CATIA for Creative Designers

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CATIA for Creative Designers

A unied industrial design workow solution to imagine, create, share and experience. Discover in the following pages the added value of CATIA can bring to your design process, from early ideation to product recycling in the following pages. Beyond the synthetic information displayed here, you will nd on the last page of this brochure the associated online address to learn much more. Enjoy your visit!

Further in detailed design:

You are in the driving seat to push your concept forward, taking advantage of CATIA best-in-class hybrid modeling up to Class-A surfaces to reach new summits. Detail your product in assembly context, with immediate access to movement simulations. Any new feature required by the marketing department? Perform the expected modications on key components, and update impacted ones on-demand. Create production drawing as you go, with 3D design associativity when relevant.

Experience your design live:

From concepts to production go, place your products in lifelike conditions before they physically exist. Real time visualization and realistic renderings support design validation and empower your communication. Early simulations such as kinematics, stress, thermal, or vibration analysis lead you to unexplored innovative options. Build new product experiences and ensure customer satisfaction by preparing user manuals and maintenance guides in advance.

From ideation to concept:

Start your 3D ideation from scratch as well as from 2D sketches. Combine the virtual clay modeling approach of Imagine & Shape with free-form and parameter-controlled surfaces. Produce exact surfaces and solids outputs, for sharp and efcient communication within and throughout your project team, ensuring design intent is understood by all project actors.

Share and collaborate:

3D becomes a common language both within and outside of your company. Establish your projectfocused collaboration platform for all involved actors with a single and safe place to store product denition. Design, engineering and manufacturing data is accessible from anywhere, anytime and is always upto-date! Your Company know-how is capitalized for re-use where relevant, in an optimized manner. And nally, 3D design can be shared beyond the design community using 3DXML format, by email!

CATIA Natural Sketch - CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer

CATIA Natural Sketch, the new 3D Sketching technology is a paradigm shift in creative ideation. It gives designers the ability to express and communicate their creativity, to transform their 2D idea into a 3D reality and to explore detail design variations by sketching directly on 3D objects. With CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer you can leverage 2D design artwork, integrating it within CATIA 3D environment. Select your sketch, position it in the background, scale it to your needs, and start with CATIA 3D creative modeling!

CATIA Imagine & Shape

HAVE MORE IDEAS COMING TO LIFE IN 3D !

My main focus is auto design, but I sometimes need to escape to crazier worlds. Toys are more and more present in consumer products. For this docking station, I wanted something friendly and fun. I am usually not a 3D guy, and the virtual clay modeling approach of CATIA Imagine & Shape helped me to go straight to the point and try many wild options. To tell you the truth I have been through a whole bunch of pets before converging on this rabbit!
Charles Pasquier, Transportation Designer at Dassault Systmes Design Studio

Convey more emotions with a new vehicle that reaches unexplored territories. Way beyond traditional surface modeling, CATIA Imagine & Shape introduces a virtual clay paradigm to support rapid exploration in creative concept design. Its accurate surface denition represents one more competitive advantage, since all project actors can re-use it directly. Whatever your domain or product complexity, whatever your modeling skill level, from beginner to 3D expert, its intuitive user interface provides immediate access to professional results.

CATIA Live Shape

New ideas popping-up? Start a 3D brainstorming session with CATIA Live Shape to explore them further! An amazing direct solid modeling approach makes you feel comfortable and productive in no time. Push and pull on faces, drag and drop features in a natural way. Need to start from a part generated in another 3D CAD package? Just start from this part as if it had been built in CATIA from the beginning. Immediate ease of use, for immediate benets.

CATIA Live Compose

Your concept parts and standard components are virtually laying on the table, right in front of you, ready for an interactive test and try session. Select the ones you want, cut, copy, paste, group and ungroup, making it simple and quick to structure new assemblies and combine them with existing ones, directly in 3D. Try more options intuitively, in no time!

With CATIA Natural Sketch, I can sketch my ideas directly in 3D ! I am impressed by the power of 3D sketches as a communication tool. You keep the emotion of the sketch and the efciency of the 3D. It is a new and Lifelike Creative Experience !

