Shape Design in Catia V5

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Shape
Shape delivers a highly productive environment to easily capture and
express shape design intent. It provides a complete set of tools to
create, validate and modify any shape type from freeform styled
surfaces to smooth mechanical shapes - in a collaborative way.

Unique integrated solution to create advanced hybrid shapes

from concept to detailed design both easily and rapidly.

Powerful curve and surface-based tools to create high-quality

styled shapes.

Shape modeling technologies that deliver high levels of

productivity and efficiency for all industry segments.

Surface design made accessible to everyone.

Photorealistic rendering and simulation for real-time design

validation to ensure high-end quality products.
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FreeStyle

FreeStyle Shaper application is a powerful modeling tool used

to dynamically design all types of surface elements, from the
stylist's drawing to the final surface, ready for the manufacturing
processes.

Free form 3D curves and surfaces from scratch, and

dynamically deform and analyze all produced elements.

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Generative Shape Design

Generative Shape Design allows you to quickly model both

simple and complex shapes using wireframe and surface
features. It provides a large set of tools for creating and editing
shape designs and, when combined with other products such as
Part Design, it meets the requirements of solid-based hybrid
modeling.

The feature-based approach offers a productive and intuitive

design environment to capture and re-use design methodologies
and specifications. This new application is intended for both the
expert and the casual user. Its intuitive interface offers the
possibility to produce precision shape designs with very few
interactions. The dialog boxes are self explanatory and require
practically no methodology, all defining steps being
commutative.

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Digitized Shape Editor

Digitized Shape Editor enables you to read, import and process parts
digitized to clouds of points. These clouds of points can then be used
in Quick Surface Reconstruction, DMU or Surface Machining or
exported to various other formats.

Digitized Shape Editor

proposes several import formats,

takes special characteristics of imported shapes into account

(free edges, facets, ...), if requested,

ensures a fast processing of clouds (that may contain several

millions of points) through filtering, activation and removal
functions,

makes the manipulations of the various elements constituting

cloud of points (points, scans, grids, meshes) easy,

provides edition functions such as merging and aligning of

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clouds, or creation of planar sections,
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provides edition functions such as merging and aligning of

clouds, or creation of planar sections,

provides display and analysis functions of the cloud,

keeps the architecture of objects processed,

provides tessellations to be used directly with other applications

or for visualization,

exports the models created to several formats.

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Quick Surface Reconstruction

Quick Surface Reconstruction easily and quickly recovers surfaces

from digitized data that has been cleaned up and tessellated using
the Digitized Shape Editor product. 

Quick Surface Reconstruction offers several approaches to recover

surfaces depending of the type of shape: 

Organic shapes, i.e. free form surfaces, without features such

as cylinders, fillets, planes, etc.

Mechanical shapes (plane, cylinder, sphere, cone).

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Shape Sculptor

Shape Sculptor is a powerful product enabling users to quickly create,

edit, modify and sculpt polygonal models.

Within Shape Sculptor, a scanned model can be imported and

quickly edited to add details and new features.

Polygonal models can also be created by tessellating existing

surface models or generated from 3D curves. With its powerful
and intuitive polygonal modeling tools, new features and details
can be added to the polygonal model.

Shape Sculptor is the perfect tool to rapidly edit and sculpt

polygonal models and complements surface-based conceptual
modeling tools when surfacing becomes too complex.

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Polygonal Modeling

In 3D computer graphics, polygonal modeling is an approach for

modeling objects by representing or approximating their surfaces
using polygons. Polygonal modeling is well suited to scanline
rendering and is therefore the method of choice for real-time
computer graphics. Alternate methods of representing 3D objects
include NURBS surfaces, subdivision surfaces, and equation-based
representations used in ray tracers. See polygon mesh for a
description of how polygonal models are represented and stored

Tessellation

A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures

that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also
speak of tessellations of the parts of the plane or of other surfaces.

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Imagine and Shape

The Imagine & Shape product is a new-generation tool dedicated to

the creation of shapes in a very fast and easy way.

Using this product allows the user to concretize his imagination

and get also the benefit of paintings created using the Sketch
Tracer product.

As a scalable product, Imagine & Shape can be used in

cooperation with other products such as Part Design, Generative
Shape Design and FreeStyle.

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Sketch Tracer

The Sketch Tracer is a new-generation tool used to import stylist's

drawings into the 3D world.

Using this product you can convert 2D images into a 3D scene

to create 3D geometry from your hand drawings, or other source
such as pictures.

You position the 3D model in relation to the sketch and, in

conjunction with other products, create geometric outlines
directly over the sketches.

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Automotive Body in White Fastening

Automotive Body in White Fastening is a product dedicated to the

design of Automotive Body In White fasteners. It supports welding
technologies and mechanical clinching, along with adhesives, sealers,
and mastics.

For each of these general fastening technologies, specific

fastening process codes along with their matching relevant
parameters can be set-up in standard file. This file can be fully
customized by the customer, according to company or industry
specific standards requirements. Its feature-based approach
offers both a highly structured and intuitive design environment.

Fasteners can be gathered so as to connect specific contact

zones of the parts to join. You can create, edit and delete spot-
like fasteners.

