Design for assembly is a process by which products are designed with ease of assembly in mind. If a product contains fewer parts it will take less time to assemble, thereby reducing assembly costs. In addition, if the parts are provided with features which make it easier to grasp, move, orient and insert them, this will also reduce assembly time and assembly costs. The reduction of the number of parts in an assembly has the added benefit of generally reducing the total cost of parts in the assembly. This is usually where the major cost benefits of the application of. | Assembly Design www. ca dcamlab. org NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AVIATION RESEARCH Wichita State University Revision Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. None of this material may be reproduced used or disclosed in part or in whole without the expressed written permission of National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita KS Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. CATIA Assembly Design CATIA V5R14 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .1 Assembly Pull Down Menus .3 Edit .3 Tools .7 Analyze .8 Assembly Design Assembly Inserting Documents .11 Replacing and Creating New Parts .17 Reordering and Numbering the Bill of Constraining and Manipulating Bounding Box .33 Manipulation .33 Coincidence Constraint .34 Contact Defining a Multi Instantiation .43 Smart Modifying a part to create a new part while in an assembly .48 Fast Multi Instantiation .50 Fix Constraint .51 Offset Constraint .52 Copying and Pasting with constraints .55 Angle Constraint .56 Explode .60 Advanced Constraint Options .63 Fix Together Quick Constraint .65 Changing a Reusing Weld Feature .80 Activating Deactivating Inserting with Constraints .87 External Assembly Hole .96 Remove .108 Flexible Rigid .117 Wichita State University Table of Contents Page
