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CDC at the Electra Mining Africa 2010

Jethro — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:08:39 +0000

Did you see our stand

If not here is what it looked like, the real and the 3d.

Looks pretty similar.

Here’s how we did it.

just click on the images to enlarge them…

We offer design and rendering services. So If you want to start marketing a stand or product before its there, this is the perfect solution for you. Contact us…

CATIA V5 Chosen to Design SA’s First Electric Car

Jethro — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:07:13 +0000

Local product life-cycle management (PLM) specialist CNC Design Consultants (CDC) has teamed up with vehicle producer Optimal Energy in the design of the first South African electrical car, the Joule. The plug-in electric vehicle was conceived by Optimal Energy and has been refined by automotive and design company Zagato’s Total Design Centre. “CDC is working closely with Optimal Energy to ensure a quality design,” says CDC MD Igal Filipovski. The car will reportedly go into production in 2013 and is on display this month at the Geneva Motor Show, in Switzerland.

Click here to see the full article…

All our CATIA Tutorials

Jethro — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:29:53 +0000

Click here to see all our CATIA Tutorials…

V6 Certified in SA for CDC

Jethro — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:36:35 +0000

Our Engineers have been to courses in the UK and we at CDC are now proud to be certified to sell you the latest technology and thinking on the market today. V6 is the future in technology and will help your business manage you data more efficiently, collaborate and communicate more effieciently as well as bring your business together from design, to sales, to production and through to your executives needing a top down view of happenings in the company.

IBM Business Partner of the Year 2004

Jethro — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:37:49 +0000

CDC (CNC Design Consultants) has been honoured with the ‘Business Partner of the year 2004′ award for the northern region that was presented to Igal Filipovski, managing director of CDC, by IBM’s Senior European executives, Raoul van Engleshoven, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Mike Kuklenko, business director of EMEA Region North. CDC, IBM’s Business partner and reseller of Catia solutions to South Africa, was competing with all IBM business partners from The Netherlands, Ireland and UK for this prestigious award and was recognised for its excellent performance, over achievement and for being the fastest growing business in the entire IBM Northern region.

Mike Kuklenko, Igal Filipovski and Raoul van Engelshoven

Advanced Material Technologies Magazine – CATIA V6

Jethro — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:58:11 +0000

Red Hot Manufacturing Software!

CDC’s Managing Director, Igal Filipovski, and Advanced Material Technologies Magazine recently discussed the release of CATIA V6 and what this could mean for the relationship between South African manufacturers and OEM’s. CATIA V6 was developed in response to continuous pressure from OEM’s to shorten time to market and reduce costs. South Africa’s very own electric vehicle manufacturer, Optimal Energy, will use the system to enter into production of it’s much-talked-about Joule.

For more information about CATIA V6 or to see the full article click here.

CATIA Tutorial for surface control

Jethro — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:06:06 +0000

Ever had a sweep that just seemed to give errors and did not want to form the way it should. One thing we at CDC have learnt is that CATIA has almost no limits as to what can be done with Surfacing. There is always a way! This CATIA tutorial will show you how to control a sweep more effectively.

Here we have an extruded surface created from a door punch surface. Now we would like to pinch a new surface inward at 45deg to the extruded surface and at a length of 70mm.

Here everything looks fine but if we increase the sweep length to 250mm, we can see that the surfaces are 45deg but the direction is wrong and there are warnings that appear (still nice that CATIA can generate a surface though (“,) ). This is because the 45deg is normal to the surface, so in sharp corners errors will normally occur.

So, how do fix this sweep? Easy… we give it a back bone or a “spine” to give it some sort of direction. We create a sketch an in it a circle. The dimensions of the circle are not critical.

Now back in the Sweep definition, we need to add the sketch as a spine. And then on preview we can see how smooth the sweep is now.

Set the sweep length back to 70mm and know that it is much easier to manufacture now as the surface is smooth and has no sharp edges or undercuts.

I hope you enjoyed this CATIA Tutorial brought to you compliments of CDC your technology partner.

Create Scenes in CATIA

Jethro — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:28:38 +0000

This CATIA tutorial shows you how to Create Scenes and use them for Draughting

Ever created an isometric view in the Draughting work bench of an assembly, then changed the location of parts in an assembly and when you go back to your drawing you find it has updated the drawing to that of the assembly. This is good to have as it is part of the power of CATIA with its associativity. But sometimes you want views to keep their positions, i.e. you want an assembled isometric view as well as an exploded view.

We have our assembly…

We create an isometric view…

Now the problem arises when you edit the main assembly and then the drawing up dates as well. So we need to create a scene, for exploded views or even where only specific parts are shown.

Make sure you select the full overload option before clicking OK.

Hide, show, move and rotate parts until you get the view you want and then click to exit the scene (same icon as exit sketcher), you can see in the tree that there is a new Scene.1 that has been created.

Here are only a few parts that need to be shown…

An exploded view…

Now to apply these scenes to the drawing, double click on the scene you want, then from the Draughting workbench create a view and in your assembly which should be in the scene you want click on the Scene you want in the tree first, then click on the model to generate the view.

Automotive and Aerospace Tooling Seminar 2005

Jethro — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:48:50 +0000

On 8 September 2005, at the Automotive Supplier Park Conference Centre in Rosslyn, CDC and IBM held yet another successful CATIA Tooling Seminar. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Innovate with CATIA’, and it addressed not only the automotive industry but also the growing field of aerospace. This was a direct result of recent developments that have created significant new opportunities for local tool suppliers.

During the course of the event, two extremely significant video clips were shown, featuring interviews with top-level executives from two world-renowned companies – Airbus Industri, and McLaren F1 Construction. Both these companies were forced to review their choice of CAD/CAM facility, both carried out exhaustive and intense benchmarks – and both ended up choosing Catia to replace their then-existing systems.

Click here to read more about the topics that were covered by this event…