CATIA Training
CATIA Detail Drafting Detailed Steps
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Version 5 Release 19 September 2008 EDU-CAT-EN-DDR-FS-V5R19
CATIA Detail Drafting
Detailed Steps
Table of Contents Adding Drawing Views: Recap Exercises ............................................................................................... 3 1. Create a Front Drawing View .......................................................................................................... 3 2. Create Drawing Top and Section Views........................................................................................ 16 Add Annotations to drawing .................................................................................................................. 44 1. Add Annotations to the Car_Jack_Support drawing ..................................................................... 44 2. Add Annotations to Guide_Piece drawing..................................................................................... 57 Editing View Properties and Layouts: Recap Exercises ....................................................................... 67 1. Modify view and geometry in Drawing view .................................................................................. 67 2. Modify views in Car_Jack_Support drawing.................................................................................. 73 3. Modify views in Clamp_Assembly drawing ................................................................................... 80 Detail drawing of Bracket ...................................................................................................................... 87 1. View Generation ............................................................................................................................ 87 2. Editing view layout and properties................................................................................................. 93 3. Dimensioning and Tolerancing .................................................................................................... 100 4. Add annotation and finalize the drawing ..................................................................................... 122
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Adding Drawing Views: Recap Exercises 1. Create a Front Drawing View Objective: Upon completion you will have created the front drawing view for a guide piece using the sketcher tools taught in this lesson. Time: The design documents has allocated15 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to create the necessary views: 1.1 -
Create an empty drawing:
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Click on the New
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Select Drawing to create a new drawing file and select the
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Choose ISO from the Standard pull down and A4 ISO from the Format pull-down. Set the
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Create the Front view:
Select the New View icon from the Drawing toolbar. Place the view as shown.
Create a rectangle 40mm wide and 90mm high. To ensure that constraints are created automatically select the Create Detected Constraints icon from the Tools toolbar.
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To display the constraints select the Show Constraints
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Select the rectangle icon in the Profiles toolbar to create a rectangle. Locate the left bottom point of the rectangle at the origin of the view.
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Press the Tab key to access the tools palette.
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icon from the Tools toolbar.
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Enter 40mm in the Width field. Press the Tab key again and enter 90mm in the Height field.
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Press the Enter key to complete the rectangle.
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Create a horizontal line that offsets the bottom line by 10mm:
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Left click on the bottom line of the rectangle to highlight it.
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Select the Offset
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Press the Tab key to access the tools palette. Enter 10mm.
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Press the Enter key to complete the offset.
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Create a horizontal line that offsets the bottom line by 50mm:
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Highlight the bottom line of the rectangle again.
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icon from the Transformations toolbar. Select the offset Press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette and enter 50mm in the offset field. Press the Enter key to complete the offset.
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Create a horizontal line that offsets the line created in Step 5 by –10mm:
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Highlight the offset line created in step 5.
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Select the offset icon from the Transformations toolbar. Use the Tab key to access the Tools Palette. Enter a 10mm offset. Remember, the location of your mouse with respect to the selected object indicates the positive direction. You may need to enter –10mm to obtain the correct results.
Because curser is above the selected element –10mm must be enter to obtain the required line.
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Press the Enter key to complete the offset.
Create a circle:
Select the Circle by Coordinates icon in the Circles and Ellipse toolbar. Enter 20mm in the H field of the definition dialog box. Enter 90 – 24 in the V field (CATIA will automatically determine the result of the mathematical calculation, i.e., 66mm). Enter a radius of 8mm.
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Once the Circle Definition dialog box is complete select the circle.
button to create the
Round the four outer corners of the rectangle:
icon from the Relimitation toolbar. Select the corner Click on the right edge of the rectangle.
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Click on the top edge of the rectangle.
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Locate your curser between the two edges such that the round will be created in the correct location. Press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette. Enter 3mm in the Radius field.
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Press the Enter key to complete the round.
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Repeat the process used to create the first round on the other 3 outer sides of the rectangle.
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Round the intersection of the top offset line and the side:
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Select the Corner
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Change the trim option to no trim by selecting the Select the right side of the rectangle as the first edge.
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Select the 50mm offset edge as the second edge.
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Move your curser so that it is in the lower left corner of the intersection of the two selected elements. Press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette and enter 3mm as the radius.
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icon from the Relimitations toolbar.
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Press the Enter key to complete the round.
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Create the round on the left side using the same technique.