Pierre Maheut, Creative Designer at Dassault Systmes

Designed with : CATIA Industrial Designers Package Rendered with : CATIA Real Time Rendering

Designed with: CATIA Industrial Designers Package Rendered with: CATIA Real Time Rendering

FURTHER IN DETAILED DESIGN

CATIA Functional 3D Modeling

Experience a history-free approach in solid modeling! Reach unmatched productivity and exibility to design cast, molded and forged parts. Set-up the complete functional specication both for your parts and their associated tooling, and you are done. Feature creation order no longer has any impact on part structure, so that you can concentrate on key functional objectives.

Sebastien Rosel, Design Manager at Dassault Systmes Design Studio

CATIA Part Design

This new 3D scanner project was a great opportunity for a holistic design approach. From the early stage, the user experience was set as a top priority. Iterations started with the Noomeo engineering team to address technical constraints, with manufacturability in mind. With CATIA as our common 3D language, I have to say that design convergence went pretty straightforward. Several key ideas were implemented very late. For example, we had to add an unexpected inner rubber padding to protect internal components. Despite the impact on the external body and the coherent style change we had to apply, we managed to stick to the initial schedule. Will you believe me if I tell you that the detailed proposal was nalized in just 4 weeks? A unique Smart Solid design engine combines feature-based design with a boolean approach for more exibility. Whatever your preferred design methodology, its offers a highly productive and intuitive mechanical design platform. Any CATIA applications such as Assembly Design or Generative Drafting take advantage of CATIA Part Design data as you move forward with your project.

CATIA Assembly Design

Design in assembly context and manage your assemblies in a collaborative spirit. Start from your product structure (top-down), or assemble individual components (bottom-up). Dynamically drag parts into position, reorder them, place assembly constraints, check collisions and clearances. Stay focused on design and innovation by accessing your standard components through catalogs. Key outputs such as exploded views and bill-of-materials are generated automatically.

CATIA Freestyle
A powerful and easy to use set of surface-based applications helps you dene all kinds of shapes to build-up your product lines. Create, combine, smooth, trim curves and surfaces. Check their quality on the y, with real time extensive and advanced diagnostic tools.

CATIA Generative Shape Design

Assemble multiple wireframe and surface features altogether to design simple to complex hybrid parts. An extensive set of tools supports the highest quality standards. Set-up associativity on-demand for easy and efcient design change propagation. Concentrate on high value-added tasks using advanced knowledge-based capabilities like powercopy to capture and re-use frequently used elements.

CATIA Generative Drafting

Generate associative drawings from your CATIA 3D design in a single-click operation, no matter what its made of (surfaces, solids, hybrid parts, assemblies, etc.). Generate 3D dimensions automatically with placement control. Add your annotations and dress-up features when needed. Drawings associativity with 3D design provides additional exibility for concurrent design and drawing production.

PERFECTION IN SURFACE QUALITY

CATIA Icem Shape Design

Class-A surfacing often takes place within an isolated explicit modeling environment. Shape renement requires multiple iterations, with related design updates and time consuming data exchange with mainstream PLM CAD systems. CATIA Icem Shape Design provides a new level of integrated products to create, analyze and edit aesthetic and ergonomic shapes up to the highest Class-A surface quality. The more demanding your industry is, the better productivity gains you will experience. The hybrid world of both explicit, direct surface modeling techniques and associative feature-based methodology becomes yours, for an even more streamlined product development process.

How about integrating key concerns such as energy efciency, emissions, and product recycling specications from the early stages of the product development process? Environmental protection is one of our shared objectives. CATIA federates your corporate assets, enabling all project actors to capitalize and re-use company practices for sustainable innovation, all the way from the rst project ideas to product recycling.

