ANSI, ASME and CATIA V4

Hello sivaramakrishnan:

ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ASTM - American Society of Testing and Materials

ASME establishes the standards of engineering practices and methods, in an effort to spread competency throughout all practicing engineers. They establish such standards as required material thickness (e.g. required wall thickness for boilers under certain pressure), as well as material choices, testing etc.

ANSI doesn't actually establish standards, rather gives accreditation for them. Many of these standards are on a basic level, such as thread profiles & dimensions, etc.

ASTM establishes standard methods of testing for materials and processes, such as Rockwell and Brinell hardness tests.

These three bodies help keep the nation on the same page with each other by setting standards across the board.

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This is the ANSI site. It explain all about the different type of standard. You may need to sign in?

Let me know if this is useful to you OK?

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ya its useful about the commands used in Catia v4 as whole. But i didnt get a direct ans.Thanx Babybear.

Hello sivaramakrishnan:

ya its useful about the commands used in Catia v4 as whole. But i didnt get a direct ans.

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What is the difference between ANSI and ASME.

>>> In CATIA V4 how to convert elements in <<< ANSI to ASME? Please clarify.

As you see the two agencies you mention and what they do below.

ASME is the ones who set the standards for materials, and they way they should be used.

ANSI is an accreditation organisation who 'run the tape' over plans and or finished designs and give them credence or not.

Unless you refer to specific rules about specific methods and materials to be used, I cannot see how these two (ASME and ANSI) can be correlated.

There is no 'conversion factor' to use at all!

Personally I have never used CAD. So please forgive me if I am wrong. But I have given you enough info' for you to establish if indeed there is any correlation between these two organisations. Without physically being there and explaining how to use your software, the best I can do is offer help by sending you advice and the address of 19200 pages of Tutorials and forums. I simply cannot give any more advice.

I think you can see by the dearth of comment from other members just what they may be thinking about your question. Especially since you have asked the same thing in at least two or three other sites and got no answers.

Try asking CR4 a restyled question and see what happens. I suggest you ask it in the 'Software & Programming' Forum this time.

ASME establishes the standards of engineering practices and methods, in an effort to spread competency throughout all practicing engineers. They establish such standards as required material thickness (e.g. required wall thickness for boilers under certain pressure), as well as material choices, testing etc.

ANSI doesn't actually establish standards, rather gives accreditation for them. Many of these standards are on a basic level, such as thread profiles & dimensions, etc.

ASTM establishes standard methods of testing for materials and processes, such as Rockwell and Brinell hardness tests.

If you search for 'CATIA V4' it should also list any tutorials. If not this is the first of almost 20,000 pages of tutorials from google:

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