What's New in R2018x

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

• Connect CATIA V5 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

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

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

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

Enables visualization, exploration and digital mock-up of multi-CAD product structures within a web-browser

• Visualize, explore and edit multi-CAD product structures within a web-browser
• Easily navigate product structures to visualize designs and related changes
• Create web-based 3D digital mockups and conduct design reviews
• Modify product structures under the governance of a change process
• Implement design changes in accordance with specific product configurations

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.

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

Simplify the creation, sharing and validation of preliminary designs in an integrated collaborative platform.

• Efficient Real-time collaboration and exchange through the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Reuse existing designs, explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Flexibly work on large assemblies.
• Natural shape/part design.
• Design and animate complex kinematic mechanisms.
• Accelerate your design with natural manipulations and contextual interactions.

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.

Connect Abaqus/CAE with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each

• Run Abaqus/CAE* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE capabilities for collaboration , visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all Abaqus/CAE* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or script.
• Configure, submit and monitor Abaqus Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Run Abaqus On Cloud using burst compute resources.

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.

Prepare and Validate the Additive Manufacturing Process

• Save time and energy by archiving best practices for reuse
• Automatically optimize the part positions
• Create supports to allow for developing different strategies for the additive process
• Implement a wide variety of 3D printers and additive systems with multiple outputs

Prepare, Program and Validate the Additive Manufacturing Process for Powder Bed 3D Printers

• Save time and energy by archiving best practices for reuse
• Automatically optimize the part positions
• Create supports to allow for developing different strategies for the additive process
• Implement a wide variety of 3D printers and additive systems with multiple outputs

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.

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.

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.

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.

Automatically Generate Optimized Assembly Paths

• Interactively create interference-free assembly trajectories
• Determine feasibility early in the design phase
• Easily edit and modify trajectory paths
• See the product buildup, operation by operation, in the resource context
• Define and store assembly simulation scenarios
• Detect interference during simulation
• Create choreographed simulations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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-and-drop 
• Answer deeper questions with drag-and-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

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.

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.

Connect CST Studio Suite with 3DEXPERIENCE and leverage the best capabilities of each

• Setup a collaborative space, add people and everyone works on the same set of data; it’s synchronized and version controlled as you work.
• Lightweight visualization of model, mesh, scenario and results; help decision makers experience results and reduce time generating reports.
• Direct access to geometry.
• Web-based portal to submit and monitor CST Studio Suite jobs from anywhere.
• Run CST Studio Suite* in a “connected” mode, leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE.
• Capabilities for collaboration, visualization, version control and knowledge capture.
• Supports all CST Studio Suite* capabilities including continued openness to run any custom plug-ins or scripts.
• Configure, submit and monitor CST Studio Suite Solvers from 3DEXPERIENCE.

Design 3D electrical cable trays in the context of the full Digital Mock-Up.

• 3D routing and detailed design of cabletray systems
• Standard & Rule Based Approach
• Advanced network modification
• Flexible report generation
• Integrated design validation
• Drawing extraction and isometrics

Use Lifelike Manikins to Analyze Ergonomics and Occupant Safety

• Create, apply and delete data library elements
• Manage data and postures in the libraries
• Customize joint rotation limits or lock them in a specific position
• Use comfort or safety scoring for postures
• Provides custom manikin anthropometry
• Switch manikin population and gender 
• Calculate the moments and forces with biomechanics analysis
• Ensure compliance with Automatic SAE standards 
• Predict posture based on precise anthropometry

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 asssignments to all impacted domains

• Establish a unified change processes across domains that clearly communicate change decisions across all impacted organizations
• Establish a set of standards and change procedures for the entire enterprise to follow
• Orchestrate and synchronize change scenarios from product governance to work-in-process activities while maintaining strict controls and traceability
• Support a consistent, systems-based, multi-discipline change process

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.

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.

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.

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

• Create multiple library classification systems to fit your company’s business needs, functional uses, and/or products
• Apply standard attributes to the library taxonomy for robust parametric searches and comparisons of classified data based on different usage models
• Classify existing product content or create new product documents
• Search based on a preferred unit-of-measure regardless of how the data was defined

Design more informative clinical trials through pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics simulations.

