Styled Product Engineer

• CATIA PLM Express enabling designers to work concurrently on style and engineering, or perform simulation of the products appearance for quick style validation.
• It also makes it possible to quickly capture physical prototype shapes, making the 3D virtual model the design reference.
• Having an integrated styling process as part of the development and manufacturing process enables companies to quickly launch new ideas in the marketplace.

CATIA Concept Product Creation

Benefits

Ultra fast modeling

• Innovative ideas captured in a natural way
• Instant concept morphing for fast styling iterations
• Productivity gains resulting in more creative concepts exploration
• Easy to learn and use for non-CAD specialist

CATIA design environment

• Collaborative environment for quick propagation of design changes
• Ready-to-use styling surfaces for product engineering and manufacturing

Style validation

• Quick validation of the product’s appearance
• Rapid communication using the product realistic images across the extended enterprise

Capabilities

• Interactive 3D shape modeling
• Starting from scratch or transforming 2D hand-sketches
• Styling curve creation with interactive pen device
• Unique subdivision technology
• Suite of comprehensive and easy to use styling tools

• Single product model for both styling and detailed design
• Exact G2 surface creation
• Powerful surface quality checkers

• Smart and advanced photo and movie capabilities
• Large variety of materials to define textures
• Ray tracing technologies
• Reusable scene settings

CATIA - Reverse Engineering

Benefits

• Integrated in the CATIA design environment, it helps reduce project costs and streamline design iterations
• Flexible manipulation of clouds of points and meshes in order to optimize the definition of digitized shapes
• Intuitive shape sculpting environment, especially for non-CAD specialists
• Robust inspection process to improve the quality of the digitized models before surface reconstruction
• Provides real freedom to engineers so that they can modify their models at any time

Capabilities

• Import and export clouds of points in various standard formats
• Smart & advanced tools to manipulate interactively clouds of points
• Powerful mesh creation from clouds of points
• Easy creation of curves and surfaces on meshes
• Robust alignment and deviation checking for inspection processes
• Powerful polygon modeler for unequalled virtual clay modeling
• Automatic surface generation from meshes
• Easy creation of closed meshes from solids and surfaces for rapid prototyping

CATIA - Free Style Shape Design

Benefits

• Intuitive environment enabling easy and fast design of high-end styled shapes
• Interactive deformation of aesthetical shapes based on the spec-driven approach that allows immediate propagation of design changes
• Compliancy with aesthetical shape design standards thanks to a set of dedicated analysis tools and quality checkers
• Fosters concurrent design through tight collaboration between designers and engineers in a single environment

Capabilities

• Unequal free-form modeler to intuitively create curves and surfaces
• Easy integration of 2D stylists' work into a 3D format
• Smart and advanced tools to dynamically deform single or multi-surface shapes
• Interactive manipulation of curves and surfaces thanks to the control points capability
• Automatic surface creation by sweeping a profile curve along multiple guides
• Unique connect checker command to simultaneously perform G0, G1 and G2 quality checking
• Advanced real time analysis tools for distance, tangency and curvature

CATIA - Realistic Dynamic Rendering

Benefits

• Complete real time rendering environment enabling easy and rapid virtual design review
• Unique specification-driven approach of rendering parameters making it possible to optimize the design review and rapidly evaluate different alternatives at any time during the process
• Generation of high-end realistic photos and movies of a product’s appearance making it possible to share its emotional content with customers and thereby decrease the need for physical prototypes
• Early preparation of marketing and sales campaigns by providing suitable materials at the beginning of the product development process

Capabilities

• Creation and manipulation of materials, lights, cameras, environments and stickers
• Dynamic rendering capabilities such as reflections, shadows or adaptive texture mapping
• Intuitive and time-saving management of materials specifications thanks to the tree editor
• Highly realistic rendering quality based on the mental ray® tracing engine
• Benefits from the best in class graphic cards capabilities for powerful real time rendering
• Instant graphical feedback of any setting modifications
• Simple and powerful animation capabilities
• Ability to define reusable scene templates into catalogs