Contents of CATIA V5 R25 DIC-EDU Package

Mechanical Design Solutions consisting of

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CATIA - Assembly Design

CATIA - Part Design
CATIA - Functional Molded Parts
CATIA - Wireframe & Surface
CATIA - Generative Drafting
CATIA - Interactive Drafting
CATIA - Structure Design
CATIA - Sheetmetal Design

Industrial Design Solutions consisting of

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CATIA - Imagine & Shape

CATIA - Free Style Shaper
CATIA - Free Style Sketch Tracer
CATIA - Generative Shape Design
CATIA - Real Time Rendering
CATIA - Photo Studio
CATIA - Photo Studio Optimizer

Machining & Manufacturing Solutions consisting of

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CATIA - NC Manufacturing Review

CATIA - Prismatic Machining
CATIA - Lathe Machining
CATIA - Rapid Prototyping
CATIA 3 Axis Surface Machining

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CATIA - DMU Space Analysis

CATIA - DMU Kinematics Simulator
CATIA - Plant Layout
CATIA - Generative Part Structural Analysis
CATIA - IGES Interface
CATIA - Object Manager
CATIA - Instant Collaborative Design

Special Interactive Learning Material for Students on

Mechanical Design
Structural Design
Hybrid and Industrial Design
Digital creation of 3D components and their mock-up
Sheetmetal Design

Significant Technical Advantages of CATIA V5 package for Academic Institutes:

1. Mechanical Design Solutions include all the 2D Drafting and 3D Designing tools necessary to
teach students. The solutions include manual and automated drafting capabilities (2D); and in 3D
Modeling it contains Part Design, Assembly Design and Surface Design capabilities. Additionally
it also offers tools to do Sheetmetal Design and Mechanical Structures Design. This is because
increasingly many products involve sheetmetal components and structural designing work.
2. Industrial Design Solutions help students to learn the designing approach to products, where the
approach is taken that of an artist rather than that of an engineer. These tools include capabilities
for freestyle sketching (2D), freestyle shaping (3D), real time rendering to represent designs in their
actual context and environment, Photo-Studio capabilities to edit and optimize the representation
of designs. The most significant part of industrial design solutions is clay modeling capabilities that
allow students to use their imagination to create shapes and forms in 3D. This gives them a language
of design to communicate their thoughts very quickly.
Most Importantly:
a) There are a lot of Mechanical Design softwares and very few industrial design softwares.
There is no software other than CATIA V5 that integrates these two approaches on one
platform. Advantage is that when students learn Designing they learn it with both
Engineers Approach and also with Artists Approach.
b) There are many jobs that expect designers to know both industrial designing and
mechanical designing. For such learning experience, CATIA V5 provides the right
combination and utilities.

3. Computer Aided Machining & Manufacturing Solutions provide utilities for NC Machining,
Lathe Machining, Prismatic Machining, 3-Axis Surface Machining and Rapid Prototyping. These
are popular techniques of Computer Aided/Integrated Manufacturing techniques that
manufacturing units of many companies currently use. In case the institute has a Rapid Prototyping
Machine (or intends to have one in future), then the output STL file can be taken as input to CATIA
V5 from where a 3D model can be generated and later on modified using the regular Mechanical
or Industrial Design tools of CATIA V5. This helps students to understand concepts of reverse
engineering as well.
Most Importantly:
a) The CAM Solutions offered in CATIA V5 are most meaningful for teaching activities with
engineering students.
b) The CAM Solutions and CAD Solutions are available on one single platform and this
makes the teaching and learning activities very easy and very quick. Also the user will not
have to save and retrieve files in specific (neutral) formats in different softwares.
4. Additional Utilities provided in CATIA V5 help students learn Digital Mock-Up, Plant Layout
creation, and creation of catalogues of repetitive parts. This helps students to understand
Kinematics of machine parts, creating pant layouts for various requirements, and students also get
to learn how to create catalogues and how it can save hours of repetitive effort.
5. Learning Solutions consist of very interactive and comprehensive learning material that makes
new users learn the software very easily, quickly and correctly.