CATIA for Creative Designersfrom art to part

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CATIA for Creative Designers Further in detailed design:You are in the driving seat to push your concept forward, taking advantage of CATIA best-in-class hybrid modeling up to Class-A surfaces to reach new summits. Detail your product in assembly context, with immediate access to movement simulations. Any new feature required by the marketing department? Perform the expected modifications on key components, and update impacted oneson-demand. Create production drawing as you go,with 3D design associativity when relevant.

From ideation to concept:Start your 3D ideation from scratch as well as from 2D sketches. Combine the virtual clay modeling approach of Imagine & Shape with free-form and parameter-controlled surfaces. Produce exact surfaces and solids outputs, for sharp and efficient communication within and throughout your project team, ensuring design intent is understood by all project actors.

Experience your design live: From concepts to production go, place your products in lifelike conditions before they physically exist. Real time visualization and realistic renderings support design validation and empower your communication. Early simulations such as kinematics, stress, thermal, or vibration analysis lead you to unexplored innovative options. Build new product experiences and ensure customer satisfaction by preparing user manuals and maintenance guides in advance.

Share and collaborate:3D becomes a common language both within and outside of your company. Establish your project-focused collaboration platform for all involved actors with a single and safe place to store product definition. Design, engineering and manufacturing data is accessible from anywhere, anytime and is always up-to-date! Your Company know-how is capitalized for re-use where relevant, in an optimized manner.And finally, 3D design can be shared beyond the design community using 3DXML format, by email!

HAVE MORE IDEAS COMING TO LIFE IN 3D !

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Pierre Maheut,Creative Designerat Dassault Systmes

With CATIA Natural Sketch, I can sketch my ideas directly in 3D ! I am impressed by the power of 3D sketches as a communication tool. You keep the emotion of the sketch and the efficiency of the 3D. It is a new and Lifelike Creative Experience !

Charles Pasquier,Transportation Designerat Dassault SystmesDesign Studio

My main focus is auto design, but I sometimes need to escape to crazier worlds. Toys are more and more present in consumer products. For this docking station, I wanted something friendly and fun. I am usually not a 3D guy, and the virtual clay modeling approach of CATIA Imagine & Shape helped me to go straight to the point and try many wild options. To tell you the truth I have been through a whole bunch of pets before converging on this rabbit!

CATIA Natural Sketch - CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer CATIA Natural Sketch, the new 3D Sketching technology is a paradigm shift in creative ideation. It gives designers the ability to express and communicate their creativity, to transform their 2D idea into a 3D reality and to explore detail design variations by sketching directly on 3D objects. With CATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer you can leverage 2D design artwork, integrating it within CATIA 3D environment. Select your sketch, position it in the background, scale it to your needs, and start with CATIA 3D creative modeling!

CATIA Imagine & ShapeConvey more emotions with a new vehicle that reaches unexplored territories. Way beyond traditional surface modeling, CATIA Imagine & Shape introduces a virtual clay paradigm to support rapid exploration in creative concept design. Its accurate surface definition represents one more competitive advantage, since all project actors can re-use it directly. Whatever your domain or product complexity, whatever your modeling skill level, from beginner to 3D expert, its intuitive user interface provides immediate access to professional results.

CATIA Live ShapeNew ideas popping-up? Start a 3D brainstorming session with CATIA Live Shape to explore them further! An amazing direct solid modeling approach makes you feel comfortable and productive in no time. Push and pull on faces, drag and drop features in a natural way. Need to start from a part generated in another 3D CAD package? Just start from this part as if it had been built in CATIA from the beginning. Immediate ease of use, for immediate benefits.

CATIA Live Compose Your concept parts and standard components are virtually laying on the table, right in front of you, ready for an interactive test and try session. Select the ones you want, cut, copy, paste, group and ungroup, making it simple and quick to structure new assemblies and combine them with existing ones, directly in 3D. Try more options intuitively, in no time!

FURTHER IN DETAILED DESIGN

CATIA Functional 3D Modeling Experience a history-free approach in solid modeling! Reach unmatched productivity and flexibility to design cast, molded and forged parts. Set-up the complete functional specification both for your parts and their associated tooling, and you are done. Feature creation order no longer has any impact on part structure, so that you can concentrate on key functional objectives.

