Aerospace Sheet Metal Design CATIA V5

Aerospace Sheet Metal Design
CATIA V5 Training
Student Notes:
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Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES
Aerospace Sheet
Metal Design
Version 5 Release 19
January 2009
EDU_CAT_EN_ASL_FF_V5R19
About this course
Student Notes:
Objectives of the course

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Manage Sheetmetal parameters
- Create and modify the design of a Hydro-formed Sheetmetal Part
- Generate and draw a flattened part
- Create a Knowledge Expert Check using characteristic curves
Targeted audience
Aerospace Designers
Prerequisites
Students attending this course should have knowledge of Part Design,

Assembly Design, and Wireframe & Surface Design
8 hrs

Student Notes:
Table of Contents (1/4)

Introduction to Aerospace Sheet Metal Design
ASL Workbench Presentation
ASL Parameters
Loading Data
Modifying Default Thickness and Bend Radius
Modifying Default Bend Allowance
Choosing Joggle Compensations
Runout Formulas
Creating the Web

Creating the Web
Creating a Surfacic Web
Modifying the Web
Creating a Surfacic Flange

Intersecting Surfacic Flanges on a Web
Modifying a Surfacic Flange
Creating a Corner Relief

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8
12
13
15
16
17
18
20
21
23
25
26
27
34
35
36
37

Student Notes:

Modifying a Corner Relief
Create Corner or Chamfer on Sharp Edges
Creating a Joggle
Creating a Joggle by Depth
Creating a Joggle with an Input Surface
Joggle Run out Formulas
Modifying a Joggle
41
42
45
47
48
Creating Flanges other than Surfacic Flanges
49
Creating a Flange
Create a Hem
Create a Tear Drop
Create a User Flange
Modifying Flanges other than Surfacic Flanges
50
51
52
53
54
Creating a Cutout
Creating a Cutout
Modifying a Cutout
Creating Stamps
39
40
Creating a Flanged Hole
55
56
61
62
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Student Notes:

Creating a Bead
Creating a Circular Stamp
Creating a Surface Stamp
Creating a Flanged Cutout
Creating a Stiffening Rib
Creating a Curve Stamp
Creating a User Stamps
Modifying a Stamp
Creating a Hole
Creating a Hole
Creating a Circular Cutout

Modifying a Circular Cutout
Point or Curve Mapping
Duplicate ASL Feature by applying a Pattern
Modifying a Feature
Modifying a Feature
Generating Folded and Flattened parts
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65
66
67
68
69
70
72
73
74
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
87

Student Notes:

Folding / Unfolding the Part
Using Multi-View
Flat Solid linked to ASL Designed Part
Drawing Generation
Drawing Generation
Administration
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
About Standards
Setting Standard Parameters
Setting Parameters for a Designer
Customizing Standards Files to define Design Tables
How to use Knowledge Expert
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89
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Introduction to Aerospace Sheet Metal Design
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn about main features of Aerospace Sheet Metal Design
workbench
ASL Workbench Presentation (1/4)
Student Notes:
Modifying CATIA environment

Tools > Option > General
General
User Interface Style: CATIA P3
Accessing the Workbench

Student Notes:

User Interface : General Presentation
Product tree
Sketcher
ASL tools
ASL features
Standard
tools

Student Notes:

User Interface : ASL Tools
Sheet Metal Default

Parameters
Creating a Web
Creating a Joggle
Creating a Flange
Unfolding / Folding the Part
Creating a Cut Out
Creating a Hole
Creating Stamps
Point and Curve Mapping

Creating Corner and Chamfer
Creating a Pattern
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Student Notes:

User Interface : ASL Tools
Creating Corner and Chamfer
Creating a Flange
Flange
User Flange
Corner
Hem
Chamfer
Tear Drop
Creating Stamps
Flanged
Creating Pattern
User Stamp
Hole
Bead
Circular Stamp
Curve Stamp
Stiffening Rib
Flanged Cutout
Rectangular User Pattern

Pattern
Circular Pattern
Surface Stamp
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ASL Parameters
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn the setting parameters of an Aerospace Sheet Metal part
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Loading Data (1/2)
Student Notes:
You can link parameters table files such as Extruded Hole Std or Bead Std for
example as well as Joggle Compensation Methods to the Sheet Standard . xls file,
just by indicating their name in the corresponding column.
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Loading Data (2/2)
Student Notes:
Prior to utilizing such design table you should declare correct path where
parameters tables are stored
Tools > Options > General > Document
Other Folders / Configure ,or
DL Name Allowed and Configure
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Modifying Default Thickness and Bend Radius
Click the Sheet

