Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,1,3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation,CATIA Training Foils,Version 5 Release 9 June 2002 EDU-CAT-E-FTD-FF-V5R9,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,2,Course Presentation,Objectives of the course In this course you will learn how to define Functional Tolerances and Annotation to geometric parts designed in 3D Wireframe or Solid geometry Targeted audience Catia V5 users Prerequisites Fundamentals about Catia V5,0.5 day,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,3,Table of Contents,Introduction to FT&A Workbench p.4 The User Settings p.5 Accessing the Workbench p.9 The User Interface p.12 General Process p.15 Fundamentals of FT&A p.16 Creating Annotation planes p.17 Creating Annotations p.25 Power Copy Integration p.41 Use Properties p.43 Generate Check Report p.61 The 2D extraction p.63 View from 3D p.64 To Sum Up p.66,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,4,Introduction to FT&A Workbench,You will become familiar with the Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench by : The User Settings Accessing the Workbench The User Interface General Process,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,5,The User Settings (1/4),Tools / Options / Mechanical Design / Functional Tolerancing and Annotation / Tolerancing,whether note object attribute may be created by user or not enable or disable Note Object Attribute Creation icon or not,It is possible to define: the default standard at creation provides: three conventional standards (ANSI ISO JIS) and three CATIA-CADAM standards (CCDANSI CCDISO CCDJIS). - - - - - - - - - - whether non semantic tolerances creation is allowed or not, whether non semantic dimensions creation is allowed or not. - - - - - - - - - - whether leader annotations are perpendicular to their geometrical elements or not - - - - - - - - - - an angle value for rotating elements (this option is used to rotate used to rotate text elements (text, frame, or leader) whether the rotation will be snapped to the angle value or not.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,6,The User Settings (2/4),Tools / Options / Mechanical Design / Functional Tolerancing and Annotation / Display,mark with a wavy red line, in the specification tree and the geometry, non-semantic annotations whether the axis of the active view can be visible or not. whether the axis of the active view can be zoomed or not. whether the profile of the active view can be visible or not,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,7,The User Settings (3/4),Tools / Options / Mechanical Design / Functional Tolerancing and Annotation / Manipulators,It is possible to define: the size value to the manipulators, whether manipulators can be zoomed in or not. - - - - - - - - - - whether overrun extension lines can be modified or not during creation or modification, whether blanking can be modified or not during creation or modification, whether text can be inserted before or not during creation or modification, whether text can be inserted, whether only the value can be moved or not during creation or modification, whether only the dimension line can be moved or not during creation or modification, whether only the dimension line secondary part can be moved or not during creation or modification.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,8,The User Settings (4/4),Tools / Options / Mechanical Design / Functional Tolerancing and Annotation / Dimension,It is possible to define: whether the dimension line is positioned according to the cursor or not, whether a dimension aligned to another automatically ends the command or not, whether the distance between the created dimension and the geometry remains the same when you move the geometry or not, the value at which the dimension is created from the geometry, the dimension you will create between a circle and another element will be either on the circle center or on the circle edge, - - - - - - - - - - whether the dimension will be snapped on the grid and/or the dimension value will be located at its default position between symbols (it will work only if the cursor is between the symbols) or not, whether only a dimension sub-part (text, line, etc.) will be moved or not.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,9,Accessing the Workbench (1/3),Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench icon,It is possible to work at Product level and at Process level in any CATProduct document respectively CATProcess document. As a consequence, it is possible to use CATProduct Workbench or CATPRrocess Workbench to perform scenarios instead of the CATPart Workbench. At Process level, it is possible to create FTA data in CATProcess document and perform FTA assignment to Process activity,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,10,Accessing the Workbench (2/3),Once you are in the Functional Tolerancing and Annotation workbench the associated toolbars are displayed:,Annotations,Free Rotation,Reporting,Views,Filtered Selection,Available only in Functional Tolerancing and Annotation, Not in Product neither in Process,Reference Elements,Wireframe geometry,Note Object Attribute,Available only in Product Functional Tolerancing and Annotation, Not in Functional neither in Process,Camera,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,11,Accessing the Workbench (3/3),Once you are in the Functional Tolerancing and Annotation workbench the associated toolbars are displayed,Style,Dimension Properties,Text Properties,Position and Orientation,Dimension Numerical Display,Dimension Tolerance Display,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,12,The User Interface (1/3),You have access to the Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench through the menu or toolbars,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,13,The User Interface (2/3),You have access to the Product Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench through the menu or toolbars,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,14,The User Interface (3/3),You have access to the Process Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench through the menu or