What’s New in The Latest 3DEXPERIENCE Release

Connects file-based CAD to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for use with the DS application portfolio

• Connect CATIA V5 or SOLIDWORKS Desktop to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Perform lifecycle operations including revise, release and lock/unlock
• Easily navigate product structures to visualize designs and related changes
• Search, explore and select relevant design context from a web browser
• Load design context into CATIA V5 directly from a web-browser
• View and mark-up 3D product designs within a web-based design review
• View FT&A design information from a web-browser
• Connect Microsoft Office Applications to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Leverage file-based CATIA V5 data with 3DEXPERIENCE platform design, simulation, manufacturing and governance apps and processes

Innovate, collaborate, and create great designs anywhere and anytime. 3D Creator combines ease of use with innovative design methodologies and cloud collaboration from inside a web browser.

• Capture and realize your ideas with parametric 3D models of parts and assemblies.
• 3D Creator includes the xDesign app which offers Design Guidance, an interactive feature based on simulation and optimization algorithms to help inspire innovative solutions to your design challenges.
• Stop worrying about installing, configuring or managing software; with a cloud-based solution you are always working with the latest version of 3D Creator on all your devices.
• Ensure secure communication and collaboration with stakeholders – internal or external. 3D Creator provides unique ways to ensure successful collaboration within the ecosystem through secure and safe communities, complete design and file access control, sharing, light weight visualization, and product review.

Create Virtual Models of Manufacturing Equipment

• Create any 3D part or assembly with best-in-class features combined with Boolean operations
• Create, validate and reuse mechanisms with automated support
• Automatically generate 2D drawings with 3D definition
• Create and modify complex surfaces
• Share best practices and avoid duplication of effort by capturing and reusing templates
• Work more efficiently with built-in knowledge
• Manage files in IGES and STEP format

Create and share mechanical design anywhere, anytime, on any device.

• Provides intuitive, easy to learn and productive 3D modeling.
• Share only what you want and control what other team members can do with design data.
• Ensure secure communication and collaboration with team members.
• Reduce cost by lowering part mass, while ensuring the desired form, function, and performance.
• View your business information in one central location and share your metrics with executives, and customers.

Design and engineer detailed systems for construction in the three traditional building systems: Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP)

• Geolocate a building or infrastructure project and model the surrounding terrain to a high level of detail
• Create and manage routed systems discipline including piping & HVAC, electrical raceway and tubing systems using an intuitive and interactive user interface
• Integrated dynamic design rules during routing and part placement
• Manage and visualize complete building assemblies along with building information model attribute completeness
• Automation function to generate Spools, detailing design and customizable report definition and drawings

Collaborate globally on the single virtual product and solve issues in real-time

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with immediate visibility of all reviewers’ mark-ups in real-time.
• Accurately track management of designs errors from identification to resolution.
• Turn brainstorming ideas into resolution actions on the associated real-time 3D design.
• Highlight critical issues to be investigated using slides, 3D markers, measures and sections.
• Analyze 3D design in real-time using technical analysis tools that reveal important details.
• Document multiple 3D reviews and validations without affecting the product definition.
•  Access critical design information including functional tolerances & annotations (FT&A), 2D layouts and fasteners.

Realistically simulate and optimize your merchandising strategy in 3D

• Easily create and share 3D virtual shopping experiences
• Visualize and explore brand ideas through the eyes of the consumer
• Improve product positioning according to business performance and best practices
• Share information more effectively for improved decision-making
• Generate clear merchandising instructions for in-store deployment

Review and collaborate around optimized merchandising strategy in 3D

• Easily review and present 3D virtual shopping experiences
• Visualize and explore brand ideas through the eyes of the consumer
• Review and provide feedback on product positioning, business performance and best practices
• Collaborate more effectively with merchandisers for improved decision making

Browser-based, on-the-cloud, generative modelling, that uniquely combines graphical visual scripting and interactive 3D-modelling, with the ability to use one or the other interchangeably at any time.

• Intuitive, smart approach.
• Creative people can quickly design, explore and validate variations of complex, repetitive and non-regular shapes and patterns.
• All geometry created is available for use in detailed design and manufacture.

Prepare and organize multi-discipline systems outside of CAD to expose potential impacts in the overall product definition

• Compose 3D Product updates without the use of CAD on any device
• Realize impact of change through 3D Composition via the web before large engineering spend on developing design prototypes
• Work with multidiscipline mechanical and electronic systems in one application across distributed engineering teams
• Navigate multiCAD digital mockups of any size with excellent performance from any device using a web browser
• Prepare changes in 3D via the web, whereby shortening design cycle time by automatically tracking product updates within the change process

Optimize the physical design of complex electrical and tubing systems.

• Project communication based on 3D approach leaving space for quick start 3D design allowing early study of what if scenarios.
• Design efficiently by providing a smart and powerful user interface combined with automated detailing design technologies.
• Product quality: by respecting engineering specifications and topology, and by providing data consistency checks at any stage of the design process.

Create organic looking shapes and surfaces using subdivision modeling technology anywhere and anytime. 

• 3D Sculptor includes xShape, an easy to use and intuitive app, which offers all the basic tools and features that are required to make organic looking shapes using subdivision modeling technology.
• Enhanced interoperability. 3D Sculptor is designed to work with SOLIDWORKS and other CAD authoring apps on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
• Stop worrying about installing, configuring or managing software; with a cloud-based solution you are always working with the latest version of 3D Sculptor on all your devices.
• Ensure secure communication and collaboration with stakeholders – internal or external. 3D Sculptor provides unique ways to ensure successful collaboration within the ecosystem through secure and safe communities, complete design and file access control, sharing, light weight visualization, and product review.

