IBM Product Lifecycle Management

Mechanical Design solutions

CATIA V5
CATIA V5 is the leading product

CATIA V5 is the only solution capable

CATIA products are based on the

development solution for all

of addressing the complete product

open, scalable V5 architecture.

manufacturing organisations, from

development process, from product

OEMs, through their supply chains,

concept specifications through

By enabling enterprises to reuse

to small independent producers.

product-in-service, in a fully integrated

product design knowledge and

The range of its capabilities allows

and associative manner. It facilitates

accelerate development cycles,

CATIA V5 to be applied in a wide

true collaborative engineering across

CATIA helps companies speed-up

variety of industries, such as

the multi-disciplinary extended

their responses to market needs and

aerospace, automotive, industrial

enterprise, including:

frees end-users to focus on creativity

machinery, electrical, electronics,

shipbuilding, plant design, and
consumer goods, including design

and innovation.

Style and form design

Mechanical design and equipment

for such diverse products as jewellery

and clothing.

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and systems engineering

Managing digital mock-up

Machining
Analysis
Simulation.

Mechanical Design solutions

From concept to detailed design
and onto drawing production, CATIA
V5 mechanical design solution set
accelerates the core activities of
product development. Its products
also address sheet metal and
mold manufacturing requirements
through dedicated applications that
dramatically enhance productivity and
reduce time-to-market.

Productive and intuitive

design of sheet metal parts

Simple and quick creation of all

types of structures This capability

The feature-based approach offers

addresses preliminary and detailed

a highly productive and intuitive

design requirements for products

design environment. It allows for

such as heavy machinery and

concurrent engineering between the

equipment, tooling jigs, shipbuilding

folded or unfolded representation of

foundations and manufacturing

the part to deliver increased levels

plant foundations.

of productivity.

Specification-driven modelling,

The main highlights include:

Rapid, cost-effective creation of

An advanced 3D product

generative applications and

mold tools CATIA Mechanical

controlled associativity

creation package This package

Design products provide dedicated

These features deliver highly

includes comprehensive part and

tools to address the plastic injection

productive and robust engineering

assembly design features, as well

process. They also provide a fast

change management.

as associative drawing extraction

splitting tool that takes a surface or

Engineering changes can be

capabilities. Designers will also find

solid part and separates it into a core

associatively propagated through

all the two-dimensional (2D) drafting

and cavity with sliders and loose

the entire product definition and with

capabilities required for efficient

cores. These applications greatly

related lifecycle processes.

drawing production.

enhance design productivity through

This dramatically reduces

advanced mold simulation features

development time and costs,

for the production of assembly

while eliminating any risk of human

drawings and the machining of

error or design inconsistency.

mold assemblies.

Configurations
CATIA Drafting 1 (DR1)

CATIA Extended Mechanical

Provides the necessary tools to

Design 1 (XM1)

produce industrial drawings.

Provides an attractive solution for small

It includes data interfaces to the most

and medium enterprises to access the

frequently used industry standards,

full scope of PLM. XM1 is perfectly

including CADAM drawings.

suited to various sectors, including

industrial machinery or consumer

CATIA Drafting 1 (DR1)

CATIA Mechanical Design 1 (MD1)

goods. Its 3D product creation

Provides the tools needed to perform

package contains comprehensive part

3D part and assembly design and

and assembly design features,

generate production drawings.

as well as associative drawing

In addition, it includes integrated

extraction capabilities. Designers will

realtime rendering capabilities and

also find that it has all the 2D drafting

supports data exchange using

features necessary for efficient

common industry standards, including

drawing production.

the CADAM drawing data format.

To meet industrial-scale needs, the

CATIA Mechanical Design 1 (MD1)

CATIA Mechanical Engineering 1 (ME1)

CATIA Mechanical Engineering 1 (ME1)

configuration has been reinforced

Provides the tools needed to

with sheet metal design production

engineer 3D parts and assemblies

capabilities, standard wireframe and

and generate production drawings.

surfacing features and dedicated

Intuitive stress-testing functions also

welded assembly design features.

enable tools for earlier pre-validation

In addition, the import and export

of the parts available to all designers.

of IGES and STEP data make

In addition, ME1 includes integrated

collaborative design throughout the

realtime rendering capabilities and

extended enterprise very easy.

data interfaces to the most common

Users managing large assemblies will

industry standards, including

have particular use for other powerful

CADAM drawings.

product analysis features like distance

measurement, dynamic sectioning and
clash detection.

