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CATIA V6

CATIA V6 leverages the potential for innovation for companies of all sizes across all industries, providing revolutionary solutions for productivity improvement based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

DIGITAL PRODUCT

CATIA V6 redefines CAD from a purely physical definition of a product and extends it from a digital mockup to a functional mockup, taking into account the many representations required for product development (i.e., requirements, functional, logical, and physical).

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CATIA Systems Architecture

From aircraft to automobiles, industrial equipment, ships, and consumer appliances, the complexity of products and the systems that power them continues to increase. CATIA enables you to model and assemble complex products, defining and executing their control systems to manage this complexity and deliver products on time.

Key benefits

  • Rapid identification and decomposition of the system architecture of complex products and systems—from early conceptual studies to final architecture definition.
  • Increased system development efficiency through extensive reuse of system engineering assets and templates.
  • Improved decision-making through the ability to conduct rapid trade studies that include cost, system parameters, and knowledge reuse.
  • Efficient collaborative system development processes that leverage up-to-date system definitions, data, and models.
  • Demonstration of compliance with security standards and best practices through comprehensive requirements traceability and impact analysis.
  • Openness and extended traceability of system artifacts with integration with more than 60 common system design tools.

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CATIA ENGINEERING

CATIA for Engineers enables the creation of digital prototypes, including analysis and simulation, to design and verify functionality and performance at all stages of design.

Mechanical engineering is complex because assemblies are designed to perform a specific task with a specific target performance. Digital prototyping, combined with digital analysis and simulation, allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its environment. Mechanical engineers must be equipped with these tools so that they can gain insight into key quality and performance factors early in the product development process.

Key benefits

  • Create any type of 3D part, from rough 3D sketches for early concept to machined, sheet metal, composite, molded, forged, or tooling parts to mechanical assemblies that can be enhanced with welded assemblies.
  • Mechanical System Design provides unbreakable relational design by managing relationships between objects and associated behavior in a collaborative PLM environment. Assembly constraints for part placement facilitate collaboration, concurrent design, and scalability in configured assemblies.
  • An easy and smooth transition from 2D to 3D design methodologies is supported by comprehensive drawing production with market-leading generative drafting that is fully associative with 3D.
  • Drawing update productivity and consistency improve productivity by eliminating the need for additional user operations.
  • Process-oriented tools to reflect the intent of the manufacturing process early in the design phase: A functional modeling approach designed for plastic or molded parts, automatic rounding and automatic drawing optimize the design of tooling for casting and forging, while fastening or welding workbenches allow companies to utilize all the necessary disciplines.
  • A wide range of applications for tooling design, both for general tooling and for molds and dies.
  • All mechanical parts feature high-quality design, which is the result of strong partnerships with industry leaders from all sectors.
  • A special integrated solution for designing and documenting electrical harnesses in products with electrical components.
  • 3D design of pipelines and pipe systems using industry standards and specifications in the context of a complete digital mockup.
  • Design of printed circuit boards (PCBs) within a virtual product and simplification of collaboration between mechanical and electrical engineers.
  • Advanced surface machining technologies based on a specification-based modeling approach.
  • Built-in software control capabilities allow software engineers to define, simulate, and generate C code for any control system.

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Experience using CATIA products

CATIA Experience combines the form, functional, engineering, and architectural characteristics of product definition, allowing all participants to integrate their experience with the digital product. CATIA Product Experience provides many elements that help people collaborate at the product interaction level when people sit together and analyze a common project. Ease of use, simple dashboards, powerful analysis, search, etc. provide the information needed so that managers and non-specialists can find and interact with the product information they need.

Key benefits

  • Advanced capabilities, from preliminary design to mold design
  • Unique integrated solution for both modeling and mechanical mold design to optimize design iterations
  • Proprietary reverse engineering environment associatively linked to the CATIA mold design environment
  • Rapid dissemination of design changes at any time to optimize the design process
  • Unsurpassed dynamic modeling of curves and surfaces with powerful real-time diagnostic tools
  • Intuitive environment that gives you real freedom to quickly design high-quality molds
  • Efficient parallel design through close collaboration between designers and engineers
  • Powerful design verification environment to deliver high-quality products
  • Integrates 3D design into reality

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CATIA Design

Creative design speaks directly to people's hearts. Creative designers need software tools that allow them to easily create and adjust the emotional content of a product through their designs, as well as collaborate with engineers to ensure that the product's functional capabilities are adequately covered.

Successful products on the market are usually those whose design evokes a positive emotional response from consumers. CATIA is at the service of creative designers and their creativity. By creating ideas in 3D from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unmatched freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual stage. CATIA fully implements the automotive Class A process, offering a surface refinement solution that integrates industry-leading ICEM surface processing technologies. Combining the strengths of V6 technology, including the paradigm of knowledge capture and reuse, it provides a powerful and intuitive set of tools for modeling, analyzing, and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to achieve the highest A-class surface quality.

Key benefits

  • Extended capabilities, from preliminary design to mold design
  • Unique integrated solution for both modeling and mechanical mold design to optimize design iterations
  • Proprietary reverse engineering environment associatively linked to the CATIA mold design environment
  • Rapid dissemination of design changes at any time to optimize the design process
  • Unsurpassed dynamic modeling of curves and surfaces with powerful real-time diagnostic tools
  • Intuitive environment that gives you real freedom to quickly design high-quality molds
  • Efficient parallel design through close collaboration between designers and engineers
  • Powerful design verification environment to deliver high-quality products
  • Integrates 3D design into reality

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CATIA Systems Engineering

CATIA Systems Engineering integrates complex product behavior into product definition, providing a realistic experience that predicts actual performance.

With CATIA Systems Engineering, system architects, product engineers, designers, and technical experts define both technical and business aspects. The RFLP (requirements, functional, logical, and physical design) approach supports full traceability during product development and implementation. This helps bridge the gap between requirements analysis and selecting the right solution.

Key Benefits

  • Use the best-in-class model-based systems development platform to accelerate the development and verification of complex systems and products.
  • Ensure compliance with market requirements and regulations by reducing time to market and lowering costs through world-class requirements development.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to define the complete system architecture using multiple operational, functional, and component views.
  • Verify the behavior of complex products and systems spanning multiple engineering disciplines using Modelica-based modeling and simulation.
  • Integrate embedded systems and 3D product design processes to leverage intelligent embedded systems in the simulation of complex mechatronic products and systems using 3DEXPERIENCE.

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