• CATIA PLM Express, 2D/3D technologies are flawlessly integrated for easy and rapid iterations in order to achieve the conceptual phase of the product and concurrently activate detailed design.
• Generate templates to capture optimized design methodologies, reuse in a fully interactive approach, providing dramatic productivity gains and agility to design changes.

CATIA - 3D Layout & Annotations

• Facilitates 3D modeling for designers familiar with 2D drafting
• Increases innovation with a unique 2D/3D approach for conceptual design
• Suppresses the need for attached drawing documents
• Easily reviews & prints drawing information directly from 3D
• Rapidly shares design specifications within and throughout the enterprise

• Sheet and views management in the 3D model
• Interactive drafting creation directly used to define associative 3D modeling
• 3D geometry overlay, filtering and re-use inside the views
• 2D dimensioning annotation and dress-up tools
• 3D tolerance and annotations in parts and products, fully associative to the geometry
• Displays and filters 3D annotations in the 3D environment

CATIA Knowledge Template

• Increased ability to innovate by automating repetitive and tedious design tasks
• Reduced time for bidding and increases responsiveness to inevitable customer engineering changes during design and manufacturing
• Faster production ensures high quality development
• Reduced product complexity and lower overall product development costs
• Usage of user defined features enables management of IP protection between OEM and supplier chain while preserving industrial usage within the company

• Interactive creation of intelligent feature templates (user defined features)
• Interactive creation of intelligent part and assembly templates including geometry construction and design/engineering rules
• Adaptable to changes in design environments or in internal specifications
• Includes downstream documents (analysis, drawing or manufacturing) in part and assembly templates definition
• Catalogs storage for easy access
• Automatic sequence generation of user defined features or geometric elements

CATIA Structure & Steel Work Layout

Rapidly design structures using catalogues of standard or custom sections

Creation of the preliminary layout of the required systems that will be later used in the detailed design phase

• Optimize the routing for all disciplines in the conceptual design phase
• Define the path and space requirements for routed systems such as piping, tubing, HVAC ducts or cable trays

• Design and layout of structures and steel work
• Enable to simply and quickly create linear, curved structures, and plates using standard or user-defined sections
• Include catalogues of resolved Sections: generation of user customizable Bills of Materials
• Integrate knowledge rules to check parts' manufacturability
• Distributed systems layout, i.e.  raceway, hvac, piping, tubing, etc,.
• Plant layout, layout of space allocation, space reservation, layout of equipment, etc,.
• Natively integrated with other CATIA applications thereby enabling the completion of the structure's design
• Optimized user interface to easily create and modify structures thanks to the fully associative design in context capability

CATIA Accomodation Layout

• Powerful application that helps enrich the initial design by defining structural design elements, space reservation networks and compartment accesses
• Define early space claim to allow interference checking at the early stages of the design process.
• Tight integration with all CATIA V5 applications gives the user a powerful set of tools to help contribute to the overall ship design process

• Define plate thickness, adding stiffeners and pillars or stanchions
• Define space reservations for electrical systems in the early phases of the design process
• Easy and intuitive routing capabilities to create pathways
• Full modification capabilities for design iteration
• Defines wall systems within a deck, compartments and boundary surfaces inside a ship
• Quick generation of multiple wall surfaces to facilitate their design
• Place access objects such as doors, windows, stairs
• Provide Drawing and Report generation capabilities

CATIA Structure Concept to Design

• Easy definition of structural design elements and materials used to build military and commercial ships as well as plants
• Improve instantiation of functional volumes and integrate the creation of planning breaks at an early stage of the design
• Enable unprecedented productivity and a short learning curve for shipbuilding structure definition and for the creation of functional structure objects
• Enhance the creation and modification of detailed structures
• Prepare the manufacturing build-up process with dedicated features that resolve the design intent

Capabilities

• Rapid modeling tools for the creation of functional structure objects (such as plates, beams, and pillars and detailed features (slots, end-cuts)
• Knowledge-based design rules to drive and automate design work
• Capture full topology of the structural model (all connections and their characters)
• Enable the automatic generation of blocks and design units based on planning break definitions
• Automate detailed work (slot or end-cut definition)
• Deliver piece-part generation for the preparation manufacturing at the end of the design phase
• Early and accurate reports

• Improves product performance and quality thanks to standard and materials specification taking account design rules, automatic parts placement and multi-representation
• Full integration and associativity between 2D schematics and 3D electrical cable design
• Schematic design drives creation of 3D design
• Improves time to design with an intuitive user interface to annotate, validate the model, query data and generate appropriate report information

Capabilities

• Defines space reservations for your electrical systems in an early phase in the design, including lofted pathways
• Creates 2D diagram: component placement and insertion, line routing and connectivity management, standard symbols and components management
• Associative 2D/3D integration
• Creates specification-driven raceway and conduit parts and lines, layout route definition and management
• Manual or automatic route cables in 3D cableways