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1 2D Layout for 3D Design

2 3 Axis Surface Machining

3 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation

4 Advanced Machining

5 Advanced Meshing Tools

6 Assembly Design
7 Compartment and Access

8 Composites Design

9 Core & Cavity Design

10 Digitized Shape Editor

11 DMU Fitting Simulator

12 DMU Navigator

13 DMU Fitting Simulator

14 DMU Kinematics Simulator

15 DMU Navigator

16 DMU Optimizer

17 DMU Space Analysis

18 Electrical 3D Design & Documentation

19 Equipment Arrangement

20 Electrical Cableway Routing

21 Electrical Harness Flattening

22 Electrical Harness Installation

23 Electrical Library

23 Electrical Wire Routing

24 Fastening Review

25 FreeStyle Sketch Tracer

26 FreeStyle Shaper & Optimizer

27 Functional Molded Part

28 Generative Sheetmetal Design

29 Generative Structural Analysis

30 Generative Drafting

31 Generative Shape Design

32 Hanger Design

33 Healing Assistant
34 Human Activity Analysis

35 Human Builder

36 Human Measurements Editor

37 Human Posture Analysis

38 HVAC Design

39 HVAC Diagrams

40 Imagine & Shape

41 CATIA Infrastructure
42 Knowledge Advisor

43 Knowledge Expert

44 Lathe Machining

45 Mold Tooling Design

46 NC Manufacturing Infrastructure

47 Part Design

48 Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams

49 Piping Design
50 Plant Layout

51 Prismatic Machining

52 Product Engineering Optimizer

53 Product Function Definition

54 Product Knowledge Template

55 Quick Surface Reconstruction

56 Raceway & Conduit Design

57 Shape Sculptor
58 Sheet Metal Design

59 Ship Structure Detail Design

60 Sketcher

61 STL Rapid Prototyping

62 Structure Design

63 Structure Functional Design

64 Systems Space Reservation

65 Systems Routing
66 Tubing Design

67 Tubing Diagrams

68 Waveguide Diagrams

69 Weld Design
70 Wireframe and Surface

71 Waveguide Design
 CATIA Module Description and Usage in Detail

Description

2D Layout for 3D Design is a new generation product that lets you design 3D models in an advanced 2D drafting-like prod
environment, enabling you to create layout views based on 2D geometry, while getting the most of other key capabilities
dress-up, dimensions, annotations, 2D components, use-edges, constraints, and outputs of profiles and planes, for examp
your design is laid out in 2D sheets and views, you will be able to print it directly or to generate a drawing sheet from it, t
that will illustrate it.

The 2D Layout for 3D Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create layout views of varying
levels of complexity.

Axis Surface Machining is a new generation product that defines and manages NC programs. 3 Axis
Surface Machining is dedicated to the machining of 3D geometry work parts with 3-axis machining techniques.
It is particularly adapted to the needs of mold, die and tool makers and prototype manufacturers in all
branches and at all levels of industry.
3 Axis Surface Machining offers easy-to-learn and easy-to-use shopfloor-oriented tool path definition for 3-axis
Machining. 3 Axis Surface Machining is based on industry-recognized, leading-edge technologies which offer the
tightest integration between tool path definition, verification and instant cycle updates.
3 Axis Surface Machining covers full design-to-manufacture processes offering functions for:
defining the areas you want to machine,
rough machining either by vertical or horizontal planes,
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sweeping,
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pencil operations,
contour-driven operations,
profile contouring,
drilling,
detecting residual material,
defining areas to rework,
visualization of the result of the Manufacturing Program,
the production of shopfloor documentation.
Functional Tolerancing & Annotation lets you easily define and manage 3D tolerance specifications and
annotations directly on 3D parts or products.
The intuitive interface of the product provides an ideal solution for new application customers in small and
medium-size industries, looking to reduce reliance on 2D drawings, and increase the use of 3D as the master
representation for driving from design to manufacturing engineering process.
Annotations in Functional Tolerancing & Annotation can be extracted, using the annotation plane concept in
the Generative Drafting product.
The product elements can be reviewed using specific functionalities, which constitute comprehensive tools for
the interpretation of tolerancing annotations.
This manual is intended for users who need to specify tolerancing annotations on 3D parts or on 3D products.
It assists designers in assigning the correct tolerances on the selected surfaces by:
l Selecting the surfaces to be toleranced.
l Choosing among the available options, the tolerance types, the modifiers, etc. The system offers a choice
of options which are consistent with the selected surfaces.
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2.5 to 5 axis milling and drilling machining capabilities
l Quick tool path definition thanks to an intuitive user interface
l Flexible management of tools and tool catalogs
l Definition of machining areas including multi-thickness areas
l Check and repair tool holder collisions
l Quick verification of tool path
l In-process part visualization and material removal simulation in multi-axis mode
l Tool path editor
l Fast tool path update after modification
l Seamless NC data generation
l Automatic shop-floor documentation
l Management of NC related documents
l Multi-CAD management
l Integration with DELMIA
l NC know-how capitalization and reuse
l Productive design change management.
Advanced Meshing Tools allows you to rapidly generate a finite element model for
complex parts whether they are surface or solid.
In other words, you will generate associative meshing from complex parts, with advanced
control on mesh specifications.
The Advanced Meshing Tools workbench is composed of the following products:
l FEM Surface (FMS): to generate a finite element model for complex surface parts.
l FEM Solid (FMD): to generate a finite element model for complex solid parts.