CATIA Reverse Engineering

Import digitized data,perform clean up, tessellation, cross sections, character line, shape and quality checking with real time diagnosis. Choose your preferred strategy for surface reconstruction, and manage your inspection process, comparing clouds of points with design models. Discover a new milestone in restyling, leveraging the CATIA unied modeling environment: you can now generate subdivision surfaces from clouds of points, and develop new style options with CATIA Imagine & Shape. Give it a try!

EXCELLENCE IN SMART DESIGN

CATIA Knowledge Expert

Capture and re-use company practices and standards to take advantage of them when and where relevant, ensuring design compliance with established standards. This rule base automates knowledge re-use processes such as department or company best practices, and design compliance to company quality standards. The report outputs identify standards violations and help to implement necessary corrections.

CATIA Product Knowledge Templates

Create your own CATIA smart features, parts and assemblies templates, instantiate them in a fully adaptive way, and perform associative modications in context. Access to resulting instances and templates references is streamlined by the CATIA Catalog infrastructure. Other groups within your company can re-use such encapsulated knowledge, with full control of the intellectual property, securing critical know-how when needed. Whatever your industry, CATIA - Product Knowledge Template adds value to your design, improves your design process efciency, and federates your best practices sharing.

3D AS A UNIVERSAL COLLABORATION LANGUAGE

A Global Collaborative Innovation Platform

Collaborative innovation is about managing intellectual property lifecycle and harnessing the extended enterprise collective intelligence. ENOVIA V6 provides you with an open, online collaborative environment involving creators, collaborators, and consumers, on a single IP management platform, for all product lifecycle activities. It federates your product-related data and knowledge, no matter where they reside. Ground-breaking collaboration tools enable 3D brainstorming within the extended product design and development community, to reach a new level of innovation. Broaden CATIA usage to additional team members and to casual contributors within your design and engineering departments, and beyond.

3D Live
Provide global teams with a shared 3D workspace for all product-related data. Product details are easier to understand for all project collaborators. Because issues are easier to detect, they can be solved earlier in the lifecycle, improving time to market and reducing costs. Leverage intellectual property from all contributors for faster innovation, higher quality, and regulatory compliance. Productivity soars as geographic and organizational boundaries disappear, with stakeholders sharing data via a single, secure, and interactive 3D environment.

3DXML format
The 3D XML format is the most efcient solution to share CATIA 3D data within and beyond the CATIA users community. Generate 3D XML les anytime from CATIA 3D models, and share them via email or via MS ofce documents. To experience easy viewing, rotation, zooming and manipulation, just download the 3DVIA player from the DS 3DVIA website and install it on your PC. Easy multi-purpose 3D data sharing and reuse stretches way beyond PLM applications.

CATIA Distiller
Optimize your CATIA 3D models for virtual reality experiences with 3DVIA solutions. Re-organize data, adjust tessellation, and suppress invisible areas. Store distilled 3DXML models in the V6 database, for future re-use and sharing with your online communities.

CATIA Iges & Step Interface

CATIA IGES & STEP Interfaces help designers working in a heterogeneous design system environment to exchange data in a neutral format. Reliable bi-directional 2D and 3D data exchange can be performed between the different systems with direct and automated le access. CATIA offers a homogeneous user interface for all supported formats.

CATIA STL Rapid Prototyping

Quickly and accurately create STL les from CATIA concepts and products. Import existing STL les, display the mesh for quality check, and improve the mesh quality with advanced tools. Thin offsets can be generated to obtain watertight solids. Your parts meshes can be exported as standard binary STL les for rapid prototyping machines.

During my design exploration for new headphones, I found quite common shapes. I wanted something different, more like an artists sculpture. I did my best to express elegance and technology with a clear high-tech spirit. 3D modeling solutions sometimes limit designers creativity but believe me, this is not the case with CATIA! I developed my rst ideas directly in 3D, combining shapes and technical inputs altogether in an innovative assembly architecture. What do you think about the gray anodized aluminum I chose to nish the main covers? Can you feel its qualitative and pleasing touch in this rendering image?