• Predicts drug efficacy-safety balance at the population level
• Designs more informative clinical trials through pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics simulations.
• Anticipate synergistic effects
• Leverage information to guide clinical trials
• Optimize clinical trial designs
• Enhance collaboration through the interactive sharing of results
  

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

Operational efficiencies and improved cycle times are a result of creating and managing products

• Manage the design, engineering, development and sourcing of product with a single, global system
• Reduce over-development
• Target innovation to opportunities identified in the Seasonal Plan
• Collaborate and incorporate the expertise of your product team with the knowledge of your supply chain partners

Create a seasonal plan to strategically target product opportunities and minimize wasteful over-development ensuring maximum profit potential

• Manage the planning, design, engineering, development, and sourcing of product with a single, global system
• Reduce over-development and provide strategic targets for innovation using placeholders in the line assortment
• Collaborate and incorporate the expertise of your product team and partners early in the planning process
• Track and schedule key milestones, effectively manage your resources ensuring the timely delivery of products

Improve global sourcing performance through enhanced collaboration, process control, and risk management with internal and external partners

• Manage and collaborate with vendors for materials and finished goods based upon supplier capabilities, qualifications, capacity, and performance
• Work with merchandising teams in understanding forecasted volumes and production offices/vendors/suppliers
• Manage capacity and allocation to create a plan to source products and manage the sourcing calendar
• Work with product development teams and collaborate with suppliers in sampling, testing and costing products and materials

Enhances collaboration between a brand and their vendors and suppliers

• Manage vendors for materials and finished goods by evaluating capabilities and qualifications, as well as capacity and performance
• Work with product development teams in sampling, testing and costing materials and product
• Manage different types of samples across the vendor base and request quotes from suppliers online
• Collaborate with production offices, agents, vendors and factories online

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

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.

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.

A complete solution for composites parts - combining Composites Designer and Manufacturer roles.

• 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. 
• 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

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.

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.

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.

Collaborate on a configured BOM to reduce or eliminate BOM errors

• Define and optimize the product architecture
• Refine customer and product requirements and assign them to product features in order to drive all product development
• Control excessive proliferation of product or feature variants
• Ensure cross-functional understanding of product features

Manage configurable product data structures to optimize reuse while satisfying all possible variations

• Helps companies with highly configurable products manage a global product designs and bill-of-material containing all possible variations
• Enables designers and engineers to create product configurations for analysis or to validate supported product options
• Applies multiple product unit or product option effectivity expressions directly to the BOM 3DEXPERIENCE design environment
• Synchronizes CATIA® configured 3D designs with configured BOMs providing both configured 3D geometry and configured BOM product views

Maximize the value or your AutoCAD design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Cadence Allegro HDL printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Author apparel collection product content in Adobe Illustrator and share it across the enterprise via the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• Allow designers to work exclusively in their native environment, Adobe Illustrator
• Improve collaboration between design and development teams by creating, viewing and updating product data from Adobe
• Allow critical artwork and product information to be created efficiently through the Designer Spec, to facilitate the sample and RFQ processes with external vendors
• Apply enterprise-level data sharing and security without disrupting established end-user work procedures

Author apparel collection product content in Adobe Photoshop and share it across the enterprise via the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform. 

• Allow designers to work in Adobe Photoshop tool and connect to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Improve collaboration between design and development teams by creating, viewing and updating sketches for products, materials and graphics from Adobe Photoshop
• Allow critical artwork to be created or updated efficiently through check in and check out
• Secure you sketches and graphics from editing with lock and unlock capability
• Apply enterprise-level data sharing and security without disrupting established end-user work procedures
• Increase overall end-user efficiency and productivity

Maximize the value or your Creo and Pro/ENGINEER design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Provides a common platform and schema that all applications share
• Stakeholders across the enterprise and extended enterprise understand exactly, in real time, what stage the design is in and what other processes are influencing the designs
• Locations and time zones no longer matter as designs and related information are visible no matter where in the world the users are or when accessed
• The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and Power By xCAD Connectors provide a simple way for users to capture and manage designs directly from within their native tools

Configure Software and System-on-a-Chip Designer to recognize and manage any complex design data type

