Mechanical Design Solutions

CATIA – Mechanical Design Solutions provides products for intuitive specification driven modeling for Solid, Hybrid and Sheet Metal Part design, Assembly design and Integrated Drafting.

Main Features

From concept to detailed design and onto drawing production

The CATIA V5 Mechanical Design products accelerate core activities of product development.

Address sheet metal requirements and mold manufacturers

Through dedicated applications that dramatically enhance productivity and strongly reduce time-to-market.

Advanced drafting capabilities

Provided through the associative drawing generation from 3D part and assembly designs.

An advanced 3D product creation package

Allows the user to create parts in a highly productive and intuitive environment, to enrich existing mechanical part design with wireframe and basic surface features.

Address 2D design and drawing production requirements

With a stand-alone state-of-the-art 2D tool Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1).

CATIA - 3D Insight

Provides review and model interrogation capabilities to comply with FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) certification policies. Product Highlights:

Product Structure capabilities
Interactive Drafting for drawings production
IGES and STEP Interfaces
DMU Navigator, DMU Dimensioning and Tolerancing Review for reviewing and model interrogation
Wireframe and Surface for non persistent data authoring
V4 Integration

Composites Design

Provides an all in one solution to cover the whole engineering to manufacturing design process of high quality composite parts. Product Highlights:

Specification driven composites design approach
Support of specific geometrical configurations
Manufacturing parameter management at the early stage of the design process
Powerful Synchronisation/Collaboration Mechanisms with detailed design
Effective manufacturing export capabilities and strong partnerships to support all composites manufacturing processes
Uniquely takes advantage of the CATIA V5 infrastructure and other applications

CATIA - Composites Engineering

Provides powerful process oriented tools dedicated to the design of composites parts from preliminary detailed design to engineering detailed design. Product Highlights:

Specification driven composites design approach
Support of specific geometrical configurations
Powerful plies generation from zones
Manufacturing parameter management at the early stage of the design process
Uniquely takes advantage of the CATIA V5 infrastructure and other applications

CATIA - Composites Design for Manufacturing

Provides powerful process oriented tools dedicated to manufacturing detailed design of composites parts. Product Highlights:

Dedicated manufacturing part modelling capabilities such as manufacturing shell swapping and material excess definition and 3D multisplice
Accurate fiber behavior simulation
Automatic flattened geometry creation
Effective manufacturing export capabilities and automatic shopfloor documentation
Powerful synchronization/collaboration mechanisms with engineering detailed design

CATIA - 2D Layout for 3D Design

CATIA – 2D Layout for 3D Design 1 (LO1) is a new generation product dedicated to accelerate the 3D conceptual design process. Product Highlights:

Design and annotate 3D model using a 2D drafting look and feel
Drive 3D models
Capture design communication intent
Design of 3D models from a 2D conceptual geometry
Layout of 3D models, with full drafting capabilities
Faster 2D overview layouts directly within the 3D environment
Reuse of legacy drawings to start new projects in 3D

CATIA - Assembly Design (1) & (2)

Define mechanical assembly constraints, automatically position parts and checks assembly consistency. Product Highlights:

Complete range of assembly tools supporting concurrent design teams
Providing assembly annotation and documentation for all types of application
High productivity assembly manipulation and modification tools allowing dynamic analysis of assembly definitions and collision checking
Assemblies represent real-world applications by using mechanical assembly definition (flexible-assemblies) as well as rigid BOM based assemblies

CATIA - Weld Design 1

Design advanced welded products based on process definition and rules. Product Highlights:

Creates welding operations from a catalogue of 15 welding bead shapes
Automatically chamfers parts and edges in preparation for welding
Creates associative features between parts and specification for ease of modification
User Define Weld
All weld features are integrated into the 3D design
The weld visualization and specification is displayed in the drafting environment for full documentation

CATIA - Part Design (1) & (2)

Design parts in a highly productive and intuitive environment. Product Highlights:

Provides an associative, feature based hybrid modeller
Incorporating thread specifications, on hole definitions and circular pads and holes
Includes Flexible, post-design 3D parameterization
Creates Sketches and 3D designs in assembly context
Makes designs easier to understand across the entire enterprise with Part
Structure Editor, speeding up initial design and changes
Expanded hybrid modeling capability with surface and shape design products
Gives a broad range of features, duplication and translation capabilities to manage all definition and change scenarios