Jean Hong, Product Designer at Dassault Systmes Design Studio

LIFELIKE EXPERIENCE AS PART OF YOUR DESIGN

CATIA Live Rendering for Interactive Raytracing & Global Illumination

Designed with : CATIA Industrial Designers Package Live an interactive photorealistic visual experience of your product with CATIA Live Rendering leveraging the Nvidia iRay interactive global illumination and raytracing rendering engine. Using HDR Image based lighting and advanced material libraries, combined with a simple and easy to use user interface, CATIA Live Rendering brings high-end rendering accessible, interactive and totally integrated in your design modeling environment. This new interactive photorealistic visual experience allows you to run interactive design reviews and also to produce imagery for product documentation as well as sales and marketing supports.

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CATIA Photo Studio

CATIA Real Time Rendering

Develop your concepts and products in the dynamic context of real time realistic rendering. Create your textures from scratch, from imported digital images, or select them in the CATIA library. Apply materials through a specication-driven approach or through simple selection. Improved reections, ground and object-to-object shadows simplify volume and proportion understanding, for more efcient real-time design reviews and decision making sessions.

CATIA Photo Studio

Generate top quality photo-realistic images from your digital products, taking advantage of Mental Ray ray-tracing engine. Image realism benets from global illumination, caustic effects, realistic soft shadows, accurate light reections and refractions, providing added value for design validation sessions. CATIA Photo Studio leverages your concepts and products both for internal communications (decision making) and external ones (customer presentations, media and press communications, and websites).

Live Human Solutions

As product usability inuence grows in purchase decisions, the user-centered approach gets closer to the core of the design process. Take advantage of ergonomics and human factors guidelines and standards compliance from early concept stages: analyze reach, space, vision, posture, safety, comfort and fatigue, to detect issues within your familiar 3D environment and solve them before their impact becomes critical. Beyond function and behavior, the virtual manikin gets closer to the lifelike representation you are looking for.

3D VIA Composer
Create interactive product documentation, animation, technical illustrations and more! By reusing your 3D design data and bills-of-material information, 3DVIA Composer revolutionizes the product documentation process, and effectively automates your document-based processes such as: assembly instructions, customer service procedures, installation documents, eld service repair manuals, user manuals and training, and marketing materials.

3D VIA Virtools
Develop exceptional interactive, real-time applications! 3DVIA Virtools is a complete development and deployment platform with an innovative approach to interactive 3D content creation. Its production process provides robust prototyping and development for immersive or online lifelike experience delivery. Breaking away from traditional environments, 3DVIA Virtools helps to meet your production requirements on schedule, with reduced production costs and minimized risks. 3DVIA Virtools addresses a wide range of needs, such as design reviews, shopping experiences, simulation-based training, advergaming, sales congurators and more.

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CATIA ICEM SHAPE DESIGN

PERFECTION IN VIRTUAL SURFACE DESIGN

Driving the design revolution

The product design process is changing, it has to. Product replacement cycles are shortening, product platforms have to be designed to satisfy market demand for numerous niche variants, and design precision is paramount. Nowhere are these trends more evident than in the automotive industry. Models are being replaced increasingly quickly and are often face lifted several times even within a shortened product lifecycle. Platform-sharing within and between manufacturers is the norm. At the same time, automotive design has become signicantly more complex. The industry has experienced revolutionary advances in technology and radical changes in customer expectations in terms of both form and quality. All of which means surfaces must be pristine. These pressures are combining to make the design process even more intensive. Designers need to understand how alterations impact the rest of the design The best Class A surface design tools act as a key interface between the design department and the engineering team that will actually build the car. Developed in close collaboration with Class A surfacing professionals to take into account increasingly higher expectations from their own customers, CATIA ICEM comprehensive suite of software solutions is used by a large number of leading car manufacturers and suppliers for the modeling of Class A CATIA ICEM enables mechanical designers, shape designers, and stylists to create, validate, and modify surfaces of any type, particularly those which are visible and tangible such as exterior and interior trim. The trend to style surfaces that customers cannot always see directly is also increasing. Car manufacturers that use and build advanced technology solutions already apply Class A modeling to partially hidden surfaces such as door shut faces or engine covers. as quickly as possible. Engineers must incorporate changes more rapidly than ever before. Feasibility analysis has to be incorporated into the development of the initial concept and the creation of clay models and physical prototypes is being pushed back to the later stages of the development process due to time and cost constraints. All of which signicantly increases the importance of the virtual software-based design environment,especially when it comes to surface design. surfaces, making it a clear leader in this eld. Leading products must be responsive to customer needs, market developments, and other agents of change, in order to remain successful. The best products can even shape the direction of that change. CATIA ICEM therefore continues to drive and support the increasing virtualization of the design process by delivering advanced new evolutions on a regular basis.