• Extends Software and System-on-a-Chip Designer
• Leverages complex EDA design data management knowledge
• Provides a programming interface which allows for recognition and management of any complex EDA data type
• Allows icons to be added to the graphical interface which represent EDA data structure elements such as libraries, cell or cell views
• Adds EDA data recognition for any EDA tool, whether third party or internal

Integrates software and System-on-a-Chip Designer into the Cadence Virtuoso graphical design environment

• Industry leader in the management of Cadence DFII design data
• Integrated into the Cadence Virtuoso graphical design environment — designers work in the tools with which they are familiar
• Aware of the unique structure of a Cadence data library
• Manages Cadence data, along with non-Cadence project data, letting companies manage the entire design chain with a unified design data management system

Integrates software and System-on-a-Chip Designer into the Synopsys Galaxy graphical design environment

• Industry leader in the management of Synopsys Milkyway design data
• Integrated into the Synopsys Galaxy Platform design environment — designers work in the tools with which they are familiar
• Aware of the unique structure of a Milkyway database
• Manages Milkyway data, along with non-Milkyway project data, letting you connect and manage your entire design chain using a unified DDM system

Integrates software and System-on-a-Chip Designer with the Synopsys Custom Designer graphical environment

• Designers work in the familiar Synopsys Custom Designer graphical environment
• Vaulting operations are executed with a thorough understanding of the structure of a Synopsys data library
• The product manages Synopsys data, along with non-Synopsys project data, letting companies manage the entire design chain using a unified DDM system
• A “locking model” is enforced, preventing concurrent modification of data which cannot be merged

Maximize the value or your Inventor design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Mentor Graphic Design Manager printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Mentor Graphics Expedition Enterprise printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data
• Reduce the possibility of redundant, inaccurate or out-of-date product information
• Improve design control and business process management to realize truly functional product development and delivery

Maximize the value or your NX design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Solid Edge design data with data management and collaboration while remaining in the native user interface

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Maximize the value or your Zuken CR-5000 printed circuit board design data through collaborative innovation

• Maintain accurate representations of the intended design in the PLM database
• Achieve centralized management of all CAD files
• Control work-in-process, engineering changes, data, documents, and dynamic configurations
• Give non-engineering personnel direct, task-specific access to current CAD data

Links product development data to a program, enabling real-time monitoring and assessment to improve program performance

• Collaborate on contract deliverables with real time reporting on actual status for assigned tasks
• Easily track deliverables through look-ahead and other reports
• Capture, mitigate and report status on project risks, issues, and opportunities
• Track meetings, decisions, and artifact baselines so that traceability is established for historical reference

Improve performance-to-contract when all requirements drive the team

• Improve proposal performance in terms of needed resources, response schedules and proposal win/loss ratio
• Secure program award fees and profits with reliable contract delivery performance
• Increase customer satisfaction as the result of responsive and reliable issue and correspondence management
• Reduce or eliminate penalties and late fees through better management of contract work items, schedules, deliverables, and all adjustments and changes

Convert ACIS data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enable 3DEXPERIENCE collaboration with files originally created with the ACIS modeler format
• Import and export the ACIS files to and from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Migrate from ACIS-modeler based applications to 3DEXPERIENCE applications

Convert AutoCAD data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on AutoCAD application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from AutoCAD to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Convert Creo and Pro/ENGINEER data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on CREO and Pro/ENGINEER application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from CREO or Pro/ENGINEER to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Supports Data exchange between ICEM Surf and CATIA.

• Read / Write native ICEM Surf native data files (*.icem) within the 3DExperience platform.
• Supports Batch CATUtil for multiple file configurations.

Convert IFC data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Collaborate with partners using IFC – a standard and open format (ISO 16739:2013)
• Make partner contributions available across the company for global business processes
• Use IFC data when design in context 3DEXPERIENCE applications
• Import IFC data into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to hold design reviews for better product quality

Convert Inventor data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on INVENTOR application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from INVENTOR to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Enables users to reuse or migrate MicroStation application data in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• Provide a smooth transition of MicroStation models for consumption  into the 3DEXPERIENCE environment
• Utilize MicroStation data by migrating data from MicroStation format on an as needed basis into the 3DEXPERINECE platform
• Import MicroStation files with exact data for collaborative design extension or as tessellated models for downstream visualization