CATIA Part Design A unique Smart Solid design engine combines feature-based design with a boolean approach for more flexibility. Whatever your preferred design methodology, its offers a highly productive and intuitive mechanical design platform. Any CATIA applications such as Assembly Design or Generative Drafting take advantage of CATIA Part Design data as you move forward with your project.

CATIA Assembly DesignDesign in assembly context and manage your assemblies in a collaborative spirit. Start from your product structure (top-down), or assemble individual components (bottom-up). Dynamically drag parts into position, reorder them, place assembly constraints, check collisions and clearances. Stay focused on design and innovation by accessing your standard components through catalogs. Key outputs such as exploded views and bill-of-materials are generated automatically. CATIA Generative DraftingGenerate associative drawings from your CATIA 3D design in a single-click operation, no matter what its made of (surfaces, solids, hybrid parts, assemblies, etc.). Generate 3D dimensions automatically with placement control. Add your annotations and dress-up features when needed. Drawings associativity with 3D design provides additional flexibility for concurrent design and drawing production.

CATIA FreestyleA powerful and easy to use set of surface-based applications helps you define all kinds of shapes to build-up your product lines. Create, combine, smooth, trim curves and surfaces. Check their quality on the fly, with real time extensive and advanced diagnostic tools.

CATIA Generative Shape Design Assemble multiple wireframe and surface features altogether to design simple to complex hybrid parts. An extensive set of tools supports the highest quality standards. Set-up associativity on-demand for easy and efficient design change propagation. Concentrate on high value-added tasks using advanced knowledge-based capabilities like powercopy to capture and re-use frequently used elements.

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Sebastien Rosel,Design Manager at Dassault Systmes Design Studio

This new 3D scanner project was a great opportunity for a holistic design approach. From the early stage, the user experience was set as a top priority. Iterations started with the Noomeo engineering team to address technical constraints, with manufacturability in mind. With CATIA as our common 3D language, I have to say that design convergence went pretty straightforward. Several key ideas were implemented very late. For example, we had to add an unexpected inner rubber padding to protect internal components. Despite the impact on the external body and the coherent style change we had to apply, we managed to stick to the initial schedule. Will you believe me if I tell you that the detailed proposal was finalized in just 4 weeks?

PERFECTION IN SURFACE QUALITY

EXCELLENCE IN SMART DESIGN

CATIA Icem Shape DesignClass-A surfacing often takes place within an isolated explicit modeling environment. Shape refinement requires multiple iterations, with related design updates and time consuming data exchange with mainstream PLM CAD systems. CATIA Icem Shape Design provides a new level of integrated products to create, analyze and edit aesthetic and ergonomic shapes up to the highest Class-A surface quality. The more demanding your industry is, the better productivity gains you will experience. The hybrid world of both explicit, direct surface modeling techniques and associative feature-based methodology becomes yours, for an even more streamlined product development process.

CATIA Reverse EngineeringImport digitized data,perform clean up, tessellation, cross sections, character line, shape and quality checking with real time diagnosis. Choose your preferred strategy for surface reconstruction, and manage your inspection process, comparing clouds of points with design models.Discover a new milestone in restyling, leveraging the CATIA unified modeling environment: you can now generate subdivision surfaces from clouds of points, and develop new style options with CATIA Imagine & Shape. Give it a try!

CATIA Knowledge Expert Capture and re-use company practices and standards to take advantage of them when and where relevant, ensuring design compliance with established standards. This rule base automates knowledge re-use processes such as department or company best practices, and design compliance to company quality standards. The report outputs identify standards violations and help to implement necessary corrections.

CATIA Product Knowledge Templates Create your own CATIA smart features, parts and assemblies templates, instantiate them in a fully adaptive way, and perform associative modifications in context. Access to resulting instances and templates references is streamlined by the CATIA Catalog infrastructure.Other groups within your company can re-use such encapsulated knowledge, with full control of the intellectual property, securing critical know-how when needed. Whatever your industry, CATIA - Product Knowledge Template adds value to your design, improves your design process efficiency, and federates your best practices sharing.