Ensure the aircraft industrial spaces definition with the right dimensions.

• Single source for geometrical data that is shareable across multiple disciplines.
• Provides spatial subdivision for conceptual, design and manufacturing purposes.
• Subdivision structured as a hierarchy when performed on all three dimensions.
• Linear subdivision following an alignment curve, which is suitable for civil engineering projects.

Leverage Model Based Design through fast 3D Tolerancing adoption for product engineering. 

• Complete Product definition throughout 3D annotations conveying full Product Manufacturing Information.
• Connect the dots from Design to Manufacturing with full Compliant Standard Semantic information (such as ISO; ANSI I ASME and JIS)
• Reduces Decision Times using concurrent engineering delivered by the single platform.

An In-Depth Portal to Apriso Execution from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• The interface gives managers up-to-date information right on their 3DEXPERIENCE dashboard
• No need to open reports or open and search another database
• Can be configured using standard Apriso RUN platform tools to display multiple dashboard widgets in a customer-defined tab layout

Develop Collaboration between Team Members

• Create value by transforming information into action
• Author and manage the team’s daily meetings
• Assign tasks and issues
• Track issues and assignments to completion
• Promote team ownership and responsibility
• Author and review using large touch-screens
• Animates daily team meetings for maximum participation and collaboration

Animate Team Meetings and Ease Communication

• Capture and socialize corporate know-how
• Promote team ownership and responsibility
• Author and manage the team's daily meetings
• Easily and efficiently organize production plan and communicate it
• Assign tasks and issue to a team member
• Easily annotate, assign, and track allowing team members to propose and react

Ensure consistency between 3D design and 2D tolerances and annotations with a single 3D product definition.

• 100% product manufacturing information in 3D for accurate & annotated geometric definition.
• Better compliance with regulations & standards.
• Eliminate tolerancing and interpretation errors while increasing quality of manufactured products.
• Natural path from 2D definition to a full 3D definition.
• Easily generate and update 2D documents accordingly to the 3D geometry definition.
• Directly feed downstream applications like manufacturing & work instructions.

Optimize the design of ship accommodations including interior design, wall, ceiling, and deck coverings. 

• Supporting the complete engineering of compartment spaces, layout and design. 
• Preparation of the space for arrangement purposes, including living quarters and equipment rooms. 
• Definition of the insulation of a metallic structure to avoid heat loss and condensation. 
• Fast and accurate detailed design through usage of parametric templates. 

Layout and design of compartment spaces, complete with ceilings, coverings, doors and windows. 

• Define Insulation, Fire Bridge & Draught Stop.
• Allows story management.
• Perform interference checking.
• Generate associative drawings. 
• Provides reporting.

Realistic simulation of the additive manufacturing process enables companies to optimize part designs and process parameters for additive manufacturing

• Increase dimensional accuracy of parts designed for additive manufacturing
• Minimize print time and material usage
• Eliminate unnecessary and costly physical test prints
• Reduce product development time with seamless integration between design, simulation and manufacturing

Provide advanced process simulation capability for Additive Manufacturing that accurately captures the complex multiphysics behind part distortions

• Seamless integration to Design and Manufacturing.
• Automatically applies settings to conform to additive manufacturing simulation best practices.
• Process-level, Part-level and Build-level simulations in a single environment for metals or polymers.
• Reduce residual stress and distortion in completed part

Provides advanced modeling capabilities in surface-lofting and interior aircraft cabin design.

• Deliver advanced modeling tools to create, edit analyze and global model complex surface models to facilitate the processes within the Aerospace domain.

• Enable experts to refine aerodynamic surfaces taking any curve or surface mathematics into consideration.

• Optimize aerodynamics shapes and forms with a high level of surface quality (up to G3 continuity) while maintaining high accuracy.

• Control shapes and their advanced mathematics for optimal control of the shape and size of geometry.

• Improve downstream processes such as composites design, tool path or meshing using higher quality surfaces.

Develop environmental control systems and energy-efficient cabin designs that ensure superior thermal comfort and improve the overall passenger experience

• Quickly evaluate the performance of environmental control systems in terms of cabin temperature, humidity, air quality control, and pressurization
• Ensure a comfortable microclimate within the cabin while optimizing the seating configurations
• Support the architectural design of HVAC layouts working with HVAC engineers
• Offer a broad range of innovative cabin customizations for airline companies
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Quickly develop designs for HVAC and ECS systems that minimize energy consumption, optimize air flow and duct layout, and maximize occupant thermal comfort

• Deliver innovative and safe ECS and HVAC systems that provide the required air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization
• Decrease the amount of expensive physical testing and the number of design iterations by performing detailed simulation of ECS and HVAC systems
• Reduce development costs and time to mark

Achieve high level surface quality while respecting aesthetic and technical constraints with a set of specific surface modeling applications, functions and analysis tools.

• Increase shape quality and precision to improve the final product’s perceived quality.

• Experience specific surface modeling, reverse engineering functions and analysis tools to create surfaces and deliver a new level of surface quality.

• Re-use and re-work geometry to reduce and optimize the iteration with creative designers.

• Creation of subdivision surfaces, technical surface and advanced explicit surface modeling tools.

• Dedicated features for shape quality conversion and improvement.

Cut design cycle times of airframe composites while accounting for manufacturing constraints.