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Relimit the top offset lines:
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Select the Trim
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Select the Trim First Element option in the Tools Palette. Click on the 50mm offset line. Click on the portion of the line you want to keep.
icon from the Relimitations toolbar.
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Click on the corner to trim the offset edge to the corner.
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Trim the left side of the 50mm offset line using the same technique.
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Save the drawing: Select From the File menu the Save As option. Save the file with the name GuidePieceDrawing.
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2. Create Drawing Top and Section Views Objective: Upon completion you will have created the Top and section drawing views for a guide piece using the sketcher tools taught in this lesson. Time: The design documents has allocated 25 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to create the necessary views: 2.1 • •
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Open the drawing: Click the Open icon. Open the GuidePieceDrawing.CATDrawing file started in the last exercise. If you did not finish the last exercise open Guide_Piece_Front_View_Complete.CATDrawing.
Create the top view:
Select the New View icon from the Drawing toolbar. Create a view below the Front view.
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Double click on the new view to activate it.
Create a rectangle:
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icon from the Profiles toolbar. Select the rectangle Locate the left bottom point of the rectangle at the origin of the Top view.
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Press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette. Enter 40mm for the width and 50mm for the height.
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Press the Enter key to complete the rectangle.
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Create an offset line:
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Highlight the bottom edge of the rectangle.
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Select the offset icon from the Transformations toolbar. Locate the curser so that it is above the selected entity and press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette. Enter 16mm in the offset field.
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Press the Enter key to complete the offset line.
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Create another offset line:
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Highlight the top edge of the outer rectangle.
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Select the offset icon from the Transformations toolbar. Place the curser below the selected element and press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette. Enter 10mm in the Offset field.
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Press the Enter key to complete the offset.
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Round the inner corners:
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Select the corner
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From the Tools Palette select the No Trim Select the right edge of the outer rectangle.
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Select the lower offset line
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Place your curser so that the round is located correctly and press the Tab key to access the Tools Palette.
icon from the Relimitations toolbar.
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Enter 3mm in the Radius field.
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Complete the corner by pressing the Enter key.
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Create rounds on the other 3 inner corners using the same technique.
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Trim the edges of the inner corners:
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Select the Trim
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From the Tools Palette select the Trim First Element option. Select the lower offset line in the area that you want to keep.
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Select on the corner to limit the line to the round.
icon from the Relimitations toolbar.
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Trim the other 3 inner corners using the same technique.
Create section view:
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Re-activate the Front view by double clicking on its blue border.
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Select the New View icon from the Drawing toolbar. Place the view to the right of the front view Note that the view’s name is Left View. We will change the name of the view in a later exercise.
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Create offset line:
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Activate Left View by double clicking on the blue border. Select the V-Axis in the Left View
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Select the offset icon from the Transformations toolbar. Create an offset line that is 10mm to the left of the Left View’s V-axis
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Activate folding lines:
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Place your curser over the blue border for the Front view and right mouse click. From the contextual menu select Front View Object > Show Folding Lines.
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Display the folding lines for the Top View using the same technique.
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Create Profile:
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Select the Profile icon from the Profiles Toolbar. Using the Folding lines as construction lines, select the intersection of the top and left lines.
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Moving horizontally to the right, select the intersection of the top and 2
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Moving down vertically, select the intersection of the 2 the bottom.
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Moving horizontally to the right, select the intersection of the 3 line up from bottom and 3 vertical line from the right
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Moving up vertically, select the intersection of the line below the hole and the 4 line from the right side.
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Moving horizontally to the right, select the intersection of the line below the hole and the right line.
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Moving down vertically, select the intersection of the 3 line below the hole and the right side.
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Press the TAB key and key in 210 in the A field. Press Enter to lock in the angle.
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Using the cursor, Double click on the 10mm offset line to end the profile.
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Select the Profile icon again to finish creating the bottom half of the view geometry. Select the same starting point as the first profile; (i.e., select the intersection of the top and left lines.)
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Moving down vertically, select the intersection of the vertical line and the bottom.
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Moving horizontally to the right, select the intersection of the bottom and the right line.
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Moving up vertically, select the intersection of the right line and the 2
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Press the TAB key and key in 150 degrees (or minus 210 degrees) and press Enter.
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Using the cursor, double click on the 10mm offset line end the profile.
Trim the offset line:
icon from the Relimitations toolbar. Select the Trim Select the 10mm offset line. Remember to click on the portion of the line you want to keep.
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Select one of the created angled lines.
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Repeat the trim process above for the other angled line.