How about integrating key concerns such as energy efficiency, emissions, and product recycling specifications from the early stages of the product development process?Environmental protection is one of our shared objectives. CATIA federates your corporate assets, enabling all project actors to capitalize and re-use company practices for sustainable innovation, all the way from the first project ideas to product recycling.

3D AS A UNIVERSAL COLLABORATION LANGUAGE

A Global Collaborative Innovation Platform Collaborative innovation is about managing intellectual property lifecycle and harnessing the extended enterprise collective intelligence. ENOVIA V6 provides you with an open, online collaborative environment involving creators, collaborators, and consumers, on a single IP management platform, for all product lifecycle activities. It federates your product-related data and knowledge, no matter where they reside.Ground-breaking collaboration tools enable 3D brainstorming within the extended product design and development community, to reach a new level of innovation.Broaden CATIA usage to additional team members and to casual contributors within your design and engineering departments, and beyond.

3D LiveProvide global teams with a shared 3D workspace for all product-related data. Product details are easier to understand for all project collaborators. Because issues are easier to detect, they can be solved earlier in the lifecycle, improving time to market and reducing costs. Leverage intellectual property from all contributors for faster innovation, higher quality, and regulatory compliance. Productivity soars as geographic and organizational boundaries disappear, with stakeholders sharing data via a single, secure, and interactive 3D environment.

3DXML format The 3D XML format is the most efficient solution to share CATIA 3D data within and beyond the CATIA users community. Generate 3D XML files anytime from CATIA 3D models, and share them via email or via MS office documents. To experience easy viewing, rotation, zooming and manipulation, just download the 3DVIA player from the DS 3DVIA website and install it on your PC. Easy multi-purpose 3D data sharing and reuse stretches way beyond PLM applications.

CATIA DistillerOptimize your CATIA 3D models for virtual reality experiences with 3DVIA solutions. Re-organize data, adjust tessellation, and suppress invisible areas. Store distilled 3DXML models in the V6 database, for future re-use and sharing with your online communities.

CATIA Iges & Step InterfaceCATIA IGES & STEP Interfaces help designers working in a heterogeneous design system environment to exchange data in a neutral format. Reliable bi-directional 2D and 3D data exchange can be performed between the different systems with direct and automated file access. CATIA offers a homogeneous user interface for all supported formats.

CATIA STL Rapid Prototyping Quickly and accurately create STL files from CATIA concepts and products. Import existing STL files, display the mesh for quality check, and improve the mesh quality with advanced tools. Thin offsets can be generated to obtain watertight solids. Your parts meshes can be exported as standard binary STL files for rapid prototyping machines.

LIFELIKE EXPERIENCE AS PARTOF YOUR DESIGN

CATIA Live Rendering for Interactive Raytracing & Global Illumination Live an interactive photorealistic visual experience of your product with CATIA Live Rendering leveraging the Nvidia iRay interactive global illumination and raytracing rendering engine. Using HDR Image based lighting and advanced material libraries, combined with a simple and easy to use user interface, CATIA Live Rendering brings high-end rendering accessible, interactive and totally integrated in your design modeling environment. This new interactive photorealistic visual experience allows you to run interactive design reviews and also to produce imagery for product documentation as well as sales and marketing supports.

CATIA Real Time Rendering Develop your concepts and products in the dynamic context of real time realistic rendering. Create your textures from scratch, from imported digital images, or select them in the CATIA library. Apply materials through a specification-driven approach or through simple selection. Improved reflections, ground and object-to-object shadows simplify volume and proportion understanding, for more efficient real-time design reviews and decision making sessions.

CATIA Photo Studio Generate top quality photo-realistic images from your digital products, taking advantage of Mental Ray ray-tracing engine. Image realism benefits from global illumination, caustic effects, realistic soft shadows, accurate light reflections and refractions, providing added value for design validation sessions. CATIA Photo Studio leverages your concepts and products both for internal communications (decision making) and external ones (customer presentations, media and press communications, and websites).