• Capture composite design requirements and produce an accurate preliminary design at the early stage of the design process.
• Experience the production processes while fulfilling the preliminary design requirements with respect to manufacturing constraints.
• Increase the quality of the composites parts by releasing high fidelity composites data and by providing the complete composites product definition throughout 3D annotations.

Ensure producibility of parts made of composite materials throughout the engineering process.

• Industrialize composite parts accounting for the high quality standard of the Aerospace and Defense industry.
• Produce best in class composites output for downstream manufacturing processes, including laser projection devices.
• Provide the Complete Composites Product definition throughout 3D annotations.
• Seamless integration with Airframe Composites Designer.

Accelerate complex airframe fastened assemblies design, simulation and manufacturing.

•  Perform the complete definition of the fasteners of the aircraft with the most detailed level of the design.
•  Key functions supporting Concurrent Engineering; Lifecycle & Change Management and Downstream processes (Ex: Manufacturing, Simulation).
• Enforce company standards and rules usage, reducing number of errors.

Generate and validate the structure concept from the aerodynamics and product input using templates.

• Leverages the CAD-CAE associativity to converge quickly on the key structures of the airframe, tuning materials, sections and profiles to sustain the sizing loads and criteria.
• Know-how and rules-based design, driven by non-linear FEA, to explore alternatives and achieve right-first-time design; from the preliminary design phase.

Connect SIMULIA products with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each for Structures, Multibody, Electromagnetic, and Fluids & Acoustics Simulation

• Run Abaqus/CAE, XFlow, PowerFLOW (coming soon), Simpack, Wave6, and CST Studio Suite in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Configure, submit and monitor simulation jobs from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Manage existing models on 3DEXPERIENCE and share results with all stakeholders on the platform

Accelerate the material and package definition of product variation using integrated modeling, visualization and defect detection capabilities

• Improve the performance of color and material design and enable efficient packaging iterations
• Leverage integrated high-end material appearance technology, capturing every material trend in highest detail
• Create photo-realistic renderings
• Prepare and perform immediate VR reviews for instant decision

Provides software engineering tools, API, documentation and examples supporting development of new 3DEXPERIENCE® apps

• Customize the underlying data schema and rules if unique business processes are needed for end user acceptance
• Benefit from a seamless user interface for custom apps inserted directly in existing user interface frames
• Use best-of-breed modeler techniques to ensure customer intellectual property integrity across the various product development disciplines
• Use development tools leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE platform architecture

Deliver a truly collaborative design environment where architects, engineers, planners, consultants and building owners can work together.

• Deliver a truly collaborative design environment where architects, engineers, planners, consultants and building owners can work together to realize a building project. 
• All stakeholders of a building project can manage and execute all phases of a project from design to fabrication within a single platform. 
• Enhance collaboration across different building trades, developed specifically to create detailed Building Information Models (BIM).
• Design custom and standard parametric building components compliant with the industry standards (IFC) and virtually construct the building in its entirety before it is built. 
• Geolocate a building project and work with extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Skip tedious workflows by fabricating building components directly from the 3D design model.
• Avoid design ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.

Reduce cost of recalls due to incorrect or missing copy on labels.

• Leverage previous or similar artwork assemblies, utilize screens that allow for editing and comparison of multiple artwork copy and graphic assemblies at the same time.
• Eliminate labeling errors by leveraging a single source of truth for the latest approved copy, graphics and artwork.

Create complex finite element assemblies requiring automated modeling techniques and the collaborative efforts of several engineering teams

• Collaborative preparation of large-scale, multi-level assemblies leveraging multiple teams and locations.
• Full traceability of the simulation model is ensured by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Automatic generation of simulation models via ‘fire and forget’ execution on HPC.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. due to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.

Program, simulate, and validate complex robot drilling and riveting systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete drilling and riveting robotic systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
  Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Program, simulate, and validate Robotic assembly systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and drill and riveting systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming

Create and validate assembly and disassembly trajectories

• Enables creation and validation of assembly/disassembly trajectories
• Check assembly feasibility during product design
• Review detailed process planning  

Delivers the ability to easily develop collision-free part and assembly trajectories automatically using powerful algorithms

• Provides effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Define and validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by simulating various production scenarios to predict the production rate
• ​​Simulate and visualize material flow in an existing factory to identify bottlenecks
• Run "what if" simulations to optimize system performance and production rate with alternate routings, layouts and resource pooling strategies

Delivers the ability to easily develop collision-free part and assembly trajectories automatically

• Effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Define and validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by simulating various production scenarios to predict the production rate
• ​​Simulate and visualize material flow in an existing factory to identify bottlenecks
• Run "what if" simulations to optimize system performance & production rate with alternate routings, layouts and resource pooling strategies

Fast, easy, and efficient way to define your manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings 

• Define manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings based on your 3D Engineering Model data (resource/rule based definitions)
• Ensures the definition of Manufacturing Item Structure is mandatory for all downstream applications
• Helps to come up with a solid definition, making it easy to consume the defined items in drawings
• Bases the data of the work preparers (structure, piping, electrical) on the Manufacturing Item Definition

Help customers to investigate claims/complaints/issues on their assets in operation by contextualizing information from multiple internal and external sources and automatically creating semantic-based similarity clusters

• Rapidly and accurately detect and understand current or potential quality issues 
• Aid support engineers in correcting existing problems
• Help quality managers and engineers develop and deploy preventive maintenance measures to avoid potential problems
• Minimize future quality issues by providing design, engineering and manufacturing teams (including project and program managers) with lessons-learned intelligence 

View, markup, and collaborate on design data through the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• View documents without the tools used to create them
• Compare documents side-by-side or overlaid on each other
• Full security when accessing data from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Create and save markups for reviews and future reference

View, markup, and collaborate on design data using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

• View documents without the tools used to create them
• Compare documents side-by-side or overlaid on each other
• Full security when accessing data from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Create and save markups for reviews and future reference

Rapid convergence of battery systems development from cells engineering to the battery pack design.