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Create rounds at corners:
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Select the corner
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From the Tools Palette select the Trim All Elements option. rd Select the Top line and 3 right line and position the corner as shown below. Enter a radius of 3mm.
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Create the 3 additional corners as shown below.
icon from the Relimitations toolbar.
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Create lines to represent hole and centerline:
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Select the line icon from the Lines toolbar. Using the Folding Lines as construction lines, select the intersection of the left vertical side line and the horizontal hole line.
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Select the intersection of the tall right vertical side line and the horizontal hole line
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Repeat the process for the bottom edge line of the hole.
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Complete the hole by drawing the centerline. Select the Line icon. Using the construction line, select a location on the hole’s centerline outside the part to the left and then select a location on the centerline outside the part on the right.
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Create a second set of lines to represent a hidden hole:
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Highlight the three lines representing the hole from the last step. (Hold down the CTRL key while selecting entities to select multiple entities at one time)
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Select the Translate icon from the Transformations toolbar. From the Translation Definition panel, set the instance number to 1 and check the duplicate mode. Select on the centerline as the origin point for the translation.
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In the Translation Definition panel, key in a length value of 32 and press
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Using the direction locator, select a downward vertical location.
Hide folding lines and activate the Front view:
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Right click on the blue border of the front view. From the contextual menu select Front View Object > Hide Folding lines.
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Hide the folding lines for the Top view
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Double click on the Front View’s blue border to activate it
Activate Folding lines from the Left View: Right click on the blue border of the Left view Select from the contextual menu Left View Object > Show Folding Lines.
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Create the lines on the front view to represent the cut in the Guide Piece:
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Select the Line icon from the Lines toolbar. Using the folding lines as construction lines, create a line to represent the cut shown in the Left view.
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Create a second line to represent the upper portion of the cut.
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Re-hide the folding lines.
Save and close the drawing:
Select the Save Close the drawing.
icon to save the drawing.
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Add Annotations to drawing 1. Add Annotations to the Car_Jack_Support drawing Objective: Upon completion you will have annotated the Car jack support drawing. Time: The design document has allocated 15 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to dimension the necessary views: 1.1 -
Open Car_Jack_Support.CATDrawing:
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Click the Open icon. Open the car_jack_support_5.CATDrawing file. Activate sheet.2.
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Click the Open icon. Open the Car_Jack_Support.CatPart file. We will use this file in a later task.
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1.2 Equally space diameter dimensions for the farside tapped hole in the breakout view with a 20mm gap between them: • • •
Select all three-diameter dimensions from the breakout view. Hold the key while selecting the dimensions to select more then one at a time. Right mouse click and select Line Up. Select the 4.5-diameter dimension as the reference for the line up.
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Set the offset between dimensions distance to 20mm.
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Click the
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Create Geometric tolerancing:
icon from the Tolerancing toolbar. Click the Datum Feature Select the Right witness line of the 11-diameter dimension and place the dimension as shown.
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Leave the name of the datum as A and click the
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Select the Geometrical Tolerance icon from the Tolerancing toolbar. Click on the 8-diameter dimensions text to place the G-Tol directly below the text
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Enter the information about the Geometric tolerance as shown.
button to place the Datum.
Insert the Diameter symbol by locating the curser in the location where you want the symbol and click in on this icon
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Select the Geometrical Tolerance icon from the Tolerancing toolbar. Click on the 4.5-diameter dimensions text to place the G-Tol directly below the text. Enter the same information into the dialog box as the last G-Tol.
Create Datum B: Click the Datum Feature icon from the Tolerancing toolbar. Select the bottom of the car jack support in the Right View. Place the Datum as shown.
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Select the 75-degree dimension and delete it using the key on your keyboard.
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Click the Text with Leader icon from the Text toolbar in the Annotation toolbar. Select the angled surface and drag the text out from the view as shown.
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Drag the text out from the view; left click to place it as shown.
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Texts as shown, do not click the
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Right click on the text in the view and select Attribute link.
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Use the Window pull down to open the Car_Jack_Support.CATPart and click on the name of the part in the specification tree.
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From the Attribute Link Panel, located the 75Deg angle parameter, highlight it and click the button to insert the link.
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Complete the text as shown and click the
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Select the note; use the handles around the note to resize it as shown.
Create a notes view. Create 3 notes that are equally spaced:
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Click the New View
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Highlight the new view in the specification tree, right mouse click and select Properties from the Specification tree.
icon; place the view as shown.