Live Human SolutionsAs product usability influence grows in purchase decisions, the user-centered approach gets closer to the core of the design process. Take advantage of ergonomics and human factors guidelines and standards compliance from early concept stages: analyze reach, space, vision, posture, safety, comfort and fatigue, to detect issues within your familiar 3D environment and solve them before their impact becomes critical. Beyond function and behavior, the virtual manikin gets closer to the lifelike representation you are looking for.

3D VIA Composer Create interactive product documentation, animation, technical illustrations and more! By reusing your 3D design data and bills-of-material information, 3DVIA Composer revolutionizes the product documentation process, and effectively automates your document-based processes such as: assembly instructions, customer service procedures, installation documents, field service repair manuals, user manuals and training, and marketing materials.

3D VIA Virtools Develop exceptional interactive, real-time applications!3DVIA Virtools is a complete development and deployment platform with an innovative approach to interactive 3D content creation. Its production process provides robust prototyping and development for immersive or online lifelike experience delivery. Breaking away from traditional environments, 3DVIA Virtools helps to meet your production requirements on schedule, with reduced production costs and minimized risks. 3DVIA Virtools addresses a wide range of needs, such as design reviews, shopping experiences, simulation-based training, advergaming, sales configurators and more.

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Jean Hong,Product Designer at Dassault Systmes Design Studio

During my design exploration for new headphones, I found quite common shapes. I wanted something different, more like an artists sculpture. I did my best to express elegance and technology with a clear high-tech spirit. 3D modeling solutions sometimes limit designers creativity but believe me, this is not the case with CATIA! I developed my first ideas directly in 3D, combining shapes and technical inputs altogether in an innovative assembly architecture. What do you think about the gray anodized aluminum I chose to finish the main covers? Can you feel its qualitative and pleasing touch in this rendering image?

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CATIA ICEM SHAPE DESIGNPERFECTION IN VIRTUAL SURFACE DESIGN

Driving the design revolution Key Benefits The only highest quality Class A surface modeling solution fully integrated within CATIA Unique Parallel Commands:

simultaneous surface creation and modification

Optimized workflow, for optimized efficiencyThe product design process is changing,

it has to. Product replacement cycles are

shortening, product platforms have to

be designed to satisfy market demand

for numerous niche variants, and design

precision is paramount.

Nowhere are these trends more evident

than in the automotive industry. Models

are being replaced increasingly quickly

and are often face lifted several times

even within a shortened product

lifecycle. Platform-sharing within and

between manufacturers is the norm.

At the same time, automotive design has

become significantly more complex.

The industry has experienced

revolutionary advances in technology

and radical changes in customer expecta-

tions in terms of both form and quality.

All of which means surfaces must

be pristine.

These pressures are combining to make

the design process even more intensive.

Designers need to understand how al-

terations impact the rest of the design

as quickly as possible. Engineers must

incorporate changes more rapidly than ever

before. Feasibility analysis has to be incor-

porated into the development of the initial

concept and the creation of clay models

and physical prototypes is being pushed

back to the later stages of the development

process due to time and cost constraints.

All of which significantly increases the

importance of the virtual software-based

design environment,especially when it

comes to surface design.

The best Class A surface design tools act

as a key interface between the design

department and the engineering team

that will actually build the car.

Developed in close collaboration with

Class A surfacing professionals to take

into account increasingly higher

expectations from their own customers,

CATIA ICEM comprehensive suite of

software solutions is used by a large

number of leading car manufacturers and

suppliers for the modeling of Class A

surfaces, making it a clear leader

in this field.

Leading products must be responsive to

customer needs, market developments,

and other agents of change, in order

to remain successful. The best products

can even shape the direction of that

change. CATIA ICEM therefore contin-

ues to drive and support the increasing

virtualization of the design process by

delivering advanced new evolutions on a

regular basis.

CATIA ICEM enables mechanical

designers, shape designers, and stylists

to create, validate, and modify surfaces

of any type, particularly those which are

visible and tangible such as exterior and

interior trim. The trend to style surfaces

that customers cannot always see

directly is also increasing.