Assembly Design allows the design of assemblies with an intuitive and flexible user interface.
As a scalable workbench, Assembly Design can be cooperatively used with other current companion products
such as Part Design and Generative Drafting.
The widest application portfolio in the industry is also accessible through interoperability with Solutions
Version 4 to enable support of the full product development process from initial concept to product in
operation.
Digital Mock-Up (DMU) Navigator inspection capabilities can also be used to review and check your
assemblies. Interactive, variable-speed techniques such as walk-through and fly as well as other viewing
tools let you visually navigate through large assemblies.
The Assembly Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create an assembly starting from
scratch. This book aims at illustrating the several stages of creation you may encounter.
The Compartment and Access product provides users with a complete set of tools to define conceptual
zones/compartments within a ship. In addition, the product provides the user with the ability to define access
mechanisms for compartments, such as doors, windows and ladders.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability of creating and managing intelligent representations of
ship compartments and access objects. Ship compartments are created from a structural preliminary layout of
the ship by simply sketching the edges of the compartment and then extruding these between defined decks
and bulkheads. Users can then easily place access objects on or within a ship compartment.
Together with other products, the Compartment and Access product gives users the benefit of a
comprehensive solution for the complete compartment design process. The compartments are defined as part of
the conceptual design of the ship. They can be used by downstream design processes for further refinement of
the design, especially system related designs of the ship. This integration gives the user a powerful set of tools
to help contribute to the overall ship design process.

Composites Design 3 is an advanced composites process centric solution that allows manufacturers, from
aerospace to automotive or consumer goods companies, to reduce the time needed to design composites
parts.
It delivers tools to cover both the preliminary and detailed design phases while taking into account, even at the
concept stage, the product's requirements for finite element analysis and manufacturability.
Composites Design 3 uniquely delivers a powerful composites design solution with all the advantages of the
CATIA V5 architecture: native integration, pervasive knowledgeware capabilities, and CATIA V5 ease of use.

Core and Cavity Design is intended for:

l a quick analysis of a molded part (cost feasibility),
l the preparation of the molded part for mold design and mold
manufacturing.
Core and Cavity Design defines the core and cavity sides of a part, including
any sliders or lifters that may be required, so as to produce a MoldedPart
ready to be used with Mold Tooling Design. It includes functions that define:
l The pulling directions,
l the parting line
l the parting surface,
l the splitting surface,
along with analysis and fine tuning capacities.
Digitized Shape Editor is a powerful application used to read, import and process parts digitized to clouds
of points. These clouds of points can then be used in Quick Surface Reconstruction, DMU or Surface Machining
or exported to various other formats.
Digitized Shape Editor :
l proposes several import formats,
l takes special characteristics of imported shapes into account (free edges, facets, ...), if requested,
l ensures a fast processing of clouds (that may contain several millions of points) through filtering, activation
and removal functions,
l makes the manipulations of the various elements constituting cloud of points (points, scans, grids, meshes)
easy,
l provides edition functions such as merging and aligning of clouds, or creation of planar sections,
l provides display and analysis functions of the cloud,
l keeps the architecture of objects processed,
l provides tessellations to be used directly with other applications or for visualization,
l exports the models created to several formats.
The Digitized Shape Editor user's guide has been designed to show you how to import and edit digitized parts
using these powerful tools.
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The above applications are delivered as totally interoperable workbenches.
From a user interface standpoint, switching from one to another is completely
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DMU Fitting Simulator is a software dedicated to simulating part motions for assembly
and maintainability issues. It addresses the design review environment of Digital
Mock-Ups (DMU) and can handle a wide range of products from consumer goods to
very large automotive or aerospace projects as well as plants, ships and heavy
machinery.
DMU Fitting Simulator is a dedicated DMU Navigator Version 5 workbench and is
available on both UNIX and Windows NT environments

DMU Kinematics Simulator is an independent CAD product dedicated to simulating

assembly motions. It addresses the design review environment of digital mock-ups
(DMU) and can handle a wide range of products from consumer goods to very large
automotive or aerospace projects as well as plants, ships and heavy machinery.
DMU Kinematics Simulator is a dedicated DMU Navigator workbench and is available
on both UNIX and Windows NT environments
DMU Navigator Version 5 addresses Digital Mock-Up (DMU) process centric design
and review requirements of the extended enterprise. It offers a scalable solution
capable of handling digital mock-ups of all sizes, ranging from consumer goods to very
large automotive, aerospace, plant, ship and heavy machinery mock-ups.
Available on both UNIX and Windows environments, DMU Navigator is built to be
totally compliant with Windows presentation standards.

DMU OPTIMIZER 2 (DOP) is a product dedicated to improve user's productivity by

computing an optimized representation of data for mockup verification in the context of
the immersive and collaborative design review environment of the full digital mockup.
DMU OPTIMIZER 2 (DOP) facilitates the full integration of Digital Mockup centric
processes within the global engineering environment of the customer.
DMU OPTIMIZER 2 is a dedicated DMU Navigator workbench and is available on both
UNIX and Windows NT environments.

DMU Space Analysis is a CAD-independent product dedicated to advanced

interference analysis, sectioning and measurement. It addresses the design review
environment of digital mock-ups (DMU) and can handle a wide range of products from
consumer goods to very large automotive or aerospace projects as well as plants,
ships and heavy machinery.
DMU Space Analysis is a dedicated DMU Navigator workbench and is available on
both UNIX and Windows environments.

Electrical 3D Design & Documentation is a product which provides machinery and consumer goods
industry with a dedicated toolset for designing and documenting their electrical systems.
This product offers the following main functions:
l electrical devices on parts and assemblies definition
l geometrical and electrical bundle creation
l assisted device placement according to the electrical specifications coming from external data (iXF file)
l creation and management of wire and electrical device catalogs
l wire routing
l harness flattening capabilities.
The Equipment Arrangement product provides customers with a complete set of tools to build and manage
equipment in manufacturing plants, process and power plants, and ships.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability of creating and managing intelligent representations
and arrangements of equipment. Intelligent equipment arrangement allows you to more productively create and
validate designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be reused for downstream design processes. All this
is done using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices.
The product supports the definition of equipment configurations. This involves general layout tools to place and
locate equipment and the creation and management of associated systems. Comprehensive attribute data is
attached to the equipment to allow its full definition within the context of the plant design. In addition, full
capabilities are provided to quickly annotate the 3D model with intelligent annotation, query design data, and
generate appropriate report information. All of these design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and
productive interface that allows users to quickly create, modify and manage their designs.
Together with other products, the Equipment Arrangement product gives users the power to manage
equipment in ship or plant operations in a completely flexible way.

