REVIEW & OPTIMIZE ENGINEER

CATIA PLM Express offers a broad portfolio of capabilities, fully integrated within the design environment, to optimize the product packaging, strength, or ergonomics. Its powerful finite element modeling and analysis solutions cover a wide range of analysis processes, while its knowledge-based architecture facilitates product optimization. With CATIA PLM Express, engineers are connected to make quick and efficient decisions with advanced collaborative reviews directly in the 3D design environment.

CATIA Generative Structural Analysis

Benefits

• Easy to use and to understand analysis environment that enables designers and engineers to inspect product quality

• Early product simulation reduces costs by helping detect problems at the beginning of the design process

• Productivity gains thanks to a common environment that enables seamless analysis-design iterations

Capabilities

• Linear stress and modal analysis on part and hybrid assemblies

• Easy to use pre and post processing capabilities

• Automatic mesh generation and smart adaptive mesher

• Robust and automatic generation of connection elements

• Associativity between design and analysis specifications

CATIA Knowledge Advisor

Benefits

• Accelerates exploration of design alternatives to speed up design process and allocate more time for innovation

• Captures engineering knowledge of best practices

• Increases quality of designs by embedding corporate standards in design rules

• Captures and reuses the most important asset - the intellectual capital

Capabilities

• Defines product requirements

• Drives design changes through rules and verifications

• Creates conditional geometries

• Creates reactive designs

• Defines and solves set of equations

CATIA Collaborative Product Review 

Benefits

• Accelerates the upfront detection and resolution of design issues

• Fosters collaboration with 3D as a common language

• Accelerates decision making on product changes and alternative design studies

• Improved decision making through 3D presentations and instant collaborative tools

Capabilities

• All review information imbedded in the product design information

• Annotated scenes definition associative with product design

• "3D slides" presentation creation for review

• Advanced interference checking and analysis

• Instant collaboration for review

• Alternate geometry creation and simplification: envelopes, silhouettes, wrapped volumes

• Advanced 3D geometry and drawing comparison

• Simulation replay and movie generation

• Capable of viewing a large set of 2D and 3D formats

CATIA Technological Specifications Review

Benefits

• Direct access to accurate dimension and tolerance information

• Direct access and review of Finite Elements Analysis (FEA) results

• Assess parts under real conditions inside the virtual product

• V5 Fasteners validation and fasteners documentation generation

• IP protection and size reduction for supply chain exchange

Capabilities

• 2D and 3D visualization and filtering of 3D Tolerances and Annotations

• V5 analysis results visualization and animation

• Reviews V5 fasteners and generates complete reports

• Creates V5 fasteners drawings

• Part and product filtering by removing selected information: knowledgeware, part history

CATIA FEM and Structural Analysis

Benefits

• 60% improvement of the product design-analysis cycle time comparing to non integrated design-analysis solutions

• Generative and associative specification-driven solution for a rapid propagation of changes

• Ensures compliancy with company best practices thanks to integrated knowledge capabilities

• Accurate simulation of the product’s mechanical behavior

• Decreases the need for physical prototypes

• Promotes concurrent engineering

• Open to other solvers to address specific needs

• Scalable solution to perform complex computations on large models: up to 25 million degrees of freedom

Capabilities

• Single analysis and design environment avoiding errors and duplications

• Knowledge-based architecture

• Advanced stress, modal and dynamic analysis on any type of part or hybrid assembly

• Robust and advanced finite element model components for wireframe, surface and solid meshing

• Unique topology simplification to obtain a high quality mesh

• Multiple types of connections for meshing of an assembly

• Compatible and non compatible meshing support

• Pre and post processing analysis package exchange

CATIA Knowledge Expert & Engineering Optimization