CATIA Extended Mechanical Design 1 (XM1)

CATIA Core and Cavity Design 2 (CV2)

CATIA Mechanical Design 2 (MD2)

Provides all necessary tools needed to

Provides in one seat all the necessary

cover each step of the mold process

tools to perform advanced 3D design

in one seat. The mold maker would

of parts and assemblies in the context

usually have to import some external

of the full scale digital mock-up, and

data using IGES Interface in order to

generation of production drawings.

prepare the geometry for CATIA V5

In addition, it includes integrated

modelling using Healing Assistant.

realtime rendering capabilities.

Core and Cavity Design is then used

to prepare the part for molding and

As a CATIA P2 configuration, MD2

splitting surfaces.

offers advanced 3D orientation

CATIA Core and Cavity Design 2 (CV2)

features, such as fly-through

CV2 also offers wireframe, surface

navigation and advanced specification

and part features for optimising

graph display and manipulation.

surface geometry and improving the

Customers benefit from its built-in

ability to manufacture a part on a

interoperability with other CATIA V5

global scale. This solution is easy to

solution sets. It is the configuration of

use, fully integrated and highly

choice for existing CATIA V4

automated, according to the

customers because it offers integration

enterprise requirements.

tools that are compatible with CATIA

CATIA Drawing Production 2 (DP2)

V5, as well as data interfaces to the

CATIA Drawing Production 2 (DP2)

most frequently used industry

Provides all the necessary tools to

standards. Customers also benefit

produce industrial drawings in one

from a seat definition that can be

seat, either from 3D parts or in a pure

seamlessly upgraded by the addition

2D methodology. As a CATIA P2

of shape design capabilities, allowing

configuration, DP2 offers integration

for the design of more complex parts

tools that are compatible with

using hybrid-modelling methodologies.

CATIA V4. It also includes data

CATIA Mechanical Design 2 (MD2)

interfaces to most frequently used

industry standards, including
CADAM drawings.

Configurations

CATIA Mechanical Engineering 2 (ME2)

CATIA Mechanical Engineering 2 (ME2)

CATIA Mechanism Simulation 2 (MS2)

Provides in one seat all the necessary

Provides all the necessary tools to

tools to perform advanced 3D

perform advanced 3D design of

engineering of parts and assemblies

parts and assemblies in one seat.

in the context of the full scale digital

DMU Kinematics Simulator 2 (KIN)

mock-up, and generation of production

easily simulates mechanism motion

drawings. It also includes intuitive

using mouse-based manipulation for

stress-testing functions, which makes

the validation of mechanical mock-ups.

the early pre-validation of parts

This is a particularly relevant feature

available to all designers.

for people involved in activities

ranging from the design of

As a CATIA P2 configuration, ME2

mechanisms to the functional

offers advanced 3D orientation

verification of mechanical systems.

features, such as fly-through

CATIA Mechanism Simulation 2 (MS2)

navigation and advanced specification

Customers also benefit from its built-in

graph display and manipulation.

interoperability with other CATIA V5

Customers benefit from its built-in

solution sets. It is the configuration

interoperability with other CATIA V5

of choice for existing CATIA V4

solution sets. It is the configuration

customers because it offers integration

of choice for existing CATIA V4

tools that are compatible with V4.

customers because it offers integration

CATIA Sheet Metal Design 2 (SD2)

tools that are compatible with V4, as

CATIA Sheet Metal Design 2 (SD2)

well as data interfaces to the most

Provides all the necessary tools to

frequently used industry standards.

produce advanced sheet metal

Customers also benefit from a seat

parts and assemblies in one seat.

definition that can be seamlessly

There are also tools to generate

upgraded by the addition of shape

production-related drawings, verify

design capabilities, allowing for the

the feasibility of creating and

design of more complex parts using

manufacturing a part and provide an

hybrid-modelling methodologies.

interface to other, market-leading sheet

metal manufacturing tools. It also
includes data interfaces to the most
frequently used industry standards,
including CADAM drawings.