Key Benets  The only highest quality Class A surface modeling solution fully integrated within CATIA  Unique Parallel Commands: simultaneous surface creation and modication Optimized workow, for optimized efciency

Now you see it

The CATIA ICEM solution suite is unique in the market. No other surface design solution allows design professionals to create stunning surfaces of all types, and accurately measure and see the impact of individual changes to other parts of the design. No other surface design solution ts better within the all-encompassing product development environment. Because Class A surfaces cannot be developed properly in isolation, the integration with the virtual design environment is crucial to maximize the efciency and effectiveness of the entire product development process. The greater the emphasis manufacturers put on the development of Class A surfaces, the closer design and engineering teams have to work together, making that integration still more important. Without it, the resultant gaps in the development process chain lead to engineering headaches and expensive redesigns. CATIA ICEM was the rst Class A surface modeling tool to be fully integrated into CATIA virtual design environment, setting a new standard for Class A modeling. Users can now work towards the surface quality required for their end products throughout the entire development process within a single system, and without converting or losing data. Using a single common data format for designs, from end to end as opposed to different formats from standalone, incompatible systems results in improved workow efciency, as well as signicant time and cost savings. In addition, data models created in CATIA ICEM can be used in CATIA. Ultimately, this means greater freedom and exibility for design professionals and a faster, more efcient, and more costeffective complete development process. This integration covers the entire development process chain, allowing software-based development to One of the most powerful of CATIA ICEMs many capabilities is perhaps its real time diagnosis feature. If the geometry of a surface changes while working with CATIA ICEM, the impact of the change is directly visible via advanced diagnosis capabilities. The surface modeler receives real time notication about the quality and the visual appearance of the surface enabling him to make a judgment on the validity of the outcome in terms of surface quality and aesthetics. minimize the reliance on clay models, sheer lathes, and standalone renderers in the early development phases. Data can be shared with other applications for everything from crash analysis and tooling to product documentation. The progressive replacement of physical models, prototypes and materials with virtual equivalents offering the same level of accuracy allows faster, less expensive product feasibility testing.

Key Benets  One single solution for the whole product development process, from design to manufacturing  Integrated associative product development environment  Real-time diagnosis, securing surfaces high-end quality  Hybrid modeling environment with both explicit and feature-based approaches Efcient easy-to-use tools and commands

