The majority of the common joint types are covered.
The processes of generating movie files and plots of the kinematic results are covered. The tutorials are written so as to provide a hands-on look at the process of creating an assembly, developing the assembly into a mechanism, and simulating the motion of the mechanism in accordance with some time based inputs. This book is intended to be used as a training guide for those who have a basic familiarity with part and assembly modeling in CATIA V5 Release 21 wishing to create and simulate the motion of mechanisms within CATIA Digital Mock Up (DMU). Typically, the differences are not even noticed by a beginner.ĬATIA V5 Tutorials Mechanism Design and Animation Release 21 is composed of several tutorial style lessons. The tutorials are based on release 21 however, other releases can also be used with minor changes.
However, it is assumed that the user is familiar with CATIA V5 Release 21 interface and basic utilities such as pan, zoom, and rotation. The reason behind the simplicity is not to burden the reader with the CAD aspects of the package. In this workbook, the parts created in CATIA are simple enough they can be modeled with minimal knowledge of this powerful software. However, the best strategy to learn is to sequentially cover the chapters. The chapters are designed to be independent of each other allowing the user to pick specific topics without the need to go through the previous chapters. The objective of this tutorial book is to expose the reader to the basic FEA capabilities in CATIA V5 Release 21.