The Electrical Cableway Routing (ECR) is a new generation product dedicated to create 3D implementation of
electrical cabling systems.
Electrical Cableway Routing (ECR) is an add-on of System Space Reservation (SSR) and is accessible via an
additional toolbar.
It allows users to define 3D implementation for all existing electrical components in an electrical diagram from
Electrical Connectivity Diagram (ELD).
This application automatically manages creation of reservation items and placement of electrical components as
well as cable space reservation, according to electrical connectivity information (diagrams) and compartment
definition, for further use.
Thanks to Electrical Cableway Routing, the designer will integrate both electrical and mechanical behaviors,
which give him the ability to take advantage of CATIA V5 knowledge-based applications.

Electrical Harness Flattening is a product which is intended to flatten electrical and geometrical bundles.
Moreover, filtering wires functionalities are also available if you have the Electrical Wire Routing license.
Electrical Harness Flattening offers the following main functions:
l it flattens bundle segments or electrical and geometrical bundles
l it straightens bundle segments
l it rotates whole bundle segments or bend them at a defined point
l it rolls bundle segments
l it scales bundle segments by introducing fake lengths
l it can be updated at any time during your session thanks to the synchronization option
l it allows you to choose the type of representation of your drawing
l it allows you to annotate the wires of your drawing
l it integrates the Graphic View Style (GVS) on EHF data.
As a scalable product, Electrical Harness Flattening can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products such as Electrical Library, Electrical Harness
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context of the 3D mock-up.
Users benefit from electrical designs totally integrated into the mechanical assembly.
This product provides a set of objects including both mechanical and electrical properties.
Electrical Harness Installation offers the following main functions:
l the bundle segment creation in Product documents (Electrical Harness Assembly workbench)
l the geometrical bundle creation
l the bundle segments properties definition
l the creation of electrical links between bundle segments and devices
l an algorithm simulating the bundle segment shape and offering realistic bundle segment representations.
l the use of supports to constraint bundle segments.
Thanks to the integration with mechanical assemblies, electrical harnesses can be connected either to
mechanical parts, or to electrical devices.
Electrical Harness Installation enables users to reuse catalogs of electrical devices.
As a scalable product, Electrical Harness Installation can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products such as Electrical Wire Routing, Electrical Library, Electrical Harness Flattening and
Electrical System Functional Definition.
Electrical Library is a product which provides a set of tools for defining electrical devices, placing and
connecting them. It also allows the creation and management of wire and electrical device catalogs.
This product offers the following main functions:
l electrical behavior definition on parts and assemblies
l electrical semi-automatic placement (using mechanical assembly features)
l assisted device placement according to the electrical specifications coming from external, legacy or CATIA
electrical specification tool
l electrical wire references generation in the catalog
l electrical properties and attributes edition
l interactive access and navigation within electrical catalogs
l electrical catalogs customizing.
As a scalable product, Electrical Wire Routing can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products such as Electrical Wire Routing, Electrical Harness Installation, Electrical Harness
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Electrical Wire Routing offers the following main functions:
l Routing an electrical signal defined in the functional system
l Define electrical wires on bundle segments on both V5 and V4 documents
l Define electrical signal routes on pathways
l Assign, manage and optimize electrical wire connection location
l Split and merge electrical wire connections
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l Define bridge wire and crimping
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l Export wire route in several file formats
l Integration with VPM1 on Unix platform.
As a scalable product, Electrical Wire Routing can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products such as Electrical Library, Electrical Harness Installation, Electrical Harness Flattening and
Electrical System Functional Definition.

The DMU Fastener Review application is a scalable product dedicated to the review of Automotive
Body in White fasteners, created and managed by the Automotive Body in White Fastening P3
application.
The DMU Fastener Review application enables the visualization, edition, and checking of fasteners,
but no modification can be performed. In addition, reports can be issued from the application in order
to list data information in a neutral ASCII text format or HTML format.
As a scalable product, the DMU Fastener Review application can be used in cooperation with other
products such as DMU Review products.

The FreeStyle Sketch Tracer is a new-generation tool used to import stylist's drawings into the 3D
world.
Using this product you can convert 2D images into a 3D scene to create 3D geometry from your hand
drawings, or other source such as pictures. You position the 3D model in relation to the sketch and,
in conjunction with other products, create geometric outlines directly over the sketches.
The FreeStyle Sketch Tracer User's Guide has been designed as an aid to using the FreeStyle Sketch
Tracer by itself, but also in conjunction with other FreeStyle products or any other workbench.
CATIA Version 5 FreeStyle Shaper is a powerful modeling tool used to dynamically
design all types of surface elements, from the stylist's drawing to the final surface,
ready for the manufacturing processes.
Using this product you can generate free form 3D curves and surfaces from scratch,
and dynamically deform and analyze all produced elements.
Using the FreeStyle Optimizer you can create and modify curve and surface shapes
based on other elements such as digitized data.
The CATIA - FreeStyle Shaper & Optimizer User's Guide has been designed as an aid
to using both the FreeStyle Shaper and FreeStyle Optimizer by themselves, but also in
conjunction with other CATIA Version 5 workbenches.

