CATIA - 3D Layout & Annotations

Benefits

• 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

Capabilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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

Capabilities

• 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

Benefits 

• 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

Capabilities

• 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 Accommodation Layout

Benefits 

• 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

Capabilities

• 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

Benefits 

• 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

CATIA Electrical Cable Layout

Benefits 

• 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