Setup Camaro blueprint by be_fast

1. The first step is setting the Units to Metric (centimeters) if youare going to make a real world scale model.

2.The second. Create a car size box (I took it from the official website).In the Properties Dialog turn on Display As Box option.

3. Now place the plane with side car photo (i took all the photos from http://speedycars.net, you can searchit wherever yourself). Move and scale plane to "get the car in" theoriginal size box.

4. Go to Create Panel and make several NURBS curves as I did. Create allcar body edge lines

5. You should get something like this. As you see some of the lines don'tcoincide with photo. That's because I had compensated perspective photodistortion. You must keep it in mind all the time. To make lines connectedcorrectly we must look to the other perspective photos and compare them amongeach other.

6. Now when we have Y Z lines we must make them 3d by moving along the Xaxis. This is the result

7. Make front/back lines in the same way.

8. The last thing is to adddetails

9. After all the work had been done I used all lines as a blueprint and createdthis model with usual poly/modeling

I hope you'd find this tutorial useful. Good luckeverybody!

Hexagonal Nut In Catia v5

Soon you will know just how easy it is to build a hexagonal nut using Catia v5., and I hope this tutorial will help you to learn some basic commands of Catia v5. In this tutorial I assume that you are not using Catia for first time.

Step 1:

We will design the bolt according to the standard given bellow. In my case the normal diameter of bolt is 24 mm.

Step 2:

Step 3: (optional)

Menu bar >tools>Customize

Step 4:
Click on sketcher work branch
and then click on xy plane.

Step 5:
And now you are in sketcher work branch.And now go to menu bar

Insert > Profile > Predefined Profile > Hexagon

Or

Bring you pointer to zero coordinate. it will snap this point automatically. And the picture will be something like this.

Step 6:



Step 7:

See in step 1 fig.2. We have taken D = 24 mm the Diameter of the bolt. So 2D = 48. After dimensioning the color of the profile will turn into Green color the sign of fully constraint.

Now click here to Com out from sketcher work branch. If you are unable to find this icon you can refer Step 3. You may get the solution.

Step 8:

Sketch based Features >

Step 9:

I hope you have successfully completed the pad command. In next few steps we will make a hole.



In type Tab select the simple option. And we will discus later about the Thread definition.

Step 10:


After completing these steps the centre point color will convert to green color. And now Com out from sketcher work branch. and press in Hole definition deluge box.

Step 11:
Click on sketcher work branch . Select the ZX plane

Step 12:

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Step 14:

Previously we learned an advance technique to make constrain.
Now we will use the basic way to make it constrain.



This command will highlight after the selection

Step 15:



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Step 17:



Com out from sketcher work branch.
you can click any where of the hole to select the axis

Step 18:

Step 19:

Congratulation you have completed this assignment. Now you have some basic knowledge of Catia v5.You can share your experience with me through this feedback form.