CATIA - Part Design Feature Recognition

CATIA – Part Design Feature Recognition 1 (FR1) is intended to recognize Part Design feature from an Isolated B-Rep. Product Highlights:

Offers advanced tools for Post-Modification on isolated solids coming from external systems or standard formats
Recreates Part design features from a Global recognition tool that analyses the whole isolated solid
Recreates Part design features based upon faces selection for a precise and efficient local recognition

CATIA - Functional Molded Parts (1) & (2)

Design molded parts with great productivity and flexibility through advanced functional features. Product Highlights:

Gives molded part designer flexibility and productivity thanks to functional modelling approach
Provides a collection of process-specific functional features dedicated to design molded and plastic parts
Provides a new usability on the market
Provides end-to-end process coverage due to integration with CATIA V5 applications
Enables designers to concentrate on what they want to model and not how to model it
Provides significant productivity gains as well as all the benefits of being fully integrated in the CATIA V5 product design solution
Demonstrates the power and the flexibility of the V5 architecture

CATIA - Cast & Forged Part Optimizer

Provide advanced capabilities for Casting or Forging preparation to improve the productivity in the detailed design of the rough part, insuring manufacturability. Product Highlights:

Gives users robustness and productivity
Provides a new competitive usability on the market by delivering advanced functionalities dedicated to Casting and Forging processes
Extends CATIA portfolio to cover final design steps and contributes to the end-to-end process

CATIA - Wireframe & Surface

CATIA – Wireframe & Surface creates in-context wireframe construction elements and basic surfaces. Product Highlights:

Essential 3D geometric features to create wireframes and shapes
Wireframe and Surface Structure Editor facilitates the capture of design intent and speeds up design changes
Associative design in context allows concurrent work with user controlled associativity
Timesaving management of design modifications
Flexible post-design 3D parameterization

CATIA - Generative Drafting (1) & (2)

CATIA – Generative Drafting (1) generates drawings from 3D part and assembly designs. Product Highlights:

Associative drafting generation from sheetmetal, surfaces, hybrid parts & assembly definitions
Highly productive dimensions generation with user control
Integrated dress-up capabilities for post-generation dimensioning and annotations
Associative drawings with user control of propagation from 3D to support true concurrent engineering
BOM (Bill of Material) generation in drawing format
Assembly filtering capability for projected views
Compliance with Industry Standards such as DXF, DWG
Associative patterns with part materials specifications

CATIA - Interactive Drafting

CATIA – Interactive Drafting address 2D design and drawing production requirements. Product Highlights:

Highly productive 2D design capabilities, including dynamic sketching copilot, and variational solving
Definition and reuse of 2D components through management of external components catalogs
Easy to use, complete and integrated dimensioning capabilities
Comprehensive set of associative annotations, text, and dress-up on 2D views
Fully compliant with latest revisions of major international standards

CATIA - 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotations (1) & (2)

CATIA – 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation allows you to define and manage tolerance specifications and annotations on 3D parts. Product Highlights:

Allows easy creation of associative 3D tolerance specifications and annotations
Provides a comprehensive set of associative annotations, text, flag-notes and dress-up features in 3D format
3D Dimensioning in part, product and process documents
Display of the annotations in the 3D environment using annotation planes
Can easily be modified and managed through Cut, Copy, Paste, Drag & Drop 3.5D annotations
Totally associative to the 3D part or product
Mirrors the annotations to make them readable
Allows visualization of the annotations in other workbenches (Part Design, Assembly Design,…)
Functional Tolerancing and Annotation generative dimensions from CATIA – Part Design

CATIA - Structure Design

CATIA – Structure Design CATIA – Structure Design 1 (SR1) product is an application enabling to simply and quickly creates linear, curved structures, and plates, using standard or user-defined sections. Product Highlights:

Creation of straight, curved and twisted structure, planar and surfacic plates, using standard or user defined sections
Fully associative design in context functions for creation and modification of structures
Optimized user interface for the placement of structures
Assembly instantiation through user-defined template resulting in breakthrough productivity
Parametric catalog through design tables
Full modification capabilities for design changes
Generation of user customizable BOMs (Bills of Material)
Integration with CATIA Analysis products for downstream analysis

