COE University Sessions

COE University sessions provide conference attendees with hands-on training and relevant, detailed product information on the latest Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions through live demonstrations and training sessions.

TR-1:  Realistic Rendering Made Easy Andre Clemons, IBM Corporation This hands-on Realistic Rendering training session will quickly empower users to leverage the robust functionality offered in the CATIA V5 Real Time Rendering Workbench.

TR-2:  Introduction to CATIA V5 Parameters and Automation Tom Swindell, IBM Corporation This session is an instructor lead, hands-on training opportunity introducing CATIA V5 Parameters and Automation. The class seating space is limited, with sign-up required. This session will be beneficial to users who are interested in learning the basics of automation using Design Tables. Catalog creation from Design Tables will also be explored. Each registered participant is this training will receive detailed session exercises.

TR-3:  Virtual Manufacturing: Using DELMIA V5 for Visual Process Planning - CANCELLED John Paredes, The Boeing Company With the next-generation of V5 CATIA blazing the trail for the Design community, Manufacturing has also been provided the state-of-the art Process Planning tool DELMIA that capitalizes on the same common V5 collaborative environment. DELMIA applications help Manufacturing organizations ensure their product can be produced with the lowest ergonomic risk and optimal process efficiency, underscoring its strategic value in the PLM Suite of tools. This hands-on workshop will take the attendee with limited knowledge of V5 or CAM tools to having the skill set on authoring a simple 3D Process Plan simulation using CATIA V5 data.

TR-4:  Design Automation for the Non-programmer Jeffrey Roark, Johnson Controls This hands on training session will focus on the non programmer (designer/engineer) who wants to create design automations. We will define a design process using BKT and apply knowledgeware rules and templates to solve a design problem. No programming experiance needed.

TR-5:  How do You Know You Have Created Class 'A' Quality Surfaces? Steve Cochrane, INCAT What is Class ‘A’ Surface (All Visible Surface) (Aesthetics) & Proportional Curvature Continuity and how do you use the functions in CATIA V5 to verify.

TR-6:  A Case Study: Using Knowledgeware to Create an Associative Pattern of Holes on a Surface Joe Costa, Costa Consulting LLC This hands-on session will utilize functionality from the knowledge advisor and product knowledge template workbenches to create an associative pattern of holes on a surface.  Among the topics covered will be rules, checks, user defined features and generative patterns.

TR-7:  Managing Large Assemblies with CATIAV5/SmarTeam Rick Odom, IBM Corporation Please send me an e-mail and I will send you a premlinary PowerPoint Presentation.

TR-8:  The Ease Of Building A Catalog Of  Standard Parts Lewis Breeding, INCAT In this session we will explore the possibilities of building a catalog of standard items.  Contrary to what you may have been told, this is a relatively simple process. Attendees of this session should come away with a good understanding of how design tables work and how they can be beneficial in time savings for creation of standard catalog items as well as basic part template design.

TR-9:  Developing & Using A Knowledge-Based Template Joe Konecny, RAND Worldwide Attendees for this hands-on training session will be walked step-by-step through the development and use of a real-world automotive Product Knowledge Template. The template will include Knowledge Advisor Reactions & VB Scripts (also developed by the attendees) that will give it the intelligence to morph itself intelligently as it is instantiated into an assembly. Experience with CATIA V5 Fundamentals is required and prior Knowledge Advisor and Visual Basic experience would be helpful, but not required. Models will be made available to attendees after the session.

TR-10:  What's New in CATIA V5R18 Eric Hildebrand, TechniGraphics, Inc. Are you taking advantage of the new capabilities in the latest release of CATIA V5?  Get to know the key enhancements in V5R18 and discover useful functionality that you might be missing.  See what’s new in 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation, Functional Molded Parts, Cast & Forged Part Optimizer, Photo Studio and 3D Live for CATIA as well as enhancements in Part Design, Assembly Design, Shape Design and Generative Drafting.

TR-11:  Introduction to V5 Lathe Machining Mark Chitjian, IBM Corporation This Manufacturing/NC session is an instructor lead, hands-on training opportunity in exercises with V5 Lathe Machining. The CATIA Manufacturing Lathe Machining (LMG) workbench will be used for exercises on the Windows platform. The class seating space is limited, with sign-up required. This session will be beneficial to all V5 users who are interested in improving their efficiency and productivity in programming parts to be machined with numerically controlled lathe tools. Each registered participant in this training will receive a technical paper detailing the session exercises.

