dimensional sketching 239 Points 240 Lines 243 Tangent lines 246 Construction lines 249 Rectangles 251 Three-point rectangles 254 Circles 256 Three-point circles 258 www.SpaceClaim.com Ellipses 261 Tangent arcs 263 Three-point arcs 266 Swept arcs 268 Polygons 270 Creating a spline 273 Editing a spline 277 Splitting curves 281 Creating corners 282 Creating rounded corners 284 Bending lines 287 Trimming lines 289 Inserting a face curve 290 Offsetting curves 292 Projecting onto the sketch grid 294 Scaling a sketch 297 Scaling sketches using pull 300 Editing 301 Editing with annotation dimensions 303 Mathematical expressions 307 Pulling 309 Offsetting and extruding faces 322 Extending and extruding surface edges 326 Extruding edges 329 Rounding edges 331 Rounding between faces and surfaces 337 Chamfering edges 340 Pivoting edges 345 Revolving faces 347 Revolving edges 349 Revolving a helix 353 Sweeping 355 www.SpaceClaim.com Sweeping with multiple trajectories 359 Sweeping with an axis 363 Drafting faces 365 Creating slots 370 Scaling solids and surfaces 375 Copying edges and faces 378 Pulling with the select tool 381 Pivoting with the select tool 382 Using measure to drive pull 383 Moving 385 Move handle 394 Moving symmetrically 396 Creating a pattern 399 Exploding an assembly 409 Pivoting and pulling solids 410 Moving with the select tool 411 Moving with a fulcrum 413 Moving protrusions and depressions 415 Using measure to drive pull 416 Fill 419 Removing rounds 436 Replacing faces 443 Tweaking a face 447 Editing tweaked faces 449 Adding tweak control curves 451 Tweak face display options 452 Blending 453 Blending between faces 457 Blending between edges 462 Blending between points 467 Creating objects and relationships 470 Inserting planes www.SpaceClaim.com 470 Inserting an axis 474 Inserting points 476 Inserting an origin 477 Pinned datums 480 Inserting temporary points, axes, and planes 482 Linear patterns 488 Circular patterns 494 Fill patterns 500 Creating offset relationships 503 Shelling a solid 505 Creating mirror relationships 507 Inserting 511 Inserting another design 511 Orient mesh 513 Extracting curves 518 Creating a cylinder 520 Creating a sphere 523 Fit spline 525 Inserting a standard hole 526 Identifying holes 536 Move body 540 Create workpiece 543 Creating curves from edges 550 Deburring toolpath 551 Turn profile 552 Adding edge reliefs 553 Wrapping geometry 556 Unrolling surfaces 564 Downloading TraceParts 568 Downloading CADENAS models 569 Inserting an image 570 Inserting video 574 www.SpaceClaim.com Combining 576 Intersecting 580 Merging solids and surfaces 582 Merging solids 583 Merging surface protrusions 585 Merging surfaces 586 Merging a surface and a plane 589 Splitting bodies and surfaces 590 Splitting a solid 592 Using the split body tool 594 Splitting a face 597 Splitting a surface 602 Removing material from a solid 603 Projecting to a solid 604 Working with components 608 Internal and external components 611 Lightweight components 615 Assigning assembly conditions 616 Making objects tangent 618 Aligning objects 620 Orienting objects 623 Making components rigid 626 Gear conditions 627 Anchoring components 629 Moving parts in an asssembly 630 Detailing 631 Annotation 632 Creating notes 634 Circular notes 641 Formatting note text 643 Creating note leaders 645 Creating dimension annotations 649 www.SpaceClaim.com Dimensioning between virtual points 660 Center marks and lines 664 Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing 665 Non-semantic geometric dimensioning and tolerancing 666 Semantic geometric tolerances 668 Datum and surface finish symbols 679 Datum targets 680 Surface finish symbols 685 Barcodes 687 Welding symbols 689 Custom symbols 696 Creating custom symbols 697 Using custom symbols 700 Threads 705 Bills of materials 708 Tables 713 Hole tables 715 Curve tables 720 Balloons 723 Bolt circles 724 Adding hyperlinks to annotations 725 Drawing sheets 727 Drawing sheet setup 731 Formatting a drawing sheet 732 Editing a drawing sheet 734 Drawing sheet views 735 General views 737 Projected views 740 Cross section views 742 Offset cross section views 747 Aligned cross section views 750 Detail views 753 www.SpaceClaim.com Displaying a modular grid 755 Broken views 758 Broken out section views 761 3D markup 763 Creating a 3D markup 765 Displaying changed dimensions 766 Coloring changed faces 767 Measuring and analyzing 768 Checking geometry 769 Measuring 770 Quick measurements 771 Mass properties 772 Displaying measurements 774 Measuring a projected area 779 Analyzing quality 780 Displaying normal directions 781 Displaying curvature 783 Displaying draft angles 785 Displaying the UV grid of a face 788 Displaying a dihedral graph 790 Displaying stripes 792 Displaying