CATIA V6 leverages the capacity of innovation for companies of all sizes in all industries by delivering breakthrough productivity design solutions powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

The Digital Product Experience

CATIA V6 redefines CAD from the purely physical product definition and expands it from digital mock-up to functional mock-up taking into account the multiple views that necessitates the product development (i.e. Requirement, Functional, Logical and Physical).

The CATIA V6 Complete Portfolio

CATIA Systems Architecture

From aircraft to cars, industrial machinery, ships, and white goods, complexity of products and the systems that keep them running is steadily increasing. CATIA enables you to model and compose complex products, while defining and executing their driving systems to manage this complexity and deliver products on time?

Key Benefits

• Rapidly define and decompose the systems architecture of complex products and systems – from early conceptual studies through to final architecture definition
• Improved systems development efficiency through extensive reuse of systems engineering assets and templates
• Improved decision making through the ability to perform quick trade studies that include cost, system parameters & exploit knowledge reuse
• Efficient collaborative systems engineering development processes that leverage up to date systems definition information, data and models
• Demonstrate compliance with safety standards and best practices through comprehensive requirement traceability and impact analysis
• Openness and extended traceability across systems artifacts with integrations to more than 60 common systems engineering tools

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CATIA Engineering

CATIA for Engineers enables Digital Prototyping including Analysis and Simulation for design and validation of function quality and performance at all stages of the design.

Mechanical engineering is complex as assemblies are designed to perform a specific task with a specific target performance. Digital prototyping, combined with digital analysis and simulation, allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its environment. Mechanical engineers must be equipped with these tools so that they can gain insight into key factors in quality and performance early in the product development phase.

Key Benefits

• Creation of any type of 3D part, from rough 3D sketches for early conception, to machined, sheetmetal, composites, molded, forged or tooling parts up to the definition of mechanical assemblies, which can be advanced welded assemblies.
• Mechanical System Design provides an unbreakable relational design, managing links between objects and related behaviours in a PLM collaborative environment. Parts Placement Assembly constraints facilitate collaboration, concurrent engineering and scalability in configured assemblies.
• Easy and smooth evolution from 2D- to 3D-based design methodologies is fostered due to comprehensive drawing production with market leading generative drafting fully associative with 3D.
• Productivity and consistency of drawing update improves productivity by removing the need for additional user operations.
• Process oriented tools to capture manufacturing process intent at early design stages: functional modeling approach is dedicated to plastic or molded parts, automatic filletting and autodraft optimise foundry and forge tooling design, fastening or welding workbenches enable companies to harness all the required disciplines.
• Wide range of application for tooling design, for both generic tooling as well as mold and die.
• High quality design is provided for all mechanical parts, resulting from strong partnerships with industry leaders from all industries.
• Dedicated end-to-end solution for designing and documenting electrical harnesses in products with electrical components.
• 3D design of piping and tubing systems using industry standards and specifications, within the context of a full digital mock-up.
• Design of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) inside the virtual product and simplified collaboration between mechanical and electronics specialists.
• Advanced technologies for mechanical surfacing, based on a specification-driven modeling approach.
• Embedded software management capabilities enabling software engineers to define, simulate and generate C-code for any control systems.

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CATIA Product Experience

CATIA Experience brings together the Shape, Functional, Engineering and Architectural characteristics of a product definition to enable all participants to integrate the digital product experience. CATIA Product Experience provides multiple elements to help people collaborate at the level of the product experience – where people sit together and review the overall project. Ease of use, simple dashboards, powerful analysis, search etc etc deliver the right information so managers and non-specialists can find and interact with the product information they require.

Key Benefits

• Extended capabilities, from preliminary design to Shape design
• Unique integrated solution for both styling and mechanical shape design to streamline design iterations
• Native reverse engineering environment associative to CATIA shape design environment
• Rapid propagation of design changes at any time to optimize the design process
• Unmatchable dynamic curve and surface modeling with powerful real-time diagnosis tools
• Intuitive environment enabling a real freedom to design rapidly high-end shapes
• Efficient concurrent design through tight collaboration between designers and engineers
• Powerful design review environment to provide high-end quality products
• Embeds 3D design in reality

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CATIA Design

Creative design talks directly to people’s heart. Creative designers must be equipped with software tools that enable them to easily craft and adjust the product’s emotional content through their designs, while collaborating with engineering to ensure proper coverage of product functional scope.

Successful products in the market are usually those with designs that elicit positive emotional response from their consumers. CATIA is at the service of creative designers and their creativity. Whether starting ideation in 3D from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unrivaled freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual phase. CATIA fully addresses the Automotive Class-A process with a solution for surface refinement that integrates industry leading ICEM surfacing technologies. By combining the V6 technology strengths, which include knowledge capture-and-reuse paradigm, it delivers a powerful and intuitive suite of tools for modeling, analyzing and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes for the highest Class-A surface quality.

Key Benefits

• Extended capabilities, from preliminary design to Shape design
• Unique integrated solution for both styling and mechanical shape design to streamline design iterations
• Native reverse engineering environment associative to CATIA shape design environment
• Rapid propagation of design changes at any time to optimize the design process
• Unmatchable dynamic curve and surface modeling with powerful real-time diagnosis tools
• Intuitive environment enabling a real freedom to design rapidly high-end shapes
• Efficient concurrent design through tight collaboration between designers and engineers
• Powerful design review environment to provide high-end quality products
• Embeds 3D design in reality

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CATIA Systems Engineering

CATIA Systems Engineering integrates complex product behaviour into the product definition, enabling a lifelike experience which predicts real world performance.

With CATIA Systems Engineering, system architects, product engineers, designers and technical experts define both technical and business aspects. The RFLP approach (Requirements, Functional, Logical and Physical Design) upholds a full traceability during product development and product introduction. This helps shortening the gap between requirements analysis and the choice of the right solution.

Key Benefits

• Leverage a best-in-class model-based system development platform to accelerate the development and validation of complex systems and products
• Ensure compliance with market requirements and regulations while improving time-to-market and reducing costs through world-class requirements engineering
• Collaborate across all disciplines to define a complete systems architecture through multiple operational, functional and component views
• Verify the behavior of complex products and systems, that span multiple engineering disciplines, through Modelica based modeling and simulation
• Integrate the embedded systems and 3D product design processes to leverage intelligent embedded systems in the 3DEXPERIENCE simulation of complex mechatronic products and systems

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