As an experienced user in the basics of Pro/ENGINEER, this course enables you to become more productive by extending your modeling and assembly abilities with advanced functionality and techniques. This extensive hands-on course contains numerous labs and practice exercises to give you practical experience so that you can perform your job better.
AutoCAD Training Prerequisites
Pro/ENGINEER: Introduction to Solid Modeling I & II and Pro/ENGINEER: Core Update 2001 to Wildfire 2.0 or equivalent Wildfire experience.
AutoCAD Training Topics
- Assembly management
- Restructure
- Creating parts and features
- Controlling external references
- Merge & Cut Out, Intersections
- Copy Geometry features
- Inheritance features
- Simplified Representations
- Interchange Assemblies
- Assembly relations
- Layers and Suppression
- Display Styles
- Assembly family tables
- Assembly duplication tools
- Packaging
- Resolved failed features
- Blends and swept blends
- Skeleton models
AutoCAD Training Course Duration
16 hours
AutoCAD Training Course outline
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Assembly Design Philosophies
Default Datum Planes
Parts and Subassemblies
Assembly Features
Assembly Relations
Assembly Regeneration
1.2 Component Placement
Constraints and Offsets
References
1.3 Revision Tools
Edit Definition
Edit References
Reorder
Insert Mode
1.4 Assembly File Management
Rename
Save a Copy
Backup
1.5 Assembly Design Approach
Skeleton Models
Parts in Assembly Mode
Chapter 2 Advanced Component Placement
2.1 Repeating Components
2.2 Reference Patterns
2.3 Component Interfaces
Exercise 2a Advanced Constraints
Exercise 2b Component Interfaces
Chapter 3 Assembly Management
3.1 Layers in Assembly Mode
Display Status
Save Status
Editing Layers
Default Layers
3.2 Suppress and Resume
3.3 Restructure
Exercise 3a Working with Layers
Exercise 3b Assembly Restructure
Chapter 4 Assembly Family Tables
4.1 Creating Assembly Family Tables
4.2 Modifying Family Tables
Modifying non-family tables
Adding Components to the Generic Model
Adding Components to an Instance
Deleting Components from an Instance
Deleting Components from the Generic
Exercise 4a Assembly Family Tables
Chapter 5 Relations
5.1 Assembly Relations
Exercise 5a Relations I1
Chapter 6 View Manager
6.1 Component Display Styles
6.2 Simplified Representations
6.3 System-Defined Simplified Representations
6.4 User-Defined Simplified Representations
6.5 Opening Simplified Representations
Exercise 6a Component Display Styles
Exercise 6b Simplified Representations
Chapter 7 Advanced View Manager
7.1 Advanced Simplified Reps
External Simplified Representations
7.2 Zones
7.3 Envelopes
Exercise 7a Rule-Based Simplified Reps
Exercise 7b Zone-Based Simplified Reps
Exercise 7c Substitute by Envelope
Chapter 8 Skeleton Models
8.1 Skeleton Models
Parent/Child Relationships
Incorporating Motion
Spatial Claims
Geometry Creation
8.2 Skeleton Properties
Exercise 8a Creating a Skeleton Part
Chapter 9 Packaging
9.1 Packaging
9.2 Finalizing Components
Exercise 9a Packaging Assembly Components
Chapter 10 Designing in Context
10.1 Introduction to External References
10.2 Global Reference Viewer
10.3 Create Parts in Assembly
10.4 Create Assembly Features
Exercise 10a Assembly Features
Exercise 10b Design in Context
Chapter 11 Distributing Design Information
11.1 External Reference Control in Current Assembly
11.2 Global External References
11.3 Copy Geometry Features
11.4 Publish Geometry
11.5 Shrinkwrap Features
Large Assembly Management
Incoming vendor models
Outgoing Models
Swept Volume Analysis
Exercise 11a Designing Parts in Context
Exercise 11b Shrinkwrap Features
Chapter 12 Advanced Assembly Operations
12.1 Mirror Components
12.2 Merge and Cut Out
12.3 Part Intersections
12.4 Flexible Components
Exercise 12a Mirroring Components
Exercise 12b Assembly Merge
Exercise 12c Flexible Components
Chapter 13 Interchange Assemblies
13.1 Functional Components
AutoTagging
Manual Tag Creation
13.2 Simplify Components
13.3 Simplifying Using Shrinkwrap Features
Replace
Simplified Representation Substitution
13.4 Case Studies
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Exercise 13a Functional Interchange Assemblies I
Exercise 13b Functional Interchange Assemblies II
Chapter 14 Assembly Model Performance
14.1 Factors Affecting Model Performance
CPU Speed
RAM
Swap Space
Memory Management
Network Traffic
Trail Files
Search Paths
32-Bit Architecture
Dual Processors
Levels of Detail
Software Configuration
Default Simplified Representations
Appendix A Search Tool
Appendix B Additional Skeleton Exercise
Exercise B1 Creating a Skeleton
Appendix C Pro/PROGRAM
C1 Assembly Pro/PROGRAM
Exercise C1 Program l 3
Exercise C2 Program ll 9
