I'm doing paper to cad or an old ww1 airplane. I don't use Catia on daily basis (I use Keycreator), but I know enough to complete this project.
My question is this;
I have a few sheet metal parts that are joined with rivets. Those parts differ in thickness from part to part. So I was not sure how it is done in the industry, Is the rivet inserted into the assembly and do you have different rivet files for different sheet metal thickness? Obviously there is going to be a different distance between the mushroom and the head.....or is it done some other way....
Hope that explains it.
I'm a Mold designer, not an aircraft eng.
In my company, if you have to use rivets in an assembly, you have to put same type of rivet in a CATPart inserted in that assy. If you have few types, you will have corresponding number of CATParts.
We don't actually model rivets. We generally depict them simply as a point and line to show location and orientation. There are hundreds of thousands of rivets on an aircrafe, even a small one like a CitationJet, and there is no where near enough computing power available right now to model these.
When using ABF workbench to create fasteners you will not get a solid part with a rivet, you will get a representation and a mockup as an application to the assembly. The benefit is a easy tool to position fasteners and that Delmia can read it so you can easy perform a manufacturing balance. If you don't use delmia you can output a text file that contain all information about the fasteners like type, size, position, vectors and so on.
