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A dedicated workbench for CATIA Weld Design 1 (WD1) ... including Assembly Design 1 relevant toolbars and a dedicated welding toolbar. As the CATIA Weld Design 1 (WD1) product is focused on welded assemblies, user has in a single workbench all the tools to deal with the whole assembly welding process. A set of productive and intuitive tools to create welding operation... User is guided through the specification of the welding process thanks to an intuitive and interactive dialog box. Depending on the weld type, he is invited to select 2 to 4 geometries. Then, welded elements are automatically created, and can be easily modified through the same smart interface. Automatic preparation of the parts to be welded... Depending on the type of weld user chooses and the specifications he previously defined, CATIA - Weld Design 1 (WD1) will automatically prepare the parts to be welded, creating associative assembly features in addition to the weld physical element. Length of preparation can be controlled by the user, it allows to weld several parts on the same edge of a given part. The preparation can optionally be achieved on the contact zone on the welded part, instead of the whole edge. Associative 3D geometry and 2D annotations preserving design intent... Welds created with CATIA - Weld Design 1 (WD1) generate 3D geometry and 2D annotations. User can design his weld with full flexibility and advanced productivity, because he gets a full consistent associativity (weld creation and preparation) in case of moving, replacing, deleting or modifying parts. User Define Weld for a complete flexibility... This ability gives user the ability to declare any part as a representation of weld. The advantage is that user can create a non-standard weld but the system will handle it as a weld. So that, it will be considered for drafting, mass, inertia, material application and all downstream use of welding elements. Integration within Drafting... Welds are automatically generated in the views, section views and section cuts and impacted by the Hidden Line Removal visualization mode of the assembly. 2D Welds annotations are also automatically created. Integration within 3D Design... Mass and the inertia of the weld ribbons are added to the mass and the inertia of the whole assembly so that User, specifying the weld material, can perform relevant calculation. Welds can also be integrated in the clash collision of the assembly. The weld attributes can be taken into account in Knowledgeware products as geometric parameters (length, width?) or technological parameters (quality?). CATIA - Weld Design 1 (WD1) gives user advanced design productivity and a reliable way to incorporate the weld process into the global 3D assembly design and its integration in the Digital Mock-up. |
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