Metal Parameters
icon
Student Notes:
Before starting to generate the part it is necessary to set

default parameters such as Thickness and Bend Radius
Select the Parameters Tab
Set Thickness and Bend

Radius entering directly the
values
Another way to set parameters is to open a Sheet Standards Files and

accessing to the design table by the corresponding button
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Student Notes:
Modifying Default Bend Allowance

A formula is associated to the K factor and could be deactivated (Right Button
Formula Deactivate)
Select Bend
Allowance tab
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Student Notes:
Choosing Joggle Compensations
Select Joggle
Compensation
method
Select Run out

calculation
method and
coefficient
Select one run

out formula out
of 3 types
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Student Notes:
Runout Formulas (1/2)
Default Formula :
Runout = Coeff * Depth
No Formula : erases
formulas on ALL
part joggles
Design Table Formula :
choose a path to an .xls or .txt file
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Runout Formulas (2/2)
Student Notes:
There is a particular syntax to use in order to create the design table.

As you can see on the picture, it can be described as follows :
The A Column (Formula Names) contains String Parameters
The B and C Columns contain Real Parameters (no unit)
The D Column contains Length Parameters (unit)
The E Column (Formula Bodies) uses previous Real & Length parameters (a1, a2,
a3) for its own
formulas (as you can see, not all existing parameters must be used in the formula)
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Creating the Web
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn creating the web.
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Creating the Web (1/2)
Student Notes:
The web is the fix feature when we unfold the part
A. Click the Web icon

B. Select a plane or a close
sketch which support the
web
C. Select curves, planes or surfaces to

define the limits of the web.
The limiting elements must intersect.
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Creating the Web (2/2)
Student Notes:
D. As soon as selected elements

make a closed area, a preview
of web is suggested
The contour must be selected
in the logic sequence.
If necessary Select Web
Material Direction.
Reverse by clicking on the red

arrow which is perpendicular
to the web support.
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Creating a Surfacic Web (1/2)
Student Notes:
A. Click the Web icon
B. Select a surface that can be

developed, even a curved one,
which supports the web
C. Select a reference wire and an invariant

point as references for the unfolding of the
web.
The reference wire must be located on one
of the limits and the invariant point on the
reference wire.
Select curves, planes or surfaces to define

the limits of the web.
The limiting elements must intersect.
As soon as selected elements make a
closed area, a preview of web is suggested
The contour must be selected in the logic
sequence.
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Student Notes:
Creating a Surfacic Web (2/2)

Extrude.4
Folded View
D. If necessary Select Web

Material Direction.
Reverse by clicking on the
red arrow which is
perpendicular to the web
support
Extrude.3 Folded
View
Use this corner as

Invariant Point
Project.1 Folded
View
Extrude.2
Folded View
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Student Notes:
Modifying the Web

Modify the web by accessing the Web Definition dialog box
1. Double-click the Web feature in the tree
2. Change Support Geometry or Boundary Elements
3. Select a Boundary Element it becomes then a

Reference Element and you can then:
Add After
Add Before
Replace
Remove
Insert
You can also Remove All elements
Multiple Sel. option is available when

Add After or Add Before are activated
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Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create a Surfacic Flange.
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Creating a Surfacic Flange (1/7)
Student Notes:
Selecting the Base Feature

A. Click the Surfacic Flange icon
B. Click the Base Feature

tab
C. Select the web or a flange as

Base Feature
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Student Notes:

Select the
support type
Selecting the Support : Support Type

Support type :
A. Exact : the support is the surface
geometry selected
Click the
Support tab
A
B. Approximation : the selected surface is

approximated into a ruled surface and
the maximum deviation can be
computed according to an
approximation length
C. Angle : the surface of the flange is
defined by a curve an angle and a
support length
C
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Student Notes:

Selecting the Support : Flange Directions
Flange Support
Select Directions (Reverse by clicking on

the corresponding red arrows) :
A. Flange Direction
B. Flange Material direction

C. Flange Base Feature Direction
Flange Base
Feature
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Student Notes:

Define the Edge Of Part (EOP)
Select the type

flange length
A. Length From OML : length between the curve

defining the top of the flange and the Outer Mold
Line (OML)
A
B. Element FD (Folded) : Boundary element is a surface

or a plane which intersects the flange surface or a
wire projected on the flange surface
C. Element FP (Flattened) : Boundary element is a
surface or a plane which intersects the flattened
flange surface or a wire projected on the flattened
flange surface
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Student Notes:

Defining Sides and Corners :
Select each Side type
Click the Sides and

Corners tab
SIDE TYPES
Standard: they are automatically defined at
the web limit and the perpendicular plans are
kept (the user doesnt have to define them)
None: no side computed (only the EOP is able
to define them)
Element FD: they can be defined by a
geometrical element FD (Curve or surface)
Select each
Corner type
CORNER TYPES (angle defined

between the EOP and the sides)
Corner: between the side and the
EOP (defined with a radius value)
Element FP: they can be defined by a

geometrical element FP (Curve or surface)
Two texts indicate

Flange Sides
(Side & corner 1
Side & Corner 2)
None: No corner computed (only the

EOP is able to define the contour of
the flange)
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Student Notes:

Process tab: Manufacturing Process and specific K_ Factor
Manufacturing process
Hydro pressed or Break
Formed
(information only for the
current CATIA release)
General K_Factor
can be locally
altered for a
specific Surfacic
Flange
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Student Notes:

Compensation tab: Joggle and Flange Sides Compensations
Apply or not Joggle Compensation method

selected in Sheetmetal Parameters definition
Choose Flange Sides

Compensation method
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Intersecting Surfacic Flanges on a Web
Student Notes:
It is possible to intersect two surfacic flanges on a web. This means that you
can choose as a support a web with an existing surfacic flange that will go
through the new surfacic flange.
The intersecting flanges are automatically detected, and the geometry of the
first flange is relimited to enable the creation of the second flange; the
unfolded view is computed accordingly. You can then remove the sharp
vertex in the corner by creating a corner relief or a cutout at the intersection
of the surfacic flanges.
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Surfacic Flange

A. Double Click the Flange in the part or in the tree and the Flange Definition
dialog box is displayed
B. Modify desired parameters and click OK to validate
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Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create a Corner Relief
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Student Notes:
Creating a Corner Relief (1/2)

Setting corner relief parameters
Part must be flattened
A
A. Click the Fold/Unfold icon to

flatten the part
B. Click the Corner Relief icon

C. Select both involved flanges
D. Select the sketch of the corner relief

profile or access to standard contour
catalog or enter the Sketcher
workbench to create the profile
C
D
Support Redefinition option is used

when user wants flanges sides to
be impacted (lengthened) by corner
relief profile
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Student Notes:
Creating a Corner Relief (2/2)

Setting corner relief parameters
E. The red arrow determines the material
side to be removed. Change direction
if necessary
E
Flanges
selected
Web
F. Update the part if necessary

G. Fold back the part
Corner relief profile
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Corner Relief

A. Double Click the Corner Relief in the tree when the part is flattened
and the Corner Relief Definition dialog box is displayed
B. Modify desired parameters and click OK to validate
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Student Notes:
Create Corner or Chamfer on Sharp Edges

1
Select Corner
or Chamfer icon
Key Radius value
Select Edges to be worked or

Select all
2
In case of chamfer
definition you will first
have to choose the
type Length1/Length2
or Length1/Angle
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Creating a Joggle
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn about creating a Joggle
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Student Notes:
Creating a Joggle by Depth (1/3)

Using a flange
The vector normal to the joggle

plane determines the side on which
the joggle is to be created (run out) Click the
Joggle icon
A. Select the flange as joggle

support
B. Select the joggle plane
Result
C. Select the role of the plane

D. Select Depth Type
Joggle
direction
Flange
Web
The vector normal to
the flange support
determines the depth
direction
The selected plane
either start the joggle
or end it.
Joggle plane
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Student Notes:

Setting joggle parameters
Depth : offset at the support
surface
E.
Run out : length between the

original surface of the flange and
the new surface.If desired you can
deactivate formula
F.
Clearance : offset between the

Joggle Plane and the end radius
G.
Start Radius : radius linked

with the original surface
H.
End Radius : radius

linked with the new
surface
D.
D
E
F
G
H
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Student Notes:

Using a web
B
C
A. Click the Joggle icon
B. Select the Web as joggle

support
C. Select the joggle plane and the
role of the plane
D. Select Offset Type as Depth
Result
Web
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Student Notes:
Creating a Joggle with an Input Surface (1/2)