deviation 794 Repairing problems 796 Navigating through issues 798 Stitching adjacent faces 800 Repairing gaps 802 Missing faces 804 Split edges 807 Inexact edges 809 Exact edges 811 Duplicate faces 813 Merging faces 814 www.SpaceClaim.com 10 Mini-toolbar Set of tool-specific options that appears when you right-click in the Design window You can also access the options in the Options panel Mirror Associative relationship between two faces or planes mirrored about a centerline plane or planar face The second object is a copy of the original; if the geometry of the original is changed, the mirrored copy is also updated Use the Mirror tool to designate a face or plane as a mirror, or to create a mirror plane between two faces Mode Three ways of designing in SpaceClaim : Sketch, Cross-section, or 3D You can switch between modes at any time Mouse up See Zoom box in Move SpaceClaim tool used to translate or rotate geometry N Neutral plane - Pull tool The plane, face or edge around which you want to pivot Neutral plane - Sheet metal Sheet metal: the line within a sheet where the length does not change when the sheet is bent; axis Non-planar edges Edges that not lie in the same plane See Planar edges Normal The vector that is perpendicular to a flat plane at the selected point In the case of a non-flat plane, the vector that is perpendicular to the plane tangent to the surface at the selected point www.SpaceClaim.com 1226 Note Annotation placed on a design, drawing sheet, or 3D markup Notes contain text or symbols that you insert and can be connected to geometry by a note leader O Object Anything recognizable by SpaceClaim tools 3D objects include vertices, edges, faces, surfaces, solids, layouts, planes, axes, and origins 2D objects include points and lines Offset Distance an edge, segment, or curve is moved or copied Offset baseline faces See Offset relationship Offset relationship A relationship between two faces that is maintained in the 2D and 3D editing tools Offset relationships are created when you define a relationship using the Offset tool, create a sheet metal part, or Shell a solid Offsetting faces Pulling a face without selecting the edges The pull extends the neighboring faces without creating an edge The neighboring faces extend to bound the offset face, creating a new section defined by the adjacent geometry Offsetting lines Using the Offset Line tool to create an offset of any line or spline in the grid plane A new object is created at a specified distance from the selected object Options panel Area of SpaceClaim user interface that enables you to modify functions specific to tools www.SpaceClaim.com 1227 Ordinate dimensions X or Y distances that originate from a single location, which is usually the lower left corner of the object Also known as datum dimensioning or baseline dimensioning Orientation angle Property that you define when sketching a polygon Orientation angle determines the polygon’s rotational position Origin Zero point in coordinate system You can insert an origin at any location in your design where you can anchor the Move tool, enabling you to dimension from the origin or quickly move the sketch grid to the origin You can also insert an origin at a solid's center of mass or volume Origin Axis Axis through the origin Orthogonal view Projection that is constrained to regular 90° angles (top, bottom, left, and right of the current view) When you create a projected view from one of the other views on the drawing sheet, the available projections are orthogonal (orthographic) P Pan Move a drawing around by dragging the drawing area around your screen; move the viewpoint laterally relative to the drawing Pan with multi-touch Move two fingers together across the screen Panel Sections of the SpaceClaim user interface that initially appear along the left side of the application window and include: Structure panel, Layers panel, Selection panel, Groups panel, Options panel, and Properties panel You can dock and detach these panels www.SpaceClaim.com 1228 Parasolid Parasolid geometric modeling kernel SpaceClaim can open and insert parts and assemblies and export parts and assemblies Parent component A component upon which other components depend For example, in a block with a hole, the block is the parent and the hole is the child Patch blend Fill tool option that uses the initial tangency of the neighboring faces to fill the selected edges Faces are blended into a smooth, single-face patch, instead of extending the faces attached to the edge until they intersect Deselecting the Tangent extension option ignores the tangency of the neighboring faces Periodic blend Pull tool option used to go all the way around when blending faces Periodic face A cylinder, cone, or other revolved surface Pitch