Shape Design & Styling

CATIA V5 offers highly intuitive tools to easily create, validate and modify any type of surfaces, from freeform surfaces to mechanical shapes.

Main Features

For mechanical designers, shape designers and stylists

An extensive set of functionalities supporting their surface modelling, editing and validation processes. High quality rendering will bring your virtual creation to reality.

Master up to high complexity shapes

CATIA V5 Shape Design & Styling solutions provide an integrated competitive environment to handle both Free Form, Aesthetical, Aero surfaces and Mechanical Surfaces.

CATIA - ICEM Shape Design Expert

Provide advanced Class-A Surface modelling and analysis tools to help create aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest surface quality. Product Highlights:

Advanced Surface Creation tools
Global Modelling tools
Feature modelling
Advanced Filleting tools
Industry designed features
Advanced geometry analysis capabilities

CATIA - ICEM Shape Design Center

Providing advanced Surface modelling and analysis tools to help create aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest levels of surface quality (Class A). Product Highlights:

Delivers advanced Class-A Surface generation, modification and analysis tools
Supports explicit and associative modelling techniques
Intuitive and dynamic surface modelling techniques
User quality control through Feature-based approximation
Simultaneous real-time analysis
Supports advanced ergonomic workflow through Parallel commands
Propagates surface modifications to related topology
Integrates Class-A and engineering surface design

CATIA - ICEM Shape Design AeroExpert

Providing advanced Surface modelling and analysis tools to help create surface lofted shapes to the highest levels of surface quality. Product Highlights:

Advanced surface creation commands in support of Aeronautical requirements
Supports explicit and associative modelling techniques
Intuitive and dynamic surface modelling techniques
Advanced geometry management output capabilities. i.e. Single Cell surface
Simultaneous real-time analysis
Propagates surface modifications to related topology
High quality creation, modification and analysis capabilities. i.e. G3 continuity
Data reduction capabilities. i.e. Smoothing

CATIA - Photo Studio (2)

Generate high quality photo-realistic images and movies of a digital mock-up, by using a powerful ray-tracing engine Product Highlights:

High rendering quality far beyond graphic cards capability
Ability to easily take a highly realistic “photo” of a product
Ability to define reusable scene settings (Stickers application, Creation of animations)
Instant graphical feedback of any setting modification
Simple and powerful animation capabilities
Surface verification capability
Intuitive customizable Windows native User Interface reducing training requirements

CATIA - Automotive Body-In-White Fastening

Design Body in White fasteners in the context of automotive assembly. Product Highlights:

Supports Fasteners parameters set-up file customizable according to customer company standards
Enable Spot fasteners placement and shape definition
Welding, Adhesive, Sealant, Clinching Process types support
Easy Assignment of Fastener attributes from standard set-up file
Associative Fastener location update from joined part design change
Enables collaborative engineering/manufacturing work
Ensures opening with customer proprietary tools via a neutral ASCII text exchange format
Includes an intuitive, task-optimized, user interface

CATIA - Realistic Shape Optimizer

Optimizes your 3D digital model through realistic shapes resulting from simulations, or measurements, of products in operation. Uses those shapes to better assess and enhance the design of your products and tooling. Product Highlights:

Update quickly nominal shapes with under-loads shapes
Compares them with your initial design
Performs realistic simulation and analysis
Benefits from a standard format

Real Time Rendering (1) & (2)

Enable designers to leverage technological material specifications to produce realistic renderings of their model. Product Highlights:

Applies rendering and technological specifications to designs enabling to produce realistic renderings
Enables designers to interactively create material texture definitions
Allows designers to create design families and organize the material definitions
Includes a library of predefined materials
Offers users the option of applying textures with standard Windows methods or through a specification-driven approach
Renders textured images in real time
Enables to share material specifications with other CATIA V5 applications
Offers the same ease of use and user interface consistency as all CATIA V5 applications

Photo Studio Optimizer

Generate incredibly realistic images and movies of a Digital Mock-up by extending PHS capabilities. Product Highlights:

The ultimate product to generate high quality photo-realistic images and movies of a digital mock-up
Advanced material definition allows to match reality
High rendering quality far beyond graphic cards capabilities
Increased productivity thanks to fast computation performances

CATIA - Generative Shape Design (1) & (2)

Create in-context, specification-driven shapes based on a combination of wireframes and extensive multiple surface features. Product Highlights:

A big easiness of Use for all designers
From preliminary to detailed design on parts requiring consequent surfacing
Associative Design
Managing changes with time saving features
End-to-end full process coverage

CATIA - Generative Shape Optimizer

Extend the combined wireframe and multiple surface creation features of CATIA – Generative Shape Design 2 (GSD) with its powerful global deformation technologies. Product Highlights:

Brings a new set of high productive tools to locally deform complex surfaces
Offers breakthrough means in some specific industrial processes
Transfers surfaces from a revolution shape to a plane one and conversely

