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For Creative Designers Who Want to Create and Explore Conceptual Ideas Quickly
Creative Designer is the ideal workflow solution for styline and design.
It empowers you to import your 2D sketch and to explore ideas by sketching in 3D with CATIA Natual Sketch. Sculpt in 3D with ultra-fast virtual clay modelling thanks to subdivision surfaces technology. Create precise shapes with NURBS Surface modeling and Direct Solid Modeling. Compose your product with automated assembly features.
Visualise your product and work on colors and trims with high-end reali-time visualization, and photo-realistic rendering with mental ray. Standard exports are managed through STEP and IGES formats and STL files for rapid prototyping.
Description
An integrated creative workflow addressing ideation, concept modeling to visualization:
- Creative Designer solution
- 3D Creativity accessible with easy to learn & use 3D modelling
- 3D Sketching
- 3D Virtual Clay Modeling
- 3D Printing
- Human Design
- Available On-premise or On-The-Cloud
Freeform Surface Modeler is a multi-industry process that delivers a new level of surface quality, improving the final product’s perceived quality
Freeform Surface Modeler is a multi-industry process that delivers a new level of surface quality, improving the final product’s perceived quality. This user-role offers a surface refinement modeling application that increases the level of quality of shapes created with the Generative Shape Design application.
CATIA users will directly benefit from these new applications and tools for many challenges across all industries. Freeform Surface Modeler helps and enables CATIA users to reach the next level of surface quality and sophistication.
Description
For shape experts who want to achieve high level of surface quality while respecting aesthetic and technical constraints:
- Creative Subdivision Surface Modeling tools
- Technical Surface Modeling tools
- Advanced Explicit surface Modeling
- Analysis & Control tools for Engineering
- Global Deformation Solution
- Dedicated features for shape quality conversion and improvement
Complete and Unified Industrial Design Solution for Creative Designers
From art to part, Product Industrial Designer is the ideal workflow solution for styling and design. It empowers to perform design sketch integration, ultra-fast 3D ideation concept modeling with subdivision surfaces, high-end surfacing, high-end real-time visualization, photo-realistic rendering and rapid prototyping in 3D Human context.
This user-role streamlines the process of industrial design from 2D and 3D sketch, concept & detail surface modeling to design visualization & validation. It brings together the intuitiveness of creative 2D painting gestures for 3D sketching, quick & easy 3D Concept exploration with virtual clay modeling, the power of accurate 3D surface modeling and the realtime & interactive rendering for design visualization. All of these are totally integrated, boosting design creativity and innovation.
Description
A complete and unified industrial design workflow solution, from 2D and 3D sketch, concept modeling, detail and technical surface modeling to design visualization:
- Complete Industrial Design solution
- 3D Creativity accessible with easy to learn & use 3D modeling
- 3D Sketching
- 3D Virtual Clay Modeling
- Advanced Surface Modeling tools
- Realtime & Interactive Rendering
- Drafting & Collaboration
- 3D Printing
- Human Design
- Available On-premise or On-The-Cloud
High End Real-time Visualization and Interactive Rendering for Design Decisions
Visual Experience Designer is a specific and dedicated Role for real-time visualization & interactive rendering. This enables the 3D user to take accurate design decisions and to produce photorealistic visuals. It is the perfect companion to any 3D modeling software, allowing users to visualize & sell their designs.
Creative designers, engineers, marketing managers or visualization expert can access the powerful high-quality rendering with a stand-alone application, available On-Premise or On-the-Cloud.
Description
A visual and rendering companion allowing non-specialists to produce high-end real-time visualization and interactive photorealistic visuals:
- Realtime & interactive rendering solution
- Physically correct based visualization
- 3D Human available as a reference to visual experience creation
- Integrated solution
- Easy to use & Push Button
- Content available for environments & materials
- Tools to optimize models for downstream experiences
- Available On-premise and On-The-Cloud
Physical Prototype/Clay Modeler is a specific and dedicated Role for any user dealing with transitions between digital and physical worlds.
To quickly export 3D data to 3D printable files and to adjust a shape from a displacement field to compensate dilatation or spring-back effects. With this user-role, modelers can manage, repair, refine modify, improve & remodel scan & mesh data provide various semi-automatic tools to rebuild exact geometry from any scan data or polygon modeling generate STL files from exact geometry for 3D printing quickly obtain through global deformation the compensated shape able to absorb deforming physical phenomenon’s.
