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1、Chapter Nine,DRAWING USING SURFACES,115,To start your SURFACES drawing, go to new drawing, choose PART. Once the Part screen appears, click on START, choose MECHANICAL DESIGN, and then WIREFRAME and SURFACE DESIGN. New icons will appear, and these are the ones you will use for your SURFACE drawings.
2、,116,The first thing you will want to do is layout your guide lines. You can do this by choosing POINT from the toolbar, and putting them where you need them.,The first one you place is at the origin, or 0,0,0. Hit OK.,Then place one at x=50 and one at x= -50 so that you are working off of a referen
3、ce point.,117,Now we will profile an auto body,Choose LINE from the toolbar, and the Line Definition dialog box will appear.,In LINE TYPE, pick Point-Point, then choose the x=50 point as point 1 and x=-50 as point 2. Hit OK.,Now we can copy the newly created line over 25mm. To do this click TRANSLAT
4、E from the toolbar, choose the line as ELEMENT, ZX plane as the direction and 25mm as the distance.,118,We can now RENAME the first line we made as Centreline. To do this, put your pointer on the line to highlight it and right click on it. Then choose PROPERTIES.,At the Properties screen, choose the
5、 Feature Properties tab (click on “more” if you get the short dialog box) highlight name be clicking on it and type centreline.,Hit OK to return to the work view. Now we can start to make the auto body shape.,119,Choose the ZX plane and then click on SKETCHER. It is here that we are going to put in
6、the points to define the basic car shape as shown.,Pick point and lay out the points roughly as shown. (If you double click point, it will stay active to do more than one point at a time).,Now choose SPLINE and join all of the points to form one smoothly curved line. This is now your basic car shape
7、.,120,Now we can do a few TRANSLATIONS at the same time. First, click the TRANSLATE icon, then Sketch1 is the element, ZX plane is the Direction and distance is 25mm.,Choose Translate again. This time Translat.1 from the specification tree is the element, ZX plane is again the direction, and the dis
8、tance is 85mm. Rename this line centeline2.,121,We now need to add some lines to the front and back of the car to guide the surfaces there. Join the centreline and translat.1 with a line. Rename it SIDE SURFACE GUIDE.,Now TRANSLATE that line 20mm in using Side Surface Guide as the element, Translat.
9、1 As the direction. Rename it Side Surface Centre. Join the other end of the car with a line, but do not translate it, as we will use Side Surface Centre as the centre of the curved surface.,122,Now make the first surface using EXTRUDE. Click on the icon, in the dialog box pick Translat.2 as Profile
10、. ZX Plane as Direction and extrusion Limit 1 as 25mm. Reverse direction if needed, and click OK. Rename it TOP.,123,Now click the SWEEP icon. Choose CIRCLE as the Profile type.,With the Guide Curve tab picked, choose Translat.1 as the Guide Curve 1.,124,Now pick the Center Curve tab. Centreline2 is
11、 the Center curve, Translat1 is the Reference angle curve. Enter 20 in the angle 2 area. Now click OK.,125,Now we can do the front and back surfaces,Choose SWEEP again and enter the information as done here using the previously renamed lines,126,Your car should begin to take shape now. We will do th
12、e same thing for the back,127,For the back side, side surface guide 2 will be Guide Curve . Notice we are going to rotate this surface around the same center as the front one. Enter the Center curve information as shown.,Rename Sweep1 as “Side”, Sweep2 as “Front” and Sweep3 as “Back”. Now we can beg
13、in to TRIM the overlap.,128,This is the TRIM icon. We will use this to trim off the overlapping surfaces.,Once you click on the TRIM icon, the TRIM DEFINITION dialog box will appear.,First, choose TOP as Element 1 and SIDE as element 2. You will notice that on your part, an overlap will turn opaque.
14、 I this is the part you want to remove, hit OK, if not, click on the “Other side of element 1or 2” button. Once the correct part is opaque, click Apply and OK.,For the other 2 trims, follow what is shown. Trim 1 and Trim 2 can be chosen from the tree, but they are simply the TOP surface, renamed by
15、Catia.,129,Here is half of the basic car shape with the extra lines removed,They can be removed by Right Clicking on the line you wish to remove and clicking on Hide/Show.,130,Now make the other half of the car. Click the SYMETRY icon, and enter Trim3 as Element and ZX Plane as Reference.,131,Now yo
16、u can make the 2 halves into one whole with the JOIN icon. In the Dialog Box, click on Trim3 and Symetry1 then OK.,132,Now we can make the part a solid. Go to Part Design.,133,Click on CLOSE from the toolbar and click on Join1 for Object to close.,134,Now your basic car body shape is SOLID. Ready for you to Fillet, Pocket, Render, or refine to your specifications.,135,