• Fosters productivity with built-in algorithms for model management and data handling.
• Fosters innovative solutions for heat recovery and thermal management of the complete system.
• Significantly reduced costs through the efficient modeling and simulation of cooling circuits.

Systems architecture design, modeling and simulation for the development of complex battery systems.

• Fast cells multi-physics modeling for electrical, thermal and aging behavior simulation.
• Battery pack multi-physics modeling for efficient cooling system development.
• Battery aging investigation based on electro-chemical cell models

Create and define enterprise rules, respecting company standards and best practices. 

• Create interactive rules respecting company standards.
• Check data consistency while ensuring enterprises rules.
• Define and manage company-rules in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, in all processes.
• Heal the data while respecting the rules.
• Increase quality, reduce cost and reduce errors.
• Rules Assistant simplifies creation.

A unified workflow to Imagine, Create & Experience the interior design of yachts and boats.

• Boost creativity and explore interior design using 3D sketches and tools for concept and detail designs, in context with Virtual Human
• Bring 2D idea sketches into 3D Reality for better detail design, perception and downstream processes
• Variants definition and Reviews, includes Immersive context, for an efficient decision-making process.
• Generate high end real-time visualization and rendering of your project to communicate & validate your Design

Accelerate complex body in white fastened assemblies design, simulation and manufacturing.

• Perform the complete definition of the fasteners of the vehicle body in white with the most detailed level of the design.
• Key functions supporting Concurrent Engineering, Lifecycle & Change Management and Downstream processes (Eg: Manufacturing, Simulation).
• Enforce company standards and rules usage, reducing number of errors.

Deliver highly productive capabilities to accelerate the Automotive Body In White design process.

• to quickly create or modify a car body in an associative styling and engineering context, taking into account the manufacturability of the created body.

• this advanced product uses unique skilled features to boost body in white design phase productivity.

• extend the unique functional modeling technology that enables users to focus on and capture their design intent, by freeing themselves from the sequence in which they model and by associating behaviors with design features, thereby decreasing design complexity.

• bring greater flexibility to evaluate multiple design variations in a short time frame.

Accelerate the detailed design of complex body-in-white structures respecting manufacturing rules.

• Define the perfect body-in-white detailed design; respecting manufacturing rules to reduce the number of prototypes.
• Complete product definition including fasteners.
• Best in class geometric modeler with advanced surface design operators; tolerant modeling capability, analysis tools and dedicated body-in-white features.

Define, validate and offline program body-in-white robot systems in the Virtual Factory 

• Keep robots in production, eliminate costly robot and tooling crashes, and accelerate start of production
• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and material handling systems to eliminate costly crashes
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Validate and optimize the body-in-white robotics processes with robotics simulation and validation in a Virtual Factory context

• Perform robot reachability studies to ensure planned fasteners are feasible
• Reduce engineering time and optimize the workload balance to increase the production rate
• Complete and validate the full robotics workcell before off line programming with extended capabilities
• Minimize the number of weldguns to reduce tooling cost with automated tool analysis

Design and model detailed building components plus automate the creation of the entire building.

• Model detailed building components for manufacturing and fabrication.
• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Achieve design clarity and avoid ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.
• Maximize knowledge capture and reuse and harness the full power of CATIA with automation.

Create preliminary building designs during conceptual design that evolve into the detailed design.

• Unleash your creativity to design buildings of any shape, size or level of complexity.
• Quickly design, modify and validate building projects based on planning specifications and requirements.
• Simulate daylighting and shadow duration analysis.
• Rapidly create complete conceptual structural models with an out-of-the-box set of standardized sections. 

Design detailed building structures for construction where architects, engineers, planners, consultants and building owners can collaborate.

• Geolocate a building project and model the surrounding terrain 
• Create low Level of Detail structural models with building structures
• Perform quantity take-off, volumetric studies and clash analysis of all structural members
• Design detailed rebar layers from existing bars or with a catalog of more than 60 predefined shapes 
• Create associative construction documents from the 3D model

A comprehensive set of applications to design detailed building structures for construction.

• Create Level of Development (LOD) 450 Building Information Models (BIM), fully compliant with industry standards (IFC).
• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Skip tedious workflows by fabricating building components directly from the 3D design model.
• Achieve design clarity and avoid ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic template.s
• Author building information models with the world’s most robust Product Lifecycle Management platform: the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

3D electrical development, enabling the physical design of wire harnesses and cabling in context.

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to improve electrical systems quality and consistency.
• Design and optimize electrical 3D harness bundles and cableways accurately in the context of the full product and obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths.
• Analysis tools to check design quality.
• Automate the creation and update of the 3D electrical harness design from Logical Design.
• 3D Design from 2D schematics.

3D fluid systems development environment for the physical design of tubing, piping and HVAC systems.

• Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes and HVAC
• Highly interactive and intuitive user interface.
• Integrate business rules.
• Automatically decompose 3D systems to individual piping and tubing objects, attributes, and relationships
• Full systems traceability delivered with integrated RFLP approach.
• Propagate and streamline data from the functional diagram to the 3D detailed design.

