CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening 3 (ABF)

Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening 3
(ABF)

CATIA V5R18

Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening

Design Body in White fasteners in the context of automotive assembly.

Product overview company standards

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening Enable Spot fasteners placement and
3 (ABF) is dedicated to the design of
Automotive Body In White Fasteners. It shape definition
supports Welding technologies and
mechanical clinching, along with Adhesives, Welding, Adhesive, Sealant, Clinching
Sealers, and Mastics.
Process types support
The user is provided with intuitive tools to
create and manage Spot like Fasteners. The Easy Assignment of Fastener attributes
user can switch, if needed from a 3D Point
shape definition to a 3D hemispherical shape from standard set-up file
specification. In addition to placing the
fasteners, reports can be issued from the Associative Fastener location update from
application in order to list : Fastener location
coordonates and the Joined parts properties joined part design change
at each fastener location: crossed
thicknesses and flange materials, flanges Enables collaborative
normals, joined parts stacking order...
engineering/manufacturing work
The CATIA V5 generative feature
infrastructure enables the associative update Ensures opening with customer
of fasteners feature placement from a Part
design change (modification of the flange proprietary tools via a neutral ASCII text
shape, flange thickness or material property)
or Assembly structure change (Move Joined exchange format
parts, Replace joined part). CATIA-
Automotive BiW Fastening 3 can be Includes an intuitive, task-optimized, user
cooperatively used with other current or
future applications of CATIA Version 5 like interface
part design, assembly design.
Provides native integration with other
Product Highlights
CATIA Version 5 applications
Supports Fasteners parameters set-up
file customizable according to customer 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

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automotive sheetmal parts. The Application relevant attribute, a set of company
workbench commands are packaged into pre-defined values can be set-up.
Toolbars matching the usual Automotive
Joining technologies: Welding, Adhesives, Intuitive User Interface CATIA ABF offers
Sealers and Mastics, BiW Mechanical the standard Windows interface. Fasteners
fasteners. This process based approach offers parameters can be set by using combo
a highly productive and intuitive Fastener editors providing the list of company
design workflow. During this design work, Standard pre-defined values. Fasteners
engineering and manufacturing fasteners shape representation is a symbolic point or
parameters are taken into account, and a symbolic wire-frame depending on the
several positionning methods are provided for shape definition of the fastener which can
spot like fasteners: On surface, From Curve be a point or an hemisphere. Specific
On Support,...The created fasteners can be graphics symbol can be assigned to each
grouped to connect a set of functional contact process type. The 3D visualization of this
zones specified on the parts to join. Whenever symbol enables to separate easily the
a fastener is inserted, the Product can be different fastener process technologies.
updated.
Integrated With Other CATIA Version 5
Feature Based Fastener Modeling CATIA Applications CATIA Automotive BiW
ABF provides BiW specific Spot like fasteners Fastening 3 is natively integrated with
most commonly used in the automotive other CATIA Version 5 applications.For
industry: Welds Points, Adhesives Drops, instance, users have the ability to retrieve
Sealant Thumbable, Clinch Point. The the hemming properties from ABF directly
fasteners are created into a CATIA in the form of finite elements in CATIA -
CATProduct document, at the Assembly level Generative Assembly Structural Analysis 2
of the common node of the Joined Parts (GAS). The integration between ABF and
instances Product path elements. analysis tools offers a extensive and
competitive coverage of body in white
Associative Fasteners update from Part process.
Design change The specification of the Thanks to its compatibility with the CATIA -
fastener location can be generated on the fly, FAR application, ABF empowers the "3D
from the user selection of external geometry Master" process coverage to facilitate and
references issued from the Joined Parts: a drive the documentation production.
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

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