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Change the name of the view to Notes View.
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Activate the Notes view. Delete the Name and Scale note from the view.
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Click the Point by Clicking icon from the Points toolbar located in the Geometry Creation toolbar. Create a point at the origin of the view.
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Click the Translate Modifications toolbar. Select the Point.
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Ensure that Duplicate Mode is turned on, and set the Instance(s) field to 2. Select the point again as the origin for the movement.
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Enter 5mm as the length value and click the dialog box.
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Move your curser so that the direction of translation is downward and left mouse click to confirm the translation.
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Click the Text icon. Select the point located at the origin of the view as the Anchor point for the note.
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Enter text into the Text Editor dialog box as shown. Click the the text.
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Create the next line of text using the same technique as above. Enter the text as shown.
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Enter the final line of text as shown
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Create a degrees symbol by selecting it from the Insert symbol fly out located in Text Properties toolbar.
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Click the
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Save and close the drawing Save and close the drawing
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2. Add Annotations to Guide_Piece drawing Objective: Upon completion you will have annotated the guide_piece drawing. The dimensions have already been created for you. Time: The design documents has allocated15 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to modify the necessary views: 2.1 •
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Open Guide_Piece.CATDrawing: Click the Open
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Create geometric tolerance in the front view:
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Click the Datum Feature Place the datum as shown.
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Click the Geometrical Tolerance
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Select the top edge as the anchor point for the leader and place the text as shown.
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Enter text as shown and click
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Add tolerance to dimensions: Highlight the 50mm dimension in the section view.
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Right click and select Properties from the contextual menu. From the properties dialog box, change to the tolerance tab. +6 From the Main Value pull down and select 10 -4 ANS_NUM2.
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Enter 0.05 in the Upper Value field and –0.20 in the lower value field. Click the button to complete.
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Highlight the 16-diameter dimension in Section A-A view. From the Dimension Properties toolbar change the Dimension to TOL_NUM2 and set the tolerance to +-0.05.
Add surface finish symbol:
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Click the Roughness Symbol icon. Select the inner horizontal edge from Section View A-A as shown.
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Enter 16 as the roughness value. Use the fly out to select the symbol for removal by machine, as shown.
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Create note:
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icon from the Text toolbar located in the Annotations toolbar. Click the Text with Leader Select the horizontal edge of section A-A view as the anchor point for the leader. Place the text of the view as shown.
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In the Text Editor enter 2. Highlight over the text value 2 in the editor.
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From the Frame fly out located in the Text Properties toolbar select the Hexagon shaped frame. Click the
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Activate Sheet.1 by right clicking on Sheet.1 in the specification tree and selecting Activate Sheet. If the sheet is active the border of all views should be blue.
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Click the Table
icon from the Table toolbar located in the Annotations toolbar.
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Create a table that contains 2 columns and 3 rows. Click the
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Place the Left top corner of the table as shown.
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Double click on the table to activate it.
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Place your mouse over the second column. Your curser changes to a downward facign arrow.
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Right click and select Size > Set Size. Enter 65mm.
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If the table as de-activated, double click on it again to activate. Move your curser into the first cell on the left until it changes into a + symbol. Left mouse click and drag the mouse to the cell to the right of it. Both cells will highlight.
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Right mouse click and select Merge from the Contextual menu.
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Double click again on the table to activate it. Move your mouse over the top cell until it change to a + symbol again. Double mouse click to open the text editor. Enter the text as shown. Click the the cell.
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Highlight the top cell in the table.
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From the Text Properties toolbar change the Anchor point of the text to the center.
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Complete the rest of the table using the same technique as for the first row. Remember to frame the text in the third row first column you must type the text in the editor, highlight the text in the editor then select the correct frame from the Text Properties toolbar.
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Remove the view frames. Save and close the drawing:
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Highlight all view names in the specification tree. Right mouse click and select Properties from the Contextual menu. Turn off the display of the View Frame.
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Click the
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Save and close the drawing.
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Editing View Properties and Layouts: Recap Exercises 1. Modify view and geometry in Drawing view Objective: Upon completion you will have modified the views in the Drawing view drawing started in the last lesson. Time: The design documents has allocated15 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to modify the necessary views: 1.1 • •
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Open Guide_Piece.CATDrawing: Click the Open icon. Open the Guide_Piece_3.CATDrawing file.
Rename Left view to “Section View A-A”: Right mouse click on the Left View’s blue frame. Select Properties from the contextual menu. From the Properties dialog box rename the view to Section View A-A.
