Mechanical Design

CATIA - Structure Design 1 (SR1)

CATIA V5R18
Mechanical Design
CATIA - Structure Design
Rapidly design structures using catalogues of standard or custom
sections

Product overview

CATIA - Structure Design 1 (SR1) product is

an application enabling to simply and quickly
creates linear, curved structures, and plates,
using standard or user-defined sections.
Taking advantage of an optimized user
interface, the user can easily create and
modify structures thanks to fully associative
design in context capability.

Moreover, the product includes a parametric (Bills of Material)

catalog through design tables and it Integration with CATIA Analysis products
generates user customizable Bills of for downstream analysis
Materials. It is natively integrated with other
CATIA applications for completing the
structure design, user will be able, for
instance, to perform extensive stress analysis Product Key Customers Benefits
on his structure elements and beams.
Creation of several types of structures
Users are able to define a variety of linear,
Product Highlights curved and twisted structures using standard
(I, U, L, T, rectangular or round bar and pipes
Creation of straight, curved and twisted sections) or user defined sections. An intuitive
structure, planar and surfacic plates, using grid function ensures easy placement, in 3D
standard or user defined sections space, of structures using linear, directional
Fully associative design in context and point to point placement.
functions for creation and modification of
structures Design in context
Optimized user interface for the Users are able to create structures by
placement of structures referencing geometrical objects or existing
Assembly instantiation through structures (faces, edges, or vertex) and
user-defined template resulting in optionally keep full associativity.
breakthrough productivity
Parametric catalog through design tables Optimized user interface
Full modification capabilities for design CATIA - Structure Design 1 (SR1) provides an
changes optimized user interfaces for placement of
Generation of user customizable BOMs structure elements. User can retrieve standard

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structure attributes using the Standard structure profiles and generate structure
He can then have a Preview Visualization to frames.
validate choices. CATIA V5 environment
enables manipulations (3D, Zoom, Integration with CATIA-Assembly Design 1
Compass...). (AS1)
The user can create assembly constraints
Assembly instantiation through between existing structure elements.
user-defined template
Users are provided with highly productive Integration with CATIA-Part Design 1 (PD1)
tools to manage assembly instantiation and and CATIA-Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1)
penetration. As a matter of fact, users are able Using CATIA-Part Design 1 (PD1), users can
to instantiate assembly templates (templates create holes, pockets and chamfers on
have been previoulsy made by experts who existing structures. Using CATIA Sheetmetal
captured company best practices into those Design 1 (SM1) users can create flanges on
reusable templates). This method allows user plates with unfolded view.
to be extremely productive while being sure
that they are compliant with their company Integration with CATIA-Generative Drafting
standards and best practices. Those 1 (GD1)
templates can be used, for instance, to Using CATIA - Generative Drafting 1 (GD1),
automatically instantiate stiffeners along a users can automatically extract 2D projected
beam or to manage with standard penetration views and cuts to be used as structure
of plates (standard opening or cut-out). profiles.

Parametric catalog through design table Integration with CATIA-Analysis products

Using the standard section catalogs (delivered Using CATIA - Analysis products, users can
with the product) the user can define perform advanced analysis of structural
parametric sections as well as create his own beams that have been design with CATIA -
section catalog easily and intuitively. The Structure Design 1 (SR1) product. This greatly
standard browser of catalog is available in the facilitates the design-to-analysis process
workbench. allowing users to directly use what they have
just designed to simulate the manufacturability
Full modification capabilities for design of the structural beams.
changes
Advanced features such as Move, Rotate
and Mirror enable users to position and
re-place structures. User can modify types,
sections, limits, anchor points, thickness,
orientation for linear and curve structure,
as well as material attributes. Besides,
three types of Associative Joints are
possible: weld, normal and miter-cut.

Generation of user customizable BOM's

Information such as material, section,
length to cut and quantity requirements are
easy to extract and use for Bill of
Materials.

Possibility for the user to create his own

VB macros
Users can easily and automatically use the
Visual Basic interface to create their own

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