toolbars,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,15,General Process,Part Design using Solid Geometry,1,Create 3D Annotations using FT&A,2,Use Drafting Workbench to generate a drawing with 3D annotations,3,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,16,Fundamentals of FT&A,You will become familiar with the fundamental functions of the Functional Tolerancing & Annotation Workbench. Creating Annotation Planes Creating Annotations Use Properties Generate Check Report,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,17,Creating Annotation Planes (1/8),Projection View This specific annotation plane allows you to manage 3D annotations: Located in planes both parallel to this annotation plane and in the background and foreground spaces bounded by this annotation plane (or in any plane of the direction of planes defined by this annotation plane), Related to the geometry finding an intersection with this annotation plane, Lying on / belonging to this annotation plane. Projection View Annotation Planes can be created on a planar face or on a plane. This option allows you to specify a particular annotation plane for generating embedded 2D front / projection views, in the Generative Drafting workbench, during the 2D extraction of the 3D part and of the 3D annotations.,Projection View / Annotation Plane,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,18,Creating Annotation Planes (2/8),Projection View Projection Views are represented by blue axis and identified as “Projection View” in the specification tree,Projection View,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,19,Creating Annotation Planes (3/8),Section View This specific annotation plane allows you to manage 3D annotations: Located in planes both parallel to this annotation plane and in the background and foreground spaces bounded by this annotation plane, Related to the geometry finding an intersection with this annotation plane, Lying on / belonging to this annotation plane. Section View Annotation Planes can be created on a planar face or on a plane. This option allows you to specify a particular annotation plane for generating embedded 2D section views, in the Generative Drafting workbench, during the 2D extraction of the 3D part and of the 3D annotations.,Section View / Annotation Plane,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,20,Creating Annotation Planes (4/8),Section View Section Views are represented by green axis and identified as “Section View” in the specification tree,Section View,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,21,Creating Annotation Planes (5/8),Section Cut This specific annotation plane allows you to manage 3D annotations: Only related to the geometry finding an intersection with this annotation plane, Only lying on / belonging to this annotation plane. Section Cut Annotation Planes can be created on a planar face or on a plane. This option allows you to specify a particular annotation plane for generating embedded 2D section cuts, in the Generative Drafting workbench, during the 2D extraction of the 3D part and of the 3D annotations.,Section cut / Annotation Plane,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,22,Creating Annotation Planes (6/8),Section Cut Section Cuts are represented by yellow axis and identified as “Section Cut” in the specification tree,Section Cut,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,23,Creating Annotation Planes (7/8),Annotation Planes Properties Edition,Select any view (front, section or cut) from the specification tree. Right-click (MB3) and select the Properties contextual command. When the Properties dialog box is displayed, click the View tab.,This task shows you how to rename an annotation plane and hide its frame,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,24,Creating Annotation Planes (8/8),Annotation Planes Properties Edition,To rename the annotation plane, enter “Your_Name_View” in the Prefix field. Uncheck the View Frame option to hide the annotation plane frame.,The annotation plane is renamed and its frame is no longer visible,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,25,Creating Annotations (1/16),Easy creation of associative 3D tolerance specifications Avoiding the reliance on 2D drawings Annotate detail parts and products individually or in a assembly context Most currently used types of tolerance and annotation are provided Fast changes through Cut, copy, Paste, Drag & Drop of 3D Annotations Tolerancing Advisor Text with Leader Flag Note with Leader Datum Feature Datum Target Geometrical Tolerance Roughness Dimensions Automatic Default Annotation Note Object Attribute,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,26,Creating Annotations (2/16),Tolerancing Advisor (1/2) This function will allow you to create from a geometrical element or an existing annotation : semantic annotations and non semantic (Text, Roughness, Flag note), datum, datum target, datum system Just select FIRST a face or a set of surfaces and activate Tolerancing Advisor.,The semantic Tolerancing Advisor dialog box is displayed,Click on Tolerancing Advisor icon,1,2,This dialog box as shown is an updated dialog box. The commands frame contains all the semantic annotations that will be created in relation with the selected element. If you did not have selected a face or a set of surfaces before clicking on the Tolerancing Advisor icon, the dialog box displayed does not contain commands.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,27,Creating Annotations (3/16),Tolerancing Advisor (2/2),Select a semantic annotation. The appropriate dialog box is displayed,3,4,Tolerancing Advisor Proposal of applicable tolerance types regarding the selected surfaces, Proposal of tolerance options when applicable, Tolerancing rules verification Help for an error-free tolerancing, Automatic support of annotation syntax, GUARANTEE of semantic and syntactic validity of the tolerancing, through the part / assembly life cycle.