CATIA - Tooling Design

Deliver to Automotive suppliers, E & E, Consumers Goods an ideal generic Tooling Design toolset. Product Highlights:

Tooling Design Workbench and Contextual Menus (instance management, splitting capabilities )
Huge gain of productivity through Windows native User Interface for short training cycles
Definition of General Mechanics Components read from Catalogs and including powerful embedded Drilling capabilities
Definition of General Die Components such as Inserts, Sliders, Retainers, Lifter, Ejection Systems, Guiding Components
User Defined Components adaptable to any Die context
Generation of dedicated and customizable Bills of Materials (BOMs)
Editable Blocks of Concurrent Engineering

CATIA - Mold Tooling Design

Design of Complex Molds, together with associated drillings, in a highly productive and intuitive environment, with full associativity to the molded part and kinematics capabilities. Product Highlights:

Extended capabilities for the definition of Mold Bases, Sliders, Retainers, (including kinematics capabilities), Cooling Systems, Gates and Runners for Plastic Injection, and Ejection systems
Standard or User Defined Components ( Guiding, Locating, Fixing, Injection, Ejection..), read from Catalogs and including powerful embedded Drilling capabilities
Generation of dedicated and customizable Bills of Materials (BOMs) including specific attributes for Mold
Editable Blocks of Concurrent Engineering
Standard catalogs supplied DME, DME-AMERICA, EOC, FUTABA, HASCO, MISUMI, RABOURDIN, STRACK, NATIONAL, MEUSBURGER, PCS, PEDROTTI

CATIA - Core & Cavity Design

Create associative definitions of the core and cavity of a mold and assesses part moldability, tool feasibility and the detailed mechanical design of core and cavity plates. Product Highlights:

Import of Part design data (solid or surfacic) and scaling application
Main pulling direction definition
Slider Pulling Direction definition
Molding areas detailing

CATIA - Healing Assistant

Check the validity of imported geometry with regard to CATIA V5 modelling criteria and if necessary improve the topology and geometry of analyzed objects. Product Highlights:

Checks validity of imported data with regard to V5 modeling criteria
Corrects or improves the topology of the analyzed objects with dedicated tools to perform join or healing
Corrects or improves the geometry of the analyzed objects
Provides global or local recognition and healing tools for an accurate and productive fixing approach

CATIA - Sheet Metal Design (1) & (2)

CATIA – Sheet Metal Design designs sheet metal parts in an intuitive and productive environment. Product Highlights:

Dedicated Sheet Metal feature-based modelling
Allows Folding / unfolding of the Sheet Metal part
Includes Reverse engineering from drafting
Concurrent engineering between unfolded and folded part representations
Access to company-defined bending tables
Dedicated drawing extraction capability includes unfolded view and user defined extraction settings
Compliance with industry standards such as DXF

CATIA - Sheet Metal Production

CATIA – Sheet Metal Production addresses the manufacturing preparation for sheet metal parts. Product Highlights:

Provides dedicated features for sheet metal manufacturing preparation
Transforms functional shape of a part into a manufacturable sheet metal part in order to support OEM/subcontractor sheet metal manufacturing process
Offers manufacturing feasibility checks
Provides a simple interface to external sheet metal manufacturing software
Highly productive and industry-oriented with Windows native User Interface for short training cycles

CATIA - Aerospace Sheet Metal Design

Designs (hydro-pressed or break-formed) sheet metal parts used in the aerospace industry. Product Highlights:

Associative and dedicated Sheet Metal feature-based modelling
Creates and manages sheet metal parts through specifications
Folding and unfolding capabilities
Concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded part representation
Compute automatically 3D folded part and 2D flattened part geometry from technical specifications
Enables simple creation/modification of sheet metal elements through change in specifications, the update of geometry being automatic
Provides bend allowance computation when flattening through user-defined neutral fiber
Company standards and skills can be used to specify features through CATIA V5 Knowledge abilities
Encapsulates Feature Based Modelling and makes it available through a handy user-interface dedicated to Sheet metal for Aerospace