CATIA for Shape Design

From eletronics to automotive and consumer packaged goods, design plays an important part in determining product success in the market. How do you deliver aesthetically pleasing and functionally superior products? CATIA covers all product shape design needs from industrial design to Class A, enhancing designer abilities to produce any kind of complex shapes.

Best-in-Class Unified Surface Modeling, Reverse Engineering & Visualization Solution

Shape design talks directly to people’s heart. Successful products in the market are usually those with designs that elicit positive emotional response from their consumers. Creative designers must be equipped with software tools that enable them to easily craft and adjust the product's emotional content through their designs, all while collaborating with the engineering department to ensure proper coverage of product functional scope.

 

 

CATIA Shape products and solutions covers the entire shape design, styling or surfacing workflow from industrial design to Class A. Our intuitive and easy to use shape design tools give everyone involved in the product design process, from industrial designers, Class A modelers to Aero Lofting engineers, a real freedom to design any kind of complex shapes. Advanced functionalities include reverse engineering, Class-A surfacing, rapid propagation of design changes, powerful real-time diagnostic tools and high-end visualization. CATIA enables shape designers or design studios and engineering departments to work collaboratively in optimizing the product design for aesthetic and engineering purposes.

 

CATIA facilitates the following shape design processes:

Industrial Design

CATIA is at the service of industrial designers and their creativity. Whether starting the 3D ideation from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unrivaled freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual phase. Discover our CATIA for Creative Designers offer.

Surface Refinement (Class A & Lofting)

CATIA fully addresses the Automotive Class-A process with a solution for surface refinement that integrates industry leading ICEM surfacing technologies. By combining the V6 technology strengths, which include knowledge capture-and-reuse paradigm, it delivers a powerful and intuitive suite of tools for modeling, analyzing and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes for the highest Class-A surface quality. For more info, see ICEM Surf and Vehicle Design solution

Body in White & Mechanical Surface Design

CATIA provides advanced technologies for mechanical surfacing, based on a powerful specification-driven modeling approach. This solution brings high-end quality surface modeling for detailed designers and promotes efficient concurrent engineering between styling and engineering worlds in order to optimize the product design workflow.

Composites Design

Spanning from preliminary to engineering detailed design and manufacturing preparation, CATIA provides unique capabilities for designers of composites structures to work in dedicated design in-context environments. Designers can integrate structural, assembly, and manufacturing requirements early in the composites design process and thereby anticipate and avoid problems. For more info, visit the Composites Engineering and Manufacturing solution.

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