Table of Contents Wireframe Recapitulation Exercise 4 Surface Recapitulation Exercise 8 Operation Recapitulation Exercise 17 Advanced Tasks Recapitulation Exercise 30 B-Pillar 41 Step 1: Publishing the Styling Inputs and Creating the Mating Part 41 Step 2: Creating the Outer Part 50 Step 3: Creating the Inner Part 60 Step 4: Creating the Reinforcement Part 71 Step 5: Replacing the Input Styling Data and Managing the Update Failures 79 Mobile Phone 84 Step 1: Creating the Wireframe Geometry 84 Step 2: Creating the Surfaces 89 Step 3: Performing operations 97 Step 4: Analyzing and Modifying 104 Step 5: Completing the part in Part Design 111 Knob 115 Step 1: Creating the Wireframe Geometry 115 Step 2: Creating the Basic Surfaces 119 Step 3: Performing Operations the Basic Surfaces 121 Step 4: Analyzing and Modifying the draft angle 128 Step 5: Offsetting a solid 130 Bottle Exercise 134 Step 1: Bottle Bottom Creation 134 Step 2: Bottle Body Creation 159 Step 3: Bottleneck 180 Step 4: Assemble the three bodies 207 Step 5: Create the Bottleneck Screw 224 Space Mouse Base 237 Step 1: Create the Filleted pad. 237 Step 2: Create the surfacic elements. 244 Step 3: Sew the surface on the Pad. 251 Step 4: Create the Groove. 253 Step 5: Split the solid with an imported surface. 255 Step 6: Shell the created solid. 257 Step 7: Create the Shaft. 258 Step 8: Create the Holes and Pockets. 261 Step 9: Assemble a new body. 272 Lemon Squeezer 280 Step 1: Completing the wireframe elements 280 Step 2: Creating the basic surfaces 286 Step 3: Creating a blend surface with coupling and adding the handle 289 Step 4: Creating filtering holes 298
Surface Recapitulation Exercise Load the part called surface_recap_begin.CATPart from the ''Companion'' and save the part in the Students directory.

1. First you are going to Offset 7 surfaces (1 mm.) from the inside of the Solid Clamp. Double Click on the Offset icon. In the Offset Surface Definition dialog box enter an Offset value of 1mm. Select the first surface as shown. 
Click on OK to confirm the Offset surface creation. As you have double clicked on the icon, the Offset function is still active.Select the other six surfaces with the same method. 
Once you have created the seven surfaces clcik on the cancel button to deactivate the function. 2. You are going to create a blend surface to close off the Offset Surfaces. Click on the Blend icon  . The Extremum Definition Dialog box is opened, select the Maximum option. Select the edges and the support surfaces as shown below.

Click OK to confirm the blend creation. 
3. You are going to Insert a JOIN operation to assemble all the Offset surfaces and the Blend surface into one single surface. Multi select the seven Offsets and the created blend. 
Click on the Join icon . All the pre-selected objects are added to the join list. Click on OK to confirm the Join creation. 
4. You are going to Extract a Boundary Curve from this JOIN surface. Select the Boundary icon . Select an edge of the Join as shown below. 
Click on OK to confirm the Boundary curve creation. 
5. You are going to Create a Sweep Surface using the circular section curve (Output1) per parameters on the right. Click on the sweep icon . In the Swept Surface Definition dialog box choose a Line Profile type and ’’With reference surface’’ Subtype. 
Select the Output1 circle as Guide curve1 and the Output1-Plane as Reference surface. 
Key in –88 degrees as Angle value and 100mm as Length 1 Click on OK to confirm the Swept Surface creation. 6. You are going to create a Loft tangent to the Join and the Sweep surfaces Select the Loft icon  . Select the Output1 as first Section and the Sweep.1 as tangent surface. 
Select the Boundary.1 as second section and the Join.1 as tangent surface. Check that the two profiles are in the same direction. 
Click OK to confirm the loft creation.
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