CATIA Functional Molded Part offers a new approach to developing 3D digital models, called "functional
modeling." The objective of functional modeling is to enable product designers to focus on the functional goals
and design constraints of their product. Capturing this information in the product model provides the
information from which geometric form can be derived through the combination of behavioral features and a
minimum of geometric construction. The end result is a significant reduction in the effort required to generate
the 3D model by allowing more time for designers to focus on engineering issues, exploring alternative design
approaches, and optimizing their design.
CATIA Functional Molded Part provides tools to create volumes and features that contain inherent behaviors
and which interact. The behaviors capture different design functions, such as adding material, subtracting
material, or protecting space. Because they contain inherent behaviors and they interact, they are called
"functional volumes" and "functional features."
As a scalable product,Functional Molded Part can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products such asDesign
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The Generative Sheetmetal workbench is a new generation product offering an intuitive and flexible
user interface. It provides an associative feature-based modeling, making it possible to design sheet metal
parts in concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded part representation.
Generative Sheetmetal Design offers the following main functions:
l Associative and dedicated sheet metal feature-based modeling
l Concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded part representation
l Access to company-defined standards tables
l Dedicated drawing capability including unfolded view and specific settings.
All sheet metal specifications can be re-used by the Knowledge Advisor workbench to capture corporate
knowledge and increase the quality of designs.
Natively integrated, Generative Sheetmetal Design offers the same ease of use and user interface consistency
as all V5 applications.
As a scalable product, Generative Sheetmetal Design can be used in cooperation with other current or future
companion products in CATIA V5 such as Assembly Design and Generative Drafting. The widest application
portfolio in the industry is also accessible through interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable
support of the full product development process from initial concept to product in operation.
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l The Generative Part Structural Analysis (GPS) product is intended for the casual user.
Indeed, its intuitive interface offers the possibility to obtain mechanical behavior information
with very few interactions. The dialog boxes are self explanatory and require practically no
methodology, all defining steps being commutative.
l The ELFINI Structural Analysis (EST) product is a natural extensions of both above
mentioned products, fully based on the V5 architecture. It represents the basis of all future
mechanical analysis developments.
l The Generative Assembly Structural Analysis (GAS) product has been designed as an
integrated extension to Generative Part Structural Analysis enabling the study of the
mechanical behavior of a whole assembly. The product has been conceived with the same
"easy to learn" and "fun to use" ergonomics principles.
l The Generative Dynamic Analysis (GDY) product will let you work in a dynamic response
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This User's guide is intended for draftsmen who need to generate drawings from 3D
parts and assembly definitions. Draftsmen will also learn how to apply dimensions,
annotations and dressup elements to the drawing.

CATIA Version 5 Generative Shape Design allows you to quickly model both simple
and complex shapes using wireframe and surface features. It provides a large set of
tools for creating and editing shape designs and, when combined with other products
such as CATIA.Part Design, it meets the requirements of solid-based hybrid modeling.
The feature-based approach offers a productive and intuitive design environment to
capture and re-use design methodologies and specifications.
This new application is intended for both the expert and the casual user. Its intuitive
interface offers the possibility to produce precision shape designs with very few
interactions. The dialog boxes are self explanatory and require practically no
methodology, all defining steps being commutative.
As a scalable product, CATIA.Generative Shape Design can be used with other CATIA
Version 5 products such as CATIA.Part Design and CATIA.FreeStyle Shaper and
Optimizer. The widest application portfolio in the industry is also accessible through
interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable support of the full product
development process from initial concept to product in operation.
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The product allows placing hangers within the outfitting detailed design portfolio. A full set of placement tools
allows users to place hangers for a diverse set of applications such as Piping Design, HVAC Design, Cableways,
and Waveguide Design.
In addition, capabilities are provided to quickly query design information, and generate appropriate reports.
These design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the user to create,
modify, and manage design processes in an efficient manner.
The product includes comprehensive and flexible setup functions that will provide a quick way of defining project
standards and catalogs that get the users into production quickly. This product comes with sample starter
hanger catalogs for Piping Design, HVAC Design, Waveguide Design and Cableway layout.
Together with other products, the Hanger Design product gives users the power to manage their systems for
ship or plant operations in a completely flexible way.

The Healing Assistant provides a set of tools for work on the geometry and topology of surfaces. Parts
that have not been created with CATIA V5 may not conform to CATIA V5 standards of validity and be in need of
repairs before being used.
The Healing Assistant helps you:
l analyze surfaces for problems (gaps in distance, tangency and curvature),
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as rapidly and as ergonomically as possible.
In the demanding global marketplace, ensuring that human fit, form, and
function are comprehensively addressed is becoming an increasingly important
aspect of design. Human Activity Analysis is based on a best-in-class human
modeling system, which for many years has permitted detailed investigation
into human-centered design issues in the context of a workplace before it
physically exists. Human Activities Analysis specifically focuses on how a
human will interact with objects in a working environment, as well as the
effects of lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying on task performance.
Human Activity Analysis evaluates all elements of human performance from
static posture analysis to complex task activities. Human Activity Analysis
possesses a range of tools and methods that specifically analyze how a
manikin will interact with objects in the virtual environment. The NIOSH
1981/1991 and Snook and Ciriello equations measure the effects of
lifting/lowering, pushing/pulling, and carrying to fully optimize task
performance. A designer can determine a number of task variables such as
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can amend all 103 anthropometric variables on the manikin or manipulate a
smaller number of "critical" variables and ask the Human Measurements Editor
to determine the rest. These variables can be altered manually by inputting
desired measurements in percentile value, unit measurement, or by an
intuitive "click and drag" graphical user interface.
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standard deviation of all anthropometry variables. Using a unique multinormal
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analyze all aspects of manikin posture. Whole body and localized postures can
be examined, scored, iterated, and optimized to determine operator comfort
and performance throughout the complete range of task motion in accordance
with published comfort databases.
User-friendly dialog boxes provide postural information for all segments of the
manikin. Color-coding techniques ensure that problem areas can be quickly
identified and iterated to optimize posture. Human Posture Analysis allows
users to create specific comfort and strength libraries to meet the needs of
individual applications.
The HVAC Design product provides customers with a complete set of tools to create, modify, analyze and
manage physical designs of HVAC systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The
tools are focused on creating an intelligent HVAC layout that captures the design intent.
Intelligent HVAC design allows users to create and validate their designs more productively and, in addition,
reuse the captured intelligence for downstream design processes.
The product supports the definition of HVAC configurations. This involves general layout tools for intelligent
placement of parts. Specifically, a full set of routing and parts placement methods are provided and the user
can choose the methodology that is right for a given situation. Specification driven design is available to ensure
compliance with the project standard. Function driven design is used to ensure that the design intent is
available for any modification scenario.
In addition, full capabilities are provided to quickly query design information, and generate appropriate report
information. These design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the user
to create, modify, and manage designs quickly.
The product includes comprehensive and flexible setup functions that will provide a rapid way to define project
standards and catalogs that get the users into production quickly. This product comes with a starter HVAC parts
catalog.
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analyze, and document their HVAC Diagrams designs.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability to create and manage logical designs of HVAC systems
using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tools are focused on creating an
intelligent diagram that captures all appropriate design information. With this intelligent diagram design, the
user is able to more productively create and validate designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be
reused for downstream design processes, which provides additional benefit to the customer's overall design
process.
General layout and design tools are provided to place, locate and manage equipment and HVAC lines. In
addition, capabilities are provided to quickly annotate diagrams with intelligent annotation,
query/analyze/validate design information, and to generate appropriate report information. All of these design
tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive user interface that allows the user to quickly create,
modify, and manage designs.
Together with other Version 5 products, the HVAC Diagrams product gives users the power to manage their
HVAC systems from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible way.

