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Целта на CATDUA е да проверява, почиства и по възможност да разрешава грешки и несъответствия в Dassault V5 данни.Възможно е да се почистят CATIA моделите от вътрешни грешки, като например призрачни връзки /Ghost links/ и т.н. Това може да се направи едно по едно в интерактивен режим или всички модели в папка едновременно с помощта на програмата Catia V5 Batch Utility.

В интерактивен режим
1. Отворете „бюрото“: File-> Desk…
2. Кликнете с десния бутон върху заредения модел и изберете „CATDUAV5…“
3. Изберете „Clean“, след това „Run“
4. Резултатите ще бъдат видими в информационния прозорец
5. Излезте и се върнете към почистения модел и проверете дали е ОК

В Batch Mode
Пакетът Catia V5 Batch Utility може да се стартира от Catia V5 чрез "Tools - Utlities" в горната лента на Catia V5.


Кога трябва да се използва CATDUA?

Преди обмен на данни Catia V5 към Step, IGES, CADX.
Преди актуализиране на данни между версиите на Catia.
CATDUA може да разреши проблеми грешки "OK to Terminate".
CATDUA може също да намали ненужния размер на файлове от тип CATPart и CATProcess при определени обстоятелства, като премахне ненужните данни.
Може да се използва на редовни интервали от време като превантивна поддръжка, за да се намали рискът от проблеми, свързани с данните на Catia / Delmia V5.

CATDUA Batch помощен инструмент може да се използва за проверка и / или почистване на единични файлове с данни на Catia / Delmia V5 или множество файлове, както е определено по-долу,
Dynamic Sectioning functionality is useful to visualize the part by section in design phase and to detect potential section issues during review process. With the help of this capability, you can obtain section view of the part. You can choose the position to cut by moving section plane.

To create a section plane, you need to click Dynamic Sectioning in the Dynamic Sectioning toolbar. The section plane is automatically displayed. The center of the plane is located at the origin of the local axis system relative to the part. A section plane has limits and its own local axis system. The letters U, V and W represent the axes. The W-axis is the normal vector of the plane.

A 3D section view is generated at this default position specified by section plane. It is dynamically updated according to the modifications made in the position of the section plane. You can select the section plane position with the help of purple pointer as shown below.

You can re-dimension, move and rotate section plane. As you move the cursor over the diagonals of the plane, the plane edges or the local axis system, its appearance changes and arrows appear to help you.

You can resize the section plane by selecting one of its sides and dragging it in the direction indicated by the arrows.

You can move the section plane by selecting one of its diagonals and dragging it to the desired location along its normal.

You can rotate the section plane around its axis by selecting the desired arc (U-V, V-W or W-U) or axis (U, V or W) and dragging it in the direction indicated by the arrows.
Step 1:
On menu line select EDIT, than on pop-up menu select SEARCH

Step 2:
Go to the tab ADVANCED. On this tab you choose the right parameters: i.e. planes and axis. Selection of more than one parameter must be done with boolean operator "OR".

Step 3:
When the parameters are set, then you click SEARCH and after that you click SELECT. Now all desired features are selected and painted in orange (in assembly and in structure tree).

Step 4:
Click HIDE command (pop-up menu "view" or icon on toolbar "view") and that's it.

The user parameters are displayed in the specification tree provided you check the Parameters box in the Display tab in the Tools>Options>Infrastructure>Part Infrastructure dialog box.

In addition, parameters can be displayed with their values provided you check the with value box below the Parameter Tree View settings in the Tools>Options>General>Parameters and Measure dialog box.

CATIA users working with non-Latin characters must check the Tools>Options>General>Parameters and Measure>Knowledge tab>Parameter Names>Surrounded by the symbol'. Otherwise, parameter names must be renamed in Latin characters when used in formulas.

You can access a parameter contextual menu by right-clicking this parameter in the specification tree

You can hide a parameter by right-clicking this parameter in the specification tree and by selecting the Hide command.
Select Tools > Customize or right-click any icon in any toolbar then select Customize to open the Customize dialog box:

Under the Start Menu tab, you can select a workbench then click the right arrow (or right-click it then select Add) to display it in the Favorites list.

Click the User Workbenches tab.
Note that New is available only if there is an active workbench: if no document is open, the button is grayed out.

Click New ... to display the New User Workbench dialog box:

Enter the name for your workbench, then click OK.

Access the Toolbars tab, then click New ... to start adding toolbars to "My Workbench".

In the New Toolbar dialog box:
The Workbenches list contains a list of all workbenches related to the current working context: in our example, a CATPart document was open when we created "My Workbench", so the list contains all workbenches that could possibly be activated in a CATPart document.
The Toolbars list contains the toolbars belonging to the selected workbench.

Select a workbench from the Workbenches list.

Select a toolbar.

Name the new toolbar to be included in your workbench.

Click OK, and close the Customize dialog box.
The contents of the toolbar are added to your empty toolbar.
Wall thickness analysis is a key element in design process as it forms the basis of identifying regions critical from strength, material and manufacturing standpoint.

CFO or FMP or (FR1 and TG1 and HA1) applications are required to access the Wall Thickness Analysis capability.

1. Click  Wall Thickness Analysis in the Analysis toolbar. The Wall Thickness Analysis  dialog box is displayed.



2. Select the body of interest.
3. Keep Sphere as the computation method. The other method available is Ray.
4. Keep Tolerance as the parameter defining the calculation precision you want. The other possible parameters are tesselation parameters: Sag and Step.
5. Enter the value to define the tolerance you want. In this example, enter 0.4mm. The analysis result will therefore fall within the specified tolerance value.
6. Select the Include Thread/Tap analysis check box if you want to integrate the threads/ taps in the analysis. If the analyzed body contains threaded/tapped holes, their specifications such as type or dimension will be taken into account.
7. Select the Colors tab to access ranges of colors for your display.
8. Autoscale provides dynamic range scaling for thicknesses. By default, the number of values to be used to calculate different ranges is 10. Setting 10 values lets the system compute 11 ranges of thicknesses. A color is assigned to each range by the system. The bright red color identifies the thinnest areas of the part, that is areas comprised between 0mm and 10mm.



9. Click Run to launch the analysis.
10. In case you are interested in only a few thicknesses and therefore prefer to ignore some areas of the part, just clear the color you do not want to display on the part.
11. Select the Options tab to access display options. By default, On the fly is selected. This option lets you know the thickness value at the point where you position your cursor on the part. The value is displayed in mm, and is not persistent.



12. Click Section cut to display a section plane. Click to add a new section or right-click the red section plane from the geometry and select Add section.