The ultimate surface-modeling platform

CATIA ICEM Shape Design Center ICEM Shape Design Center is the foundation of the ICEM Shape Design product portfolio. It offers advanced surface and curve functionality to create, modify, and analyze aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest quality. Based on traditional explicit surfacemodeling techniques, it introduces a strong associative and feature-based modeling methodology to dramatically improve the productivity within the Class A process. It also delivers new levels of integration in the overall product development lifecycle. CATIA ICEM Shape Design Expert ICEM Shape Design Expert offers an extended tool set that complements ICEM Shape Design Center. This add-on module enables the creation and modeling of aesthetic and ergonomic shapes using advanced global surface-modeling and shape-modeling capabilities. It also provides specialised Class A and dedicated industry-specic functionalities such as advanced lleting, tri-tangent lleting, gap creation, and accelerated surfaces. CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer is an add-on module that enables the integration of designers work into a 3D format for creating 3D virtual mock-ups. An intuitive toolbox helps the user to create 3D data from 2D sketches. CATIA Digitized Shape Editor CATIA Digitized Shape Editor is an add-on module that addresses the import, ltering, trimming, tessellation, and character line denition of digitized data from 3D scanners and coordinatemeasuring machines. CATIA Quick Surface Reconstruction CATIA Quick Surface reconstruction is an add-on module that simply and rapidly reconstructs surfaces from digitized data and offers several approaches to generating these surfaces, depending on the type of shape required. CATIA Digital Shape Sculptor CATIA Digital Shape Sculptor is an add-on module that provides modeling tools to quickly create, edit, or enhance a shape from a concept or an existing physical model. This approach to creating aesthetic forms allows non-CAD specialists to manipulate and test 3D virtual polygon models. CATIA Digital Shape Sculptor enhances the collaboration between design and engineering ofces through an easy-to-use sculpting technique. CATIA Real Time Rendering CATIA Real Time Rendering is an add-on module that enables designers to interactively create realistic and dynamic renderings and animations in real time, taking advantage of all available hardware features. By providing the dynamic display of your mock-up, CATIA Real Time Rendering allows efcient design evaluation and validation at any time CATIA Photo Studio CATIA Photo Studio is an add-on module that generates high quality photo-realistic images and movies of digital mock-ups, by using a powerful ray-tracing engine. CATIA Photo Studio manages reusable scene settings and delivers powerful animation capabilities. By giving a physically realistic simulation of the model appearance, it can be used for nal design validation.

Every iteration of CATIA ICEM addresses a wide range of enhancements specically requested by professional developers and designers. Many of these new features improve the integration between concept creation, Class A surface-modeling and CAD modeling. The geometry has also been made even more associative. For example, whereas surfaces may previously have had to have their parameters changed after construction, feature modeling enables surfaces to be dened as features. This allows changes to be made to the surface while retaining the original properties of other design features. Class A surface-modeling capabilities have been further improved through the enhancement of the ll function, as well as the arching of surfaces. Meanwhile, commands have also been made more efcient and easy-to-use for the selection, manipulation, and modication of surface elements.

Users of ICEM Surf can also take advantage of the new bidirectional interface with CATIA ICEM for a smooth migration of their ICEM Surf product designs to the integrated associative product development environment of CATIA ICEM. CATIA ICEM consists of multiple modules, each addressing a different aspect of the product development process. The suite can be supplied in different congurations according to your own specic requirements.

CATIA ICEM AEROEXPERT

PERFECTION IN AERONAUTICAL SURFACE DESIGN

Making aerospace design y

Beyond form and function, good design can change the way people feel about the object or space in question. Where is this more evident than in the design of modern aircraft? Today, passengers expect a pleasant, comfortable and stylish experience when ying. And the tone is set as soon as they enter the cabin. Soft curves and smooth surfaces on everything from seats to overhead luggage lockers can help create the kind of soothing and attractive environment they are looking for. Of course, exterior surfaces are also crucial in aeronautical design. For example, slight deviations coulddisrupt the aerodynamics of a wing or nose cone sufciently to affect the operating efciency of the aircraft. In the past, these kinds of imperfections in interior and exterior surfaces have been unavoidable, as designers have The demands of todays competitive aerospace market also present designers with a wide range of other 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 eld in particular, designers need to create complex aeronautical surfaces as quickly and as accurately as possible Uniquely, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert allows surface designers to control the quality and accuracy of surfaces simultaneously wherever they are located on an aircraft. CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is a comprehensive and intuitive software solution that enables aeronautical designers to create, validate, and modify complex surfaces, particularly those that must adhere to critical aerodynamic specications. Inside the aircraft, aesthetics matter more. The same control over surface connections allows designers to create beautiful freeform surface shapes that capture and reect the design intent of the interior style concept. They also facilitate the creation of surfaces that are smooth and complex yet still accurate. The result is a consistent design with a high quality look and feel. been forced to choose between quality and accuracy when creating them. However, these limitations are no longer acceptable in the modern aerospace industry. In other words, the ability to address surface quality and accuracy simultaneously is vital when creating optimal surfaces in aeronautical design that really deliver on customer and aircraft owner requirements. according to stringent industry specications. Engineers must incorporate changes more rapidly. And feasibility analysis has to be incorporated into the development of the initial concept.All of these issues signicantly increase the importance of the virtual software-based design environment. In the aerospace industry, there is a clear leader in this eld: CATIA ICEM AeroExpert. For example, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert enables control over how surfaces connect together across the outside of an aircraft. Because the smoothness of these external surfaces can inuence how the air ows over them, the ability to dene them as precisely as possible helps designers optimize surface aerodynamics. Thus, ying speed and fuel efciency are also optimized.