A comprehensive set of applications to design and engineer detailed MEP systems for construction.

•  Create Level of Development- 450 Building Information Models, fully compliant with industry standards.
• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Skip tedious workflows by fabricating building components directly from 3D.
• Achieve design clarity and avoid ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.
• Author building information models with the most robust Product Lifecycle Management platform. 

Review and collaborate around a construction project to coordinate all phases from design to fabrication and manage Building Information Models (BIM)

• Import and assemble building information models from various industry standard file formats
• Geolocate the construction and infrastructure project
• Manage, view and interact with building component attributes 
• Zoom and analyze different parts of the project
• Perform clash detection between different model submissions
• Mange design review sessions and coordinate various trades and subcontractors

Coordinate 3D construction models from architects, consultants, contractors and Subcontractors.

• Import 3d models from industry standard file formats .
• Geolocate the construction and infrastructure project.
• Perform design review and check for geometric clashes between models.
• Manage design review sessions and coordinate various trades and subcontractors.
• Model simple shapes to coordinate tasks among building trades.
• Achieve design clarity and avoid ambiguity by viewing the entire building with the design and construction team.

Life-like renderings and Virtual Reality Experiences of building and infrastructure projects.

• Realistic, decision-ready design model with precise & measured material appearances for review.
• Produce photorealistic renderings and movies to take; capture & share design decisions.
• Prepare & perform single user (HMD) or team (Powerwall & CAVE) Virtual Reality decision reviews using state-of-the-art projection, tracking and interaction technologies as well as collaborative scale decision reviews for local and global team members.

Create discipline-specific intelligent schematics for wiring, cabling, piping/tubing and HVAC systems.

• Capture attributes and technology automatically within the schematic.
• Model electrical and fluidic systems interfaces within the context of CATIA Systems.
• Define and connect electrical and fluid systems schematics.
• Comprehensive view of the 2D logical specifications.
• Quickly validate objects, using company specific rules without having to develop specific code. This also enables the detection of errors early in the design process.

A combined role which includes Business Innovation and Industry Innovation roles

• Connect everyone to the innovation process.
• Data-driven decisions. 3DDashboard delivers the real-time intelligence needed to monitor everything that matters to a business.
• Share files securely on the cloud.
• Instantly collaborate and share ideas in 3D.
• Secure access to all product content
• Collaborative IP management to enable collaboration with shared content.
• Data navigation on any product development.
• Immersive business intelligence (B.I. Essentials) highlights key performance indicators (KPI) directly on the 3D product view.

Fast, simple custom analytics applications development

• Rapid time-to-market
• Low development costs
• No painful data integration
• No Web Services overhead
• Break down silos of content coming from various aggregators
• Scale for tomorrow’s user demand
• Instant prototyping and iterative development
• Single source or rich mashup
• No painful data integration

Empower every business user to create new analytics views on demand

• Connect to all the indexed data
• Get insight fast with multi-dimensional widget creation through drag & drop 
• Answer deeper questions with drag & drop widget filtering
• Widget format and layout definition
• Saving and sharing the widget
• Widget dashboarding
• Data source security

Make better business decisions through real-time interactive process and program analytics

• Multi-sourced unstructured content and structured data
• BI dashboarding and UI design
• Explicit relationships across multiple sources
• Horizontal, vertical, hierarchical and graph 
• Implicit relationships (structured to unstructured and unstructured to unstructured) 
• Business workflows/use-cases; SBAs built for specific use-cases
• Searching
• Selection form lists
• Visualization (graphs, timeline, pie charts, viewers, etc.)
• Faceting (explicit or implied relationships extracted from data/content)
• Ad-hoc query analysis
• Big Data exploratory analytics (no complex SQL queries required) 
• Real-time, operational decision support

Realistic visualization and VR capabilities of aircraft cabin reviews for layout and material design

• Perform highly realistic cabin interior visualization and rendering based on native design and engineering
• Define and review material packaging for different trim levels while ensuring material consistency and representation  
• Prepare and perform Immersive Virtual Reality reviews for decision making and collaborative Virtual Reality reviews

A Unified Industrial Design workflow solution to Imagine, Create & Experience Cabin and Monuments. 

• Use 3D virtual design, for better design creativity, maturity and design success.
• Accelerate Design change, update in minutes instead of hours or days.Realistic visualization and VR, make accurate & immediate styling decisions. 
• Quickly create realistic Designs with a ready to use library of content Including Humans.
• Present your Cabin & Monuments; Compare them in consumer context to make quicker and better design decision.

Evaluate human postures and user experience for comfort and safety earlier in the design process.

•  Avoid late, costly and time-consuming design changes by reducing the number of physical prototypes.
• Define human factor references based on validated aircraft requirements.
• Specify main usage, benefits and human factors. 
• Model and simulate the human and its interactions with environment and other humans.
• Perform human factors assessments and provide human factors recommendations.

An integrated 3D cabletray development environment which enables the physical design of cable trays in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• Create and modify 3D cabletray systems using specialized functions
• Ensure compliance with corporate and industry standards using part placement from catalogs
• Extract all necessary manufacturing information and documentation

Perform diagnostic and trend analyses on past and ongoing changes with the ability to answer all specific questions in a self-service mode

• Change resolution process analysis from the order to action realized to assess process efficiency
• Change trend analysis to assess severity and compare to solved changes
• Change impact analysis and identification of the right corrective modifications
• Measure and reduce overall impact of changes on business/organization

A strategic close-loop collaborative change process that clearly communicates change decisions and assignments to all impacted domains.