Unit of length that a helix face shifts per 360º rotation; distance from one point on a thread to the corresponding point on the next thread Pivot line Line around which a face is revolved using the Pull tool Plan view Head-on view Planar edges Two or more edges that lie in the same plane You can select planar edges and select the Plane tool from the Insert ribbon group to insert the plane defined by the edges Planar face Face that lies within a plane www.SpaceClaim.com 1229 Plane Construction geometry consisting of a flat surface Planes can be used for a 2D sketch, section view of a model, a neutral plane in a draft feature PMI Product Manufacturing Information SpaceClaim can import PMI if you check the Import Part Manufacturing Information box when importing CATIA files Point Single location in the sketch grid 2-D object that has no height, width, or length The origin, an axis, and a vertex are examples of points Use the Point tool to sketch a point on the sketch grid Points are useful as a dimensional reference, for splitting, and for creating a point on a line or curve through which you want to draw a three-point circle Polar coordinates See coordinates Polygon Complex object composed of three or more straight lines in a closed figure Use the Polygon tool to sketch a polygon with up to 32 sides Power selection Advanced selection tool available from the Selection tab Enables you to search for and select all objects with geometry similar to the currently selected object Profile Line in space; outline of an object; used to describe objects when sweeping or blending Project to sketch Tool used to convert 2D layout lines to a sketch so you can use the layout to create geometry Projected view One of the view selections for drawing sheets You create a projected view from one of the other views on the drawing sheet to show another side of the model www.SpaceClaim.com 1230 See General view, Cross-section view, and Detail view Properties panel Area of SpaceClaim user interface that displays editable details about the selected object(s) This panel is initially displayed on the lower left side of the screen, but can be moved Pull Tool used to distort or deform geometry Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid Q Quality SpaceClaim tools for detecting anomalies or discontinuities in surfaces Quick Access Toolbar Tool icons that appear at the top of the SpaceClaim user interface, next to the Application menu, and include common Windows commands such as Open, Save, and Undo In SpaceClaim Options, you can customize the toolbar so that it contains the file-related shortcuts you use most often R Radial slot A slot created by pulling a hole toward the axis of the driving cylinder See Curved slot Radiused corner See Fillet (interior corner) or Round (exterior corner) Reference line Line used as the starting point for dimensioning www.SpaceClaim.com 1231 Region When you sketch shapes in 2D using the sketch tools, regions are formed by closed or intersecting lines The regions will become solids and the lines become edges when you pull your sketch into 3D with the Pull tool Regular face An unblended face The face must be converted to a blended face before you can edit the face as a blend See Blend surface Relative coordinates See Coordinates Remove associations Tool that removes an associative relationship For example, removing a polygon relationship enables you to make changes to only one face of the polygon solid without affecting the other faces See Associations Rendering Mode available from the Properties panel for a view on a drawing sheet Use Rendering mode to change the Graphics style for the view Select Inherit if you want to link the graphics style to the parent view See Graphics styles Revolve Move in a path around an axis Use the Pull tool to revolve faces, edges, or a helix around an axis The axis may be a straight line, axis, or edge See Subtractive revolve Revolve axis A straight line, axis, or edge around which you revolve a face, edge, or helix Rotate Design: Using the Rotate tool to spin a design 90 degrees in the plane of the screen You can rotate your design clockwise or counterclockwise Object: Using the Move handle to spin an object around an axis www.SpaceClaim.com 1232 Rotate with multi-touch Hold one finger on the axis you want to rotate around and move the other finger in an arc that is centered on your first finger Rotational blend Pull tool option used when blending faces to create cylinders and cones whenever possible Round Rounded corner at the intersection of two lines or edges Round refers to an exterior corner; an interior corner is known as a fillet In SpaceClaim , rounds and fillets are both called rounds See Fillet, Constant-radius round, Variable-radius round Round Group