CATIA V5 Composite Design

Overview

This 5 day Composites Design Course is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the CATIA Composites Design Workbench. Covering both Composites Engineering; the definition of zones, plies, limit contours, staggering, laminate stack, cores, composites/stack information and Composites Manufacture; the producability analysis, transfer to production tool form, ply flattening, splicing, darting, inspection, ply export and ply book generation. From the course students will be able to develop CATIA Composite parts from the initial surface form through to the ply book detailing all the cutting and placement details.

Contents

• Introduction to the CPD workbench
• Preliminary design, Composite materials catalog & laminate parameters
• Defining zone groups, zones and transition zones
• Generating and editing a Stack up from zones
• Geometry creation from zones
• Ply creation from zones and manual ply generation
• Limit contour creation/modification and staggering definition
• Creating multiple ply and core groups
• Query the engineering part for ply and stack information
• Geometry creation from plies
• Drawing and reviewing the composite model
• Generation of the manufacturing part
• Production surface replacement and material excess
• Producability analysis
• Modification for production; splicing and darting
• Ply flattening
• Synchronisation of engineering and manufacturing information
• Ply book generation and ply export

Prerequisites

CATIA V5 Fundamentals

CATIA V5 Basic Surfacing (GS1) or higher

Documents

CATIA V5 Composites Course Overview 91kb