Description
Physical Prototyper/Clay Modeler Role addresses the transition between digital and physical worlds by importing, generation, modification and optimization of digitized data like meshes or scans:
- Manage, repair, refine & improve scanned & mesh data
- Semi-automatic tools to rebuild exact geometry from Mesh
- Generate STL files from exact geometry for 3D printing
- Quickly obtain, through global deformation, the compensated shape which is able to absorb deforming physical phenomena
- On-premise or On-The-Cloud
Class A Modeler provides a comprehensive suite of products to create, edit and analyze aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest Class A surface quality starting from basic inputs such as design sketches through to the generation of real-time rendering of the final shape.
Supporting the hybrid world of both explicit, direct surface modeling techniques and associative feature based methodology, Class A Modeler dramatically improves the productivity in the Automotive Class-A process and delivers new levels of integration in the overall product development process.
Description
Achieving perfection in surface quality. A full set of explicit surface modeling tools which enable digital sculptors to reach perfect surface quality:
- Class-A Surface Modeling solution
- Surface Modeling & evaluation tools
- Explicit Control Point Surface Modeling
- Associative Surface Modeling
The Class-A Modeler role offers a surface refinement modeling application that increases the level of quality of shapes created with the Generative Shape Design application.
CATIA users will directly benefit from these new applications and tools for many challenges across all industries. From the styling or perceived quality of products which require high surface quality, to complex surfaces for lofting in aerospace or wind turbine blade design in energy, Freeform Shape Design helps and enables CATIA users to reach the next level of surface quality and sophistication.
Description
An add-on role which enriches the Class-A Modeler role with an additional set of advanced tools for transportation design:
- Creative Subdivision Surface Modeling tools
- Technical Surface Modeling tools
- Advanced Explicit surface Modeling
- Analysis & Control tools for Engineering
- Global Deformation Solution
- Dedicated features for shape quality conversion and improvement
The demands of today’s competitive aerospace market present designers with a wide range challenges. Product replacement cycles are shortening, and design precision is increasingly critical. Together, these pressures are making the entire design process more intensive than ever. In the aerospace field in particular, designers need to create complex aeronautical surfaces as quickly and as accurately as possible according to stringent industry specifications. Engineers must incorporate changes more rapidly. And feasibility analysis has to be incorporated into the development of the initial concept.
Aero Surface Modeler provides advanced surface lofting and global modeling capabilities. It delivers advanced modeling tools to create, edit analyze and global model complex surface models to facilitate the processes within the Aerospace domain of Surface Lofting and interior aircraft cabin design.
Description
Powerful integrated surface modeling for lofting and aeronautical surface design, enables experts to refine aerodynamic surfaces taking any curve or surface mathematics into consideration:
- Aerospace Surface Modeling solution
- Surface Modeling & evaluation tools
- Advanced Lofting features
- Advanced tools to control the surface definition up to G3
From art to part, Transportation Designer is a complete and unified solution for the most demanding styling and design studios, covering 2D & 3D sketching, concept modeling, detailed and technical surface modeling to color & trim and design visualization in context of 3D Human.
Description
Transportation Designer brings together the intuitiveness of creative 2D painting gestures for 3D sketching, quick & easy 3D Concept exploration with virtual clay modeling, the power of accurate 3D surface modeling and the realtime & interactive rendering for design visualization. All of these are totally integrated, boosting design creativity and innovation.
- Complete Industrial Design solution
- 3D Creativity accessible with easy to learn & use 3D modeling
- 3D Sketching
- 3D Virtual Clay Modeling
- Advanced Surface Modeling tools
- Realtime & Interactive Rendering
- ICEM Class-A Surface Modeling
- Reverse Engineering
- Drafting & Collaboration
- 3D Printing
- Human Design
- Available On-premise or On-The-Cloud
Mechanical Engineering
Utilize a powerful spec-driven modeling approach to create any type of mechanical shape, promoting concurrent engineering between styling and mechanical shape design. Ultra-fast functional modeling adds to dramatic time savings and ensures that products are designed right the first time.
Composites Engineering
Composites Engineering and Manufacturing from Dassault Systèmes covers the entire spectrum of composites product development, from design to analysis and manufacturing, on a single virtual platform. The solution is powered by CATIA for virtual product design, SIMULIA for virtual testing and DELMIA for virtual manufacturing. The Composites Engineering and Manufacturing solution can also be complemented by an array of specialized applications and services from an extensive network of our highly qualified technology partners.