Grouping that is created each time you fill a round You can reattach a group of rounds as long as some portion of the original edges (or faces that bordered the edges) still exists in your design See Group Ruler dimension Option used to enter precise dimensions when pulling or moving Dimensions may be linear when moving or pulling, or angular when rotating S Scale Solid or surface: Change the size of the selected object using the Pull tool You can scale dynamically or by entering a scale value Drawing sheet or cross-section views: Magnify or shrink the view by selecting a View in the Structure tree and editing the Properties panel SCDOC file File format for SpaceClaim files (.scdoc) Files comply with the Microsoft Open Packaging Convention, which is also used by Microsoft Office 2007 These files are actually zip archives with a special structure, the contents of which are primarily XML data www.SpaceClaim.com 1233 Section Design mode in which you edit solids by working with their edges and vertices in cross-section View is cut away to show interior detail Section mode See Section Selection filter Drop-down control in the status bar that can be used to limit the selection of objects Only object types you check will be selected; for example, only faces and edges Selection tab Area of SpaceClaim user interface where you can locate objects similar to the ones selected See Power selection Shell Solid or part that is hollowed out from a selected face, leaving a shell of designated thickness Shell relationship Association that stays with a solid when it is moved to another component, unless the relationship would link two components when it is moved See Shell Silhouette edge Edge that is rotated to conceal a 3D object and appears as a 2D line Sketch grid Pattern of regularly spaced lines that guides you when sketching The sketch grid makes aligning and drawing objects easier.You can adjust the units and spacing of the grid, as well as how solids are displayed when the grid appears Sketch mode Mode for drawing in two dimensions using the sketching tools on the sketch grid A sketch is a collection of lines and other 2D objects on a sketch grid Sketching creates regions that can be pulled into 3D When you pull your sketch into 3D www.SpaceClaim.com 1234 with the Pull tool, regions formed by intersecting lines will become solids and lines will become edges SLA See Stereo lithography Snap Constrain to objects, angular and linear increments, or grid points while you are sketching or editing solids You can customize the snapping behavior in SpaceClaim options Pressing Shift while dragging snaps the tool based on your snap settings You can use the Snap to grid tool to constrain or lock all drawing to grid points only Snap view Tool used to display the head-on view of a face You can also use the tool to "throw" the highlighted face to the top, bottom, right, or left Solid Object that encloses volume A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume Spin Tool used to re-orient your design in any direction, allowing you to view it from any angle Spin center Axis about which you spin your design when you use the Spin tool Spline A continuously curved line, without sharp boundaries (that is, without vertices) Create a spline by defining a set of points using the Spline tool A spline becomes an edge when you pull it with the Pull tool Split Using the Combine tool to split solids or surfaces You select a solid or surface to use as a Cutting tool to cut the target See Cutter object www.SpaceClaim.com 1235 STEP Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (ISO 10303) Defines a methodology for describing product data You can select the STEP protocol to use to format exported SpaceClaim designs Stereo lithography Technology used for rapid prototyping, in which a laser hardens successive layers of a photopolymer to create a part with a shape defined by a computer model Sticky tool guide Tool guides that are sticky appear with a double outline when clicked After you click it, the tool guide remains selected so you can select multiple objects by clicking on each object STL file File format native to the stereo lithography CAD software created by 3D Systems SpaceClaim can export parts and assemblies (.stl).See Stereo lithography Structure tree Display in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components Subtractive Manipulation (revolve, draft, pull, etc.) of a solid in which material is removed In SpaceClaim , the cursor changes to - to indicate that the edit is subtractive Surface Two dimensional object that has no thickness (as opposed to a face, which is part of a three-dimensional object) A surface has area but no volume See Face Surface finish symbols Annotation you can add to a drawing that provides