CATIA Extended Mechanical

CATIA Composites Design 3 (CD3)

Design 2 (XM2)

Provides all the tools needed to design

Provides a 3D product creation

composites parts for the purposes

package perfectly suited to various

of a digital mock-up. In addition to

domains such as Industrial Machinery

its highly productive core product,

or Consumer Goods. This includes

CATIA Composites Design 3 (CPD),

comprehensive part and assembly

CD3 delivers advanced mechanical

design features, as well as associative

and surfacic tools to underpin the

drawing extraction capabilities.

efficient management of design

Designers will also find that it has all

changes. These tools are supported

the 2D drafting features necessary for

by knowledgeware solutions, which

efficient drawing production.

enable the capture and reuse of

CATIA Extended Mechanical

Design 2 (XM2)

corporate know-how and standard rule

As a CATIA P2 configuration,

bases. CD3 therefore supports the

XM2 offers advanced 3D orientation

user throughout the design cycle.

features such as the analysis of the

degrees of freedom of a component.

This composites design solution is

This enables a quick understanding of

fully integrated into the CATIA V5

how the component is graphically

Product Process Resource model

constrained. Basic knowledge

that offers a perfect fit with the

capabilities also allow designers to

design-to-manufacturing process and

import and use corporate knowledge

therefore can help companies deliver

stored in rule databases to ensure

the right-to-market products.

CATIA Composites Design 3 (CD3)

the consistency and quality of

their designs.

CATIA Aerospace Sheet Metal

Design 3 (SL3)

To meet industrial-scale needs, the

Provides all the necessary tools to

configuration has been reinforced

perform advanced and specific 3D

with sheet metal design production

design of sheet metal parts used in

capabilities and advanced

the aerospace industry in one seat.

wireframe and surfacing features.

It also delivers a full portfolio of

Customers benefit from its built-in

productive and innovative Design and

interoperability with other CATIA V5

Drafting solutions to the user, including

solution sets. It is the configuration

applications concerning shape design,

of choice for existing CATIA V4

image rendering and interfaces.

customers because it offers integration

The framework of this solution provides

tools that are compatible with V4 and

the user with overwhelming product

data interfaces to most frequently

and process integration expertise,

used industry standards including

where the highest productivity potential

CADAM drawings.

is focused on specific aerospace

CATIA Aerospace Sheet Metal

Design 3 (SL3)

sheet metal processes.

Products
CATIA Assembly Design 1 (AS1)

CATIA Functional Molded Part 1 (FM1)

CATIA Part Design Feature

Assembly Design 1 is a P1 product

Functional Molded Part is a flexible

Recognition (FR1)

for managing assemblies in a highly

and productive 3D modelling package

Part Design Feature Recognition is

productive way. It gives the user the

dedicated to the design of molded and

intended to recognise Part Design

ability to design in assembly context

plastic parts. The application provides

feature from an Isolated B-Rep.

with a user-control associativity, to

direct access to a collection of intuitive

This product is used to retrieve a

perform concurrent engineering

functional features that are the most

comprehensive CATIA data structure

between the design of the assembly

useful for designing molded parts.

(Part Structure) from an Isolated

and the design of individual

For instance, commonly used core

B-Rep Part. The user imports a part

components through a hierarchical

and cavity design functional features

and can recover elementary Part

assemblies using a top-down or

such as: Extrude, Revolve, Cut, Thicken

Design features.

bottom-up approach. Assembly

surface, Rib, Boss, Cutout, Rest,

Design 1 establishes mechanical

Pocket, Grill, Reinforcement and Shell.

assembly constraints using mouse

Part Design Feature Recognition is

used to allow better downstream

movements or graphical commands

This new design approach enables

applications integration, to improve

to easily and intuitively snap parts

the user to stay true to the design

Part simplification for tool definition

into position.

objectives while the geometric model

and flexible local design.

is generated automatically to meet

Through a manual/automatic update

the requirements. Designs can be

CATIA 3D Functional Tolerancing and

choice, the designer can reorder the

built and modified faster and more

Annotation 1 (FT1)

product structure, drags dynamically

efficiently while capturing the

3D Functional Tolerancing and

parts into position and makes collision

intelligence necessary to improve the

Annotation 1 is a new generation

and clearance checks. A productive

overall understanding of the design.