Plastic Part & Mold Design
The CATIA Mold and Tooling solution delivers a flexible and highly-customizable approach to conceptual and detailed tooling engineering. To be able to produce products we use every day and meet expectations, it is necessary to ensure, early in the design cycle, that they can be manufactured and to devise an efficient and controlled fabrication process. This needs to be combined with the ability to react quickly and safely to any change in the product definition or in the production environment.
Create Manufacturing-Ready Plastic Parts
Designing and creating molded parts requires a fast and flexible solution based on cutting-edge technology, so you have time to keep up-to-date with the latest design market trends and stay ahead of the competition.
CATIA Plastic Mechanical Designer delivers ultra-fast functional modeling for unmatched productivity and flexibility to address the complete design-to-manufacturing preparation process of molded parts. It responds to the needs of companies that require an optimal method for dealing with changes throughout the product lifecycle.
Description
A comprehensive set of applications to create manufacturing-ready molded parts, using ultra-fast functional modeling technology:
- Designs always respect manufacturability properties like constant thickness, parting elements, pulling direction and draft angles.
- All features whether applied at the beginning or the end, constantly interact with the design’s topology.
- Complex plastic part features like grills, ribs, reinforcements and bosses can be created quickly using dedicated commands.
- Apply know-how rules to ensure the best technological and design-for-manufacturing practices.
- Plastic filling simulation is available out of the box which allows you to address manufacturing concerns like fill times, flow restrictions, air entrapments, weld lines, etc. in the design phase itself.
Prerequisites
Collaborative Innovation (CNV) and Collaborative Sharing (PCS)
Included Apps
- CATIA Functional Plastic Parts
- CATIA Shape Healing
- CATIA Part Feature Recognition
- CATIA 3D Printing Preparation
- CATIA Natural Shape
- CATIA Natural Assembly
- CATIA Bent Part Design
- CATIA Assembly Design
- CATIA Mechanical Systems Design
- CATIA Part Design
- CATIA Drafting
- CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design
- CATIA Generative Wireframe & Surface
- CATIA 3D Templates Capture
- CATIA Know-how Reuse
- CATIA Engineering Templates Reuse
- CATIA Component Family Definition
- SIMULIA Material Definition
- CATIA Product Structure Design
- CATIA Weight Analysis
- CATIA Engineering IP Control
- Converter for IGES
- Converter for STEP
- ENOVIA Design Review
- ENOVIA Interference Check
- ENOVIA Interference Finder
- SIMULIA Plastic Part Design Filling
Create and Manage Products that Include Predefined Components
CATIA Mechanical Design and Tooling offers a productive Mechanical Engineering Experience with intuitive, flexible 3D Design leveraging powerful part and assembly capabilities, direct modeling, mechanisms animations and reuse of capitalized know-how. Fully customizable assembly components and a template-based approach ramp-up projects faster. Ensure design consistency and help assess and refine part manufacturability to manufacture right the first time.
Description
A powerful process-oriented set of applications for the creation and management of products which include predefined components:
- Define Components with custom behaviours
- Create any 3D Part and Assembly
- Smart positioning of Components
- Engineering connections and mechanism animation
- Bend part design with direct editing
- 2D Layout For 3D Design
- 3D Weight analysis with BI
- Import (STEP, IGES), analyze and repair design parts of any complexity
Prerequisites
Collaborative Innovation (CNV) and Collaborative Sharing (PCS)
Included Apps
- CATIA Tooling Design
- CATIA Natural Shape
- CATIA Natural Assembly
- CATIA Bent Part Design
- CATIA Assembly Design
- CATIA Mechanical Systems Design
- CATIA Part Design Essentials
- CATIA Functional Part Design
- CATIA Drafting
- CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design
- CATIA Generative Wireframe & Surface
- CATIA 3D Templates Capture
- CATIA Component Family Definition
- CATIA Engineering Templates Reuse
- CATIA Know-how Reuse
- SIMULIA Material Definition
- CATIA Product Structure Design
- CATIA Weight Analysis
- CATIA Engineering IP Control
- Converter for IGES
- Converter for STEP
- ENOVIA Design Review
- ENOVIA Interference Check
- ENOVIA Interference Finder
Create and Validate Detailed Tooling Products Capitalizing on Engineering Know-how
Mold tooling injection designers need to quickly design a tool based on their know-how. In addition, they need to ensure wall thickness uniformity and proper cooling of plastic parts and address issues such as shrinkage and mold removal. Product quality depends on mold design accuracy, so they can benefit greatly from a tool that specifically covers these processes.
