CATIA V6

CATIA V6 leverages the capacity of innovation for companies of all sizes in all industries by delivering breakthrough productivity design solutions powered by a highly collaborative platform. CATIA V6 enables the full spectrum of next generation collaborative virtual design including systems engineering, shape design, mechanical and equipment engineering, and company knowledge reuse.

Systems

Across industries, products are getting increasingly complex, involving many more engineering disciplines, with the value shifting from the products themselves to the actual services demanding customers expect from these products. CATIA Systems uniquely captures, manages, and tracks product requirements with full traceability, ensuring that early requirements are met accurately all along the product development cycle, from functional architecture and logical breakdown to physical design and testing.

Systems Architecture

• Systems Architecture Design – SAR
• Systems Logical 3D Architecture – TDS
• Systems Logical Electrical & Fluidic Design – ELS

Systems Modeling and Libraries

• Systems Air Conditioning Library – ACY
• Dynamic Behavior Libraries
• Systems DBM Binary Export – XBM
• Systems DBM Export for HILS – HIS
• Systems DBM Export for Simulink – SMK
• Systems DBM Optimization – DOZ
• Systems DBM Source Code Export – XSC
• Systems Dynamic Behavior Modeling – DBM
• Systems Hydraulic Library – HDY
• Systems Logic Code Generator – CCG
• Systems Logic Control Modeling – LOC
• Systems Pneumatics Library – PNY
• Systems Powertrain Library – PWY
• Systems Smart Electric Drives Library – SEY

Shape

CATIA Shape provides industrial designers, Class A modelers, and mechanical engineers with a full suite of surfacing, reverse engineering, and visualization solutions to create, modify, and validate any type of complex innovative shapes and help streamline the transition and collaboration between Design, Class A and Engineering departments. From subdivision, styling, and Class A surfaces to mechanical functional surfaces, CATIA Shape covers all the surface creation and modification needs.

Industrial Design

• Distiller – DIS
• Freestyle Design – FSD
• Imagine and Shape – IMS
• Industrial Design – IDE
• Industrial Design Refinement – IDR
• Rendering – REN

Mechanical surfaces & BiW

• Body in White Modeling – BIW
• Generative Shape Optimizer – GSO
• Mechanical Surface Design – SUR
• Realistic Shape Optimizer – RSO

Surface Refinement

• ICEM Class A Surface Design – ICA
• ICEM Shape Design – ISH
• ICEM Shape Design Expert – IEX
• ICEM Shape Design Lofting – ISL
• Reverse Engineering – REV

Mechanical

CATIA Mechanical delivers a highly collaborative and flexible design environment with full concurrent engineering and high performance change management through relational design to enable the efficient definition and engineering of any type of 3D parts and assemblies, from the simplest to the most advanced. In V6, CATIA expands 3D design to user communities outside of the design office, addressing each profile with the right modeler capabilities such as direct 3D modeling, geometrical surfaces handling, feature-based design and history-free functional modeling.
3D Conceptual Design

• CATIA Live Compose – LCE
• CATIA Live Shape – LSE
• Structure Functional Design – SFD

Mechanical Systems Engineering

• Systems Conceptual Mechanical Design – CME

Product Design

• 3D Design – TDD
• 3D Tolerancing and Annotatio – TOL
• Aerospace Sheetmetal – ASH
• Cast and Forged Part Design – CFD
• Composites Engineering – CEG
• Composites Manufacturing Preparation – CMP
• Drafting and Annotation – TDA
• Fabricated Part Design – FPD
• Fastener Design – FSR
• Live Fastener Review – LFR
• Live FTA Review – LFT
• Mechanical Design – MDE
• Mechanism Simulation – MSI
• Plastic Part Design – PPD

Tooling Design

• Jigs and Tooling Design – JTD
• Mold Tooling Design – MOT

Equipment

CATIA Equipment provides an integrated environment that enables the collaborative detailed design of electronic, electrical, and fluidic systems in context of a virtual product. While design is driven by the system logical definition to ensure conformity with product specifications, full traceability, and configuration management, knowledge rules are integrated to enable the automatic compliance to standards throughout the design process, all the way to the production of associative documentation for manufacturing. Such an integrated environment improves design quality, drastically reduces time needed for modifications, and minimizes errors.
Electrical

• 3D Electrical Design – EHD
• Systems Generative 3D Electrical – EGD
• Systems Logical Electrical & Fluidic Design – ELS
• Wire Harness Documentation and Formboard – EFB

Electronics

• Electro-Mechanical Circuit Board – PCB
• Flexible Circuit Board – FCB

Fluidic

• Generative Piping & Tubing – PTA
• Piping and Tubing Design – PTD

Knowledge

Design Knowledge & Re-use enables companies to model, capitalize and re-use the full complexity of their engineering Knowledge, in order to accelerate and secure drastically their product development processes.

Design Knowledge & Re-use accelerates company’s business processes while ensuring compliance with its best practices and taking advantage of its collective know-how. It provide to the users an access to advanced design parameterization, knowledge capture and optimization tools and allows to define standard rules and checks for design quality assessment.
Interface & Reuse

• 3D Reuse – TDR
• STEP Core Interface – ST1
• STL Rapid Prototyping – STL

Knowledge

• Engineering Process Automation Creation – DPC
• Engineering Process Automation Execution – DPX
• Knowledge Advisor – KWA
• Knowledge Expert – KWE
• Product Engineering Optimizer – PEO
• Product Knowledge Template – PKT