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Catia V5 knowledgeware awareness session
Francois Trudel
DS Service, Lean Engineering
KBE Development Application Consultant
Francois.trudel@3ds.com
3/3/2015
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Workbench important pour automatisation
 Part Design
 Assembly Design
 Generative Shape Design*
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Demo: How to design aircraft wing ribs using knowledgeware?
Key objectives
1. Eliminate repetitive task

2. Use company best practices
3. Encapsulate knowledge
4. Speed of design / modification
5. Standardize the design process
6. Lifecycle management
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Manual rib design
1- Get the wing surface and define 2 planes
2- Define a plane for the rib position, extract the curve: wing curve
3- Define a Point at the CG of the wing curve
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Manual rib design
4- Create a circle, use the CG as center
5- Adjust the radius to have 30mm min distance with the wing curve
6- Fill the wing curve

7- Remove the circle shape from the fill
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Knowledge Advisor:
 Parametric design
 User parameters / Intrinsic

parameters
 Relations (Formula, Rule, Reaction,

Action, Check…)
 Create virtual variable and geometry
 Link the virtual geometry/variable to

tree parameter/datum
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Product knowledge template:
 User feature: Create and instantiate

custom feature.
 Power copy: Create and instantiate

a package of existing feature.
 Document template: Create and

instantiate Part/Product template
 Knowledge pattern: Create and

Instantiate datum and feature in the
Catia Tree
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Business Process Knowledge
Template:
 Build automated process
 Build process using easy to

understand Behaviors (building
block)
 Reuse existing process
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product performance
 Use algorithm to increase
Product Engineering optimizer:
Knowledge Expert
 Create generic rules to embed

business best practices
Expert Rule
Expert Check
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Catia V5 Options (1/5)
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Exercise
In a new Part, Copy/Paste as Result Wing_Shape curve from Wing_R21.CATPart

Copy/Paste as Result the plane linked to the curve.
Create a Length parameter named MinBorder.

Create an Area parameter named Wing_Area.
Create a Length parameter named Wing_Shape_Length.
Create a Surface datum named Rib_Surface.
Save part
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Dictionary: EKL
The dictionary regroup lots of function and keywords of the EKL (Engineering Knowledge
Language). This language is used throughout the knowledgeware workbenches.
Dictionary: Parameters
Access to Intrinsic parameters and User parameters.
Filtered by type
Also possible to access the parameters by selecting elements

from the Catia Tree
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Parametric Sketch
The Engineering Knowledge language has limited availability is a sketch.
Constraints can be assign to parameters using Relations.
The user have no power on the orientation of a distance constraint in a sketch.

Use GSD as much as possible
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Dictionary: Circle Constructors
Dictionary: Circle Constructors
Input #2, a Surface Input #4, an Integer
Name of the function Input #6, an Angle
For the circle support For the limits
For the end angle
circleCtrRadius (center: Point, support: Surface, radius: Length, limits: Integer, start: Angle, end: Angle): Circle
Output of the
Input #1, a Point Input #3, a length Input #5, an Angle function:
For the center of the For the circle radius For the end angle Object of type
circle Circle
Same as the GSD

Circle definition
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Dictionary: Mesure
Compass
Mesure item
Mesure between
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Dictionary: Point Constructors
Exercise
Create a formula on parameter Wing_Shape_Length to find the length of

Wing_Shape curve.
Create a Point datum. Create a formula to set this point as Center of gravity of
Wing_Shape curve. Rename CG.
Save part
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Dictionary: Line Constructors
Dictionary: Operation constructors
join trim boundary rotate scaling

split translate symmetry affinity
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Dictionary: Plane Constructors
Dictionary: Wireframe Constructors
spline parallel curve extrude

corner
intersect project revolve
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Dictionary & Language browser limitation
No Feature Constructor ? No need when you can instantiate UDF and Power Copy
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Dictionary: Keywords -> Let & Set
Variable/
Object Type
Let
Example: Let aCurve (Curve)
Create a memory allocation for a virtual variable or object
Assign a type to the variable
Set
Example: Set aCurve = PartBody\Curve.1 Existing geometry
Example: Set aPoint = Point(0mm,0mm,0mm) Create geometry
Assign an existing geometry to a variable of the same type
Or create a virtual geometry of the same type
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Dictionary: Keywords -> IF
Ask a question and do something based on the answer
Statement
If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

If statement
<do this> Single line, no need { }
= true than

{
If statement <do this>
More than one line, need { }
= true than <and this>
}
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Statement

If statement {
= false than
Skip the IF
<do this>
<and this>
}
<NEXT LINE OF CODE>
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Operator Is equal to
Is Not equal to
Examples:
if aLength == 10mm Is more or equal to
aPoint.Show = true Is more than
Is less than
Is less or equal to
Add
Minus
Operator
Multiply
Divide
Open parenthesis
if aLength <> 100mm Close parenthesis
{
bLength = 10mm Combine statement, inclusive
Combine statement, exclusive
Message(“aLength : #”, aLength)
}
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Dictionary: Keywords -> ELSE
Statement

If statement
{
= false than
Skip the IF <do this>
<and this>
Do what is }
inside the
Else instead
Else
{
<do this>
<and this>
}
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Dictionary: Keywords -> ELSE IF
Statement #1

If statement
{
#1 = false
than <do this>
Skip the IF }
And go to Statement #2
the new if
statement
#2
Else if <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>
{
<do this>
}
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Exercise
Continue with the Rib construction using Rule and virtual geometries
Output the end result using the datum Rib_Surface
Save part
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Exercise solution 1/2
In the rule:
Internal geometries memory

allocation
Internal parameters memory

allocation
Assign or
create 3d
geometries
inside the rule
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Exercise solution 2/2
Compute distance, store data in variables

Basic
logics
Language browser
To access functions
Non ambiguous
design enabled
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Catia V5 knowledgeware awareness session

 Generative Shape Design*

1. Eliminate repetitive task

3- Define a Point at the CG of the wing curve

6- Fill the wing curve

 User parameters / Intrinsic

 Relations (Formula, Rule, Reaction,

 Create virtual variable and geometry

 Link the virtual geometry/variable to

 User feature: Create and instantiate

 Power copy: Create and instantiate

 Document template: Create and

 Knowledge pattern: Create and

 Build automated process

 Build process using easy to

 Reuse existing process

 Create generic rules to embed

In a new Part, Copy/Paste as Result Wing_Shape curve from Wing_R21.CATPart

Create a Length parameter named MinBorder.

Language). This language is used throughout the knowledgeware workbenches.

Also possible to access the parameters by selecting elements

Constraints can be assign to parameters using Relations.

The user have no power on the orientation of a distance constraint in a sketch.

For the end angle

Same as the GSD

Create a formula on parameter Wing_Shape_Length to find the length of

join trim boundary rotate scaling

spline parallel curve extrude

If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

<NEXT LINE OF CODE>

If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

If <Variable or Object> <operator> <variable or object>

Output the end result using the datum Rib_Surface

Internal geometries memory

Internal parameters memory

Compute distance, store data in variables

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