• Bring organizations together under a single change methodology while accommodating unique organizational needs
• Make informed decisions by obtaining a full impact assessment of change requests from all impacted organizations
• Clearly communicate change decisions and assignments to all impacted organizations
• Improve product development quality by establishing governance standards for the entire enterprise to adhere to
• Reduce time and cost associated with iterative, error prone change orchestration and synchronization scenarios with intelligent change management rules and automation

A strategic close-loop collaborative change process that clearly communicates change decisions and assignments to all impacted domains.

• Bring organizations together under a single change methodology
• Make Informed Decisions on Value Added Change Proposals
• Effective communication across Global Teams
• Establish Standards and Consistency
• Change Implementation Efficiency Throughout

Rapid convergence of chassis and suspension systems development.

•  Faster investigation vehicle handling systems within a multidisciplinary approach for active suspension.
• Optimize & assess the vehicle control strategy.
• Seamless collaboration with chassis concept designer. 

Provides a virtual 3D environment to interactively discover the virtual twin of the city. It promotes collaboration based on a common and shared view of the city.

• Navigate in a city immersive environment.
• Play city experiences in an 3D dashboard.
• Visualize city data in compelling ways for magic user experience.
• Analyze georeferenced information through innovative data visualizations.
• Facilitate city orchestration through a collaborative environment.

Provides an office application to create 3D presentations to share ideas, explain projects and communicate about any city matter.

• Navigate in a city immersive environment
• Visualize city data in compelling ways for a magic user experience
• Create presentations in a 3D city context
• Use advanced dress up features to showcase your projects
• Play the full presentation in 3D dashboard

Targeted toward City Referential Manager users who can manage indexing and storage capabilities to support city experiences. 

• Provides 500 GB of data storage dedicated to the city referential data
• Provides geospatial indexing for 2 million city assets

Provides a 3D environment to build and manage the virtual twin of the city. The city technical experts can leverage all their georeferenced data to create the city referential. 

• Easily build and maintain the virtual twin of the city.
• Manage a city digital referential to be shared to the whole city ecosystem.
• Provide with openness to import and export city data from and to various sources.
• Facilitate data sharing and collaboration to break the organizational silos.
• Build and run city experiences in a 3D dashboard.

City Viewer provides a virtual 3D environment to interactively navigate in the virtual twin of the city.

• Connect the whole city ecosystem to the city referential.
• Improve collaboration while sharing city navigation experiences.
• Give city experiences access to all platform users.
• Provide an easy navigation in the city referential.

Create 3DEXPERIENCE twins for energy plants across cities and territories.

•  Accurately create and Geolocate realistic 3D terrain representations.
• Model the entire project with custom or generic templates.
• Create detailed Building Information Models, fully compliant with industry standards.
• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Fabricate building components directly from the 3D design model.
• Author building information models with the world’s most robust PLM platform. 

Create linear infrastructure 3DEXPERlENCE twins for road and rail construction projects.

Enable all stakeholders of a civil infrastructure project to manage and execute all phases of a project from design to fabrication within a single platform.

• Accurately create and geolocate realistic 3D terrain representations.

• Avoid design ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.

• Create detailed Building Information Models (BIM), fully compliant with industry standards (IFC).

• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.

• Skip tedious workflows by fabricating building components directly from the 3D design model.

Enable all stakeholders of a civil infrastructure project to manage and execute all phases of a project from design to fabrication within a single platform.

• Accurately create and geolocate realistic 3D terrain representations.
• Avoid design ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.
• Create detailed Building Information Models (BIM), fully compliant with industry standards (IFC).
• Extensive scalability for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• Skip tedious workflows by fabricating building components directly from the 3D design model.

Enriches the Class-A Modeler role productivity with an additional set of advanced tools for transportation designers.

• Upgrade Class-A Modeler functions: feature modeling and over-crowning...

• Increase productivity with specialized and advanced features such as Gap, Blend-corner, Cylinder-glass, Tube and Accelerated surface.

• Experience new global deformation capabilities.

Enriches the Class-A Modeler role productivity with an additional set of advanced tools for transportation designers.

• Upgrade Class-A Modeler functions: feature modeling and over-crowning...
• Increase productivity with specialized and advanced features such as Gap, Blend-corner, Cylinder-glass, Tube and Accelerated surface.
• Experience new global deformation capabilities.

Create, edit and analyze aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest Class-A surface quality.

• Achieve high-end surface quality, up to Class-A Standard Quality.

• Reach a new level of quality and productivity by Integrating the power of CATIA with the precision of ICEM technology.

• Create, modify, analyze and render any type of aesthetical and ergonomic shape.

• Deliver final product surfaces, with G3-continuity, based on inputs such as design-sketches, scanned data or subdivision surfaces.

• Streamline Style, Class-A and Engineering collaboration and convergence.

Improve, reuse and reduce costs through secure content classification during the product development.

• Define multi-level libraries for various IP categories
• Organize IP with classification semantic
• Support IP standardization process
• Ease re-use practices with intuitive integration with multi-discipline engineering applications

Power by 3DEXPERIENCE social services. Unite employees, suppliers, customers, consumers and regulators into the framework for sustainable innovation.

• Innovate with a higher degree of confidence by engaging consumers and customers early in the ideation process.
• Consider valuable feedback from across the value stream with minimal effort.
• Make the right decisions considering all the data across the enterprise, not just data at hand or outdated reports.
• Improve productivity by sharing easily across the value stream. Spend less time updating data and managing status.

