CATIA - Electrical 3D Design & Documentation Benefits
- Integrated process coverage to reduce cycle time from design to manufacturing
- Automatic wire length calculation and definition
- Quick electrical space reservation within the product, avoiding physical prototypes
- Reduce errors by validating the wire harness & cable assemblies installation within the virtual product
Capabilities - Connectors & supports catalog creation
- Easy 3D design and placement of electrical components in the digital mock-up
- Automatic harness flattening and 2D documentation generation for manufacturing
- Automatic propagation of modification from design to documentation
- XML-based integration between existing schematic systems and CATIA 3D electrical design
CATIA Piping Schematic to Design Product Benefits
- Improves product performance and quality thanks to standards and material specifications taking into account the design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
- Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D piping design
- Improve time to design with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
- Single geometric modeler for all the equipment and system products such as Tubing, HVAC, etc.,
- Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products
- Capitalizes company know-how to design right the first time
- Organizes catalog customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes (pressure, temperature, etc.)
Capabilities - Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
- Defines and manages piping lines for different engineering systems
- Creates intelligent piping and instrumentation diagrams with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
- Designs the 3D preliminary piping layout routes with design rules checking (minimun length and turn)
- Adds spec-driven 3D piping components to detail the design
- Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematics
- Provides BOM reports, query and analysis
CATIA HVAC Schematic to Design Product Benefits
- Improves product performance and quality thanks to standards and material specifications taking into account the design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
- Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D HVAC design
- Improve design time with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
- Single geometric modeler for all the equipment and system products (piping, tubing, etc.)
- Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products
- Capitalize on company know-how to design right the first time
- Organizes catalogs customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes such as pressure, temperature, etc.
Capabilities - Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
- Defines and manages HVAC lines for different engineering systems
- Creates intelligent schematics with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
- Designs the 3D preliminary HVAC layout routes with design rules checking (minimun length and turn)
- Adds spec-driven 3D HVAC components to detail the design
- Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematic diagrams
- Provides BOM reports, query and analysis
CATIA Tubing Schematic to Design Benefits - Improve product performance and quality thanks to standard and materials specification taking account design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
- Full associativity between 2D schematics and 3D Tubing design
- Improves design time with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information
- Full integration between mechanical and equipment and system products such as associativity between supports and tubes
- Enables complex 3D design of tubing placement taking into account room constraint
- Capitalize on company know-how to design right the first time
- Catalogs customization with full parametric components alongside technological attributes such as pressure, temperature, etc.
Capabilities - Creates catalogs of 2D and 3D parametric components according to standards and material specifications
- Defines and manages tubing lines for different engineering systems
- Creates intelligent schematics with respect to standards and specifications such as text annotation templates, off-sheets connector and automatic gaps
- Designs the 3D preliminary tubing layout routes while checking/verifying design rules with respect to the material's bending capabilities
- Adds spec-driven 3D tubing components to detail the design
- Allows associative 3D creation directly driven by the 2D schematic
- Creates flexible tubes with bend, slack or length rules alongside local bundle if needed
- Provides BOM reports, query and analysis
- Provides input report for Numerical Control bending production
CATIA Flexible PCB Design Benefits
- Easy and intuitive creation : creating a PCB shape in 3D in a fully digital environment
- Robust Electro-Mechanical engineering collaboration through a standard intermediate data format
Capabilities - Multi-body sheet metal part makes it possible to start design from several connectors concurrently
- Dedicated tools for thin parts modeling
- Easy creation of mechanical shapes of printed circuit boards in the context of the mechanical assembly
- Bi-directional interface with electrical CAD Systems based on industry standard interface (IDF) format
- Creation and management of electronic component catalogs
- Intelligent placement of components like connectors coming from a catalog, constrained in its mechanical environment
CATIA Electrical Wire Harness Design Benefits
- Reduce design time with a process oriented solution
- Increase overall quality of complex electrical wire harness assemblies with powerful & dedicated applications for large scale electrical system implementations and knowledge based design verification
- Seamless collaboration for anticipated manufacturing preparation: capture design intent and detailed wire harness model directly in the DMU
- Anticipate engineering changes by validating the wire harness installation within the virtual product: make sure integration problems are found in the DMU and not in the physical prototype
Capabilities - Detailed definition of wire harness within the DMU according to the functional or wiring specifications : 3D wire harness takes into account logical specifications and manufacturing constraints
- Easy to use & powerful routing of harness in complex 3D mockup, with relational design between mechanical assembly and the harness
- Capture and reuse corporate know-how step by step to ensure validation at each phase of the process
- Dedicated objects such as electrical devices (equipment, connectors, back shells, contact), protection (taping, corrugated tubes), support and mounting objects (rack, panel), wires and cables
CATIA Electrical Wire Harness Flattening
Benefits - Seamless collaboration between harness designers and manufacturing to ensure accuracy of 3D information transferred to manufacturing
- Best environment for harness detailed manufacturing documentation and form-board design
- Reduce effort for generation & maintenance of 2D harness drawings
- Integrated design to manufacturing process with the support of design changes
- Reduce cycle time with the ability to reuse existing documentation
Capabilities - Exchange detailed and accurate 3D harness definition including complex mechanical parts with manufacturing suppliers
- Customizable generative 2D Drawings for documentation and generative 2D dress up
- Natural integration with CATIA Drafting allowing definition and management of a relevant set of annotations and dimensions to create full reports for documentation
- Automatic synchronization of design changes between harness design and manufacturing
- Dedicated command for editing of harness flattened layout
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