Car manufacturers that use and build

advanced technology solutions already

apply Class A modeling to partially

hidden surfaces such as door shut faces

or engine covers.

The CATIA ICEM solution suite is unique

in the market. No other surface design

solution allows design professionals to

create stunning surfaces of all types,

and accurately measure and see the

impact of individual changes to other

parts of the design. No other surface

design solution fits better within the

all-encompassing product development

environment.

Because Class A surfaces cannot be

developed properly in isolation, the

integration with the virtual design

environment is crucial to maximize the

efficiency and effectiveness of the

entire product development process.

The greater the emphasis

manufacturers put on the development

of Class A surfaces, the closer design

and engineering teams have to work

together, making that integration still

more important. Without it,

the resultant gaps in the development

process chain lead to engineering

headaches and expensive redesigns.

CATIA ICEM was the first Class A

surface modeling tool to be fully

integrated into CATIA virtual design

environment, setting a new standard

for Class A modeling. Users can now

work towards the surface quality

required for their end products

throughout the entire development

process within a single system, and

without converting or losing data.

Using a single common data format for

designs, from end to end as opposed

to different formats from standalone,

incompatible systems results in

improved workflow efficiency, as well as

significant time and cost savings.

In addition, data models created in

CATIA ICEM can be used in CATIA. Ulti-

mately, this means greater freedom and

flexibility for design professionals and

a faster, more efficient, and more cost-

effective complete development process.

This integration covers the entire

development process chain, allowing

software-based development to

minimize the reliance on clay models,

sheer lathes, and standalone renderers

in the early development phases.

Data can be shared with other

applications for everything from crash

analysis and tooling to product

documentation.

The progressive replacement of physical

models, prototypes and materials with

virtual equivalents offering the same

level of accuracy allows faster, less

expensive product feasibility testing.

One of the most powerful of CATIA

ICEMs many capabilities is perhaps its

real time diagnosis feature.

If the geometry of a surface changes

while working with CATIA ICEM,

the impact of the change is directly

visible via advanced diagnosis

capabilities. The surface modeler

receives real time notification about the

quality and the visual appearance of the

surface enabling him to make a judg-

ment on the validity of the outcome in

terms of surface quality and aesthetics.

Now you see it

Key Benefits

One single solution for the whole product development process, from design to manufacturing

Integrated associative product development environment

Real-time diagnosis, securing surfaces high-end quality Hybrid modeling environment with both explicit and

feature-based approaches

Efficient easy-to-use tools and commands

CATIA ICEM Shape Design CenterICEM Shape Design Center is thefoundation of the ICEM Shape Designproduct portfolio. It offers advanced surfaceand curve functionality to create, modify, and analyze aesthetic and ergonomicshapes to the highest quality.Based on traditional explicit surface-modeling techniques, it introduces a strong associative and feature-based modelingmethodology to dramatically improve the productivity within the Class A process. It also delivers new levels of integration in the overall product development lifecycle.

CATIA ICEM Shape Design ExpertICEM Shape Design Expert offers an extended tool set that complements ICEM Shape Design Center. This add-on module enables the creation and modeling ofaesthetic and ergonomic shapes usingadvanced global surface-modeling and shape-modeling capabilities. It alsoprovides specialised Class A and dedicatedindustry-specific functionalities such as advanced filleting, tri-tangent filleting, gap creation, and accelerated surfaces.

CATIA Freestyle Sketch TracerCATIA Freestyle Sketch Tracer is an add-on module that enables the integration ofdesigners work into a 3D format for creating 3D virtual mock-ups. An intuitive toolbox helps the user to create 3D data from 2D sketches.

CATIA Digitized Shape EditorCATIA Digitized Shape Editor is an add-on module that addresses the import, filtering, trimming, tessellation, and character linedefinition of digitized data from 3Dscanners and coordinatemeasuringmachines.

CATIA Quick Surface ReconstructionCATIA Quick Surface reconstruction is an add-on module that simply and rapidly reconstructs surfaces from digitized dataand offers several approaches to generating these surfaces, depending on the type of shape required.