CATIA - Developed Shapes

Allow to quickly and easily unfold any type of free form surfaces and develop curve on a revolution surface. Product Highlights:

Quickly Flatten ruled and non-ruled surfaces
Transfers surfaces from a revolution shape to a plane one and conversely
Native associativity with other CATIA V5 mechanical shape design workbenches
Easy-to-use tool to manage key industrial processes

CATIA - Freestyle Shaper (1) & (2)

Provide surface-based tools to help designers create styled shapes and surfaces Product Highlights:

Integrates styling and production surface design
Provides tools to dynamically and easily create shape and surface designs
Presents curve and surface diagnosis tools for real time visual quality checking
Enables dynamic, interactive shape deformation
Generates native high quality surfaces
Addresses hybrid modeling requirements through integration with other CATIA products
Allows design in context of the Digital Mock-up in a multiple part environment
Interoperable with Version 4 data and applications
Offers the same ease of use and user interface consistency as all CATIA V5 applications

CATIA - Freestyle Optimizer

Extend the shape and surface modelling functions of CATIA – Freestyle Shaper 2 (FSS) to the morphing of complex, multi-surfaces shapes. Product Highlights:

Enables morphing of complex, multi-surface shapes
Globally modifies multiple surface parts as a single patch while preserving design characteristics
Modifies predefined designs to fit physical mock-up scan data
Portrays reflect lines produced from a virtual neon row for real-life showroom surface inspection
Extends the capabilities of FreeStyle Shaper 2
Offers the same ease of use and user interface consistency as all CATIA V5 applications

CATIA - Freestyle Profiler

Address intuitive dynamic surface creation by sweeping a profile curve along multiple guides. Product Highlights:

Close behaviour to traditional approach on physical mock-up
Complete set of associative Styling Sweeps allowing to cover the different needs for profiled surface creation
Associative Net Surface family allowing to cover the different needs for complex profiled surface creation
Uniform control point network of the generated surfaces allowing to guarantee high quality and deformable surfaces
3D Curve creation tools and curve modification through control point and match curve commands
Intuitive customizable Windows native user interface for short training cycles

CATIA - Freestyle Sketch Tracer

Allow the integration of stylists’ work (such as 2D painting) into a 3D format, as the basis for 3D virtual mock-ups. Product Highlights:

From sketch to free form model Improved productivity
Allows 3D sketch positioning and trimming support with point translator
Provides scale and stretch adjustment capability allowing the fitting between the sketch and the 3D model
Allows a quick view orientation based on the point of view of the sketch
Supports many image formats
Provides an ease-to-use and highly productive user interface for intuitive and dynamic mouse-based surface manipulations

CATIA - Imagine & Shape

Enable designers and engineers to quickly, intuitively, transform a shape idea into a 3D geometric model. Product Highlights:

Engineers the emotional content of products
Enables more free form alternative design studies, less physical mock-ups
One solution, from styling to manufacturing
Puts Styling at the heart of PLM

CATIA - Digitized Shape Editor

Address digitised data import, clean up, tessellation, cross sections, character line, shape and quality checking with real-time diagnosis. Product Highlights:

Import and Export Digitized data
Direct machining on mesh (using CATIA – 3 Axis Surface Machining 2 (SMG))
Inspection by using alignment and deviation checking capabilities
Space Analysis of a digitized mock-up in CAD environment
Checking feasibility during styling Refinement cycle
Checking and healing meshes for Rapid Prototyping
Web based collaborative Engineering by using VRML output in ENOVIA Portal
Early manufacturing process simulation of a mock-up with DELMIA application suite

CATIA - Quick Surface Reconstruction

Easily and quickly recover surfaces from digitised data that are imported using CATIA – Digitized Shape Editor 2 (DSE). Product Highlights:

Good quality of editable surface recovering
Fast surfaces reconstruction
Polygon segmentation in pertinent surfaces area
Recovering of large free forms area delimited by n sides boundaries
Editable mechanical shape identification and keeping
Quality checking tools

CATIA - Shape Sculptor

Provide designers with easy-to-use sculpting tools, allowing them to model shapes from digitised skins or physical models. Product Highlights:

Uniquely supply a fully integrated polygonal modeler in a PLM system
Allow to rapidly design new products from a concept
Enable quick and precise shape creation through polygonal, curve and surface modelling
Complement mechanical design and surfacing tools for advanced surfacing processes
Features intuitive and easy to use system that helps free the designer’s imagination

CATIA - Automotive Body In White Templates

Deliver highly productive capabilities to accelerate automotive Body In White design process. Product Highlights:

Dedicated Body-In-White design product with highly productive skilled features
Strengthens the CATIA PLM end-to-end design for manufacturing Body-In-White process coverage
Embeds process knowledge inside each features