CATIA product addressing the

work is provided through a catalogue

access for standard parts or

Instead of managing the design

of tolerance specifications and

assemblies, the access of advanced

process by means of feature tree and

annotations of 3D parts and products.

and powerful assemblies features,

design history, FM1 offers tools that

3D Functional Tolerancing and

automatic exploded view generation

define shape features such as the

Annotation 1 product provides an ideal

and automated BOM generation.

core, shell and cavity of a mold.

solution for new CATIA customers in

Assembly Designers get great time

Users can see the resulting molded

small and medium size industries,

reduction and increased quality.

shape and choose to add incremental

looking to reduce reliance on 2D

Introducing an intuitive user interface,

features that remain associated to the

drawings and increase the use of 3D

which is common across Windows

original feature rather than reflecting in

as the master representation.

and UNIX , offers productivity, ease of

use, and low training costs.

easy definition and management

a list of geometric attributes.

CATIA Generative Drafting 1 (GD1)

CATIA Healing Assistant 1 (HA1)

Generative Drafting for CATIA-P1

Healing Assistant product provides

allows users to automatically

users reconciliation and fixing tools to

generate associative drafting from 3D

heal parts to be used in downstream

mechanical designs and assemblies

applications such as manufacturing,

produced with CATIA Version 5.

analysis or tooling design.

When combined with Interactive

This product helps user checking

Drafting, the Generative Drafting

validity of imported data (surfaces or

product 1 benefits both from integrated

solids) with regard to V5 modelling

2D interactive functionality and from

criteria, then correcting or improving

a higher productive environment for

the topology and the geometry of the

drawings dress-up and annotation.

analysed objects.

Generative Drafting 1 product offers

CATIA Healing Assistant 1 (HA1)

a flexible and scalable solution

is perfectly suited for designers who

accommodating drawing generation

have to deal with complex parts

requirements for sheetmetal, surface

from various CAD applications and

and hybrid parts or assemblies.

formats. This product allows them to

A drawing creation assistant, or

make their Parts V5 compliant to be

wizard simplifies the generation of

able to reuse components in any V5

multiple-view drawings. 3D dimensions

applications. The mold and die tooling

can be automatically generated.

process is particularly impacted by

Designers are able to associate

these advanced capabilities, as tooling

patterns with part material

is often done by sub-contractors

specifications and add post-generation

receiving data exported by their OEMs

annotations with standards-based

in standard formats such as IGES or

dress-up features. Associativity of the

STEP. But Healing Assistant is also

drawings to the 3D master

very useful for data migration, for

representation enables users to

example, for companies who need

concurrently work on their designs

to migrate data from their previous

and drawings.

CAD (including CATIA V4) to their new

CATIA Assembly Design 1 (AS1)

CATIA Functional Molded Part 1 (FM1)

CATIA Part Design Feature

Recognition (FR1)

CATIA 3D Functional Tolerancing

and Annotation 1 (FT1)

CATIA V5 environment.
CATIA Generative Drafting 1 (GD1)

CATIA Healing Assistant 1 (HA1)

Products
CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1)

print it immediately for review or to

CATIA Part Design 1 (PD1)

Interactive Drafting is a new generation

generate a complete drawing sheet

Part Design 1 provides a basic set

CATIA product to address 2D design

from this layout and its content. While

of integrated multi-discipline tools for

and drawing production requirements.

creating the drawing sheet, the user

part design. Using the best-in-class

It offers a highly productive, and

can add further views to illustrate the

feature approach combined with

intuitive, interactive drafting system.

design in greater detail.

