ENOVIA^® Version 6 Release 2012x

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Release Highlights

Accelerate Adoption and Transition to V6

V6R2012x continues to improve collaborative innovation in heterogeneous environments. Designers can create in real time a single virtual product in V6 made of CATIA V6, CATIA V5, SolidWorks and, new with this release, PTC Pro/Engineer and Siemens NX data. This streamlines the end-to-end design process, enabling users to identify errors earlier and reduce associated costs. Designers using ENOVIA V6 to manage their SolidWorks data benefit from tighter data management integration, making the overall user experience simpler and more productive. These highlights, in conjunction with the xPDM framework announced in June with V6R2012, reinforce the openness of the V6 platform in support of end-to-end design and collaborative business processes.

V6R2012x is increasingly being adopted across a broader range of user communities by simplifying the user experience with the latest user interface and Internet technologies and expanded scope of language support with the introduction of Chinese.

A smooth and robust migration path from pre-existing DS solutions to V6 is critical for our customers and is supported by our co-existence and migration strategy, which was established at the onset of V6. In V6R2012x, we continue to advance this strategy by delivering the ability to deploy DMU V6 as a supplemental solution to an existing V4/V5 design process, improved design collaboration with 2D drawings in VPM V4 and VPM V5, better support of multi-represented parts in V5-V6 design collaborations or V5-V6 supply chain scenarios, advanced support of relational design, and improved deployment and administration with better reporting.

Reach New Users, Industries and Extend Scenarios’ Scope

V6R2102x continues to deliver best-in-class configuration management capabilities to help companies create and manage configured products and maximize reuse. V6R2102x reinforces V6 configuration management with a more scalable architecture supporting a master view of product capabilities to maintain brand integrity across product lines and process domains. It increases flexibility as a product’s variability matures over time and streamlines the process by separating  the product’s marketing define activities and feature-option definition from the system engineering activities during the logical product architecture phase. In addition, V6R2012x supports the definition and filtering of requirements in the context of configured products for full traceability. It also enables the creation and edition of a configured EBOM in development mode for improved collaboration during the early design phase.

Improve Usability, Performance and TCO

V6R2012x continues to improve usability, performance and overall TCO globally and in specific industry solutions. In particular, the industry leading semiconductor data management solution delivers numerous enhancements to speed exchange of large data sets across multiple sites and tighten integration with leading EDA tools such as Synopsis Custom Designer. Integrated circuit designers will appreciate powerful new capabilities to graphically compare binary design data, resolve conflicts in textual data which can occur in parallel development design methodologies, and explore design alternatives in the context of hierarchical designs.

Finally, V6R2012x reinforces our key benefit of a lower total cost of ownership by delivering increased adoption of ENOVIA’s OOTB strategy for ease of deployment. CATIA V5 customers can now take advantage of the out-of-the-box setup (TEAM) available in both V6 PLM Express and V6 portfolios. For rapid implementation, customers can start with V6 PLM Express and upgrade to the full V6 platform later if necessary, while combining CATIA V5 and CATIA V6 designs in the same environment. This release also improves indexing and installation capabilities, reducing storage requirements and simplifying the installation process.

Version 6 Release 2012 Highlights

Release date: June 29, 2011

Powerful New User Interface

ENOVIA V6R2012’s new user interface is packed with simple but powerful dynamic views and menus, enabling users to navigate and drill down into even the largest datasets with minimal effort. Some of those enhancements include mega menus, power views, slide-in panels, immersive search, and contextual editing of attributes. The result is a more robust user experience with up to 60% fewer clicks, up to 90% fewer screens, a minimal learning curve and a massive boost to your productivity.

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Immersive Designer Central with CATIA V5

The power of ENOVIA V6 in delivering a seamless platform for global collaboration is available now to users of CATIA V5. With ENOVIA Designer Central for CATIA V5, ENOVIA functionality is fully embedded within the CATIA user interface, reducing the need to leave their CAD environment. Designers can navigate, search and retrieve data within CATIA V5, as well as access directly their PDM information, simplifying their user experience and boosting productivity. With V6R2012, ENOVIA Designer Central for CATIA V5 brings an immersive V6 user interface to designers – improving their productivity and letting them focus on product design and complementing existing solutions for NX, SolidEdge, MicroStation, Inventor and AutoCAD. V6R2012 supports Adobe Creative Suite 5, including Color Palette integration, critical for users in the CG/CPG industries.

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Enhanced Multi-CAD Design Solution

ENOVIA V6R2012’s Enhanced Multi-CAD Design Collaboration solution enables designers around the world to manage and collaborate from one application, no matter what design tools they are using. Removing barriers to collaboration, designers become more productive in their day-to-day activities, accessing engineering information from within their native CAD applications through ENOVIA's immersive user interface.

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3DLive and 3DLive Multi-touch

ENOVIA 3DLive is a key component of V6R2012. With 3DLive, users can share 3D virtual data – and their ideas – with the rest of the enterprise in real time, reaching many other 3DLive users via audio and video conferencing on mobile devices such as tablet PCs. Users collaborate with each other via 3D interaction and social media channels to accelerate decision-making and improve innovation. With V6R2012, ENOVIA has expanded 3D user interaction capabilities, creating an immersive environment for users with a multi-touch user interface. We have also integrated 3DLive with the 3DSwYm social media platform to create a pervasive media for online communities to share and collaborate.

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V6 PLM Express

Today it is more important than ever to minimize the total cost of investment in any product or service – and to deliver return on investment as quickly as possible. Waste too much time configuring a software solution and you risk jeopardizing the sound reasons you had for investing in it in the first place. V6 PLM Express introduces a new way to reduce the time required to configure the ENOVIA collaboration platform, accelerating users’ time-to-value while still enabling companies to tailor the system to their needs. It accomplishes this goal via a menu-driven approach that allows the creation and modification of global attributes and behaviour.

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