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deevamp40
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Sheet Metal Design in CATIA V5

01/20/2010 8:06 AM

Dear Frnds;

Recently i went through a series of Sheet metal design..i came across a problem in drawing curved shapes(Bend shapes) in CATIA...but this bend plate extends from one surface to another,,,,i used the extrude command to solve this...but not helpful.Actually i made 2 walls and created similar cut outs on the both walls & the the cut outs are clean curves of dia 400(walls are spaced at a distance).Now I am trying to create a wall joining these cut profiles(sheet metal size-2mm); so that this finally becomes a bracket(C-shape)..Could anybody help me solve this problem?
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Re: Sheet Metal Design in CATIA V5

01/20/2010 11:25 AM

You may need a boat design program such as Nautilus, from New Wave Systems.

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Re: Sheet Metal Design in CATIA V5

01/21/2010 3:43 PM

I believe that you mean a "lofting" program that is indeed offered by New Wave. Lofting is used in ship building to layout complex curves + shapes.

I am not familiar with CATIA so I cannot comment on its functionality or limitations but it should be able to generate 3D B-Spline [NURB] surfaces - as does ProSurf [a module from New Wave].

If CATIA does not generate NURB surfaces and shapes suggest you look into Pro Surf or other CAD applications such as SoidWorks or VectorWorks. Solidworks is fairly expensive and VectorWorks is much less so but lacks the machine design capability of Solidworks but has extensive and powerful 3D extrusion capabilities.

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