CATIA Digital Shape SculptorCATIA Digital Shape Sculptor is an add-on module that provides modeling tools to quickly create, edit, or enhance a shapefrom a concept or an existing physical model. This approach to creating aesthetic

forms allows non-CAD specialists tomanipulate and test 3D virtual polygon models. CATIA Digital Shape Sculptor enhances the collaboration between design and engineering offices through aneasy-to-use sculpting technique.

CATIA Real Time RenderingCATIA Real Time Rendering is an add-on module that enables designers tointeractively create realistic and dynamic renderings and animations in real time, taking advantage of all available hardware features. By providing the dynamic display of your mock-up, CATIA Real Time Render-ing allows efficient design evaluation and validation at any time

CATIA Photo StudioCATIA Photo Studio is an add-on module that generates high quality photo-realistic images and movies of digital mock-ups, by using a powerful ray-tracing engine.CATIA Photo Studio manages reusable scene settings and delivers powerfulanimation capabilities. By giving aphysically realistic simulation of the model appearance, it can be used for final design validation.

The ultimate surface-modeling platform

Every iteration of CATIA ICEM addresses a wide range of enhancements specifically requested by professional developers and designers. Many of these new features improve the integration between concept creation, Class A surface-modeling and CAD modeling.

The geometry has also been made even more associative. For example, whereas surfaces may previously have had to have their parameters changed after construction, feature modeling enables surfaces to be defined as features. This allows changes to be made to the surface while retaining the original properties of other design features. Class A surface-modeling capabilities have been further improved through the enhancement of the fill function, as well as the arching of surfaces. Meanwhile, commands have also been made more efficient and easy-to-use for the selection, manipulation, and modification of surface elements.

Users of ICEM Surf can also take advantage of the new bidirectional interface with CATIA ICEM for a smooth migration of their ICEM Surf product designs to the integrated associative product development environment of CATIA ICEM.

CATIA ICEM consists of multiple modules, each addressing a different aspect of the productdevelopment process.

The suite can be supplied in different configurations according to your own specificrequirements.

CATIA ICEM AEROEXPERTPERFECTION

IN AERONAUTICAL SURFACE DESIGN

Making aerospace design fly

Key Benefits

Fully integrated into CATIA virtual design environment Streamlined end-to-end aerospace design Comprehensive solution to design complex aeronautical

surfaces quickly and accurately Improved collaborative working and productivity,

accelerating the design process

Beyond form and function, good design can change the way people feel about the object or space in question. Where is this more evident than in the design of modern aircraft? Today, passengers expect a pleas-ant, comfortable and stylish expe-rience when flying. And the tone is set as soon as they enter the cabin. Soft curves and smooth surfaces on everything from seats to overhead luggage lockers can help create the kind of soothing and attractive environment they are looking for.

Of course, exterior surfaces are also crucial in aeronautical design.For example, slight deviations coulddisrupt the aerodynamics of a wing or nose cone sufficiently to affect the operating efficiency of the aircraft. In the past, these kinds of imperfections in interior and exterior surfaces have been unavoidable, as designers have

been forced to choose between quality and accuracy when creat-ing them. However, these limita-tions are no longer acceptable in the modern aerospace industry. In other words, the ability to ad-dress surface quality and accuracy simultaneously is vital when creat-ing optimal surfaces in aeronau-tical design that really deliver on customer and aircraft owner requirements.

The demands of todays competi-tive aerospace market also present designers with a wide range of other challenges. Product replace-ment cycles are shortening, and design precision is increasingly critical. Together, these pressures are making the entire design process more intensive than ever. In the aerospace field in particular, designers need to create complex aeronautical surfaces as quickly and as accurately as possible

according to stringent industry specifications. Engineers must incorporate changes more rapidly. And feasibility analysis has to be incorporated into the development of the initial concept.All of these issues significantly increase the importance of the virtual soft-ware-based design environment. In the aerospace industry, there is a clear leader in this field: CATIA ICEM AeroExpert.

CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is a com-prehensive and intuitive software solution that enables aeronautical designers to create, validate, and modify complex surfaces, particu-larly those that must adhere to critical aerodynamic specifications.