B
Using an offset surface

C
A. Click the Joggle icon

B. Select the flange as
joggle support
C. Select the joggle plane

and the role of the plane
D. Select Surface Type
Joggle direction
Offset Surface
Joggle plane
Flange
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Creating a Joggle with an Input Surface (2/2)
Student Notes:
The parameters work the same way as with a depth except for the offset surface which
obviously replaces the depth parameter. We get this result at the end :
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Student Notes:
Joggle Run out Formulas
Default: Coeff *Depth
None : no formula
Design Table : chosen

Formula of the table
Design Table :
Resulting run out
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Joggle
A. Double Click the Joggle in the tree and the Joggle
Definition dialog box is displayed
B. Modify desired parameters and click OK to

validate
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Creating Flanges other than Surfacic Flanges
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create Flanges using various options
Creating a Flange
Click the pull down arrow

and select the desired icon
Hem
Tear Drop
Flange
User Flange
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Student Notes:
Creating a Flange
Click Flange icon
Select Spine
Choose Basic or Relimited option, If

Relimited you will then select two
relimiting elements
Select OK
Key Flange parameters: Radius, Length, Angle
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Student Notes:
Create a Hem
2
1
Select Spine
Click Hem icon
Select OK
Select Basic or Relimited option, If

Relimited you will then select two
relimiting elements
Key Flange parameters: Radius, Length
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Student Notes:
Create a Tear Drop
Select Spine
Click Tear Drop icon
Select OK
Choose Basic or Relimited option, if you

select Relimited option then you need to
select two relimiting elements
Key Flange parameters: Radius, Length
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Student Notes:
Create a User Flange

Click User Flange icon
Select Spine
4
5
Select OK
Select Profile
Choose Basic or Relimited option, if you

select Relimited option then you need to
select two relimiting elements
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Modifying Flanges other than Surfacic Flanges
Student Notes:
1. Double Click the Flange in the specification tree or on the geometry itself and the
appropriate Flange Definition dialog box is displayed
2. Modify desired parameters and/or specification elements and then click OK to
validate
Step 1
Step 2
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Creating a Cutout
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create a Cutout
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Student Notes:
Creating a Cutout (1/5)

Creating a profile as Cutout profile
Create a sketch on the web

surface or on a flange surface
Define a closed contour
Exit the sketcher
Click the Cutout icon to display the

Cutout Definition dialog box
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Student Notes:

Using a profile : Setting cutout Parameters
Select Sheetmetal standard or Sheetmetal pocket

option. Sheet metal standard for sheet passing
through cutout. Sheet metal pocket for depth
smaller than sheet thickness
5
6
Three End Limit Types are available :

Dimension : depth is define by a specific value
Up to next : the limit is the first face the application
detects while extruding the profile
10
Up to last : the application will limit the cutout onto the

last possible face encountered by the extrusion
Select the profile previously created with the sketcher
Select the material part to keep : click on the Reverse

Side button or on the orange arrow
Determine the cutout side : click on the

Reverse Direction button or on the red arrow
10
7
9
Lying on skin allows selection of a 3D

curve as profile definition
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Student Notes:

Inserting a profile instance from a catalogue
Prior to inserting profile instance from catalogue, you should set up
catalogue access through Tools / Options / Mechanical Design / Aerospace
Sheet Metal
Select the Open Catalogue

icon
Select the Power Copy

Family Object or User
Feature Family Object
Click the Cutout icon to

display the Cutout
Definition dialog box
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Student Notes:

Inserting a profile instance from a catalogue (contd)
4
4
Double click on
Slot_contour
5
5
Select the web plane as

Ref_Plane input, a point as
Ref_Point and a line as
Ref_Axis for orientation
purpose
Select Parameters
Select Design table icon and/or

modify Angle value
Select 8th row
Click OK and Close all

windows related to contour
instantiation
7
8
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Student Notes:
Inserting a profile instance from a catalogue (contd)
10
Check that orange arrow is

pointed inside the profile
and click OK
10
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Cutout
A. Double Click the Cutout on the part or in the tree and the Cutout Definition dialog
box is displayed.
B. Modify desired parameters and click OK to validate.
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Student Notes:
Creating Stamps
In this lesson you will learn to create and modify Stamps
Creating Stamps
Click the pull down arrow

