CATIA V5 Tutorials Mechanism Design & Animation

This book of tutorials is intended as a training guide for those who have a basic familiarity with part and assembly modeling in CATIA V5 Release 16 wishing to create and simulate the motion of mechanisms within CATIA Digital Mock Up (DMU).

The tutorials are written so as to provide a hands-on look at the process of creating an assembly, developing the assembly into a mechanism, and simulating the motion of the mechanism in accordance with some time based inputs. The processes of generating movie files and plots of the kinematic results are covered. The majority of the common joint types are covered. Students majoring in engineering/technology, designers using CATIA V5 in industry, and practicing engineers can easily follow the book and develop a sound yet practical understanding of simulating mechanisms in DMU.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. A Block with Constant Acceleration along a Prismatic Joint
3. An Arm Rotating about a Revolute Joint
4. Slider Crank Mechanism
5. Sliding Ladder
6. A Gearing Mechanism
7. Ellipse Generator Mechanism
8. Cam-Follower Mechanism
9. Planetary Gear Mechanism
10. Telescopic Mechanism
11. Robotic Arm
12. Single Cylinder Engine
13. Universal Joint Mechanism
14. C-clamp Mechanism
15. A Mechanism with Coriolis Acceleration
16. Prelude to Human Builder Workbench
17. Exercises
Appendix I: Additional Functionalities, Tips and Tricks