CATIA

CAT Entry Level

CAT Entry Level Configuration: CATIA TEAM PLM is the most robust, leading-edge solution used to manage your product’s lifecycle from start to finish

• Unique knowledge capture and reuse enables fast design change and innovation
• Easy product creation, from simple to sophisticated, with a powerful CATIA modeler
• Comprehensive drawing production with market-leading generative drafting fully associated with 3D
• Easy and interactive decision-making thru instant collaborative reviews
• Native access to virtual product data management directly in CATIA
• Pre-customized product information for managing customer asset
• Immersive interface for team management
• Encourages reuse of existing assets and standards
• Fully secured environment
• Collaborative design iterations
• Deploys a complete collaborative environment in 10 days – ask us how

CATEE (Engineering Excellence Configuration)

This entry-level bundle enables you to perform basic 3D modeling and assemblies with a unique 2D/3D approach for conceptual designs.
The CATEE bundle includes the following:

• CAT3DX – CATIA V5 PLM Express on 3DEXPERIENCE
• FPE – Fabricated Product Creation
• JTE – Jigs & Tooling Creation
• TRE – Technological Specifications Review
• LOE – 3D Layout & Annotations

CATMEE (CATIA Mechanical Engineer Excellence Configuration)

This bundle contains a set of applications that will allow the creation and management of projects and parts, with one single 3D product definition.

The CATMEE bundle includes the following:

• CAT3DX – CATIA V5 PLM Express on 3DEXPERIENCE
• MCE – Mechanical Product Creation
• FPE – Fabricated Product Creation
• JTE – Jigs & Tooling Creation
• TRE – Technological Specifications Review
• FTX – 3D Master
• PRX – Animated Product Review

CATMSE (Mechanical & Shape Engineering Excellence)

CAT + MSE Mechanical Shape & Engineering Excellence Configuration: Includes all functionality as described in CAT+MEE plus the following;

• Molded Product Creation [MPE] – Design parts and related tooling using a history-free functional design approach, including extrude, revolve, cut, rib, boss, cut-out, pocket, grill, shell, etc. Check the validity of imported geometry with regard to CATIA V5 modeling criteria and, if necessary, improve the topology and geometry of analyzed objects and for rapid prototyping machines working with STL files as input, helps to generate and repair meshes to obtain machinable mock-ups.
• Mechanical Shape Optimization [HCX] – Quickly and easily unfold any type of free-form surface and develop curves on a revolution surface to define an associative flattened pattern from 3D models, Design advanced shapes based on a combination of wireframe and extensive multiple surface features, with full specification capture and reuse, Extend the combined wireframe and multiple surface creation features of CATIA – Generative Shape Design 2 (GSD) with its powerful global deformation technologies and Optimizes your 3D digital model through realistic shapes resulting from simulations, or measurements, of products in operation.
• FreeStyle Shape Design [FSX] –Extend the shape and surface modeling functions of CATIA – Freestyle Shaper 2 (FSS) to the morphing of complex, multi-surface shapes, Address intuitive dynamic surface creation by sweeping a profile curve along multiple guides, Provides powerful surface-based tools to help designers create styled shapes and surfaces efficiently with automated multi-face curvature and tangency management and Allows the integration of stylists’ work (such as 2D painting) into a 3D format, as the basis for 3D virtual mock-ups.

CAT+MCE (Mechanical Design)

CAT + MCE Mechanical Design Configuration: Bringing 25 years of product design excellence to businesses of all sizes

• High-quality design for all mechanical parts, resulting from strong partnerships with industry leaders from all industries
• Reduce time to design by enabling true concurrent engineering on complex parts
• Fast design changes by automatically adapting parts and products to new contexts
• Functional modeling: focus on what you want to model and not how to model it?
• Hybrid design: fully associative mechanical shape design in the context of parts
• Dress-up feature completeness solving complex fillets and drafts
• A unique part structure with multi-body design and powerful body operations
• Automated relational design with publications
• Functional feature modeling approach: Order-independent feature creation resulting in history-free part construction

CAT + MCE + HDX (Hybrid Design)

CAT Entry Level Configuration: CATIA TEAM PLM is the most robust, leading-edge solution used to manage your product’s lifecycle from start to finish

• Recognized as the standard solution in the mechanical shape design domain delivering high-quality shapes
• Rapid propagation of design changes at any time for easy shape design optimization
• Automatic generation of complex hybrid shapes such as sweeps and blends
• Standard design methodology definition to speed up the design process
• Compliancy with design rules and constraints making shapes ready for manufacturing operations
• Concurrent design empowerment
• A smart feature-based approach to dynamically create and modify all types of wireframes and surfaces
• The most extensive set of advanced surface capabilities on the market such as adaptive sweep
• Wide set of real-time analysis tools for quality checking
• Powerful law definition to capture design intent
• Unmatchable knowledge template creation and reuse for automation of design tasks
• Styled surfaces can be refined and used as references to create mechanical shapes

CAT + AME (Manufacturing)

CAT+AME Advanced Multi-Axis & Pocket Machining Configuration: De facto standard for complex aerospace part machining with state of the art milling technologies

• All-in-one milling option
• Best in class surface machining quality, faster machining time and ensured collision-free tool paths
• Drastic reduction of machining operations and NC programming time savings
• Especially for multi-pocket parts (programming is up to 8 times faster with 75% fewer operations)
• Through-machining process automation
• Ultra-large NC program management and ultra-fast computation thanks to 64-bit support
• A seamless design-to-manufacturing process with manufacturing features recognition and full associativity in the event design changes are made
• State-of-the-art machining techniques support: HSM capability and strategies for hard materials:
• 5-axis flank contouring
• 5-axis helix machining for turbo-machinery parts
• Global and automatic machining strategy for multi-cavity parts
• Powerful automation capabilities for efficient NC programming:
• Capitalization of already defined processes thanks to machining process templates
• Automatic sequencing, user-defined Features…
• Accurate verification of the tool path including simulation of material removal and analysis of remaining material in photo Mode Visit

CAT + GAE (Analysis)

CAT+GAE Generative Structural Analysis: Early assessment of product mechanical behavior

• Easy to use and to understand analysis environment that enables designers and engineers to inspect product quality
• Early product simulation reduces costs by helping detect problems at the beginning of the design process
• Productivity gains thanks to a common environment that enables seamless analysis-design iterations
• Linear stress and modal analysis on part and hybrid assemblies
• Easy to use pre and post-processing capabilities
• Automatic mesh generation and smart adaptive meshes
• Robust and automatic generation of connection elements
• Associativity between design and analysis specifications

CAT + MTE (Mold Tooling)

CAT+MTE Mold Tooling Creation: Integrated environment for overall tooling design and manufacturing preparation

• Fast core and cavity definition
• Easy know how capitalization and to reuse thanks to components/tooling templates
• Efficient change management with full associativity throughout the tooling design and manufacturing process
• Ultra-large tooling design and management thanks to 64-bit support
• Check the validity of the imported shape and improve its quality
• Effective definition of core, cavity, and parting surface according to pulling direction, moldability, and manufacturability assessment
• Most commonly used standard mold catalogs
• Intelligent standard / user-defined component management (with associated drillings & NC information)