instructions for material removal during manufacturing www.SpaceClaim.com 1236 Sweep Pull a surface or face along a line or edge using the Pull tool You can sweep faces and edges, and select straight or curved lines or edges along which to sweep Sweeping along a spline is a pulling technique for creating a smooth, swoopy shape See Trajectory Sweep arc Arc created by defining a center point and two end points; drawn using the Sweep Arc tool Sweep circle The circular path followed by a Swept arc See Swept arc Sweep trajectory See Trajectory Swept arc See Sweep arc T Tangent Line that touches a curve (arc or circle) at only one point, without crossing over, and is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency In SpaceClaim , you can sketch a line tangent to a curve or you can sketch an arc tangent to a line or curve Tangent arc Arc that is sketched using the Tangent Arc tool, using a point on a line or curve as the starting point Tangent chain See Edge chain Tangent edges Transition edge between rounded or filleted faces in hidden lines visible or hidden lines removed modes in drawings www.SpaceClaim.com 1237 Tangent extension See Patch blend Tangent faces Faces created by rounds or when edges are drawn on a face Taper Angle of a helix or threads made on a conical surface See Helix, Thread Target The object you want to cut, when using the Combine tool to split a solid or surface Tessellation An approach for data exchange between CAD programs Tessellation represents entities such as lines and surfaces in a CAD system with tiny triangles (polygonal data representations) Data formats such as XML and VRML are examples of tessellated data Theme Set of view navigation options used for spin, pan, and zoom Thickness edge Edge across the thickness of a sheet metal wall Thickness face The end face of a sheet metal wall The thickness face is shown highlighted in orange in the image below Thread Texture created on the surface of a cylinder, cone, or hole using the Annotation tools Three point arc Arc created by defining a starting point, an end point, and a radius; drawn using the Three-Point Arc tool www.SpaceClaim.com 1238 Tool guides Functions that are specific to the selected tool Torus Doughnut-shaped object created using the Pull tool to sweep a sketched shape around an axis on a circular path Trajectory Straight or curved line or edge along which you sweep a face or an edge Translate Move in a plane (x, y, or z) Trim away Delete a line portion bounded by an intersection with a line or edge Trimetric view 3D view of surfaces and edges, oriented to show the top, front, and side faces of your design Compared to isometric view, trimetric view angles the front face slightly towards you, shows less of the side face, and less of the top In SpaceClaim , this is the default Home view See Isometric view U UV grid See Face Grid U-V lines See Face Grid V Variable radius round Fillet created from a constant-radius round by selecting one edge of the round and pulling it to a new radius See Fillet, Constant-radius round Vee-die width Sheet metal property; sets the width of the tooling that produces a bend www.SpaceClaim.com 1239 Vertex Point that terminates a line; point at which two or more lines or edges intersect Vertices can be selected for sketching, dimensioning, and other operations View Orientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on Virtual sharp Point of intersection formed by extending converging lines W Wall face The side face of a sheet metal wall The two perpendicular wall faces are highlighted in orange in the image below Wireframe View mode in which all edges of the part or assembly are displayed World origin Axes that set the default orientation of the design in the Design window Display the World origin by checking the World Origin box on the Display tab Z Zoom box in Tool used to pan and zoom until the design fits within a selected area Zoom extents Tool used to enlarge or contract the view so that the selected face, the selected edge, or the design fills the Design window If you are working with a drawing sheet, Zoom extents will fit the drawing sheet to the Design window www.SpaceClaim.com 1240 ... Configuring SpaceClaim and ANSYS 15 1179 Connecting to ANSYS 15 1180 Updating data with ANSYS 15 1181 Working with ANSYS 16.0 1182 Configuring SpaceClaim and ANSYS 16 1182 Connecting to ANSYS 16... ANSYS 1170 ANSYS workbench settings 1173 Working with ANSYS 13.0 1176 Configuring SpaceClaim and ANSYS 13 1176 Connecting to ANSYS 13 1177 Updating data with ANSYS 13 1178 Working with ANSYS 15.0... in ANSYS tutorial 1157 www .SpaceClaim. com 14 SpaceClaim parts and properties in ANSYS 1166 Using groups to drive changes in ANSYS 1168 Using Named selections in ANSYS 1169 Shared topology in ANSYS