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Hey guys before we start learning Catia/Solidworks lets try and understand
where and how it is used in an industry.
Lets take another example of plastic bottle and see where and how CAD
engineers are used. So suppose you are working in a Product development
Company as a Mechanical Engineer. A client approaches you to design a
bottle for some juice. He will detail out its intent, goals and objective and
what your job will be.
While modeling the bottle you have to keep various things in mind like- It
should be easily manufacturable -DFM. Least no of parts should be present
as each assembly will require a separate assembly line and will increase
the cost. If at all you are adding an extra part there should be a strong
reason. You should be aware of the technical challenges that may come
up. You should be aware of the processes it will go through. In this case a
bottle can either be made through injection blow molding or extrusion blow
molding.
Another important aspect of any product is how good it looks on the shelf.
People will buy a product only if it stands out in the market. Hence
aesthetics plays a very important role too. So your design of bottle needs to
be attractive.
Now once you have designed it considering all the factors it then goes to
PE( Predictive team) who takes care of the fact how it well it perform.
The design team in above case uses softwares like Catia, Solidworks and
Creo.
This PE team uses analysis softwares like Ansys. In this case it has to do
a number of analyses like say the bottle travels on the conveyor at 50m/s. It
should not fall or topple. The PE team simulates the bottle and finds out the
optimum speed at which the bottle topples. Then comes the filling where in
case of carbonated drinks CO2 is filled at high pressure say 14bar.The
bottle should withstand this pressure , it should not burst. Then comes the
capping of bottle with a certain top load and torque. This again needs to be
simulated and analyzed. Then the load acting during transportation needs
to be analyzed. Also the optimim ergonomic force required to break open
the seal is very important. MVTR and OTR is analysed. All these analysis
are done for different models of bottle given by ME team and for different
materials like PET, PP, PE etc. If the design fails at any stage the PE team
reflects back to ME team and changes in designs are made.
Hence important thing to know is Catia and Ansys are just tools which can
be learnt at any stage of your career but make sure you know what are the
functional requirements of the product you are about to design, what
manufacturing processes are used to make them, what technical
challenges you may face in the design and how it behaves in real life
scenario. What forces or temperature changes it undergoes etc.
These softwares can be very helpful in your minor projects and major
project as well.
So in this course we will first go for design. You can design in Catia,
Solidworks or Ansys Design modular. We will start with 2D sketching. Basic
concept remains ,same in all the softwares like using line, circle,
rectangles, constraints etc.
CATIA
1-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNIzlVJbVo&list=PLcOeiatg_KSkw791
-vUj8Dk3aXnG7FzhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJS6WYh5_o&list=PLcOeiatg_KSkw7
91-vUj8Dk3aXnG7FzhA&index=82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQ55KhR5bI&index=81&list=PLcOeia
tg_KSkw791-vUj8Dk3aXnG7FzhA
Complete first 20 videos in this series and complete the assignments given
below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1Ub864wks&list=PLkMYhICFMsGaj
eARsY7N1t1jhbtMb1poL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5b73IgBZ6o&list=PLkMYhICFMsGajeA
RsY7N1t1jhbtMb1poL&index=2&spfreload=10
Continue and watch till 22 videos and try to complete the assignment.
I could not find good 2-D sketch videos. Get used to Ansys using these
videos and complete the assignment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N7WXFON_Nc&list=PLd23hHm4FCRf
LsPEX0vigz7I7ZZntg2zX
At least 6 tutorials.
ASSIGNMENT-1
ASSIGNMENT-2
Above are two easy sketches. As soon you submit the above you will get
more and better assignments. Mail me a snapshot of your model. If you
have any doubts regarding anything feel free to ask me.
If possible try to tell what does the circles, ellipse and rectangles in above
signify. Every feature in a sketch has a reason. Dont just draw them try to
read and understand them.