The Imagine & Shape product is a new-generation tool dedicated to the creation of shapes in a very
fast and easy way.
Using this product allows the user to concretize its imagination and get also the benefit of paintings
created using the Sketch Tracer product.
As a scalable product, Imagine & Shape can be used in cooperation with other products such as Part
Design, Generative Shape Design and FreeStyle. Therefore, the global process can be dramatically
reduced as there is no data interruption between styling and engineering.

This book is the CATIA Version 5 Infrastructure Users Guide. It contains information
about the user interface and basic tools common to all CATIA Version 5 applications:
starting a session
getting help
activating application workbenches
creating, opening and saving documents
laying out documents
selecting and manipulating objects
printing, viewing and navigating
rendering and lighting effects
using macros
using CATIA Version 5 data in OLE-compliant applications
customizing toolbars and settings
using the Knowledgeware Advisor
and provides information for CATIA administrators on topics such as hardware and
software prerequisites, network licensing, code distribution and environment
management.
CATIA - KNOWLEDGE ADVISOR is a CATIA product which allows users to embed knowledge within design
and leverage it to assist in engineering decisions, in order to reduce errors or automate design, for maximum
productivity.
Users can embed knowledge in design such as formulas, rules and checks and leverage it when required at any
time. Knowledge is then taken into account and acts according to its definition. Its meaning is also accessible:
For example a check intent can highlight the parameters involved in a verification, it is easy and immediate to
understand in what way a standard has been violated.
In short, Knowledge Advisor enables users to:
l Capture corporate engineering knowledge as embedded specifications allowing complete consistency.
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store them in a base. These rules and checks can then be used to monitor the actions of every designer in
the company. As geometry is created or changed, the system uses the rules and checks to ensure
compliance to corporate standards.
When a rule or check is violated, corrective actions can be recommended or automated using VBScript
macros, texts or linked to URL files.
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classified in rule sets that belong to a rule base. This structure allows different sets of rules and checks to
be set up for different design or manufacturing processes according to the user's needs.
l With KWE, corporate knowledge can be shared throughout the company in rule bases that can be applied
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integrated postprocessor execution engine. Shop floor documentation is automatically created in HTML
format.
Finally, associativity with Version 5 design products allows productive design change management.
Suitable for all kinds of cylindrical machined parts, Lathe Machining fits the needs of Fabrication & Assembly
industry, as well as all industries where lathe machining techniques are involved.
It can be used in shop-floors as a stand-alone product for CAM-centric customers, who will particularly
appreciate the product's ease-of-use and high level of manufacturing capabilities.
Lathe Machining can be combined with DELMIA products for overall manufacturing process integration,
simulation and optimization, particularly for bigger customers concerned by high quality and quick time-tomarket.

