Overview
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Learn Class A surfacing techniques. Discover how to create the highest quality surfaces in CATIA V5.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Create the highest quality surfaces in CATIA
- What you should know
- What is Class A surfacing?
- Constituent components and terminology
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary geometry
- Continuities to adjacent elements
- Options
- Common tools
- What are splines?
- Using Project, Intersect, and Combine
- How to parallel a curve
- Refresher on Extrude and Revolve
- What are NURBS surfaces?
- Applying blend surfaces
- Creating mesh surfaces
- Secondary operations
- Match surfaces
- How to create offsets
- Trims and splits
- Joining elements
- Distance analysis
- Visualization tools
- Extending geometry
- Converter Wizard
- Display tools
- Curve shape analysis
- Creating the top and bottom slabs
- Creating the front and end slabs
- Extending slabs
- Corner blends frame curves
- Corner blend surfaces
- Top blends
- Initial set up of the tertiary blends
- Tertiary blend surfaces
- Splitting the slab surfaces
- Joining the trimmed elements
- Final fillet
- Relationships to neighboring geometry
- Modifications
- Learn more about Class A surfacing