and select the desired icon
Bead
Flanged
Hole
User Stamp
Flanged
Curve Stamp
Cutout
Surface
Stiffening
Stamp
Rib
Circular
Stamp
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Student Notes:
Creating a Flanged Hole
Click the Flanged Hole icon
Select a point
previously created
Select the surface

where you want to
place the hole
Change parameters, such as radius,

angle, flat pattern by entering values
or using Standards Files
Select Design table icon to select

parameters (example to follow)
5
Change the hole
direction by clicking on
the orange arrow and
select OK
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Student Notes:
Creating a Bead
1
Web
Surface
Click the Bead icon
2
Select the wire the
bead will rely on
3
Change parameters by entering
values or using Standard Files
5
4
parameters
Modify Bead direction by

clicking the orange arrow if
needed and click OK
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Student Notes:
Creating a Circular Stamp
Click the Circular stamp icon
Select a point
previously created
3
Select the surface
where you want to
place the hole
4
values or using Standards Files

parameters
5
Change the stamp direction
by clicking on the orange
arrow if needed and select
OK
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Student Notes:
Creating a Surface Stamp

1
Click the Surface stamp icon
Select a closed contour

previously created
3
parameters
Change the stamp direction by

clicking on the orange arrow if
needed and select OK
Example with Opening Edge
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Student Notes:
Creating a Flanged Cutout
Click the Flanged Cutout icon
2
Select a closed contour
previously created

parameters
Change the stamp direction

by clicking on the orange
arrow if needed and select
OK
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Student Notes:
Creating a Stiffening Rib
Click the Stiffening Rib icon
Select the external face

of a straight bend

parameters
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Student Notes:
Creating a Curve Stamp
2
1
Select a
wire
previously
created
Click the Curve

stamp icon
Change parameters by entering values or

using Standards Files
Select Design table icon to select parameters
Example of Half Pierce
5
Change the stamp
direction by clicking
on the orange arrow
if needed and select
OK
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Creating a User Stamps (1/2)
Student Notes:
Create a User Stamp

Before actually creating the user stamp, you should first define or import
the punch and eventually the die that will later be used for actual
stamping
Import the Punch from a

catalog into a specific Body
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Student Notes:
Creating a User Stamps (2/2)

2
Select User
Stamp icon
3
4
Select outer face of bend

you want to punch
Select appropriate icon:

With Die or With opening
Select Punch Body

and Position on
context option
Punch Body
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Stamp
A. Double Click the stamp to be
modified
B. Modify desired parameters and
click Preview if you wish
C. Click OK to validate
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Creating a Hole
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create a Hole
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Student Notes:
Creating a Hole (1/4)

C
A. Click Hole tool

B
B. Select a point on the web

C. Select the web
D. Choose a bottom limit for
the hole
E. Specify the values as
needed
D
E
Blind
F. Specify the direction of the

hole
G. Position the hole on
the web
Up To Next
Up To Last
D
G
F
H
Up To Plane
Up To Surface
H. Choose a bottom type

for the hole
Flat bottom
V bottom
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Student Notes:

I.
Select the type of hole

I
Simple
Counter bored
J. Select the Bottom Type of a threaded

hole
Tapered
Countersunk
Counter drilled
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Student Notes:

K. Specify other Thread Parameters
Hole Diameter, Pitch, Right or Left-Threaded, Add or Remove
Standards
To add or remove one or several

standards, you can use these two
buttons.
By default, the Hole Diameter is

automatically calculated in accordance
with the Thread Diameter and the
Standard. You can modify it to get a nonstandard thread .
By default, the Pitch is automatically

calculated in accordance with the Thread
Diameter and the Standard. You can
modify it to get a non standard thread.
You can choose a Left or RightThreaded hole by selecting one of these

two options.
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Student Notes:

L. Specify Deformation
You can create a cylindrical hole in

folded and unfolded view by clicking
on No Deformation option in the
Deformation tab.
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Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to create a Circular Cutout
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Student Notes:

A. Create a point on the web
B. Select Circular Cutout

icon
C. Select the point previously

created
D. Select web as support
E
C
E. Select additional points if

necessary
F. Select type of hole

G. Enter Diameter value
and click OK
D
F
G
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Student Notes:
Modifying a Circular Cutout
A. Double Click the Circular Cutout

on the part or in the tree and the
Circular Cutout Definition dialog
box is displayed
click OK to validate
C. Click Preview if you wish
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Student Notes:
Point or Curve Mapping

