This initiative is a radical reorganization of how Dassault Systemes sells CATIA, predominately with the aim of addressing the small to midsize business market. Essentially, you choose the role appropriate to your task or workflow, then add the modules you need — mix it up with a bit of Knowledgeware tools and SmarTeam for data management — all for a lower cost. Much of the problem is that there are still so many options that it would be counterproductive to place a specific price tag on the system.
Essentially, you pick and mix modules for a process or role specific to your installation. In fact, this might even vary on a seat by seat basis.
Dassault Systemes seems to be able to cram an unholy amount of technology and applications within each single release. If you look at the CATIA product offering, there is a massive range of tools available to cover almost every single product development and manufacturing process.
The first stop for product development technology is the Imagine and Shape tool. Imagine and Shape revolves around the use of subdivision surfaces with which you interact within a very dynamic environment. To start, you have the choice of several different geometry start points —spheres, planes, cuboids. You then use a bounding box that controls not only the form of that geometry so you can scale, rotate, twist it , but also enables you to dive in and edit edges, vertices, and such to sculpt the geometry into the shape you want.
The core of the concept is that you have tools that allow you to subdivide a geometric set to allow you to make more localized modifications.
There are also Affinity controls to define how smoothed and rounded the geometry is, according to its bounding box. A high value means that edges will be sharp, while reducing the value smooths out the form. This is like modeling with play-doh, but within an environment that enables you to do something useful in terms of product design with it. The V5R17 release includes new controls that afford you greater control over the forms you create. Much of these provide more associativity between features, so things like symmetry can be established to make the modeling process more intelligent both sides of the planes update concurrently as well as being able to Associate Surfaces so deformations can be applied to thin-walled sections and such.
Elsewhere, you can now create offsets on any edge including the sharpest one. Sub Division technology is pretty widespread outside of the technical modeling world, commonly used to create organic forms, such as characters in films and games. As with all good associative modeling tools, if you edit the image and shape forms, downstream modeling operations are updated where possible — saving you a massive amount of time during design edits.
Only that way can you truly build a digital product. The new tools provide more intelligent ways of defining the routing of harnessing within a 3D product model and ensuring that those forms remain up to date during design changes. They also integrate the effect of gravity on the harnesses to ensure that your design is not just an ideal, but is fully manufacturable.
New tools let you reuse existing harnesses more easily and ensure that the flattening of a 3D harness is more efficient. Alongside the modeling tools, and just as critical, is the ability to document those harnesses; a key to the whole process. Digital prototyping, combined with digital analysis and simulation, allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its operating environment.
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