Dress-Up Features

Dressing up features is done by applying commands to one or more supports. CATIA provides a large number of possibilities to achieve the features meeting your needs. The application lets you create the following dress-up features:

Create an Edge Fillet: Click this icon, select the edge to be filleted, enter the radius value and set the propagation mode in the dialog box.
Create a Variable Radius Fillet: Click this icon, select the edge to be filleted, enter new radius values for both of the detected vertices, click as many points as you wish on the edge and enter appropriate radius values for each of them. If needed, define a new variation mode.
Create a Variable Radius Fillet Using a Spine: Click this icon, select the edges to be filleted, enter an angle value for both vertices at the corner, check the Circle Fillet option and select the spine.
Create a Face-Face Fillet: Click this icon, select the faces to be filleted and enter the radius value in the dialog box.
Create a Tritangent Fillet: Click this icon, select the faces to be filleted then the face to be removed.
Create a Chamfer: Click this icon, select the edge to be chamfered, set the creation mode then define the parameters you have set.
Create a Basic Draft : Click this icon, set the Selection by neutral face  selection mode or select the face to be drafted, then enter the required parameters. 
Advanced Draft: Click this icon, specify the type of operation you wish to perform, then define the parameters you have set.
Create a Draft with a Parting Element: Click this icon, set the Selection by neutral face selection mode or select the face to be drafted, expand the dialog box then enter the required parameters. 
Create a Draft from Reflect Lines: Click this icon, select the face to be drafted, then enter the required parameters. 
Create a Variable Angle Draft: Click this icon, select the face to be drafted, click as many points as you wish and then enter the required parameters. 
Create a Shell : Click this icon, select the faces to be shelled and enter the thickness values.
Create a Thickness: Click this icon, select the faces to be shelled and enter the thickness value.
Create a Thread/Tap: Click this icon, select the cylindrical surface you wish to thread, the planar limit face and enter the required values.
 
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