1
Select Point or Curve

mapping icon
2
Select the Context ASL
Feature (the one from which
transformation is deduced)
Select Elements to be
mapped
Mapping can be done from

3D to 2D and conversely
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Duplicate ASL Feature by applying a Pattern

1
Select appropriate
Pattern icon
Student Notes:
Rectangular, Circular or
User defined Pattern
Select Feature to be
duplicated
Fill in all fields

necessary for Pattern
definition and select OK
82
Modifying a Feature
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to modify a feature
83
Modifying a Feature (1/3)
Student Notes:
Accessing feature definition window
A. Double Click the Feature to be

modified on the part or in the
tree and the Feature Definition
dialog box is displayed (ex. :
the first flange definition)

click OK to validate ( here we
suppress the first corner of the
flange).
Update if necessary
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Student Notes:

Modifying Sketcher Support
1. Edit the sketch linked to
the feature to be modified
(ex. : the first Cutout
definition)
Two ways:
A. Double-click on the
sketch in the tree
B. Edit the feature

definition window
and click the
Sketcher button
3. Exit the sketcher and

update if necessary
2. Modify the closed

contour
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Student Notes:

A. Change to WFS workbench
A
B. Modify a support surface. Here we modify

the offset of a flange support surface
C. Change to ASL workbench and update
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Generating Folded and Flattened parts
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to Fold / Unfold a part.
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Student Notes:
Folding / Unfolding the Part
2. Select the Unfold icon

again and the part is
folded back
1. Select the Unfold icon to

flatten the part according to
the web
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Student Notes:
Using Multi-View
2. Select Window > Tile Horizontally menu item to

display both windows
1. Click the Multi-View icon to

unfold the part in a second
window
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Flat Solid linked to ASL Designed Part
1. Copy the Part Body out

of the ASL designed part
Student Notes:
2. Paste As Result With Link

Flat mode into another part
or in another Body of the
same part
You obtain a Solid (linked to

initial ASL part) where you
can add on Excess and Tabs
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Drawing Generation
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn to generate a drawing of an ASL part.
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Student Notes:
Drawing Generation
1
Change to Drafting
Workbench and select an
empty sheet
3
Select a place on the sheet
where to locate the
flattened view
Select the Unfolded

View icon
Select the web

on the part
NB : the characteristic curves

are generated in the drawing
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Administration
Student Notes:
In this lesson you will learn Administration Tasks.
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About Standards
Student Notes:
Standards are embedded in the sheet metal part

Standards are administrator-defined
A standard file is available by default
Editing the standard file
The standard file can be edited using an interactive editor. This editor provides
an easy-to-use graphic interface to let you customize the parameters included
in the standard file.
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Student Notes:
Setting Standard Parameters

Administrators can for instance :
Customize the graphic properties of characteristic curves in both 3D (Aerospace
Sheet metal Design workbench) and 2D views (Generative Drafting workbench).
Manage the visibility of all characteristic curves (BTL, IML, OML and 2nd OML) in
folded and unfolded 2D views through standards.
Visible curves
Invisible curves
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Setting Parameters for a Designer
Student Notes:
The designer can also Manage the visibility of all characteristic curves
(BTL, IML, OML and 2nd OML) in folded and unfolded 2D views through
standards. in Tools/Options/Mechanical Design/Aerospace Sheet Metal
Design with the display tab)
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Customizing Standards Files to define Design Tables
Student Notes:
In the Sheet metal Parameters Window, you can choose the sheet standard files
and then select the values you want in the given design table.
In the example below, you can see that the thickness and default bend radius are
driven by design tables, hence they are grayed out (i.e. you cant modify the values)
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How to use Knowledge Expert
Student Notes:
In order to perform a clearance check, you can use the characteristic curves like IML
and OML in Check formulas, in the Knowledge Expert Workbench
Thus you can see if the security clearance is verified or not
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To Sum Up
Student Notes:
In this course you have learned how to:

Manage sheet metal parameters
Create and modify the design of an Hydro formed Sheet Metal Part by defining
its internal features:
Web
Surfacic Flanges
Joggles
Different kinds of flanges
Corner Relieves
Cutouts
Different kinds of Stamps
Holes
Points and Curves Mapping
Corners and Chamfers
Patterns
Generate a flattened part
Draw a flattened part
Fulfill some administration tasks
Create a Knowledge Expert Check using characteristic curves
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