Boolean tools, the user can integrate

It also enriches Generative Drafting

With these capabilities, CATIA 2D

multiple product views and constraints.

with both integrated 2D interactive

Layout for 3D Design 1 delivers a

Designers choose between single

functionality and with a productive

unique solution that addresses

part sketching or working in the

environment for drawings dress-up

several processes:

assembly context, and benefit from

and annotation.

the controlled associativity which

Design 3D models from a 2D

CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design 1
(LO1) is a new-generation product
dedicated to the acceleration of the 3D
conceptual design process. It is the
only product on the market in which a
designer works in a 3D environment
with embedded 2D drafting

conceptual geometry.

Layout 3D models with full

drafting capabilities.

Create 2D overview layouts quickly in

the 3D environment.

Reuse legacy drawings to start

new projects.

capabilities. During the conceptual

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promotes a collaborative design.

With clear specification management
tools, modifications can be made
and the impact assessed quickly.
This capability is ideal for multi-user
environments and productive iteration.
The benefits of this approach are
maximised when combined with

phase of a project, LO1 enables the

Well adapted to both 2D- and 3D-

others V5 applications for styling,

designer to work in a familiar drafting

oriented users and to 2D customers

mechanical surfaces definition,

workbench with multi-view capabilities.

who want to smoothly start designing

assembly modelling and downstream

Users can create layout views

in 3D at the conceptual phase, LO1

documentation.

containing geometry while getting the

provides a intuitive environment

most of other key capabilities, such as

to capture design intent. Totally

CATIA Sheet Metal Production 1 (SH1)

dimensions, annotations, dress-up,

integrated into the entire CATIA V5

Sheet Metal Production is addressing

2D components, and constraints.

applications portfolio, LO1 facilitates

the manufacturing preparation for

LO1 also incorporates powerful tools

the preliminary design phase

sheetmetal parts. In combination with

for fast and associative 3D geometry

and/or review phases in automotive,

SMD, it provides a solution that covers

creation. Once the design is laid out

fabrication and assembly, and all

the design to manufacturing process

as 2D sheets and views, the user can

mechanical industries.

of sheetmetal parts.

CATIA Sheet Metal Design 1 (SM1)

CATIA Structure Design 1 (SR1)

Sheetmetal Design 1 is dedicated

Structure Design product is an

to the design of sheet metal parts.

application enabling to simply and

Its feature-based approach offers a

quickly creates linear, curved structures,

highly productive and intuitive design

and plates, using standard or

environment. It allows concurrent

user-defined sections. Taking advantage

engineering between the folded or

of an optimised user interface, the user

unfolded representation of the part.

can easily create and modify structures

CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1)

thanks to fully associative design in

CATIA Sheetmetal Design 1 can be

context capability.

CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design 1 (LO1)

cooperatively used with other current

or future applications of CATIA Version

Moreover, the product includes

5 like part design, assembly design

a parametric catalogue through

and drawing generation. As sheetmetal

design tables and it generates user

design may start from scratch or from

customisable Bills of Materials (BOMs).

an existing solid, communication

It is natively integrated with other CATIA

between suppliers and contractors

applications for completing the structure

is empowered.

design, user will be able, for instance, to

CATIA Part Design 1 (PD1)

perform extensive stress analysis on his

Sheetmetal Design 1 offers the

structure elements and beams.

same ease-of-use and user interface

consistency as all CATIA V5
applications to drastically reduce
training cycle time and unleash
designer creativity.
CATIA Sheet Metal Production 1 (SH1)

CATIA Sheet Metal Design 1 (SM1)

CATIA Structure Design 1 (SR1)

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Products
CATIA Tooling Design 1 (TG1)

CATIA Welding Design 1 (WD1)

CATIA Wireframe & Surface 1 (WS1)

Dedicated to generic and user

Weld Design is an application

Wireframe & Surface is used to create

Tooling Component management,

addressing welded assemblies.

wireframe construction elements

Tooling Design provides to small

Fifteen weld types (ISO standard)

during the preliminary design

mold makers a toolset to support

are provided to the user to create

phase. It can also enrich existing

the end to end process. This new

welds, part preparation and

3D mechanical part design with

product covers all productivity

relevant annotations.

wireframe and basic surface features.

features such as positioning and

Its feature-based approach contributes

multi instance management and

This product addresses Machinery and

to a productive and intuitive

also delivers all needed features for

Tooling industries through advanced

design environment where design

process integration up to drafting

welding processes. The creation of

methodologies and specifications can

and manufacturing (drilling, splitting,

the weld in the 3D digital mock-up

be captured and reused.

propagation of user intent). Moreover,

will allow designer to manage digital

the product includes a rich content

pre-assembly, mass inertia, space

CATIA Assembly Design 2 (ASD)

through catalogues and samples.

reservation and drafting annotation.

