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    This document provides a review exercise for creating a composite part in CATIA. It walks through manually creating plies to define half a laminate, then using symmetry to create the other half. It also covers renaming plies and viewing a cross section of the completed laminate.

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    This document provides a review exercise for creating a composite part in CATIA. It walks through manually creating plies to define half a laminate, then using symmetry to create the other half. It also covers renaming plies and viewing a cross section of the completed laminate.

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    This document provides a review exercise for creating a composite part in CATIA. It walks through manually creating plies to define half a laminate, then using symmetry to create the other half. It also covers renaming plies and viewing a cross section of the completed laminate.

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    291 views10 pages

    Manual Ply Creation Rev

    Uploaded by

    Imam Munadi Anies
    This document provides a review exercise for creating a composite part in CATIA. It walks through manually creating plies to define half a laminate, then using symmetry to create the other half. It also covers renaming plies and viewing a cross section of the completed laminate.

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    The document discusses how to create composite laminates in CATIA including defining materials, creating plies manually and symmetrically, and viewing the cross-section.

    A composite material is defined in CATIA by selecting the Composite Parameters icon, adding materials from a material catalog, and defining parameters such as material directions.

    The steps to create plies manually in CATIA are to create a ply group on a surface, add plies using contours, and define ply attributes such as material and direction using the ply table.

    CATIA Composites Review Exercises

    CATIA V5R20

    This section will review the concepts and operations discussed in the previous sections of this manual. Manual Ply Creation Review Exercise In this section, manual plies will be created to define a composite part. The plies for the first half of the laminate will be created manually. Next, the user will create the plies for the top half of the laminate by creating symmetric plies. Finally, the user will rename the plies using a ply table. Open the Manual Ply Creation model. The model contains wireframe and surface geometry for the initial definition of the composite part.

    Switch to the Composites Design workbench if you are not already there.

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    Select the Composite Parameters icon. appears.

    CATIA V5R20

    The Composites Parameters window

    Select the Add Materials button. The Add Materials window appears.

    Select the Browse icon in the window.

    A File Selection window appears.

    Browse to the models directory and select the WSU Composite Materials document to define the Material Catalog. Select Open. The catalog is defined. Review Exercises, Page 2

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    Select Fiberite Graphite Fabric from the list and select OK. Only one material will be used in this exercise. Remove the default material direction. You will only need the four standard material directions. Select OK to the Composite Parameters window. The parameters are defined. First a ply group will need to be created to define the location for the plies to be stored. Select the Plies Group icon. The Plies Group window appears.

    Select the surface from the display to define the Surface option. The draping direction should be pointing upwards. Select the axis system in the display to define the Rosette. Select OK. The plies group is created. Now the plies will be created for the composite part.

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    CATIA V5R20

    Select the Ply icon and select the Plies Group.1 branch in the specification tree. The Ply Definition window appears.

    Select the Add icon in the window. The Contour window appears. Select the curve in the display to define the contour. A green checkmark should appear in the Contour window, specifying it is a closed contour.

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    Select OK. The Ply Definition window reappears.

    CATIA V5R20

    Select the Attributes tab and set the Material to be Fiberite Graphite Fabric and the Direction to be 0. This will define the first ply Select OK. The ply is created.

    Right select on Sequence.1 in the specification tree and select Copy from the contextual menu. Right select on Plies Group.1 and select Paste from the contextual menu. A second sequence and ply has been created.

    Notice the name of the ply matches the original ply. This will be fixed eventually. The new ply will use the same contour and the same attributes as the original. The attributes will also need to be adjusted eventually.

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    Create three more copies as shown.

    CATIA V5R20

    Double select on the ply under Sequence.5. The Ply Definition window will appear. Select the contour in the window and select the Modify button. The Contour window appears. Select the curve as shown.

    Select OK to the Contour and Ply Definition windows. The ply has been modified to be only a partial ply. Keep in mind this could also have been done by using a limit contour. In many cases creating a limit contour will be easier and more efficient. Now the attributes of the plies need to be updated.

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    Select the Interactive Ply Table icon. The Interactive Ply Table window appears. You may have to adjust the options in the Column button to get the window to appear exactly the same.

    Select the Lock icon to unlock the table.

    A warning will appear.

    Select OK. Now the options in the table can be modified. Modify the Direction for each ply as shown.

    Select OK. This defines the bottom half of the laminate.

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    Now the plies will be symmetried to create the other half of the laminate. Select the Creates Symmetric Plies icon.

    CATIA V5R20

    The Ply Symmetry window appears.

    Select the Plies Group.1 to define the Selection for the operation. Be sure the Non pivot option is selected and select OK. The plies are symmetried as shown.

    Now the names of the plies need to be fixed. Select the Interactive Ply Table icon again. appears. The Interactive Ply Table window

    Unlock the table again so you can make modifications. Select the Ply option for the Selection Mode and select all of the plies in the window. You will want to use the Shift key.

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    In the Rename section, set the Name to be PLY and the Nb of Digits to be 3 as shown.

    Select the Rename button. The plies are renamed as shown. You may have to expand the Ply column to read the full names.

    Select OK. The laminate is finished. Now we will take a quick look at the cross section. Select the Ply Section icon. The Ply Section window appears.

    Select the Plies Group.1 to define the Selection. Select the Cross Section Plane from Geometrical Set.1 to define the Sectioning Plane.

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    Set the Scale factor to be 5 and select OK. The cross section should appear as shown if you rotate the model around.

    Notice the laminate is completely symmetric. This provides an easy method for creating a very simple layup of plies without having to define any zones. Keep in mind that if you wanted to have any staggering in the plies that are dropped off, you would have to create wireframe curves to be able to manually select the shape of each ply. For this reason, this method only works well for pretty simple laminates. Save and close the document.

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