Key Benets  Fully integrated into CATIA virtual design environment Streamlined end-to-end aerospace design  Comprehensive solution to design complex aeronautical

surfaces quickly and accurately Improved collaborative working and productivity, accelerating the design process

Total integration, from design to construction

AeroExpert is the rst surfacemodeling tool created specically for the aeronautical design, and fully integrated into the CATIA virtual design environment. A single common data format is used that covers the entire development process chain, maximizing its efciency and effectiveness. This saves signicant amounts of time and money when compared with converting product data into different formats for use in standalone or incompatible systems. In addition, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert embraces and facilitates collaborative working, saving even more time and money with minimized expensive redesigns as the aircraft evolves. These are traditionally used to for example, specify the aerodynamic shape of a wing prole. Specically, the most recent release features improvements that address three of the most important aspects of surface design: surface creation, curve creation, and surface modication. Modication of both surfaces and curves is equally important as designs are iterated. CATIA ICEM AeroExpert allows designers to work in a hybrid modeling environment of both explicit- and feature-based geometry. This approach maintains design integrity and minimizes any necessary redesign of adjacent geometry in order to accommodate the design change. In turn, this improves productivity and accelerates the design process during modication. When it comes to specic features, the latest version of CATIA ICEM AeroExpert improves the quality and accuracy of complex lofted surfaces derived from curves designed from mathematical programs. Alternatively, they can choose to work with features that allow them to interactively adjust the parameters of a result such as a rounding llet radius value, keeping the associativity with the features parents. Users have the freedom to interactively edit and manipulate explicit geometry though advanced and comprehensive modication tools.

Key Benets One single data format for a streamlined process ow Hybrid modeling environment with both explicit and feature-based approaches Support of manufacturing processes with Single Cell data output Real-time diagnosis, securing surfaces high-end quality Easier imported data optimization, with advanced surface smoothing and data reduction

Accelerating design evolution

Perhaps the most powerful aspect of the CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is its diagnostic capabilities. Designers can see the effect of a surface change on the rest of the design in real time. This allows them to make a fast and accurate judgement on the validity of the outcome in terms of surface quality. The result is greater freedom and exibility for design professionals, and a faster, more efcient and more cost-effective development process. Yet the benets of using CATIA ICEM AeroExpert dont stop there. They also extend into the aerospace manufacturing process. The ability to smooth out surfaces created from imported data is critical. Their complexity can also be rened to help improve system performance and, crucially, their In addition, when creating new surfaces, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert provides what is termed Single Cell output. Its this kind of output that is required to support curve creation and the composite material construction used in modern aircraft manufacture. When it comes to the mathematics behind Class A surface development, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert reduces their complexity, enabling the creation of cleaner, smoother surfaces. The benets of simplied mathematics also apply to the curve creation process, allowing designers to develop high quality curves that are reected in the pristine surfaces to which they belong. The ultimate benet of all these features is clear. Aircraft development and manufacturing processes using data produced in CATIA ICEM AeroExpert become simpler, faster and more costeffective, as well as easier to manage. Put simply, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is the essential surface design tool for todays aeronautical design professionals. accuracy can be maintained during the entire process no reconstruction is required. At the same time, ease of use has been improved with a number of new commands that simplify the completion of various design tasks. The result is increased productivity and an accelerated design process that can, for example, help deliver a faster time to market for new aircraft.