Shorter time to market with multi discipline collaboration across distributed teams working on a common product structure allowing a model based approach.

• Real-time, concurrent design with Altium Designer across distributed teams with lifecycle and change management.
• Optimizes the design work through managed PCB components and tailored manufacturing information.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders on the multi-discipline product definition allowing a model based approach.
• Share designs directly in 3D PCB with the extended enterprise on any device at any time.

Shorter time to market with secure collaboration across disciplines and distributed detail design teams working on a common product including AutoCAD designs.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders on the multi-discipline product definitions.
• Share drawings within the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimize the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Enables CATIA V5 designers to securely collaborate on the model definition across distributed design teams to develop the common product definition.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams using CATIA V5 as well as other CAD tools to build the full product definition.
• Leverage 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA to converge CATIA V5 designs along with other design models on products that require multisystem product definitions.
• Work in the full 3D context of a multiCAD product definition within CATIA V5.
• Share CATIA V5 designs with the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimizes the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Shorter time to market with secure collaboration across disciplines and distributed design teams working on a common product structure.

• Share designs within the extended enterprise using a browser available on any device from anywhere at any time.
• Optimizes the design work with an immersive development experience including tasks, issues, change management, maturity, and revisions.

Optimized design work with tasks, issues, and change management integrated in SOLIDWORKS.

• Real-time, safe concurrent design across distributed teams.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in the company on the multidiscipline and multi-CAD product definition.
• Share SOLIDWORKS designs with the extended enterprise using web based technologies available on any device at any time.
• Enables downstream usage of the vast 3DEXPERIENCE portfolio of applications.

Enter, verify and reconcile the sales forecast

• Aggregate and disaggregate data in real time

• View data at the right level of granularity and dimension with attribute-based forecasting
• Create a baseline forecast with statistical forecasting
• Track forecasting accuracy based on agreed business KPIs
• Support workflow via dashboards and alerts

Reduce product development cycle time and maximize innovation across the value network.

• Collaborate on structured industrial product development process.
• Work more effectively with streamlined and secured content access.
• Enable real-time concurrent collaboration, enhance decision-making and reach design maturity faster.
• Always work with up-to-date information and related data to reduce the likelihood of errors.
• Intuitively organize, view and track individual and shared issues, tasks, and change actions from creation through completion.
• Access content anywhere on any device with browser-based 3D visualization and geometric analysis tools for 3D comparison, measurements and sectioning.

Collocation Data Exchange automates data synchronization between 3DEXPERIENCE® platforms

• Support projects running on several 3DEXPERIENCE servers to handle multiple communities
• Automate authoring data synchronization with partners
• Extend standard 3DXML exchanges with data ownership controls

Precise visualization and physically accurate renderings to create and evolve design focusing on colors, materials and grains

• Investigate the interaction of materials in terms of reflections, light and shadows
• Perform material and color design with very high detail
• Define material packaging for all different trim levels
• Prepare and perform Immersive Virtual Reality reviews for decision making and collaborative Virtual Reality reviews

Define and manage custom apps developed within the 3DEXPERIENCE.

• Allow companies to model any best practices and know-how in a simple and intuitive way, without the need for special coding skills.
• Capture business processes and best practices.
• Automate design and engineering tasks.
• Accelerate and secure design process time.
• Generate design assistants in a simple and intuitive way.
• Deploy best practices and know how in an easy to reuse manner.

Reuse custom applications developed with the Design Apps Developer role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

• Easily install custom applications created and deployed on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
• Automate design rules and engineering tasks.
• Accelerates and secures design process time.
• Reuse design assistants in a simple and intuitive way.
• Easily deploy pre-defined methodologies and best practices for quick reuse.
• No specialized skills are required to run customized solutions.

Ensure producibility of composites materials Industrial Equipment parts at all stages of the engineering process

• Robust surface modeling tools along with dedicated tools to prepare composites data for manufacturing
• Advanced Producibility Analysis with fiber simulation for Hand Layup and Fiber Placement
• Create flattened Ply data from producibility analysis for accurate 2D shapes
• Create manufacturing ready composites data with dedicated features

Transform the engineering models into producible composite parts, accounting for the constraints of the targeted manufacturing process.

• Robust surface modeling tools along with dedicated tools to prepare composites data for manufacturing.
• Advanced Producibility Analysis with fiber simulation for Hand Layup and Fiber Placement.
• Best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation
• High level of knowledge and automation

Perform detailed simulation of composite structures for stiffness, strength, manufacturability, and damage tolerance, while optimizing weight and performance

• Provide detailed structural validation from coupon level to sub-system level for metal and composite structures
• Minimize weight to meet vehicle range and performance targets
• Increase certification confidence in early and detailed design phases
• Perform detailed material and nonlinear analyses, as well as linear statics, frequency, buckling, linear dynamics, and implicit/explicit simulation
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Perform optimized and robust composites designs to maintain strength rating while optimizing weight and thereby reducing cost of manufacturing and prototyping

• Use advance surface modeling tools to create composites data on complex surfaces
• Create fully associative design to handle changes, modifications and updates quickly and automatically
• Design in context of assemblies
• Define and manage complete detailed stacking and generate plies from the conceptual design
• Generate conceptual solids or IML surfaces for early integration in the mockup
• Perform advanced producibility analysis with fiber simulation for hand layup and fiber placement
• Integrate a quality-rules-based approach for robust design and control of composites data
• Prepare drawing-based ply books with ease and manage updates and changes automatically
• Support structural simulations at the conceptual and detailed design phases to validate strength, stiffness and dynamics of the composite designs, and perform weight optimization
• Reduce cost of prototyping, leading to an accelerated time to market

Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing

• Validate composite design with associated strength criteria
• Efficiently design ply layup and material orientation to achieve required stiffness and strength while optimizing weight
• Model composite components with fundamental static, frequency, and buckling simulation
• Reduce cost of prototyping and manufacturing via early-phase design simulation to reduce time for composite product delivery

Create manufacturable composite parts with a fully automated manufacturing process.

