- [Instructor] Here I want to discuss products
and product files.
Up to this point in the course,
we've been doing everything within the context
of a part or CAT part, a singular part file.
Now eventually, all of our parts
are going to be assembled into a final product.
The final product is basically a collection
of all of the parts that we've designed
and various standard parts.
So as you can see here, here's the upper,
the cup colder that we've just designed.
We have the lower that this snaps into
and we have a bezel
and a couple of screws that hold the actual bezel in place.
The product file within CATIA,
is just that, it's a repository for other parts
that have been designed, brought together.
Now, when we enter into our product file,
there are various workbenches that we can work
within the context stuff.
And for what we want to do, what we're going
to be working in is called assembly design.
Now, by default, when you come into CATIA,
what it does is it takes you into
what's called Product Structure.
Product Structure is just a simple
product structure assembly, visualizing an assembly,
bringing components in, and just taking
a quick look at them.
Doesn't offer many tools.
What we want to do is we want to make sure
we're inside of what's called Assembly Design.
Now, Assembly Design is basically the Product Structure,
Product Design on steroids.
So, when I come into my Product Design,
I want to make sure that I'm inside the Assembly Design
so I'm going to click on Assembly Design
and you're going to see additional icons appear.
The Assembly Design allows us to bring in components,
reposition components,
create constraints between components.
There's certain conditions, gaps, flushness,
things of that nature we want to make sure
that we capture within the intent of our design
and we do that by going into an assembly.
You can take and cut sections.
You have your analysis and measurement tools as well,
within the context of your assembly.
Now, the word product and assembly
are fairly interchangeable within CATIA.
Now, we have a CAT product here, as you can see,
but it's also an assembly.
We are in the Assembly Design,
so during this portion of the course,
I will be using product and assembly interchangeably,
so if you get confused, just know
one means the other and the other means the other one.
So there's no difference.
Now, another terminology that gets used quite often
is a component.
And within v5, it means two different things.
This element that you see here,
is a component or sub component.
And you also have a component file type.
And I mention this, not because we're going to dig too deep
into the component file type,
I mention it so people understand that there are
component file types, but we're not going to really use those,
we don't really use those in v5 too much
and when we transition into v6,
some of you I know are going to be watching this RM v6,
you don't use components at all.
I just wanted to make note that this is one
of those rare moments where the crossover
between v5 and v6 doesn't syncopate.
When I mention the word component,
I mean the actual part file within the assembly
or the product.
So there's a lot of terminology
we're going to be throwing around
and for the most part, I'll try to keep it straight forward
and keep you going in the same general direction,
but you may hear terminology somewhere else,
somebody may say something that can be
a little confusing.
Just to clean up that kind of a mess for now,
we want to make sure that we're talking about products,
we're talking about assemblies.
When we're talking about components,
we're talking about parts within the assembly.