All language subtitles for 16 Offset Sketch

This is tutorial number 16 and it covers how to use the Offset Sketch feature within

Katia V5. To start off open up a new part file and once you've done that let's

go into the sketcher. So click Sketch and click any plane. So in this tutorial we're

going to be using the Offset feature and you can either find it in the toolbar

here or if you go into Insert, Operation and Transformation you can click Offset

there. Now what the Offset is going to do is if we have a profile or some lines we're

able to offset those lines to a certain distance and when we do that it's going to

automatically change the curves and the lengths so that we don't have to. So if you have a

very complicated profile if you just click the Offset it's automatically going to

change the curves and everything so that it fits in right. If you were to do it yourself

it would take a lot of time and a lot of calculations just to do it so this is a quick and easy

way to offset your profiles. So to start off I'm going to create a profile and I'm going

to throw some curves in here because the curves are the hardest part when you're trying

to offset a curve. Now with the Offset you're able to either select the entire profiles

offset or you can pick each individual part. So right now let's choose this line and

let's click the Offset. Now you can see as we move it the Offset is taken into account

how far we're moving it and what the curves will look like. So if we pull it in the top

curve is shrinking if we pull it out the top curve is growing and the bottom curve is

shrinking. So the Offset feature is able to calculate all these offsets and curves so

that you don't have to. So now let's do another one for this guy and we'll click Offset

and the beauty with the Offset is I'm able to snap it to certain points. So this point

that's already here I'm snapping that Offset to there. Now if you throw a point out and

say that this point is a certain distance away so then you're able to click the Offset

and bring that point to that distance away. So you're able to really calculate how far

you want to offset something and kind of snap it to that point. Now I'm just going to make

another profile over here and I'll just show you how you're able to do the whole profile.

So right now the whole one selected and we're going to click Offset and you can see that

we're able to pull it in or pull it out. So doing an offset like this will allow us

to have a cavity when we go to create the part. So this Offset tool it's a very powerful

tool as it lets you offset intricate profiles so that you don't have to calculate the distance

and how far you have to pull it out. What the curvature is going to be, what the radius

is going to be, it does everything all by itself. And this concludes our tutorial on how

to use the Offset Sketch feature within KTAV5.