CATIA Course

Lesson 1 • CATIA Overview and Installation

Covers CATIA's role in product lifecycle management and system requirements. Establishes context for all subsequent design work.

Lesson 2 • Mouse Controls and 3D Navigation

Teaches pan, zoom, rotate, and selection techniques using mouse and keyboard. Builds spatial navigation skills essential for all modelling tasks.

Lesson 3 • Navigating the CATIA Interface

Introduces menus, toolbars, specification tree, and compass. Learners gain fluency in locating and activating core interface elements.

Lesson 4 • File Management and Project Setup

Covers creating, saving, and organising CATIA files and projects. Establishes disciplined file habits that support team collaboration.

Lesson 1 • Sketcher Workbench Essentials

Introduces the Sketcher environment, sketch planes, and grid settings. Provides the starting point for all profile-based 3D modelling.

Lesson 2 • Applying Geometric Constraints

Covers coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, and symmetric constraints. Constraints ensure sketch intent is maintained during edits.

Lesson 3 • Dimensional Constraints and Tolerances

Teaches adding length, angle, radius, and diameter dimensions to sketches. Dimensional constraints drive parametric behaviour in downstream features.

Lesson 4 • Sketch Analysis and Troubleshooting

Identifies over-constrained, under-constrained, and invalid sketch states. Learners learn to diagnose and resolve common sketching errors.

Lesson 1 • Pad and Pocket Operations

Introduces extrusion-based features to add and remove material from a part. These are the most fundamental solid modelling operations in CATIA.

Lesson 2 • Draft Angles and Shell Features

Applies draft angles for mould release and shell operations for thin-walled parts. Prepares learners for manufacturing-aware design decisions.

Lesson 3 • Shaft, Groove, and Revolution Features

Covers revolving profiles around an axis to create shafts and grooves. Extends modelling capability to cylindrical and rotational geometries.

Lesson 4 • Part Design Best Practices

Covers feature ordering, naming conventions, and design intent documentation. Establishes habits that support robust, editable parametric models.

Lesson 5 • Dress-Up Features: Fillets and Chamfers

Teaches edge and face blending using fillets and chamfers. Dress-up features refine part geometry for manufacturability and aesthetics.

Lesson 1 • Converting Surfaces to Solids

Teaches closing surfaces and using the Close Surface and Thick Surface commands. Bridges surface and solid modelling workflows in a single part.

Lesson 2 • Advanced Surface Creation Techniques

Covers loft, blend, and offset surfaces for complex curvature control. Enables learners to model organic and aerodynamic shapes accurately.

Lesson 3 • Creating Basic Surfaces

Teaches extrude, revolve, sweep, and fill surface creation methods. These primitives form the foundation of all surface-based designs.

Lesson 4 • Surface Operations: Trim and Join

Applies trim, split, and join operations to combine and clean surface geometry. Produces watertight surface models ready for solidification.

Lesson 1 • Assembly Design Workbench Setup

Introduces the Assembly Design workbench, product structure, and component insertion. Establishes the framework for all multi-part assembly work.

Lesson 2 • Applying Assembly Constraints

Covers coincidence, contact, offset, and angle constraints to position components. Constraints define the kinematic and spatial relationships between parts.

Lesson 3 • Bill of Materials and Numbering

Generates and customises bills of materials directly from the assembly structure. Links part numbering to downstream procurement and manufacturing data.

Lesson 4 • Managing Large Assemblies

Teaches visualisation modes, flexible components, and representation management. Optimises performance when working with high-component-count assemblies.

Lesson 1 • Generating and Arranging Views

Creates front, top, side, isometric, and auxiliary views from 3D parts. Proper view arrangement communicates geometry unambiguously to manufacturers.

Lesson 2 • Drafting Workbench and Sheet Setup

Configures drawing sheets, formats, and title blocks for technical documentation. Establishes the document framework before any views are placed.

Lesson 3 • Dimensioning and Tolerancing

Applies linear, angular, radial, and geometric tolerances to drawing views. Accurate tolerancing ensures parts are manufactured to design intent.

Lesson 4 • Drawing Output and Printing

Covers PDF export, plotter output, and drawing revision management. Prepares learners to deliver production-ready documentation packages.

Lesson 1 • Parameters and Formulas

Creates user-defined parameters and links them with formulas to drive geometry. Enables models to update automatically when key values change.

Lesson 2 • Reactions and Expert Rules

Implements reactions that respond to model events and expert rules for complex logic. Extends automation beyond simple formulas to conditional design behaviour.

Lesson 3 • Catalogue and Template Creation

Builds reusable part catalogues and model templates driven by parameters. Standardises design assets across projects and teams.

Lesson 4 • Design Tables and Configurations

Links spreadsheet-driven design tables to CATIA parameters for variant management. Allows rapid switching between predefined part configurations.

Lesson 1 • Introduction to Generative Structural Analysis

Sets up material properties, mesh, and boundary conditions for FEA in CATIA. Provides the foundation for stress and displacement analysis of parts.

Lesson 2 • Running and Interpreting FEA Results

Executes static analysis and reads von Mises stress, displacement, and reaction maps. Learners identify critical regions and assess design adequacy.

Lesson 3 • Design Optimisation Based on Results

Uses analysis feedback to modify geometry, materials, or constraints iteratively. Closes the loop between simulation and parametric model updates.

Lesson 4 • Mesh Refinement and Convergence

Applies local mesh refinement and checks result convergence for accuracy. Balances computational cost against result fidelity in engineering decisions.