CATIA Mechanical Product Creation |
Benefits |
- High quality design for all mechanical parts, resulting from strong partnerships with industry leaders from all industries
- Reduce time to design by enabling true concurrent engineering on complex parts
- Fast design changes by automatically adapting parts and products to new contexts
- Functional modeling : focus on what you want to model and not how to model it
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Capabilities |
- Hybrid design: fully associative mechanical shape design in context of parts
- Dress-up feature completeness solving complex fillets and drafts
- A unique part structure with multi-body design and powerful body operations
- Automated relational design with publications
- Functional feature modeling approach: Order-independent feature creation resulting in history-free part construction
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CATIA Fabricated Product Creation Benefits |
- Fast and efficient design of sheet metal complex parts
- Easily apply company-defined standards to ensure design quality
- Create right first time sheet metal parts thanks to design in context of the virtual produc
- Take into account manufacturability constraints early in the design phase and speed up assembly design
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Capabilities |
- Complete sheet metal oriented features most commonly used
- Creation and reuse of the company's standard sheet metal components (bend tables, stamps, tooling templates)
- Work concurrently on the folded and the unfolded state of the part
- Unique multi-body capabilities, allowing a better understanding of the design and simplifying exchanges
- Recognize and modify external sheet metal parts (STEP & IGES)
- Weld design and assembly features creation
- Sheet metal dedicated drawing generation capabilities for manufacturing as well as seamless nesting and cutting export
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CATIA Molded Product Creation Benefits |
- Functional modeling : focus on what you want to model and not how to model it
- Cornerstone for real-time collaborative design
- Ensure "right the first time" molded parts design thus reducing the number of iterations with mold makers
- Proven cycle time reduction in modeling and design changes: multiply by up to 35 the reduction in time needed for the creation of molded products, and up to 70%for design changes
- Concurrently design both the product and the associated tooling for molded and plastic parts
- Seamless collaboration across the extended enterprise
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| Capabilities |
- Wide range of discipline oriented features that take into account manufacturability constraints: Extrude, Revolve, Cut, Thicken surface, Rib, Boss, Cutout, Rest, Pocket, Grill, Reinforcement, Shell, etc.
- Order-independent feature creation resulting in history-free part construction
- CATIA - Mechanical Product Creation brings a new level of flexibility and productivity to design by providing access to a collection of intuitive functional features. Whereas in most other CAD systems a complex modeling task would usually require the creation of several dedicated features, these industry-specific functional features enable to complete the modeling in a single operation. This all-in-one concept saves considerable time when elaborating on a complex form. In addition, the various design elements can be created in any order making it easier for users to capture their design intent and focus on what they want to model, not how to model it.
- Hybrid design: fully associative shape design in context of parts
- Accuracy checking and quality improvement of shapes when imported
- Generate and optimize STL meshes for rapid prototyping
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| CATIA Mold Tooling Creation Benefits |
- Fast core and cavity definition
- Easy know how capitalization and reuse thanks to components/tooling templates
- Efficient change management with full associativity throughout the tooling design and manufacturing process
- Ultra-large tooling design and management thanks to 64-bit support
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Capabilities |
- Check the validity of the imported shape and improve its quality
- Effective definition of core, cavity and parting surface according to pulling direction, moldability and manufacturability assessment
- Most commonly used standard mold catalogues
- Intelligent standard / user defined component management (with associated drillings & NC information)
- Define mold bases, sliders, retainers, cooling systems, gates and runners for plastic injection and ejection systems
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CATIA Jig and Tooling Creation Benefits |
- Offer productive ways to generate structure assemblies
- Generic option enabling creation of all kinds of tooling regardless of industry
- Easy creation of reusable intelligent mechanical template with embedded drilling and manufacturing information
- Easy know how capture and reuse
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Capabilities |
- Creation of straight, curved and twisted structure, planar and surfacic plates, using standard or user defined sections
- Fully associative design in context functions for creation and modification of structures
- Assembly instantiation through user-defined template
- Generation of user customizable BOMs (Bills of Material)
- Definition of General Mechanics Components read from catalogs and including powerful embedded drilling capabilities
