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Introduction
CATIA Version 5 Assembly Design
Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the
following topics:
- Inserting models into an assembly
- Manipulating models in an assembly
- Constraining models in an assembly
- Using advanced methods to insert and constrain assemblies
- Analyzing assemblies for clashes and gaps
- Modifying assembly components and updating assemblies

Assembly Design
Very few finished designs are a single part. Usually a finished design consists of several to
millions of individual parts to define them. This is where CATIA V5 assembly design is
utilized. Assembly design allows parts and small assemblies of parts to Be
inserted to make larger, more complete products. In CATIA V5 Part Design and Sketcher, you
Learn how to generate parts. The primary Objective of this class is to Use Those
parts to create a complex assembly of parts Those That Can Be Used Later in stress analysis, kinematics, fitting
simulations, and Other areas.
It is important to Understand That Some of the terminology uses CATIA
When working with assemblies. There Are Basically three types of documents That Are Used in assembly design.
They Are the overalls assembly, sub-assemblies and individual models. CATIA uses the word
products to Refer to assemblies and parts to refer to individual models. Puede
use parts to create products and in turn use Then Those Other products to produce products. The diagram
Shown Below Represents the concept of the overalls structure.
The first product at the top is Generally Regarded As the assembly , Where the two products underneath Are
That Are Generally Regarded As sub-assemblies of this assembly. This in turn
assembly Could be Used to create an assembly bigger events at Some Other Time, or the sub-assemblies
Could Be Used as sub-assemblies of a Different assembly. With this concept in mind
an assembly Be Aware That Could Be a very complex document due to STI
Ability to Have Multiple Levels of sub-assemblies and parts. BecPattern Apples to pre-defined pattern to a component
New Component Allows the insertion of parts as details
New Product Inserts a new product assembly
Into the New CDM CDM Component component inserts a new Part
New Inserts a new part Into the assembly
Existing Component Inserts an existing component

Assembly Design

The first section of this manual will Involve Inserting, Creating, and Replacing documents
and Other Components in the assembly design. Those documents Can Be a Variety of Things
Including Other parts and assemblies. Inserting Documents

All of the assemblies created in this first section will Not Need To Have constraints added to
Them Properly position. The first assembly that will be built is a basic hand drill.

Start a new product document. This can be accomplished by selecting the new icon and
selecting product. You need to make sure you are in the assembly design workbench before
continuing. To switch to the assembly design workbench select the change workbench icon
and then select assembly design.
One of the most important ideas to keep in mind with assembly design is that all parts must
have an unique id. The assembly should also have an unique id, especially if it is going to

be used as a sub-assembly.

Press button 3 on the mouse while on Product1. This will bring up the contextual menu
for Product1.
Select Properties and then the Product Tab. This is where various information about the
assembly, as well as individual parts can be stored. Filling in all of the information is not
necessary, but can become quite useful to a down stream user. For now, the Part Number is
the only field that will be changed, but feel free to fill in any of the other fields.