Assembly Design 2 offers a new

generation CATIA P2 product for
managing assemblies.
Assembly Design products
integrate with other CATIA Version
5 applications like part design and
drawing generation.

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Assembly Design 2 establishes

CATIA Composites Engineering 2 (CPE)

mechanical assembly constraints

CATIA Composites Engineering

using mouse movements or graphical

Design 2 provides process-oriented

commands to easily snap parts into

tools dedicated to the design of

position. Assembly Design 2 helps

composites parts from preliminary

designers managing large, hierarchical

to engineering detailed design. CPE

assemblies of CATIA V4, V5, VRML

targets the aerospace, automotive,

or STEP parts using a top-down or

consumer goods, and shipbuilding

bottom-up approach. Parts and

industry OEMs and their suppliers.

sub-assemblies are easily reused in

Automatic ply generation, exact

the assembly without data duplication.

solid generation, analysis tools such

CATIA Tooling Design 1 (TG1)

CATIA Welding Design 1 (WD1)

as fibre behaviour simulation and

Productivity tools like automatic

inspection capabilities are just some

exploded view generation,

of the essential components of this

collision and clearance checking.

product. By enabling users to embed

Automated BOM generation greatly

manufacturing constraints earlier in the

reduce time and increase quality.

conceptual design stage, this product

Flexible sub-assembly gives user the

shortens the design-to-manufacturing

ability to dynamically unlink product

period. Its native integration with the

structure and mechanical behaviour.

pervasive knowledge and CATIA

This unique command allows to move

V5 ease-of-use unveils CPE as a

individual component in the parent

unique composites design solution in

assembly or to manage different

the marketplace.

CATIA Wireframe & Surface 1 (WS1)

internal positions of instantiated

sub-component.
CATIA Assembly Design 2 (ASD)

CATIA Composites Engineering 2 (CPE)

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Products
CATIA Composites

CATIA Core & Cavity Design 2 (CCV)

CATIA Cast & Forged Part

Manufacturing 2 (CPM)

Core & Cavity Design allows rapid

Optimizer 2 (CFO)

CATIA Composites Design provides

and cost effective design of the core

Cast & Forged Part Optimizer is

process-oriented tools dedicated

and cavity used in mold tooling or

an add-on for Part Design 2 (PDG)

to the manufacturing preparation

manufacturing equipment.

dedicated to the detailed design of

of composites parts. CPM targets

This products provides a fast splitting

molded & forged parts. Cast & Forged

aerospace, automotive, consumer

tool that takes a surfacic or solid part

Part Optimizer delivers advanced part

goods and shipbuilding industry

and separates it into core and cavity

design functions that extend the power

OEMs and their suppliers. With the

with sliders and loose cores.

of dress-up features. These advanced

powerful synchronisation capabilities,

functions are based on innovative

CPM is the essential link between

Core & Cavity Design is a stand-alone

and unique patented technology.

engineering design and physical

product that determines the ability of a

The powerful auto filtering and

manufacturing, allowing suppliers to

component to be manufactured thanks

advanced draft capabilities provide

collaborate closely with their OEMs

to technological criteria (moldability).

significant gains in quality and

in the composites design process.

This product allows also the user to

productivity. Dedicated to the casting

With CPM, manufacturing engineers

fill up technological holes within the

and forging process, this add-on

can include all manufacturing and

core and cavity surfaces, identify

is totally integrated into the entire

producibility constraints in the

the parting lines and to generate the

CATIA V5 application portfolio.

composites design process.

parting surfaces.

Users can finish their design with

This product completes the

CATIA Part Design 2 (PDG), avoiding

composites design solution, taking

the need to make repetitive use of

advantage of CATIA V5 architecture:

surface and wireframe operations.

native integration, pervasive

The user benefits from improved

knowledgeware capabilities,

robustness, higher productivity

and ease-of-use.

