Part Design

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Entering the Part Design Workbench
Creating a Pad
Drafting a Face
Filleting an Edge
Editing the Pad
Mirroring the Part
Sketching a Circle from a Face
Creating a Pocket
Shelling the Part

Basic Tasks

Opening a New CATPart Document
Sketch-Based Features

Pad
Sub-Elements of a Sketch
Up to Next Pads
Up to Last Pad
Up to Plane Pad
Up to Surface Pad
Pad from Surface
Not Normal to Sketch Pad
Multi- Pad
Drafted Filleted Pad
Pocket
Multi-Length Pocket
Drafted Filleted Pocket
Thin Solids
Shaft
Groove
Hole
Locating Holes
Threaded Hole
Rib
Slot
Stiffener
Loft
Remove Loft

Dress-Up Features

Edge Fillet
Variable Radius Fillet
Reshaping Corners
Face-Face Fillet
Tritangent Fillet
Chamfer
Basic Draft
Advanced Draft
Variable Angle Draft
Draft
Draft from Reflect Lines
Shell
Thickness
Thread

Surface-Based Features

Split
Thick Surface
Close Surface
Sew Surface

Transformation Features

Translation
Rotation
Symmetry
Mirror
Rectangular Pattern
Circular Pattern
User Pattern
Exploding Patterns
Scaling

Reference Elements

Creating Points
Creating Lines
Creating Planes

Modifying Features

Editing parts, bodies, features
Reordering Features
Updating Parts
Deleting Features
Specification Tree

Constraints

Setting 3D Constraints
Setting constraints
Modifying Constraints
Mean Dimensions

Replacing Elements

Replacing a Surface
Replacing a Body
Changing Sketch Support
Moving Sketches

Displaying and Editing Properties

Part Properties
Bodies Properties
Features Properties

Annotations

Creating Textual Annotations
Flag Notes

Advanced Tasks

Associating Bodies

Inserting a Body
Assembling Bodies
Intersecting Bodies
Adding Bodies
Removing Bodies
Trimming Bodies
Remove Lump
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Tools

Parents and Children
Scanning the Part and Defining Local Objects
Performing a Draft Analysis
Performing a Surfacic Curvature Analysis
Tap-Thread Analysis
Axis System
Creating Datums
Applying a Material
Publishing Elements
Extracting Geometry

Measuring

Measuring Distances & Angles between Geometrical Entities & Points
Measuring Properties
Measuring Inertia

Handling Parts in a Multi-Document Environment
Power Copy

Creating Power Copies
Instantiating Power Copies
Saving Power Copies into a Catalog

Reusing your Design

Cutting, Copying, Pasting

Part Design Workbench

Part Design Menu Bar
Sketch-Based Features Toolbars
Dress-Up Features Toolbar
Surface-Based Features
Transformation Features
Reference Elements
Boolean Operations
Sketcher Toolbar
Measure
Constraints Toolbars
Analysis
Annotations
Tools

Customizing

Display
General
Symbols
Part Document

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