Creating a Pad
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This task will show you how to create a pad, that is extrude a profile sketched in the Sketcher workbench. For more about this workbench, please refer to CATIA-Dynamic Sketcher User's Guide Version 5. | ||
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Open the GettingStarted1.CATPart document to open the required profile. | ||
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Your profile belongs to Sketch.1 and was created on plane xy. It looks like this: |
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| 1. | Select the profile if
not already selected and click the Pad icon 
. The Pad Definition dialog box appears. Default options allow you to create a basic pad. |
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| 2. | As you prefer to create a larger pad, enter 60 mm in the Length field. The application previews the pad to be created. |
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Click OK. The pad is created. The extrusion is performed in a direction which is normal to the sketch plane. The application displays this creation in the specification tree: |
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| CATIA lets you control the display of some of the part components. To know more about the components you can display or hide, refer to Customizing the Tree and Geometry Views. | |||
| For more about pads, refer to Pads, 'Up to Next' Pads, 'Up to Last' Pads, 'Up to Plane' Pads, 'Up to Surface' Pads, Pads not Normal to Sketch Plane. | |||
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