In addition to placing the fasteners, flat reports can be issued

from the application in order to list the data that can be imported
to a neutral ASCII text format, providing opening with customer
legacy systems.
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Mechanical Design
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Catia V5

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Mechanical Design

Built on a single integrated infrastructure, Mechanical Design

workbenches provide a complete set of tools to create any type of 3D
part - from molded parts, forged parts, machined parts and
sheetmetal parts to mechanical assemblies - in a collaborative way.

Engineers and designers can work together concurrently to

specify the product from requirement to the conceptual and
physical definition.

Designers work in a 3D environment with embedded 2D

drafting capabilities.

Users can specify functional tolerances and annotations directly

in 3D.

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Mechanical Design

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Sketcher

Sketcher application makes it possible for designers to sketch precise

and rapid 2D profiles.

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Part Design

The Part Design application makes it possible to design precise 3D

mechanical shapes with an intuitive and flexible user interface, from
sketching in an assembly context to iterative detailed design.

Part Design application will enable you to accommodate design

requirements for 3D shapes of various complexities, from simple
to advanced.

This application, which combines the power of feature-based

design with the flexibility of a Boolean approach, offers a highly
productive and intuitive design environment with multiple design
methodologies, such as post-design and local 3D
parameterization.

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Assembly Design

Assembly Design application allows the design of assemblies with an

intuitive and flexible user interface.

As a scalable workbench, Assembly Design can be

cooperatively used with other current companion products such
as Part Design and Generative Drafting.

The widest application portfolio in the industry is also accessible

through interoperability with Solutions Version 4 to enable
support of the full product development process from initial
concept to product in operation.

Digital Mock-Up (DMU) Navigator inspection capabilities can

also be used to review and check your assemblies. Interactive,
variable-speed techniques such as walk-through and fly as well
as other viewing tools let you visually navigate through large
assemblies.

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Part Design Feature Recognition

The Part Design Feature Recognition application makes it possible to

modify solids although their initial specifications have been lost or
are not available.

The application enables you to recreate locally the specification

tree specifications, which then lets you design precise 3D
mechanical 3D shapes with an intuitive and flexible user
interface.

This application, which combines the power of feature-based

design with the flexibility of a Boolean approach, offers a highly
productive and intuitive design environment with multiple design
methodologies, such as post-design and local 3D
parameterization.

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Generative Sheetmetal

The Generative Sheetmetal Design workbench is a new generation

product offering an intuitive and flexible user interface.

Generative Sheetmetal Design offers the following main functions:

Associative and dedicated Sheetmetal feature-based modeling

Concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded 3D

shape representation

Access to company-defined standards tables

Dedicated drawing capability including unfolded view and

specific settings.

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Aerospace Sheetmetal Design

The Aerospace Sheetmetal Design workbench provides an associative

feature-based modeling, making it possible to design sheetmetal
parts in concurrent engineering between an unfolded or folded 3D
shape representation.

Aerospace Sheetmetal Design allows you to define a 3D shape

using predefined features.

Both folded geometry and flattened geometry can be computed

from the feature specifications.

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Concurrent Engineering

Concurrent Engineering is a work methodology based on the

parallelization of tasks (ie. concurrently). It refers to an approach
used in product development in which functions of design
engineering, manufacturing engineering and other functions are
integrated to reduce the elapsed time required to bring a new
product to the market.

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Generative Drafting

Generative Drafting is a new generation product that provides users

with powerful functionalities to generate drawings from 3D parts and
assembly definitions.

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Interactive Drafting

Interactive Drafting is a new generation product that addresses 2D

design and drawing production requirements.

Interactive Drafting is a highly productive, intuitive drafting

system that can be used in a standalone 2D CAD environment
within a backbone system.

It also expands the Generative Drafting product with both

integrated 2D interactive functionality and an advanced
production environment for the dress-up and annotation of
drawings.

This provides an easy and smooth evolution from 2D to 3D-

based design methodologies.

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Core and Cavity Design

Core and Cavity Design is intended for:

a quick analysis of a molded part (cost feasibility),

the preparation of the molded part for mold design and mold
manufacturing.

Core and Cavity Design defines the core and cavity sides of a part,
including any sliders or lifters that may be required, so as to produce
a Molded Part ready to be used with Mold Tooling Design. It includes
functions that define:

the pulling directions,

the parting line

the parting surface,

the splitting surface,

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capacities.
Functional Modelling Part

CATIA Functional Modeling Part offers a new approach to developing

3D digital models, called "functional modeling." The objective of
functional modeling is to enable product designers to focus on the
functional goals and design constraints of their product. Capturing
this information in the product model provides the information from
which geometric form can be derived through the combination of
behavioral features and a minimum of geometric construction. The
end result is a significant reduction in the effort required to generate
the 3D model by allowing more time for designers to focus on
engineering issues, exploring alternative design approaches, and
optimizing their design.

CATIA Functional Modeling Part provides tools to create volumes

and features that contain inherent behaviors and which interact. The
behaviors capture different design functions, such as adding
material, subtracting material, or protecting space. Because they
contain inherent behaviors and they interact, they are called
"functional volumes" and "functional features.“

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As a scalable product, Functional Modeling Part can be used in

cooperation with other current or future companion products such as
Assembly Design and Generative Drafting.

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