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Create a line through the center of the Front view:
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Double click on the Front view’s blue border to activate it.
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Ensure the Create Detected Constraints the Tools toolbar are active.
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Click the Line icon from the Lines toolbar located in the Geometry Creation toolbar. Create a vertical line that run through the center of the Front view.
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Change the line style of the line created in the last step: Select the line created in the last step. Right click and select Properties from the contextual menu. Change the properties of the line to match a cut line as shown.
Change the line style on the lines representing centerlines in the Section view: Select both lines in the section view representing the centerlines for the holes. Remember to select more then one item hold the key while selecting.
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Right mouse click and select Properties from the contextual menu. Change the line style to match a centerline as shown.
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Change cross hatching pattern to Alu 45:
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Select all 3 areas containing cross-hatching. Right mouse click and select Properties from the contextual menu.
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Click on the Browse
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Click on the Alu 45 pattern and click the box.
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Click the
icon to open the Pattern Chooser dialog box.
button to return to the Properties dialog
button to close the Properties dial0g box and apply the change.
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Add centerlines to circle in Front view:
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Activate the Front view
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Click the Centerline icon from the Axis and Thread toolbar located in the Dress-Up toolbar. Select the circle in the front view to create the centerline.
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Move views to clean up drawing. Save and close the drawing:
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Select on a view’s border and holding the left mouse button down, drag the view to a new location. Move view names in the same manor. Select the view name, left click and hold the left mouse button, drag the nametag to the desired location and release the left mouse button to place. Move the views and nametags to the locations shown.
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Save and close the drawing.
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2. Modify views in Car_Jack_Support drawing Objective: Upon completion you will have modified the views in the Car jack support drawing. Time: The design documents has allocated15 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to modify the necessary views: 2.1 • •
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Open Car_Jack_Support_2.CATDrawing: Click the Open icon. Open the Car_Jack_Support_2.CATDrawing file.
Rename Front ISO view to “ISO View 1”: Right mouse click on the front facing Isometric View’s blue frame. Select Properties from the contextual menu. From the Properties dialog box rename the view to Isometric View 1.
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Re-orient Isometric View 1:
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Right click on the Isometric View 1’s border. From the contextual menu select View Positioning > Set Relative Position Click in the Black dot at the end of the positioning stick. It will begin to blink if you have selected it Select on the border of the other Isometric view.
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The black end will snap on the center of the selected view
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Left click on the green handle. Drag the handle so that the two views are horizontal to each other
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Click on the positioning stick. The stick will start to blink Click on the Left center anchor point to move the green handle to this anchor
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Click anywhere on the drawing to complete the repositioning.
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Remove the View name and scale from the Breakout view: Change to Sheet.2. Click on the Nametag for the Breakout view. Press the key on your keyboard to delete the nametag
Modify profile of the detail view: Double click on the detail view callout.
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Recreate the profile as shown.
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Once the new profile is complete click the End Profile Edition Edit/Replace toolbar.
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Change the line style and thickness of the callout: Right click on the Detail view callout and select Properties from the Contextual menu. Modify the line colour and thickness as shown.
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Move views to clean up drawing. Save and close the drawing:
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Select on a view’s border and holding the left mouse button down, drag the view to a new location. Move view names in the same manor. Select the view name, left click and hold the left mouse button, drag the nametag to the desired location and release the left mouse button to place. Move the views and nametags to the locations shown.
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3. Modify views in Clamp_Assembly drawing Objective: Upon completion you will have modified the views in the Clamp assembly drawing started. Time: The design documents has allocated10 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to modify the necessary views: 3.1 • • 3.2 • • •
Open Clamp_Assembly_2.CATDrawing: Click the Open icon. Open the Clamp_Assembly_2.CATDrawing file. Re-orient the Isometric views:
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Right click on the front facing Isometric View’s border. From the contextual menu select View Positioning > Set Relative Position Click in the Black dot at the end of the positioning stick. It will begin to blink if you have selected it Select on the border of the other Isometric view.
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Rename the Isometric view of the back to Isometric view 2: Right mouse click on the front facing Isometric View’s blue frame. Select Properties from the contextual menu. From the Properties dialog box rename the view to Isometric View 1.
Change the scale of the clipped view to 3:1: Change to Sheet3. Right click on the clipped view and select Properties from the contextual menu Change the scale of the view to 3:1.
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Move the Clipped view: Right click on the clipped view’s border From the Contextual menu select View Positioning > Position independently of Reference view. Click on the border of the view and while holding the left mouse button down drag the view to the location as shown.
