
This solution brings high-end quality surface modeling for detailed designers and promotes efficient concurrent engineering between styling and engineering worlds in order to optimize the product design workflow. Body in White & Mechanical Surface Design:ĬATIA provides advanced technologies for mechanical surfacing, based on a powerful specification-driven modeling approach.
By combining the V6 technology strengths, which include knowledge capture-and-reuse paradigm, it delivers a powerful and intuitive suite of tools for modeling, analysing and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes for the highest Class-A surface quality. Surface Refinement:ĬATIA fully addresses the Automotive Class-A process with a solution for surface refinement that integrates industry leading ICEM surfacing technologies. Whether starting the 3D ideation from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unrivalled freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual phase.
This dramatically reduces development time and costs, while eliminating any risk of human error or design inconsistency.ĬATIA facilitates the following shape design processes: Industrial Design:ĬATIA is at the service of industrial designers and their creativity. Engineering changes can be associatively propagated through the entire product definition and with related life-cycle processes.
Specification-driven modelling, generative applications and controlled associativity – These features deliver highly productive and robust engineering change management. Simple and quick creation of all types of structures – This capability addresses preliminary and detailed design requirements for products such as heavy machinery and equipment, tooling jigs, shipbuilding foundations and manufacturing plant foundations. These applications greatly enhance design productivity through advanced mold simulation features for the production of assembly drawings and the machining of mold assemblies. They also provide a fast splitting tool that takes a surface or solid part and separates it into a core and cavity with sliders and loose cores. Rapid, cost-effective creation of mold tools – CATIA V5 Mechanical Design products provide dedicated tools to address the plastic injection process. It allows for concurrent engineering between the folded or unfolded representation of the part to deliver increased levels of productivity. Productive and intuitive design of sheet metal parts – The feature-based approach offers a highly productive and intuitive design environment. Designers will also find all the two-dimensional (2D) drafting capabilities required for efficient drawing production. An advanced 3D product creation package – This package includes comprehensive part and assembly design features, as well as associative drawing extraction capabilities. Its products also address sheet metal and mold manufacturing requirements through dedicated applications that dramatically enhance productivity and reduce time-to-market. From concept to detailed design and onto drawing production, CATIA V5 mechanical design accelerates the core activities of product development.