21ASC225L – Aircraft Component Drawing

SOFTWARE : CATIA V5-6 R2014

 List of Practices Or Exercises
• Practice:1 Introduction to CATIA and Mechanical design modules
• Practice:2 2D layout of aircraft fuselage bulkhead and wing rib section
• Practice:3 3D design of landing gear components
• Practice:4 3D model of aircraft Wing Structure
• Practice:5 3D model of aircraft fuselage Structure
• Practice:6 3D model of aircraft Tail wing Structure
• Practice:7 3D design of Propeller hub assembly
• Practice:8 Assembly of Landing Gear components.
• Practice:9 Assembly of Typical Aircraft.
• Practice:10 Drafting of Typical Aircraft

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 CATIA
(Computer-Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application)

Mechanical Design - modules

• Sketcher – For creating 2D Profiles or views
• Part design – For Creating 3D solid models
• Wireframe and surface design – For creating surface models
• Assembly design – For assembling the components
• Drafting – Converting a 3D model in to orthographic / Isometric
Projection

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 Modules – Tool bars

Sketcher Part design Wireframe and surface design

• View • Sketch based features • Surfaces
• Sketch tools • Dress up features • Wireframe
• Profile • Transformation features
• Operation • Operation
• Reference element
• Constraint
• Workbench

Assembly design Drafting

Product structure • Views
Constraints • Dimensions
Move • Annotations
Space analysis
• Geometry creation
• Geometry modification

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 Sketcher

View

Profile

Operation

Constraint &
Workbench
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 Part design

Sketch based
features

Dress up features

Transformation features

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Reference element 6
 Wireframe and surface design

Surfaces

Operation

Wireframe
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 3D BULKHEAD

2D BULKHEAD
front view
 Ex 1a – Introduction to catia - sketcher
• Brief introuduction of CATIA
• Explain briefly the 5 mechanical modules that will be used.
• Explain in one or two sentences the functions all the
commands in the toolbars used in sketcher which is frequently
used ( Which was explained in the class).
• The above mentioned writing content should be in RHS and in
LHS paste the corresponding Tool bars.

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 EX 2a - 2D layout of aircraft fuselage bulkhead
• Write the following in RHS
– Aim
– Commands used
– Procedure
– Conclusion
• In LHS
– Paste the verified worksheet
– Paste the final printout of the work you have done (which was saved
as PDF)

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 Deadline
• Exercise verification
– DO2 batch – 25-07-2023 (Tuesday)
– DO4 Batch – 27-07-2023 (Thursday)
• Observation submission dead line
– DO2 batch – 28-07-2023 (Thursday)
– DO4 Batch – 31-07-2023 (Monday)

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