(fewer clicks), greater stability following

design changes; and a reduction in
prerequisite learning activity.

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CATIA Functional Molded Parts 2 (FMP)

CATIA 3D Functional Tolerancing

Functional Molded Parts is a new

and Annotation 2 (FTA)

generation product for designing

3D Functional Tolerancing and

cast, molded, and forged parts

Annotation 2 is a new generation

and related tooling with unmatched

CATIA product addressing the

productivity and flexibility Its

easy definition and management

history-free functional design approach

of tolerance specifications and

for defining the complete functional

annotations of 3D parts and products.

CATIA Composites
Manufacturing 2 (CPM)

CATIA Core & Cavity Design 2 (CCV)

specification for both parts and their

associated tooling makes FMP a

The intuitive interface of 3D Functional

breakthrough product for reducing the

Tolerancing and Annotation product

design-to-manufacturing cycle.

provides an ideal solution for new

CATIA customers in small and

Building on the foundation of functional

medium size industries, looking to

part definition, FMP accelerates

reduce reliance on 2D drawings and

time-to-market by intelligently

increase the use of 3D as the master

understanding the geometrical and

representation. 3D annotations can

tooling definition from a designers

be extracted, using the annotation

functional concept. By taking

plane concept in CATIA Generative

advantage of the unique CATIA V5

Drafting products. Besides syntactic

geometrical modeller and the process

and semantic verification command

coverage of complementary CATIA

allows the user to check the

products, companies can realise

correctness of all the annotations of

significant efficiency savings.

the active product or part regarding to

Freeing the designer from the

the standard used.

CATIA Cast & Forged Part

Optimizer 2 (CFO)

CATIA Functional Molded Parts 2 (FMP)

constraints of history-based design,

the order in which features are created

Finally, the 3D annotations can be

has no impact on the design itself.

reviewed using ENOVIA VPLM DMU

Dimensioning & Tolerancing 1 product
(DT1) or DELMIA DMU Dimensioning
& Tolerancing Review 2 product (MTR),
which offers comprehensive tools
for interpretation of annotations
and tolerances on specific areas of
the design or across the complete

CATIA Functional Tolerancing

and Annotation 2 (FTA)

digital mock-up.

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Products
CATIA Generative Drafting 2 (GDR)

CATIA Part Design 2 (PDG)

CATIA Mold Tooling Design 2 (MTD)

Generative Drafting for CATIA-P2

Part Design 2 extends the basic set of

CATIA Mold Tooling Design product

is a new generation CATIA product

integrated multi-discipline tools within

manages mold tool definitions.

which allows users to automatically

CATIA Part Design 1 (PD1) to provide

It can be cooperatively used with

generate associative drafting from 3D

unique industry features. Part Design

other current or future design,

mechanical designs and assemblies

2 supports all the demanding design

simulation and manufacturing

produced with CATIA Version 5.

applications, such as powertrain,

applications of CATIA Version 5 to

When combined with Interactive

plastic parts, and aerospace structure.

offer high productivity. It allows rapid,

Drafting, the Generative Drafting 2

Based on a template approach,

cost effective creation of mold tooling

product benefits both from integrated

users can proliferate in a simple

for the plastic injection process thanks

2D interactive functionality and from

manner dedicated complex features,

to the use of predefined components

a higher productive environment for

optimising time design and iteration.

from standard catalogues with

drawings dress-up and annotation.

Enriching a knowledge template

specific functionality to define mold

repository, they can use the old project

components and instantiations.

Generative Drafting 2 product offers

as best practices for the coming ones.

a flexible and scalable solution to

Due to V5 integration, those templates

A mold designer can benefit from a

create associative drawings from

inputs shared a common

dedicated workbench to support all

3D mechanical designs, surfaces,

multi-disciplinary approach such

their tasks, like mold base definition,

hybrid parts and assemblies created

as tooling specifications, analysis,

component instantiation, injection

with CATIA Version 4 or Version 5.

manufacturing constraints, usability.

and cooling feature definitions, and

3D dimensions can be automatically

others which are necessary to define a

generated with control over their

complete mold tooling.

placement. Designers are able to

add post-generation annotations with
standards-based dress-up features.
Associativity of the drawings to the
3D master representation enables
users to concurrently work on their
design and drawings.