TR-12:  Thinking Outside of the Box with Functional Molded Part Jason Curtis, RAND North America Functional Molded Part (FMP) workbench is included in many CATIA Express Edition configurations, but it is a workbench rarely used by those not involved with molded part design. This invariably begs the question of whether or not the tools in this workbench can be leveraged for non-molded part design.  This workshop will provide a practical introduction to the tool sets in FMP and explore their use in Functional Part Modeling.

TR-13:  Sheet Metal Workbench Shawn Ehrstein, Wichita State University This hands-on training class will introduce the use of the Generative Sheetmetal Design workbench to develop sheetmetal parts. This workbench allows the user to work in either the folded or unfolded context of the part. By working in both contexts of the part, the overall flexibility of the design process is greatly increased.  Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop a sheetmetal part.

TR-14:  Overview and Application of CATIA V5 Tube Routing Paul Creteau, Business Smart LLC An expanded and updated hands-on session of what was presented at the Wichita Aerospace & Defense conference which will show attendees techniques and skills for optimizing 3D Tubing Design. From basic tube routing to incorporating production tubing design methodologies using the CATIA Tubing workbench, attendees will gain an understanding of how to quickly design tubes following industry conventions and properly preparing the data for downstream manufacturing. Use of specific tubing part alignment tools and the tubing catalog will be included. Additionally, customization and modification to address particular project needs will be examined and examples will be discussed.

TR-15:  Electrical Harness Flattening Jean-Baptiste Raud, Dassault Systèmes This session will give you a good understanding of the Electrical Harness Flattening. It will consist of step-by step exercises which will include flattening a routed harness, and synchronizing process of the routed harness, flattened harness, and associated drawing. It will also address trouble shooting a harness which will not flatten.

TR-16:  Introduction to Finite Element Analysis Joe Costa, Costa Consulting LLC A hands on course which covers the fundamentals of using CATIA to solve linear static engineering problems. The course wil show the user how to use the pre and post processing capbilities as well as solve a problem using the CATIA suite of tools.

TR-17:  Engineering Preliminary & Detailed Design of a composite structure utilizing Composite Part Design (CPD) workflows John Forsyth, Dassault Systèmes This session will utilize recommended workflows to create the Preliminary Design data for a composite structure. Once the preliminary definition is defined, the part will be evolved to include the Detailed Design definition and demonstrate validation workflows. NOTE: Part 1 of a two part activity.

18. TR-18:  Usage of legacy CATIA V4 models in CATIA V5 Lewis Breeding, INCAT The main idea of the presenation is to examine what exactly from CATIA V4 works in CATIA V5 and what does not. We will examine how to read the data in and determine whether migration is feasible and/or necessary.

TR-19:  Session 2 – Manufacturing Detailed Design of the Part Created in Session 1 Utilizing CPD Workflows John Forsyth, Dassault Systèmes This session will utilize recommended workflows to generate and evolve the Manufacturing Design data of the Session 1 part. This should include Material Excess, Producibility, and Flat Pattern generation.    NOTE: Part 2 of a two part activity.

TR-20:  Exploring CATIA Drafting Standards Tom Swindell, IBM Corporation This session is an instructor lead, hands-on training opportunity exploring CATIA V5 Drafting Standards. The class seating space is limited, with sign-up required. This session will be beneficial to users who are interested in learning how to access, modify and use drafting standards. Customization of environment variables, text, tolerances, sheets, etc. will be discussed. Each registered participant is this training will receive detailed session exercises.

Featured Repeat Sessions

April 29 2008, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. TR-10 (REPEAT): What's New in CATIA V5R18 Eric Hildebrand, TechniGraphics, Inc. TR-8 (REPEAT): The Ease Of Building A Catalog Of Standard Parts Lewis Breeding, INCAT April 30 2008, 1:40 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. TR-2 (REPEAT): Introduction to CATIA V5 Parameters and Automation Tom Swindell, IBM Corporation TR-12 (REPEAT): Thinking Outside of the Box with Functional Molded Part Jason Curtis, RAND Worldwide