3DEXPERIENCE CATIA Assembly Design: Collaborative Product Structure & Kinematics

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About Course

This comprehensive course equips you with the essential skills to efficiently design, manage,
and analyze complex product assemblies within the collaborative Dassault Systems 3DEXPERIENCE platform, leveraging the CATIA Assembly Design workbench. You will learn to build multi-component product structures, define mechanical relationships between parts, and manage design iterations and configurations. Beyond basic assembly creation, this training highlights the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE environment for concurrent engineering, enabling seamless collaboration across design teams, robust data management, and the ability to perform early-stage interference checks and basic kinematic simulations. You will gain proficiency in creating intelligent, adaptable assemblies that are prepared for manufacturing, analysis, and product lifecycle management.

Course Content

Navigating and Managing Assemblies within the 3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Environment

Understanding the 3DEXPERIENCE interface and its dedicated apps for assembly management (e.g., Product Structure Editor, Collaborative Tasks).
Creating new product structures and efficiently adding existing components (parts and sub-assemblies) to an assembly.
Utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE “Bookmark Editor” and “Product Explorer” for efficient navigation and data retrieval within large assemblies.
Leveraging the platform’s lifecycle management capabilities for revision control, maturity states, and managing configurations of assembled products.

Building Intelligent and Parametric Assembly Structures

Performing Essential Assembly Management Operations

Analyzing and Validating Assembly Designs

Building Intelligent and Parametric Assembly Structures:

Performing Essential Assembly Management Operations

Analyzing and Validating Assembly Designs

Implementing Basic Kinematics and Movement Analysis

Collaborating and Sharing Assembly Data within the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

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Course Content

Navigating and Managing Assemblies within the 3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Environment

Understanding the 3DEXPERIENCE interface and its dedicated apps for assembly management (e.g., Product Structure Editor, Collaborative Tasks).

Creating new product structures and efficiently adding existing components (parts and sub-assemblies) to an assembly.

Utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE “Bookmark Editor” and “Product Explorer” for efficient navigation and data retrieval within large assemblies.

Leveraging the platform’s lifecycle management capabilities for revision control, maturity states, and managing configurations of assembled products.

Building Intelligent and Parametric Assembly Structures

Mastering the use of various assembly constraints (e.g., Coincidence, Contact, Offset, Angle, Fix) to define the precise mechanical relationships between components.

Understanding the hierarchy of assembly structures and effectively organizing components into sub-assemblies for clarity and performance.

Applying “Flexible Sub-Assemblies” to allow movement within a sub-assembly while it’s constrained in a higher-level assembly.

Implementing best practices for creating robust and adaptable assemblies that respond predictably to design changes.

Performing Essential Assembly Management Operations

Effectively manipulating components within the assembly (e.g., moving, rotating, duplicating, instantiating).

Understanding and utilizing “Replace Component” functionalities to manage design iterations and supplier alternatives.

Applying advanced instancing methods, including patterns (rectangular, circular, user-defined) for efficient placement of multiple components.

Leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE search and filter capabilities to quickly locate and manage specific components within complex assemblies.

Analyzing and Validating Assembly Designs

Understanding the 3DEXPERIENCE interface and its dedicated apps for assembly management (e.g., Product Structure Editor, Collaborative Tasks).

Creating new product structures and efficiently adding existing components (parts and sub-assemblies) to an assembly.

Utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE “Bookmark Editor” and “Product Explorer” for efficient navigation and data retrieval within large assemblies.

Leveraging the platform’s lifecycle management capabilities for revision control, maturity states, and managing configurations of assembled products.

Building Intelligent and Parametric Assembly Structures:

Mastering the use of various assembly constraints (e.g., Coincidence, Contact, Offset, Angle, Fix) to define the precise mechanical relationships between components.

Understanding the hierarchy of assembly structures and effectively organizing components into sub-assemblies for clarity and performance.

Applying “Flexible Sub-Assemblies” to allow movement within a sub-assembly while it’s constrained in a higher-level assembly.

Implementing best practices for creating robust and adaptable assemblies that respond predictably to design changes.

Performing Essential Assembly Management Operations

Effectively manipulating components within the assembly (e.g., moving, rotating, duplicating, instantiating).

Understanding and utilizing “Replace Component” functionalities to manage design iterations and supplier alternatives.

Applying advanced instancing methods, including patterns (rectangular, circular, user-defined) for efficient placement of multiple components.

Leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE search and filter capabilities to quickly locate and manage specific components within complex assemblies.

Analyzing and Validating Assembly Designs

Conducting comprehensive interference detection and clash analysis to identify potential issues between components early in the design process.

Utilizing sectioning tools to visualize internal assembly structures and check for design clearances.

Performing basic measurement operations within the assembly context to verify dimensions and distances.

Generating Bill of Materials (BOM) and other assembly reports directly from the 3DEXPERIENCE product structure for manufacturing and procurement.

Implementing Basic Kinematics and Movement Analysis

Defining mechanical joints and mechanisms within the assembly to simulate real-world movement.

Performing basic kinematic simulations to validate the functionality and range of motion of the assembled product.

Understanding the principles of degrees of freedom and how constraints affect component movement.

Leveraging the visualization capabilities within 3DEXPERIENCE to present and communicate assembly functionality.

Collaborating and Sharing Assembly Data within the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Utilizing 3DEXPERIENCE “Collaborative Tasks” and “Issues” to manage design reviews, assign tasks, and track resolutions related to assemblies.

Understanding the concepts of “Reserve” and “Unreserve” for managing multi-user access to assembly components.

Publishing and sharing assembly models for review with stakeholders using 3DEXPERIENCE web-based viewers.

Integrating assembly designs with other engineering disciplines within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, such as simulation (Abaqus, Simulia) and manufacturing (DELMIA).

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