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Mold designers can generate

Sheetmetal Design 2 can be

dedicated and customisable Bills of

cooperatively used with other current

Materials (BOMs) including specific

or future applications of CATIA Version

attribute of the mold (material, heat

5 like part design, assembly design

treatment) and automatic nomenclature

and drawing generation. As sheetmetal

from the configuration of the

design may start from scratch or from

component. Textual format, HTML or

an existing solid, communication

XLS (Excel) formats can be generated

between suppliers and contractors is

interactively. The BOM can also be

empowered. It includes many standard

based on user-defined attributes.

design features, such as stiffeners,

CATIA Generative Drafting 2 (GDR)

CATIA Part Design 2 (PDG)

stamped shapes and swept features.

CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 (SMD)
Sheetmetal Design 2 is a new

CATIA Sheetmetal Design 2 offers

generation CATIA product dedicated

the same ease of use and user

to the design of sheetmetal parts.

interface consistency as all CATIA

Its feature-based approach offers a

V5 applications to drastically reduce

highly productive and intuitive design

training cycle time and unleash

environment. It allows concurrent

designer creativity. It also provides

engineering between the folded or

multiple interoperability functions with

unfolded representation of the part.

CATIA V4 sheetmetal products.

CATIA Mold Tooling Design 2 (MTD)

CATIA Sheet Metal Design 2 (SMD)

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Products
CATIA Aerospace Sheet

CATIA Generative Aerospace

Metal Design 3 (ASL)

Sheetmetal Design provides an

Generative Aerospace Sheetmetal

interactive function to design

Design is a product dedicated to

sheetmetal parts in a very intuitive way,

the definition of sheetmetal parts

taking manufacturing constraints into

used in the aerospace industry

accounts. It provides the flat pattern of

(hydro-pressed or break-formed).

the sheetmetal part, and allows easy

It enables the capture of company

incremental design (from preliminary to

knowledge, including design, and

detailed stages) and modification both

manufacturing constraints.

in 3D and flattened conditions.

Generative Aerospace Sheetmetal

Whenever initial specifications are

Design product is based on feature

changed (for example, the aircraft skin

modelling techniques, using a

on which a frame has been designed

pre-defined set of features used for

is modified), this product will allow new

sheetmetal parts designed in the

part to be automatically rebuilt, based

aerospace industry.

on new specifications.

Based on both specification-driven

and generative approaches, this
product will allow typical hydro-formed
aerospace parts to be easily specified,
the system taking care of creating both
3D and flattened part geometry.
Where such parts are designed or
modified with basic modelling tools
within hours or days, this product
allows same result to be achieved
in minutes.

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CATIA Aerospace Sheet

Metal Design 3 (ASL)

CATIA Composite Design 3 (CPD)

Composites Design is an advanced
composites process centric solution
that allows manufacturers, from
aerospace to automotive or consumer
goods companies, to reduce the
CATIA
Composite
Design
3 (CPD)
time needed
to design
composites
Composites
Design
is to
ancover
advanced
parts. It delivers
tools
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CATIA Composite Design 3 (CPD)

composites
process
centric solution
the preliminary
and detailed
design
that
allows
manufacturers,
from even
phases while taking into account,
aerospace
to automotive
consumer
at the concept
stage, the or
products
goods
companies,
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requirements
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neededDesign
to design
composites
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uniquely
delivers
parts.
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to
cover solution
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a powerful composites design

CATIA Composite Design 3 (CPD)

the
and detailed
withpreliminary
all the advantages
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phases
while
taking
into
account,
V5 architecture: native integration, even
at
the concept
stage, the products
pervasive
knowledgeware
capabilities,
requirements
and
its manufacturability.
and CATIA V5s ease-of-use.
Composites Design uniquely delivers
a powerful composites design solution
with all the advantages of the CATIA
V5 architecture: native integration,
pervasive knowledgeware capabilities,
and CATIA V5s ease-of-use.

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