The Mold Tooling Design application helps you design a complete injection mold, from the mold
base to the components using user-defined and standard catalogs.
The Mold Tooling Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create a mold base and add
all the required mold components to it.
NC Manufacturing Solutions enable you to define and manage NC programs dedicated to machining parts
designed in 3D wireframe or solids geometry using 2.5 to 5-axis machining techniques.
It offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphic interface that makes it suitable for shop floor-oriented
use. Moreover, its leading edge technologies together with a tight integration with Version 5 design
methodologies and DELMIA's digital manufacturing environment, fully satisfy the requirements of office
programming. NC Manufacturing is a unique solution that reconciliates office and shop floor activities.
An integrated Post Processor engine allows the product to cover the whole manufacturing process from tool
trajectory (APT source or Clfile) to NC data.
NC Manufacturing Infrastructure offers the following main functions:
l Common platform for 2.5 to 5-axis axis machining capabilities, which include mill, drill and turn
operations
l Management of tools and tool catalogs
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environment with multiple design methodologies, such as post-design and local 3D
parameterization.
As a scalable product, CATIA Version 5 Part Design can be used in cooperation with
other current or future companion products in the next CATIA generation such as
CATIA Version 5 Assembly Design and CATIA Version 5 Generative Drafting. The
widest application portfolio in the industry is also accessible through interoperability
with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable support of the full product development
process from initial concept to product in operation.
The Part Design User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create a part.
There are several ways of creating a part and this book aims at illustrating thea several
The Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams product provides customers with complete set of tools to
stages of creation you may encounter.
create, modify, analyze, and document their Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) designs.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability to create and manage logical designs of piping
systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tools are focused on creating an
intelligent diagram that captures all appropriate design information. With this intelligent diagram design, the
user is able to more productively create and validate designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be
reused for downstream design processes, which provides additional benefit to the customer's overall design
process.
General layout and design tools are provided to place, locate and manage equipment, piping lines and I&C
loops. In addition, capabilities are provided to quickly annotate diagrams with intelligent annotation,
query/analyze/validate design information, and to generate appropriate report information. All of these design
tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive user interface that allows the user to quickly create,
modify, and manage designs.
Together with other products, the Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams product givesmodify,
users the power to
The Piping Design product provides customers with a complete set of tools to create, analyze and
manage their piping systems from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible way.
manage physical designs of piping systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices.
The tools are focused on creating an intelligent piping layout that captures the design intent.
Intelligent piping design allows users to create and validate their designs more productively and, in addition,
reuse the captured intelligence for downstream design processes.
The product supports the definition of piping configurations. This involves general layout tools for intelligent
placement of parts, and automatic placement of components such as bends, elbows, tees, and reducers. A full
set of routing and parts placement methods allows users to choose the one that is right for a given situation.
Specification driven design is available to ensure compliance with the project standard. Function driven design is
used to ensure that the design intent is available for any modification scenario.
In addition, full capabilities are provided to quickly query design information, and generate appropriate report
information. These design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the user
to create, modify, and manage designs quickly.
The product includes comprehensive and flexible setup functions that will provide a rapid way to define project
standards and catalogs that get the users into production quickly. This product comes with a starter piping parts
catalog based on the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
Together with other products, the Piping Design product gives users the power to manage their piping systems
from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible way.
The CATIA Version 5 Plant Layout product enables you to easily create a layout
design for a manufacturing plant or other type of plant. The main focus of the product
is to allow preliminary or conceptual design of a plant to be accomplished quickly. It
provides an efficient, cost-effective way to lay out an initial plant design for review and
validation. The initial plant design may then be expanded, evolved, and modified to
continue the plant design process. The entire process is accomplished through a
simple, highly intuitive interface, combining traditional 2D layout paradigms with full
CATIA 3D capabilities to allow you to build a 3D digital representation of the plant.
The Plant Layout product can be used with other digital plant design products, such as
CATIA Version 5 Systems Routing, to satisfy plant design requirements. These
products, together with the CATIA Version 5 product portfolio, provide you with the
complete ability to design and optimize your plant layout.
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programming. Prismatic Machining is a unique solution that reconciliates office and shop floor activities.
It is integrated to a Post Processor Access execution engine, allowing the product to cover the whole
manufacturing process from tool trajectory (APT source) to NC code.
This product is particularly adapted for tooling and simple machined parts, and is also an ideal complement
to other manufacturing applications.
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functionality is useful in case of large systems.
Visualization of the functional systems in a schematic-like viewer
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elements to produce a better 2D layout and allow easy reading a/o analysis of the system model.
Management of variants for the functional systems
To help the brainstorming on next generation systems and to start alternative studies, the user can keep the old
design as a basis.
Creation of links between functional systems and CATIA product items
The user can define several associations attached to a functional entity. An association is made of several links
to PPR (Process-Product-Resource) items of any kind: product, part, sketch, wireframe element in a sketch, etc.
This enables to regroup the links to PPR items attached to a functional entity according to a given design stage
(2D skeleton, rough design, preliminary design, detailed design, etc). Consequently, more flexibility and more
accuracy are given to the user, who can fully define functionally and physically a product in CATIA V5.
Management of scripts
The user can manage scripts from the functional view in order to generate 3D data. A functional entity can
contain different scripts adapted to different design stages. This enables to break up the different design stages
Interactive Creation of intelligent Product Knowledge Templates
The encapsulation of feature, part and assembly specifications of any level of complexity within Product
Knowledge Template allows the capture of the design methodology defined interactively in CATIA, as well
as the reuse across the extended enterprise. Templates can be extracted from existing features, part and
assembly designs or created specifically. They can contain not only geometry, but also any associated
parameters or relations, including embedded intelligence of design rules, design tables and checks, providing
the ability to encapsulate the specifications of sophisticated adaptive features.
Editing and maintaining the Product Knowledge Templates
The management of captured knowledge is easier thanks to the ability to edit and maintain templates in the
same interactive way as modifying any CATIA part design (no programming skills required). This allows the
templates to be adapted to the changing requirements of the organization, to accommodate improved
methodologies or customer requirements.
Storing of Product Knowledge Templates in CATIA Catalogs for re-use
Once defined Product Knowledge Templates can be stored in CATIA Catalogs to allow easy access and
management for reuse across the extended enterprise.
Using scripting templates for a powerful solution
CATIA Product Knowledge Templates provides a scripting language enabling full design specification and
generation. Using a simple and declarative language, the user can describe - in text format - geometric
specifications, transformation and positioning specifications (including assembly constraints), and knowledge
specifications.
Moreover, in order to make the creation of scripts still simple, powerful Knowledge Templates can be used as
any script objects.
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l Mechanical shapes (plane, cylinder, sphere, cone).
Thanks to Quick Surface Reconstruction tools that analyze curvature or iso-slope properties, users can easily
create polygon segmentations in pertinent surfaces area. Quick Surface Reconstruction includes its own quality
checking tools.
The Quick Surface Reconstruction user's guide has been designed to show you how to reconstruct surfaces
using these powerful tools. We recommend that you go through the "Getting Started" chapters first, to learn
moreRaceway
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analyze and manage physical designs of raceway and conduit systems using industry standard conventions,
terminology, and practices. While packaged as a single product the two disciplines, Raceway Design and Conduit
Design operate independently within their respective workbenches. The tools are focused on creating an
intelligent layout that captures the design intent.
Intelligent raceway and conduit design allows users to create and validate their designs more productively and,
in addition, reuse the captured intelligence for downstream design processes.
The product supports the definition of raceway and conduit configurations. This involves general layout tools for
intelligent routing, placement of parts, and automatic placement of components. A full set of routing and parts
placement methods allows users to choose the one that is right for a given situation. Specification driven design
is available to ensure compliance with the project standard. This product is integrated with the Electrical
Cableway Routing product, allowing the user the utility of analyzing a physical network of cables from one
electrical equipment to another.
In addition, full capabilities are provided to quickly query design information and generate the appropriate
report information. These design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the
user to create, modify, and manage designs quickly.
The product includes comprehensive and flexible setup functions that provide a precise method of defining
project standards and catalogs that get the users into production quickly. This product comes with a starter
raceway and conduit parts catalog based on the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
Together with other products, Raceway and Conduit Design provides users the power to manage their
systems
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quickly edited to add details and new features. Polygonal models can also be created by tessellating
existing surface models or generated from 3D curves. With its powerful and intuitive polygonal
modeling tools, new features and details can be added to the polygonal model.
Thanks to its ease of use, Shape Sculptor is the perfect tool to rapidly edit and sculpt polygonal
models and complements surface-based conceptual modeling tools when surfacing becomes too
complex.
Shape Sculptor can be used with other curve and surface-based modeling tools, including Generative
Shape Design, FreeStyle and Automotive Class A and also in cooperation with other polygonal
products including Digitized Shape Editor, STL Rapid Prototyping and Quick Surface Reconstruction.
The V5 CATIA - Sheet Metal Design is a new generation product offering an
intuitive and flexible user interface. It provides an associative feature-based
modeling making it possible to design sheet metal parts in concurrent engineering
between the unfolded or folded part representation.
As a scalable product, CATIA Version 5 Sheet Metal Design can be used in
cooperation with other current or future companion products in the next CATIA
generation such as CATIA Version 5 Assembly Design and CATIA Version 5
Generative Drafting. The widest application portfolio in the industry is also
accessible through interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable
support of the full product development process from initial concept to product in
Version 5 Ship Structure Detail Design provides a set of tools for structure designers who must
operation.
complete their functional design and carry out their detailed design.
The overall ship design project goes through a number of different phases from conceptual design
through functional and detail design to extraction of deliverables. This product addresses detail
design requirements for the shipbuilding industry. In particular, it lets you:
l Split your functional design into blocks
l Add secondary structures
l Capture functional connectivity and physically implement connections by means of piece parts
and joints
l Create design features such as endcuts, slots, cutouts, etc.
l Capture weld joint locations and efficiency
l Generate plates and shapes to initiate the manufacturing view.
Ship Structure Detail Design makes wide-scale use of knowledgeware capabilities to implement
connections and create design features. It includes tools that speed up the design process, such as
the ability to rapidly copy small repetitive assemblies or to quickly subdivide a large part into the
separate plates from which it would be fabricated as well as sample catalogs of slots, endcuts and
small assemblies.
All Ship Structure Detail Design commands share a consistent Windows graphical interface which
reduces training time and greatly increases ease of use.
As a scalable product, Ship Structure Detail Design can be used with other Version 5 products such
as Generative Shape Design,
for theGenerative Drafting and knowledgeware products.
This book is intended user who needs to become quickly familiar with CATIA
Sketcher Version 5 product. The user should be familiar with basic CATIA Version 5
concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars.
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the
step-by-step tutorial Getting Started. This tutorial will show you how to create a basic
profile using autodetection.
The next sections deal with various types of profiles and associated operations as well
as more details on constraints that can be applied to these profiles. You may also want
to take a look at the sections describing the Sketcher menus and toolbars at the end of
the guide.

