CATIA V5: Composites Design & Manufacturing

Lesson 1: 
Introduction

• Composites
• Composite Design Workbench
• Composite Grid Design Workbench
• Composite Terminology

Lesson 2: 
Composites Design Manual Approach

• Creating a new composite material
• Definining composite parameters
• Creating a ply manually
• Creating a Rosette Transfer Curve

Lesson 3: 
Zone-based Preliminary Design

• Creating a Preliminary Design
• Creating a Zone-based Design
• Analyzing Zones
• Creating Imposed Thickness Points
• Creating Solids and Top Surfaces from Zones
• Creating Drop Offs

Lesson 4: 
Zone-based Detail Design

• Zone-based Plies Creation
• Creating Plies Using Zones with Taper
• Creating Plies Using Full Plies with Edges to be Staggered (ETBS)
• Creating Plies Using Solid Slicing
• Creating a Solid and IML

Lesson 5: 
Introduction to Composites Grid Design

• Grid Design
• Grid Design Workbench
• Grid Design Tools

Lesson 6: 
Creating Plies Using Grid Design

• Defining Composite Parameters
• Defining a Grid Panel
• Defining a Grid
• Managing Virtual Stacking
• Generating the Plies

Lesson 7: 
Modifying the Plies Geometry

• Defining a Grid Ramp Support
• Swapping Edges Rerouting Ply Geometry
• Creating a Local Dropoff
• Defining the Grid Angle Cut
• Adding Material to Plies
• Creating Plies Symmetry
• Merging Plies
• Sychronizing the Stacking
• Limiting Plies from Panel Limits
• Importing and Exporting the Design

Lesson 8: 
Creating a Solid from a Ply Geometry

• Creating Iso-thickness Areas
• Creating Junction Lines
• Creating a Solid

Lesson 9: 
Reviewing Composites Entities

• Managing Plies Interactively
• Analyzing Plies
• Modifying Plies
• Managing Plies Geometry
• Creating a Mirrored Part

Lesson 10: 
Generating the Production Data

• Analyzing Producibility
• Creating a Dart
• Inspecting Producibility
• Creating a Multi-Splice
• Creating Butt Splice and No Splice Zones
• Defining Staggering Origin Points

Lesson 11: 
Creating Production Documents

• Exporting Ply Data as IGES or DXF
• XML Export
• Composites Data
• Creating a Composites Drawing
• Recommended Settings
• Generating a Ply Book

Lesson 12: 
Reviewing Composites DMU

• Performing Numerical Analysis on an Assembly
• Creating Core Samples
• Displaying Composites
• Information on the Fly
• Using the Interactive Ply Table
• Displaying Fiber Direction
• Performing Producibility
• Inspection

Lesson 13: 
Introduction to Composites Laser Projection

• About Laser Projection
• Laser Projection Tools
• Laser Projection Options

Lesson 14: 
Defining a Laser Projector

• Selecting Target Points & Surface
• Positioning the Projector
• Specifying Projector Properties
• Specifying Display Options

Lesson 15: 
Creating a Laser Projection

• Laser Projection Export Parameters
• Computing and Exporting Laser Projection

Lesson 16: 
Creating Additional Geometries and Stacking Texts

• Creating Additional Geometries
• Creating a Stacking Text
• Creating Stacking Texts on Plies

Lesson 17: 
Importing the Laser Projection Data

• Reading Laser Projection Files