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,28,Creating Annotations (4/16),Text with Leader (1/2) This function will allow you to create a text with a Leader line. Just select a face or a set of surfaces to define a location for the arrow end of the leader and activate Text with Leader.,A dialog box is displayed to write the text,Click on Text with Leader icon,1,3,2,The Leader is associated with the element you have selected,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,29,Creating Annotation (5/16),Text with Leader (2/2) The text is assigned to an unlimited width text frame. There is a manipulator at the extremity of the arrow end. So, you can move this end point by dragging it.,You can move horizontally the textual annotation using the arrow above or dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane,If the active view is not valid, a message appears informing you can not use the active view. The annotation is displayed in an annotation plane normal to the selected face.,You can set graphic properties, anchor point, text size (Text properties Toolbar),You can move the textual annotation according a grid, with connection or not with grid,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,30,Creating Annotations (6/16),Flag Note with Leader (1/2) This function will allow you to add hyperlinks to the document. Just select a face or a set of surfaces to define a location for the arrow end of the leader and activate Flag Note with Leader.,Select the object you want to represent the hyperlink. The Manage Hyperlink dialog box appears. Enter a name for your Hyperlink. Enter the path to the destination file in the URL field then press OK. Or Click Browse And select the destination file in the Link to file dialog box.,Click on Flag Note with Leader icon,1,2,The same message is displayed as in the previous function if the active view can not be used,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,31,Creating Annotations (7/16),Flag Note with Leader (2/2) You can add hyperlinks to your document and then use them to jump to a variety of locations, for example to a marketing presentation, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a HTML page on the intranet. You can add hyperlinks to models, products and parts as well as to any constituent elements. You can add more than one link. Simply enter another file. All links created are listed in the Link to file or URL box. Select a link then click Remove to remove existing links. To edit the display of the note, use the Properties contextual command. Select a link then click Go to to follow the link to the destination file.,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,32,Creating Annotations (8/16),Datum Feature (1/1) This function will allow you to create a Datum Feature attached to a surface. Just select the attachment surface of the datum feature and click on Datum Feature icon.,A Datum Feature dialog box is displayed with a default identifier,Click on Datum Feature icon,1,3,2,The same message is displayed as in the previous function if the active view can not be used,You can move the Datum Feature by dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane,You can set graphic properties, anchor point, text size (Text properties Toolbar),Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,33,Creating Annotations (9/16),Datum Target (1/1) This function will allow you to create a Datum Target on datum elements. Just select the surface of the Datum Feature and click on Datum target icon.,A Datum Target Modification dialog box is displayed. The name is in the left field, the length in the right, and, if it is a circular surface, you can use diameter icon,Click on Datum Feature icon,1,2,The same message is displayed as in the previous function if the active view can not be used,You can move the Datum Target by dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane and you can move the extremity of the arrow as Datum Feature,3,You can set some of its graphic properties (Text properties Toolbar),Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,34,Creating Annotations (10/16),Geometrical Tolerance (1/2) This function will allow you to create a Geometrical Tolerance on any element. Just select a surface and click on Geometrical Tolerance icon.,A dialog box is displayed in which you can define Specification, Tolerance Value and Datum Elements,Click on Geometrical Tolerance icon,1,2,Specifications are defined by symbols in table,Datum Element contains an empty entry field to set datum and Tolerance Feature modifiers symbols,Tolerance Value includes the optional diameter zone, an empty entry field and Tolerance feature modifiers symbols,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,35,Creating Annotations (11/16),Geometrical Tolerance (2/2),The same message is displayed as in the previous function if the active view can not be used,You can move the Geometrical Tolerance by dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane,You can set graphic properties, anchor point, text size (Text properties Toolbar),3,The Geometrical Tolerance symbol is created on the annotation plane,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,36,Creating Annotations (12/16),Roughness (1/2) This function will allow you to create a Roughness Symbol annotation. Select a face or a set of surfaces and click on Roughness icon,Click on Roughness icon,1,A dialog box is displayed, in which you can define Roughness characteristics (Rugosity, Rugosity Type, Rugosity Mode),2,3,The Roughness symbol is created,You can move the Roughness symbol by dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,37,Creating Annotations (13/16),Roughness (2/2),Rugosity,You can choose the Rugosity type,You can select the Rugosity mode,Contact Rugosity (circle) or not,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,38,Creating Annotations (14/16),Dimensions (1/1) This function will allow to create a dimension annotation.,Click on Dimensions icon,1,Select the elements (feature, faces) to create the dimensions,2,3,The dimension is created,You can move the dimension by dragging it anywhere in the annotation plane,4,Select the Dimension and in the Dimension Properties toolbar, select in the Tolerance Description combo box TOL_NUM2 and in the Tolerance combo box +-0.5 The dimension is toleranced,Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 2002,39,Creating Annotations (15/16),Automatic Default Annotation (1/1) This function w