•  Industrialize composite parts accounting for the high quality standard of the composites industry.
• Produce best in class composite output for downstream manufacturing processes including tooling preparation for braiding and forming.
• Accelerate the production rate and enhance the quality of composite parts using advanced automated manufacturing process.

Accelerate the design of composites parts by simulating the braiding manufacturing process.

• Provides ply modeling tools based on associative 3D features.
• Uses optimized braiding machine parameters and material parameters to meet mechanical requirements.
• Enables advanced braiding producibility analysis.
• Predict and visualize fiber paths on complex surfaces using an advanced simulation environment.
• Provides automatic mandrel shape generation without physical prototyping.
• Control mesh parmameters during mandrel shape generation and simulation.

Design composites parts - combining Composites Design and Composites Manufacturing Preparation apps.

• Industry-proven design approaches.
• Ply modeling tools based on associative 3D features.
• Complex surface modeling tools.
• Best-in-class solid and IML.
• Advanced Producibility Analysis.
• Knowledge design automation.
• Associative engineering drawings.
• Engineering deliverables and DMU integration.
• Incorporate manufacturing constraints early in the process.
• Best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation.
• Output to major shopfloor systems.
• High level of knowledge and automation.
• Associative shopfloor documentation.
• Engineering deliverables and DMU integration.

Cut design cycle times of composite parts while accounting for manufacturing constraints.

• Advance Surface Modeling tools to create composites data on complex surfaces.
• Fully associative design to handle changes, modifications and updates quickly and automatically.
• Capabilities to design in context of Assemblies.
• Define and manage complete stacking and generate plies from the virtual stacking.
• Generate conceptual solids or IML surfaces for early integration of the composites parts in the mock-up.

A single integrated platform, to efficiently manage composites design on complex surfaces.

• Uses industry-proven design approaches.
• Provides ply modeling tools based on associative 3D features.
• Efficient management of composite design on complex surfaces.
• Optimize the performances and weight by designing in the context of analysis.
• Predict the behavior of the part inside the design environment.
• Create drawings with generative view style and annotation templates.

Design Right First Time high performance structurally validated vehicle parts made of composites materials

• Design and validate the structural behavior of composites parts at once, releasing high performance T&M structures
• Integrate the composites conceptual phase with advanced structural simulation for an efficient mod-sim engineering approach
• Provide the complete composites product definition throughout 3D annotations

Accelerate the design of composites parts from preliminary design to manufacturing for parts produced by the forming process.

• Accelerates the development of Composites parts made by forming by validating the manufacturing process of parametrized and associative parts editable with GSD tools.
• Automates simulations and predicts composite material behavior, such as wrinkling, during manufacture.
• Supports multiple material types to facilitate comparison.
• Provides unmatched integration with downstream structural analysis.
• Provides clear presentation of the forming simulation results.

Generate and edit laser projection files to the shopfloor. 

• Allows downstream activities for traditional hand lay-up.
• Enables composite manufacturing preparation associativity.
• Provides a link between composites laser projection data and industrial laser projector systems.
• Provides customizable laser projection. 
• Generate outputs for Laser projection. 
• Minimize development costs and prototyping, avoiding trial and error.
• Permits visualization of the laser normal vectors.

Process oriented applications ensure compliance with analysis before production of complex composites.

• Incorporate manufacturing constraints early in the process.
• Provides best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation.
• Automate flat pattern generation.
• Output to major shop floor systems.
• Provides a high level of knowledge and automation.
• Enables associative shop floor documentation.
• Provides designers to capture the assembly information within the design environment.

Transform the engineering models into producible composite parts, accounting for the constraints of the targeted manufacturing process.

• Robust surface modeling tools along with dedicated tools to prepare composites data for manufacturing.
• Advanced Producibility Analysis with fiber simulation for Hand Layup and Fiber Placement.
• Best in class producibility analysis and flat pattern generation
• High level of knowledge and automation

Validate the structural integrity of products made of composite materials by directly reusing composite properties defined by the designer

• Seamless integration with CATIA Composite tools.
• Associativity with design allows quick iterations on the composite layup during the Preliminary Design stage (grid-based design, virtual stacking).
• Dedicated tools allowing composite simulation experts to run complex non-linear simulations within the fully immersive, intuitive, 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Model complex shapes and patterns anywhere, any time on any device with no software to install

• Explore and generate styling pattern and shapes with intuitive and powerful Algorithmic Generative Modeling approach
• Benefit from a progressive User Experience combining 3D Modeling approach with graph-based visual scripting
• Generate multiple geometries by managing collections of objects geometry quality and accuracy

Quickly develop conceptual building information models and evaluate design decisions for a project of any size, scale or level of complexity.

• Create low and mid-Level of Detail (LOD 300) Building Information Models (BIM), fully compliant with industry standards.
• Quickly model all building elements with an out-of-the-box standard set of generic building components.
• Create associative 2D design documents from the 3D model
• Achieve design clarity and avoid ambiguity by modeling the entire building with custom or generic templates.