STL Rapid Prototyping helps the stereolithography specialist to build and manage STL files.
The STL Rapid Prototyping User's Guide has been designed to show you how to do that. Although
stereolithography knowledge is not mandatory, it is recommended to have some technical background in the
area.
Version 5 Structure Design provides a set of tools for structure detailing and for designing
small structure assemblies. This product addresses the detail design requirements of various
industries. In particular it lets you:
l Create planar plates and curved plates.
l Create linear shapes, bent shapes and twisted shapes.
l Split and merge shapes and plates.
l Define cutbacks and trim shapes.
l Place features such as cutouts, slots, end cuts, holes, etc., all of which can be in a central
catalog.
l Create parametric assemblies such as brackets, collars, complex steel plates with numerous parts
made of plates and shapes, all of which are in a central catalog.
l Include complete section catalogs covering DIN, AISC, EN and OTUA standards.
Structure Design makes use of Knowledgeware capabilities to create design features and to automate
the generation of sketch-based profiles, pads and thick surfaces. It is the ideal tool for quickly
designing steel assemblies for the tooling, aerospace, shipbuilding and plant design industries.
All commands share a consistent Windows graphical interface which reduces training time and is easy
to use.
As a scalable product Structure Design can be used with other Version 5 products such as Generative
Shape Design, Generative Drafting and Knowledgeware products.
Version 5 Structure Functional Design allows you to enrich the conceptual design of structural
elements. It offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphic interface.
The overall ship design project goes through a number of different phases from conceptual design
through functional and detail design to extraction of deliverables. This product addresses functional
design requirements for the shipbuilding industry. It builds on conceptual design letting you refine
and strake the hull, add plate thicknesses to decks and major bulkheads, define longitudinal and
transverse stiffener systems. It also permits calculation of ship strength as well as early weight, labor
and material estimates.
As a scalable product, Structure Functional Design can be used with other Version 5 products such as
Generative Shape Design and Generative Drafting.