- Definition of General Die Components such as inserts, sliders, retainers, lifters, ejection systems, guiding components
- User Defined components adaptable to any die context
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CATIA Mechanical Shape Design Benefits |
- Recognized as the standard solution in mechanical shape design domain delivering high quality shapes
- Rapid propagation of design changes at any time for easy shape design optimization
- Automatic generation of complex hybrid shapes such as sweeps and blends
- Standard design methodology definition to speed up the design process
- Compliancy with design rules and constraints making shapes ready for manufacturing operations
- Concurrent design empowerment
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Capabilities |
- Smart feature-based approach to dynamically create and modify all types of wireframes and surfaces
- The most extensive set of advanced surface capabilities on the market such as adaptive sweep
- Rapid flattening of ruled and non-ruled surfaces and developing curves on revolution surfaces
- Wide set of real time analysis tools for quality checking
- Powerful law definition to capture design intent
- Unmatchable knowledge template creation and reuse for automation of design tasks
- Styled surfaces can be refined and used as references to create mechanical shapes
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| CATIA Mechanical Shape Optimization Benefits |
- Achievement of high productivity gains while performing global deformation on complex shapes without altering models quality
- Optimization of the product or the tooling definition thanks to the comparison between the shape created from as-built measurements and nominal one
- Robust morphing approach promoting the use of high quality generative models ready for manufacturing purposes
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Capabilities |
- Set of smart tools for local and global morphing of complex surfaces
- Immediate comparison between nominal shape and realistic one
- Creates a curve or a surface deformation based on a defined initial status and a final one
- Manages offset of non-tangent skins with different values thanks to the Variable Offset
- Flexible Rough Offset to deform shapes with constraints
- Transfers multiple curves or points laid on a revolution surface on a plane surface and conversely
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CATIA Molded Product Design for Manufacturing Benefits |
- High productivity gains in defining molded, cast or forged parts
- Less learning activities and time spent in complex surface and wireframe definition
- Optimize or create more variants of parts with huge gains in design modifications
- Functional modeling : focus on what you want to model and not how to model it
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Capabilities |
- Highly productive definition of specific drafts and fillets for forged or complex cast parts
- Associative core & cavity separation with parting lines and surface definition
- Wide range of discipline oriented features that take into account manufacturability constraints: Extrude, Revolve, Cut, Thicken surface, Rib, Boss, Cutout, Rest, Pocket, Grill, Reinforcement, Shell, etc,.
- Order-independent feature creation resulting in history-free part construction
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CATIA 3D Master Benefits |
- Suppresses the need for attached drawing documents
- Easily reviews and prints drawing information directly from 3D
- Respects international standards for part and product definition
- Shrinks time for part definition with already captured tolerance specifications and annotation in design templates
- Rapidly shares design specifications within and throughout the enterprise
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Capabilities |
- Wizard-like creation of 3D tolerance specifications and annotations in parts and products, fully associative to the geometry.
- Syntactic and semantic tolerancing check of the annotations, fully compliant with latest revision of major international standards.
- Displays and filters annotations in the 3D environment.
- Fast presentation of 3D tolerances and annotations in a familiar drawing layout.
- Embeds tolerance specifications and annotations inside design templates.
- Tolerance specifications and annotations directly linked to the manufacturing process.
- Pervasive sharing of the 3D tolerance specifications and annotations.
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CATIA Body & Skin Templates Benefits |
- Easy-to-use skilled templates making it possible to efficiently organize repetitive BiW tasks and to optimize the process workflow
- Flexible management of BiW design changes thanks to the powerful CATIA associativity mechanism
- Capture and reuse corporate know-how helping companies leverage their best practices
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Capabilities |
- Mating Flange to define thin contact zones between parts within an assembly
- High level Junction feature to link up sections with tangency management
- Powerful 3D Geometrical Grid to position the design activity inside the vehicle coordinates
- Providing Diabolo Seat to define contact zones between solids and surfaces
- A variety of Hole types to define areas to remove material from a body
- Rapid stiffening of a part thanks to Bead feature
- Powerful law and rule definition
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