Overview

What's New?

User Tasks

General Information

About Composites Geometry

About Draping Direction and Reference Surface Consistency

About Materials and Laminates

About Rosette and Rosette Transfer Type

Defining the Composites Parameters

Adding Materials

Adding Directions

Adding Laminates

Adding Rosettes

Adding a Master Stacking Sequence

Adding Ramp Definitions

Defining Ranges of Values for a Material

Using Non Crimp Fabrics

Upgrading Composites Models

Retrieving Models from V4 Covering

Upgrading pre-R15 Composites Models

Upgrading pre-R18 Composites Models

Upgrading pre-V5-6R2013 Composites Models

Upgrading pre-V5-6R2019 Composites Models

Creating Preliminary Design

Defining a Contour

Defining a Zones Group

Defining a Zone

Defining a Transition Zone

Refining a Transition Zone

Importing a Laminate

About ITP and ITP Height

Creating an ITP Height

Creating an ITP

Running the Connection Generator

Analyzing Zones Bridges

Creating a Stack-up File From Zones

Creating a Stack-up File from Core Samples

Creating a Solid From Zones

Creating an Associative Solid From Zones

Updating the Solid

Creating a Drop-off

Slicing a Solid

Creating Plies with a Grid Approach

About Drop-off

Defining the Panel

Defining the Grid

Managing the Virtual Stacking

About the Virtual Stacking Management

About Lock Symmetry

Using the Virtual Stacking 2D Viewer and Options

Using the Virtual Stacking Contextual Menus

Highlighting Data in the Virtual Stacking

Using Miscellaneous Virtual Stacking Tools

Recomputing the Virtual Stacking from the Grid

Maximizing the Symmetry

Merging Domains in the Virtual Stacking

Creating a New Stacking Area in the Virtual Stacking

Checking Ply Rules in the Virtual Stacking

Editing Rows in the Virtual Stacking

Valuating Cells

Applying a Laminate from a Master Stacking Sequence

Managing Modified Stress Data

Generating the Plies from the Virtual Stacking

Creating a Top Surface from the Virtual Stackings

Checking Plies Groups for Coincident Edges

Specifying a Ramp Definition

Creating a Ramp Support

About Default Staggering and Reference Element Edition

Creating Multi-Parallel Curves

Swapping Edges

Creating a Local Drop-Off

Managing Drop-Off

Re-routing Plies

Creating Angle Cuts Manually

Using the Grid Angle Cut Wizard

Synchronizing from the Virtual Stacking

Relimiting Plies

Importing/Exporting the Composites Design

Merging Grid Definitions

Assembling Plies Groups by Merging Plies

Creating Plies

Defining a Plies Group

Creating Plies From Zones

Creating Plies from Slicing

Creating or Editing Plies Manually

Creating a Variable Core

Creating a Core

Creating a Stack-Up File From Plies

Reading a Stack-Up File From Plies

About Limit Contours

Creating a Limit Contour

Creating Limit Contours for Plies from Input File

Creating Darts

Creating a Symmetric Plies Stacking

Creating/Deleting Symmetric Plies

Merging Plies

Creating a No Drop-Off Area

Adding Material to Plies Manually

Using the Material Addition Wizard

Removing Ply Shells

Merging Stackings

Creating Rounded Corners on Contours

Creating Top Surfaces and Solids

About Iso-Thickness Areas

Creating Iso-Thickness Areas

Using the Junction Lines Wizard

Creating Junction Lines

Creating the Solid

Creating a Solid From Plies

Taking Variable Cores into Account in Solids or Top Sufaces

Analyzing

Displaying Information on the Fly

Using the Stacking Management

Using the Stacking Management 2D Viewer and Options

Selecting Plies in Stacking Management

Selecting Core Samples in Stacking Management

Reviewing Area, Length and Center of Gravity

Displaying Information in the Stacking Management

Filtering Rows in the Stacking Management

Editing Rows in the Stacking Management

Performing Cut/Copy/Paste in the Stacking Management

Moving Rows in the Stacking Management

Previewing Entities in the Stacking Management

Using the Stacking Management in Selection Mode

Checking Contours

Creating Ply Sections

Retrieving the Properties of a Beam Section

Exploding Plies

Creating Multiple Core Samplings

Previewing the Rosette

Performing a Numerical Analysis

Exporting Data

Exporting Ply Data

Exporting To XML

Managing Laser Projections

About Laser Projection

Creating a Laser Projector

Exporting a Laser Projection

Reading Laser Projection Files

Creating a Ply Book

Splice Zone

Creating a Butt Splice Zone

Creating a No Splice Zone

Creating a Gap Offset on a Splice Zone

Creating Splice Plies

Creating Splice Plies from Producibility

Creating Manufacturing Process

Preparing for Synchronization

Creating a Manufacturing Document

Synchronizing a Manufacturing Document

Swapping the Skin

Swapping the Skin with Wrap Curve

Defining the EEOP

Defining the MEOP

Defining the Material Excess

Creating Additional Geometries

Creating Stacking Texts

Creating Stacking Texts on Plies

Adding a Stagger Origin Point

Producibility and Flattening

Managing Producibilities

About Composites Fiber Modeling

Creating a Producibility for Fiber Placement

Creating a Producibility for Hand Layup

Editing the Producibility Table

Inspecting the Producibility

Displaying the Fiber Direction

Flattening Plies

Categorizing Flatten Body Elements

Transferring a Geometry from 2D to 3D

Unfolding Plies

Mirror Part

Creating a Mirror Part

Synchronizing a Mirror Part

Interoperability with Knowledge Expert

Composites Interoperability

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Composites Design

Working with Surfaces

Smoothing Curves

Joining Surfaces or Curves

Healing Geometry

Simplifying Surfaces

Integration With Generative Shape Design

Creating Points

Creating Planes

Creating Lines

Creating Circles

Unfolding a Surface

Transferring Elements

Integration With Drafting

Creating a Drawing

Producing Drawings with Generative View Styles

Composites Design Parameters in Generative View Styles

Integration With FTA

Linking an Annotation to Composites

Workbench Description

Composites Menu Bar

Grid Composites Menu Bar

Composites Toolbars

Grid Composites Toolbars

Specification Tree

Customizing

Glossary

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