The CATIA Version 5 System Space Reservation product enables you to easily define a space reservation
network that can be done at a preliminary or detailed design stage for tubing or cable routing. The main focus
of the product is to allow defining of the space networks that can be used to route physical objects such as
cables or tubes. It allows early detection of space or other types of conflicts so that they do not emerge at
design time. The product allows you to segregate space networks, which means that there can be clearly
defined primary and backup systems/path rules.
System Space Reservation provides an efficient, cost-effective way to create space for tubing or cabling design,
and for review and validation. The initial design can be expanded, evolved, and modified to continue the design
process. The entire process is accomplished through a simple, highly intuitive interface, combining traditional
2D layout paradigms with full 3D capabilities to allow you to build a 3D digital representation of the design.
The product can be used with other digital plant design products, such as Version 5 Systems Routing and Plant
Layout, to satisfy plant design requirements. These products, together with the Version 5 product portfolio,
provide you with the complete ability to design and optimize your plant layout.
The System Space Reservation User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create the required space
for tubing
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for preliminary routing of production systems, but capabilities are also provided to
evolve the preliminary routing to the detailed production routing of the plant. All of this
is accomplished through a very simple and highly intuitive interface which combines
traditional 2D layout paradigms with the 3D capabilities to allow you to build a full 3D
digital representation of the production routing within a plant.
The Systems Routing product supports all routing disciplines, including conveyor,
ductwork, raceway, piping, and tubing. In conjunction with other digital plant design
related products, such as CATIA Version 5 Plant Layout, Systems Routing can be
used to provide complete plant layout capabilities. These products, together with the
complete CATIA Version 5 product portfolio, provide the complete ability to design and
optimize plant layout.
The Systems Routing User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create
production routing systems within a plant. Based on design factors and differing
industries and domains, different design approaches may be undertaken. This book
provides an overview of the product and illustrates specific design procedures to aid
your system routing efforts.
The Tubing Design product provides customers with a complete set of tools to create and manage logical
designs of tubing systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices.
The tools are focused on creating an intelligent tubing layout that captures all appropriate design information.
This intelligent tubing design capability allows the user to create and validate their designs more productively.
In addition, the captured intelligence can be reused for downstream design processes.
The product supports the definition of tubing configurations. This involves general layout tools to place and
locate tubing and the creation and management of complex tubing lines. A full set of routing and parts
placement methods allows users to choose the one that is right for a given context. Specification driven design
is available to ensure compliance with the project standard. Function driven design is used to ensure that the
design intent is available for any modification scenario. Integration with design rules allows automation of the
design process, and ensures that company standards are followed throughout the design process. In addition,
full capabilities are provided to quickly query design information, and generate appropriate report information.
All of these design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the user to
create, modify, and manage designs quickly.
Together with other products, the Tubing Design product gives users the power to manage their tubing
systems from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible way.
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This Diagrams product provides customers with a complete set of tools to create, modify, analyze, and
document their Tubing Diagrams (TUD) designs.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability to create and manage logical designs of tubing
systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tools are focused on creating an
intelligent diagram that captures all appropriate design information. With this intelligent diagram design, the
user is able to more productively create and validate designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be
reused for downstream design processes, which provides additional benefit to the customer's overall design
process.
General layout and design tools are provided to place, locate and manage equipment, components and tubing
lines. In addition, capabilities are provided to quickly annotate diagrams with intelligent annotation,
query/analyze/validate design information, and to generate appropriate report information. All of these design
tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive user interface that allows the user to quickly create,
modify, and manage designs.
Together with other products, the Tubing Diagrams product gives users the power to manage their tubing
systems from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible
The Waveguide Diagrams product provides customers with a complete set of tools to create, modify, analyze,
and document their Waveguide Diagrams (WGD) designs.
Specifically, this product provides you with the capability to create and manage logical designs of waveguide
systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tools are focused on creating an
intelligent diagram that captures all appropriate design information. With this intelligent diagram design, the
user is able to more productively create and validate designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be
reused for downstream design processes, which provides additional benefit to the customer's overall design
process.
General layout and design tools are provided to place, locate and manage equipment, components and
waveguide lines. In addition, capabilities are provided to quickly annotate diagrams with intelligent annotation,
query/analyze/validate design information, and to generate appropriate report information. All of these design
tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive user interface that allows the user to quickly create,
modify, and manage designs.
Together with other products, the Waveguide Diagrams product gives users the power to manage their
waveguide systems from initial design to ship or plant operations, in a completely flexible way.

Weld Design allows you to model welds in assemblies. The application offers a highly productive and
intuitive design environment providing different tools to fulfill your weld fabrication needs. Weld Design can
be used in cooperation with other products such as Generative Drafting.
CATIA Version 5 Wireframe and Surface allows you to create wireframe construction
elements during preliminary design and enrich existing 3D mechanical part design with
wireframe and basic surface features. As a complement to CATIA Part Design, this
product meets the requirements of solids-based hybrid modeling.
The features-based approach offers a productive and intuitive design environment to
capture and re-use design methodologies and specifications.
As a scalable product, CATIA Version 5 Wireframe and Surface can be used in
cooperation with companion products such as CATIA Part Design, CATIA Assembly
Design and CATIA Generative Drafting. The widest application portfolio in the industry
is also accessible through interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable
support of the full product development process from initial concept to product in
operation.
The CATIA Wireframe and Surface User's Guide has been designed to show you how
to create and edit wireframe and surface features as well as hybrid parts. There are
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Intelligent waveguide design allows users to create and validate their designs more productively and, in
addition, reuse the captured intelligence for downstream design processes.
The product supports the definition of waveguide configurations. This involves general layout tools for intelligent
routing, placement of parts, and automatic placement of components. A full set of routing and parts placement
methods allows users to choose the one that is right for a given situation. Specification driven design is
available to ensure compliance with the project standard. Function driven design is used to ensure that the
design intent is available for any modification scenario.
In addition, full capabilities are provided to quickly query design information and generate the appropriate
report information. These design tools are provided via a highly intuitive and productive interface that allows the
user to create, modify, and manage designs quickly.
The product includes comprehensive and flexible setup functions that provide a precise method of defining
project standards and catalogs that get the users into production quickly. This product comes with a starter
waveguide parts catalog based on the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
Together with other products, Waveguide Design gives users the power to manage their waveguide systems
from initial design to ship or plant operations in a completely flexible way.
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