Resize the name and scale text on all sheets to 7mm. Save and close the drawing: Select the border of a Nametag.
Left mouse click on the blue border about the nametag
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Detail drawing of Bracket 1. View Generation Objective: Upon completion you will have added the views to the bracket drawing. Time: The design documents has allocated 20 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to create the necessary views: 1.1 -
Create a new drawing:
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Click the File Open icon Open the File Bracket.CATPart
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Click the View Wizard icon. st From the first page of the View wizard dialog box. Select the Configuration 2 using 1 angle
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Use the Window pull-down menu to activate Bracket.CATPart. Select the part name in the specification tree. Click on the planar surface as shown.
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Click inside the Reference Element field in the 3D view box. Click the hole as shown on the Front view.
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Click the Detail View icon. Select the bottom of the chamfer as the center of the detail view.
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Drag the circle out from the center as shown. Left click to complete the circle.
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Click the Offset Section View icon. Create a line through the center of the Bottom view. Double click to end the line creation.
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Save the drawing: Save the drawing. Name the drawing “Bracket.CATDrawing”.
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2. Editing view layout and properties Objective: Upon completion you will have modified the views of the bracket drawing. Time: The design documents has allocated 10 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to modify the necessary views. If you did not finish the first part of the exercise open Bracket1.CATDrawing for this exercise: 2.1 -
Remove name and scale tags from Front, Rear, Bottom and Right views:
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Select on a view name/scale tag to highlight it Press the key on your keyboard to delete the tag Repeat the process to delete the name/scale tags from the Front, Rear, Bottom and Right views.
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Change the scale of detail view to 4:1 and move the view
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Right click on the border of the detail view. From the contextual menu, select Properties.
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Change the scale of the view to 4:1. Click the button to complete. Left click on the border of the view and drag the view as shown.
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Click the Replace Profile icon. Recreate the profile for the detail view as shown.
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Change the location of arrowhead: Right click on the Section view callout. Select Properties from the contextual menu. Change the anchor point for the arrow to the tail.
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Relocate any name and scale tags or views, if necessary. Save the drawing: Move the views and tags about the drawing until it appears as shown.
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3. Dimensioning and Tolerancing Objective: Upon completion you will have dimensioned and added geometric tolerancing to the Bracket drawing. Time: The design documents has allocated 20 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to dimension and tolerance the necessary views. If you did not finish the last part of this exercise, open Bracket2.CATDrawing: 3.1 -
Create hole dimension table:
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Activate the Rear View. Highlight the 5 holes in the view. Hold down the key while selecting geometry to select all the holes.
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Place the table, but left mouse clicking.
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Move your curser over the top cell until it turn to a + symbol. Left mouse click to highlight the cell.
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Right mouse click and select Line-Up from the contextual menu. Select the edge of the geometry as shown as the reference.
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Left click and hold the mouse button down to drag the 10, 20, and 30-diameter dimensions as shown.
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From the Dimension Properties toolbar change the leader line to 2 parts.
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Create Chamfer dimension on Detail view:
Click the Chamfer Dimensions icon. Select the chamfer edge as shown.
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Click the Geometrical Tolerance icon. Select the text of the 20-dimeter dimensions.
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Highlight the 15mm diameter dimension in the Right view. From the Dimensions Properties toolbar change the Main value to a tolerance.
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4. Add annotation and finalize the drawing Objective: Upon completion you will have dimensioned and added annotation and finalized the Bracket drawing. Time: The design documents has allocated 20 minutes to complete the project. To assist you if you need, a series of detailed step-by-step directions has been provided on the following pages. Detail Steps: The following detailed task and instructions give you our recommendations to annotate and finalize the drawing. If you did not finish the last part of this exercise, open Bracket3.CATDrawing: 4.1 Create notes view. Rename the view to Notes View. Remove the Name and Scale tag from the view:
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Highlight the Name/Scale note in the view and press the key on your keyboard to delete the tag.
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Click the Text icon. Select the point created at the origin of the Notes view as the Anchor point.
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Enter the text as shown. Click the
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Click the Roughness Symbol icon. Select the edge in the Bottom view as shown.
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Use the Pull-down to select Ra. Enter a value of 10. Change the Surface Texture symbol to Material Removal Prohibited by expanding the fly-out and selecting the appropriate icon.
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Add pre-defined title block. Name the Drawing “Bracket”. Complete the Checked By
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