Uniquely, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert allows surface designers to control the quality and accuracy of sur-faces simultaneously wherever they are located on an aircraft.

For example, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert enables control over how surfaces connect together across the outside of an aircraft. Because the smoothness of these external surfaces can influence how the air flows over them, the ability to define them as precisely as possible helps designers optimize surface aerodynamics. Thus, flying speed and fuel efficiency are also optimized.

Inside the aircraft, aesthetics matter more. The same control over surface connections allows designers to create beautiful free-form surface shapes that capture and reflect the design intent of the interior style concept. They also facilitate the creation of surfaces that are smooth and complex yet still accurate. The result is a con-sistent design with a high quality look and feel.

AeroExpert is the first surface- modeling tool created specifically for the aeronautical design, and fully integrated into the CATIA virtual design environment.

A single common data formatis used that covers the entiredevelopment process chain,maximizing its efficiency andeffectiveness. This saves significant amounts of time and money when compared with converting product data into different formats for use in standalone or incompatiblesystems. In addition, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert embraces and facilitates collaborative working, saving even more time and money with mini-mized expensive redesigns as the aircraft evolves.

When it comes to specific features, the latest version of CATIA ICEM AeroExpert improves the quality and accuracy of complex lofted sur-faces derived from curves designed from mathematical programs.

These are traditionally used to for example, specify the aerodynamic shape of a wing profile.Specifically, the most recent release features improvements that address three of the most important aspects of surface design: surface creation, curve creation, and surface modifi-cation. Modification of both surfac-es and curves is equally important as designs are iterated. CATIA ICEM AeroExpert allows designersto work in a hybrid modeling environment of both explicit- and feature-based geometry.

Users have the freedom tointeractively edit and manipulate explicit geometry though advanced and comprehensive modification tools.

Alternatively, they can choose to work with features that allow them to interactively adjust the param-eters of a result such as a rounding fillet radius value, keeping the asso-ciativity with the features parents.

This approach maintains design integrity and minimizes any necessary redesign of adjacent geometry in order to accommodate the design change.In turn, this improves productivity and accelerates the designprocess during modification.

Total integration,from design to construction

Key Benefits

One single data format for a streamlined process flow Hybrid modeling environment with both explicit

and feature-based approaches

Support of manufacturing processes with Single Cell data output

Real-time diagnosis, securing surfaces high-end quality Easier imported data optimization, with advanced

surface smoothing and data reduction

Perhaps the most powerful aspect of the CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is its diag-nostic capabilities. Designers can see the effect of a surface change on the rest of the design in real time.

This allows them to make a fast and accurate judgement on the validity of the outcome in terms of surface quality. The result is greater freedom and flexibility for design professionals, and a faster, more efficient and more cost-effective development process.

Yet the benefits of using CATIA ICEM AeroExpert dont stop there. They also extend into the aerospace manufactur-ing process. The ability to smooth out surfaces created from imported data is critical. Their complexity can also be refined to help improve system performance and, crucially, their

accuracy can be maintained during the entire process no reconstruction is required.

When it comes to the mathematics behind Class A surface development, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert reduces their complexity, enabling the creation of cleaner, smoother surfaces. The ben-efits of simplified mathematics also apply to the curve creation process, allowing designers to develop high quality curves that are reflected in the pristine surfaces to which they belong.

In addition, when creating new sur-faces, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert provides what is termed Single Cell output. Its this kind of output that is required to support curve creation and the composite material construction used in modern aircraft manufacture.

At the same time, ease of use has been improved with a number of new com-mands that simplify the completion of various design tasks. The result is in-creased productivity and an accelerated design process that can, for example, help deliver a faster time to market for new aircraft.

The ultimate benefit of all these fea-tures is clear. Aircraft development and manufacturing processes using data produced in CATIA ICEM AeroExpert become simpler, faster and more cost-effective, as well as easier to manage. Put simply, CATIA ICEM AeroExpert is the essential surface design tool for todays aeronautical design professionals.

Accelerating design evolution