Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening 3

(ABF)

CATIA V5R18

2Copyright © 2002-2004 Dassault Systemes - All rights reserved

Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White FasteningDesign Body in White fasteners in the context of automotive assembly.

Product overview

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening

3 (ABF) is dedicated to the design of

Automotive Body In White Fasteners. It

supports Welding technologies and

mechanical clinching, along with Adhesives,

Sealers, and Mastics.

The user is provided with intuitive tools to

create and manage Spot like Fasteners. The

user can switch, if needed from a 3D Point

shape definition to a 3D hemispherical shape

specification. In addition to placing the

fasteners, reports can be issued from the

application in order to list : Fastener location

coordonates and the Joined parts properties

at each fastener location: crossed

thicknesses and flange materials, flanges

normals, joined parts stacking order...

The CATIA V5 generative feature

infrastructure enables the associative update

of fasteners feature placement from a Part

design change (modification of the flange

shape, flange thickness or material property)

or Assembly structure change (Move Joined

parts, Replace joined part). CATIA-

Automotive BiW Fastening 3 can be

cooperatively used with other current or

future applications of CATIA Version 5 like

part design, assembly design.

Product Highlights

Supports Fasteners parameters set-up

file customizable according to customer

company standards

Enable Spot fasteners placement and

shape definition

Welding, Adhesive, Sealant, Clinching

Process types support

Easy Assignment of Fastener attributes

from standard set-up file

Associative Fastener location update from

joined part design change

Enables collaborative

engineering/manufacturing work

Ensures opening with customer

proprietary tools via a neutral ASCII text

exchange format

Includes an intuitive, task-optimized, user

interface

Provides native integration with other

CATIA Version 5 applications

Product Key Customers Benefits

Tools Dedicated to Automotive Joining

technologies CATIA Automotive BiW

Fastening 3 product is dedicated to the

design of BiW fasteners joining thin

3Copyright © 2002-2004 Dassault Systemes - All rights reserved

automotive sheetmal parts. The Application

workbench commands are packaged into

Toolbars matching the usual Automotive

Joining technologies: Welding, Adhesives,

Sealers and Mastics, BiW Mechanical

fasteners. This process based approach offers

a highly productive and intuitive Fastener

design workflow. During this design work,

engineering and manufacturing fasteners

parameters are taken into account, and

several positionning methods are provided for

spot like fasteners: On surface, From Curve

On Support,...The created fasteners can be

grouped to connect a set of functional contact

zones specified on the parts to join. Whenever

a fastener is inserted, the Product can be

updated.

Feature Based Fastener Modeling CATIA

ABF provides BiW specific Spot like fasteners

most commonly used in the automotive

industry: Welds Points, Adhesives Drops,

Sealant Thumbable, Clinch Point. The

fasteners are created into a CATIA

CATProduct document, at the Assembly level

of the common node of the Joined Parts

instances Product path elements.

Associative Fasteners update from Part

Design change The specification of the

fastener location can be generated on the fly,

from the user selection of external geometry

references issued from the Joined Parts: a

support surface, a surface edge, a reference

point,...Whenever the location, shape or

properties (surface material or thickness) of

the reference is changed, the fastener location

is updated automatically along with the

information (connected parts thicknesses and

materials) provided. Hence, such an

associative and integrated fastener design

process delivers benefits not only for product

development, but also for the industrial

Compliant with industry

Standards For each general Joining

technology ( Welding, Adhesive, Sealant,

...) specific process types can be specified

into the application parameters standard

set-up file. For each process type, the

company administrator can narrows the

list of CATIA Fasteners standard attributes

to the attributes that are relevant. For each

relevant attribute, a set of company

pre-defined values can be set-up.

Intuitive User Interface CATIA ABF offers

the standard Windows interface. Fasteners

parameters can be set by using combo

editors providing the list of company

Standard pre-defined values. Fasteners

shape representation is a symbolic point or

a symbolic wire-frame depending on the

shape definition of the fastener which can

be a point or an hemisphere. Specific

graphics symbol can be assigned to each

process type. The 3D visualization of this

symbol enables to separate easily the

different fastener process technologies.

Integrated With Other CATIA Version 5

Applications CATIA Automotive BiW

Fastening 3 is natively integrated with

other CATIA Version 5 applications.For

instance, users have the ability to retrieve

the hemming properties from ABF directly

in the form of finite elements in CATIA -

Generative Assembly Structural Analysis 2

(GAS). The integration between ABF and

analysis tools offers a extensive and

competitive coverage of body in white

process.

Thanks to its compatibility with the CATIA -

FAR application, ABF empowers the "3D

Master" process coverage to facilitate and

drive the documentation production.

4Copyright © 2002-2004 Dassault Systemes - All rights reserved

Other images

ABOUT CATIA V5R18

CATIA is Dassault Systemes' PLM solution for digital product definition and simulation.

plm.3ds.com/CATIA

For more information about our products visit plm.3ds.com/contact

Copyright © 2002-2004 Dassault Systemes - All rights reserved