Mold and Tooling Designer role specifically addresses the needs of Injection Mold Tooling designers. A predefined Layout allows users to insert and manage several Inserts in a positioned Mold Base, which greatly enhances productivity. It also features a dedicated Live command that fits the dimensions of the tool to the prints. Standard plastic mold bases coming from suppliers (DME, HASCO, FUTABA, etc.) are created in one-shot by selecting the recommended configuration.
Description
A powerful process-oriented set of applications for the creation and validation of detailed mold tooling products, capitalizing on enginering know-how:
- Conceptual design for bidding process including accurate pulling direction and wall thickness analysis, placeholder for ejectors and cooling systems
- Anticipate and check manufacturing compliance with plastic injection simulation integrated in the environment of the mold designer
- Extract parting lines and parting surfaces in dedicated features providing a unique design change automation.
- Re-use complex mechanical systems for earlier kinematics validation
- Re-use company know-how captured in smart components
- Catalogs of standard Moldbases equipped with smart components from most of the mold tooling suppliers
- Seamless 3D Electrode design
Prerequisites
Collaborative Innovation (CNV) and Collaborative Sharing (PCS)
Included Apps
- CATIA Core & Cavity Separation
- CATIA Mold Tooling Design
- CATIA Part Feature Recognition
- CATIA Shape Healing
- CATIA Part Design
- CATIA Natural Shape
- CATIA Natural Assembly
- CATIA Assembly Design
- CATIA Mechanical Systems Design
- CATIA Functional Part Design
- CATIA Drafting
- CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design
- CATIA Generative Wireframe & Surface
- CATIA 3D Templates Capture
- CATIA Component Family Definition
- CATIA Engineering Templates Reuse
- CATIA Know-how Reuse
- SIMULIA Material Definition
- CATIA Product Structure Design
- CATIA Weight Analysis
- CATIA Engineering IP Control
- CATIA 3D Printing
- Converter for IGES
- Converter for STEP
- ENOVIA Design Review
- ENOVIA Interference Check
- ENOVIA Interference Finder
The CATIA Mold and Tooling Designer role enables a flexible and highly-customizable approach from conceptual to detailed mold tooling design. This role enables the user to automate design tasks and assist user decision-making at any step of a complex mold design.
Description
Design, Detail and Validate Injection Mold
- Conceptual design for bidding process including accurate pulling direction and wall thickness analysis, placeholder for ejectors and cooling systems
- Extract parting lines and parting surfaces in dedicated features providing a unique design change automation.
- Re-use complex mechanical systems for earlier kinematics validation
- Re-use company know-how captured in smart components
- Catalogs of standard equipped Moldbases with smart components from most of the mold tooling suppliers
- Seamless 3D Electrode design
Reverse Shape Optimizer enables morphing of a nominal 3D shape to match simulation or digitization results. One of the main feature is to compare nominal shape with predicted or real shape, then to update and optimize the nominal shape by applying the differences while preserving the high quality of the nominal shape. It optimizes the manufacturing process by compensating forming deformation and optimizes product definition from its representation in operation conditions. Reverse Shape Optimizer provides a unique flexibility and productivity to bring Virtual Definition closer to Real-life Definition.
Description
Manage complex shape deformation of virtual products:
- Import and optimize clouds of points and STL data, create and refine meshes
- Create virtual shape from simulation computation or digitization results
- Compare nominal shape with predicted or real shape and measure deviations
- Update and optimize nominal shape by applying or compensation difference
- Compensate forming deformation.
Prerequisites
Existing Catia Role
Included Apps
- CATIA Virtual to Real Shape Morphing
- CATIA Digitized Shape Preparation
CATIA Structural Package Designer role provide a powerful and easy to use set of capabilities to design Packaging. Thanks to the complete integration within the 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform, all data created can be shared and matured by all collaborators and disciplines. Users are able to create innovative design, using concurrent engineering between unfolded and folded view. The management of folded and gluing cycle gives the users the capabilities to design very complex Structural Package. The Structural Package Design application give a specialized feature-based modeling approach and thanks to the new dedicated drawing capabilities, the user can push is design to manufacturing and Artwork.
Description
The Structural Package Design app enables designers to create and modify packages with accuracy. It offers a highly productive and intuitive design environment providing different tools to fulfill packaging needs.
- Reduces design and manufacturing errors thanks to process oriented structural package features
- Cuts tooling design thanks to dedicated Standards preparation
- Cuts design modifications capitalizing IP throw templates and applying automated design using power copy
- Reduces Decision Times using concurrent engineering delivered by the single platform
