catia基本教学PPT6.ppt

Chapter Six;If your REFERENCE ELEMENTS toolbar is not in view and not hidden, you can retrieve it from the toolbars menu seen here.;REFERENCE ELEMENTS play an important part in any solid modeling. Without them, you can only do work to the outermost surfaces of the part, which may not always be practical or involve a lot of pre-draw planning.;To carve a step into your part without setting a reference plane, you are very limited as to where you can put it. You must first pick a part face that you are going to work on. This will unfortunately be where your step will begin, like it or not, without setting a plane.;Once you have entered sketcher, you will draw the shape of the step that will be in your part. Notice in this example that part of the step shape extends beyond the part. The bit of shape that is not part of the step is of no consequence at this point. ;Once back in 3D mode, you can see Sketch2 in relation to the part. You can now POCKET out this shape from one end to the other, and anywhere in between. We will pocket it 1 inch.;At this point we have highlighted Sketch 2 and picked Pocket from the Dress Up toolbar. The Pocket Definition dialog box pops up for you to enter the initial depth of pocket.;Here we have the part with the pocket cut into it making a step. This is convenient if you are only working on the faces of the part, but what if you need a step in the middle of one edge?;Lets take the same shape and carve a step into the middle of the front edge, leaving material on both sides. For this we are going to have to do the same things as before, only first we must add a REFERENCE ELEMENT.;A Reference Element is another plane you can use as a reference for other drawing bits on your part. To do this we first pick the face we wish to reference from, pick PLANE from the Reference toolbar, and in the Plane Definition dialog box we will enter how far the plane should be from the face we initially picked.;Here we see the plane set into place and ready to b