Convert NX data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on NX application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from NX to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Provides linear static and dynamic simulation techniques to be used in a multi-solver environment

• High-performance post-processing of Nastran results
• Nastran import/export of meshes, models, and results

Convert Parasolid data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• The supported Parasolid file types are “x_t” and “x_b”
• Enables users to collaborate on Parasolid modeler files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from Parasolid to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Reuse, Share, and Migrate STEP Data between CAD Systems and the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform

• Collaborate with partners using STEP – a standard and open format (ISO 10303)
• Make partner contributions available across the company for global business processes
• Use STEP data to “design in context” with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Archive 3DEXPERIENCE designs in STEP format

Convert SolidEdge data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Enables users to collaborate on Solid Edge application files by importing them into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Enables customers to migrate from NX to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Enables users to reuse, share and migrate SDM and DTM formatted data from Geology & Mine Planning applications for use with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  

• Migrate and reuse data from various systems that support the SDM or DTM file format.
• Consolidate SDM or DTM contributions for downstream global business processing.
• Incorporate SDM or DTM data into 3DEXPERIENCE applications for better collaboration between geoscience and engineering for smooth projects

Convert XMpLant data to unlock the value of data-driven collaborative and innovation business processes

• Migrate and reuse data from various systems that support the XMpLant file format
• Consolidate data from multiple sources to use in design review analysis and interference detection
• Incorporate XMpLant® data into 3DEXPERIENCE applications for designing and simulating a product

Create and explore conceptual ideas through a comprehensive set of applications addressing ideation, concept modeling and visualization.

• Import 2D sketches and develop ideas with a unique 3D-Sketching technology.

• Sculpt in 3D with ultra-fast virtual clay modeling using subdivision surface technology.

• Design within the context of the Human.

• Transform real objects to virtual from a set of 2D photos.

• Visualize products and work on colors and trims with high-end real-time visualization and photo-realistic rendering.
• Create, edit and modify Ambiences

Create Cutting Tool Assembly Catalogs for NC Programmers

• Helps standardize on common practices for tool use across the machine shop or the entire enterprise
• Uses the ISO13399 standard for cutting tool data representation and exchange to create tool geometry and assign cutting attributes automatically to make them usable in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Manage design activities and deliverables with automatic synchronization  into a traceable product Design History File

• Full traceability from Design Input to Output  to ensure designs satisfies requirements
• Identified, capture and  mitigate  Hazards
• Single version of the truth between R&D, Quality and Manufacturing

Manage issues and defects in complex system-on-chip product hierarchies

• Centralized specification of tool suites and control of tool configuration settings
• Automatic setup of development instances
• Automated setup and maintenance of module and file caches
• Registration of development areas with the enterprise
• Automatically synchronize of product structures and module hierarchies
• Report a defect against a product revision
• Perform hierarchical defect impact analysis
• Track defect resolutions in defect actions

Drive the forecasting process to create a consensus sales forecast with high accuracy

• Aggregate and disaggregate data, and view and edit them at the right hierarchy level and time granularity – all in real time
• Organize data for forecasting based on attributes
• Execute multiple statistical forecasting methods
• Incorporate promotional events and events and opportunities into the sales forecast
• Facilitate Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) via new product introductions
• Create what-if scenarios and evaluate their impact on business KPIs
• Track forecasting accuracy

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.

Create exact geometries making accurate measurements without modifying original geometrical definitions.

• Make all the necessary measurements for complicated parts with high accuracy, including projected line measurements on an arbitrary plane, ensuring accurate clearance checks for design reviewers.
• Quickly review FTA annotations and dimensions by displaying only the relevant information accelerating the process for design reviewers and managers.
• Share review results with downstream processes easier and more accurately in 3DExperience Platform preventing unwanted modifications of the original design definitions

Resolve issues earlier by working on the latest virtual product globally

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with 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

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

• Resolve issues more quickly using collaborative digital mockup reviews on the virtual prototype with 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

Simplify device master record management in a single version of the truth

• A single version of the truth—the latest product information, captured in a centralized environment.  
• Enterprise change control process between parts, specification and technical documents
• Baseline Device Master throughout product evolution
• Consume Device Master Record documents with a simple package and download

Create, Simulate, and Validate Complex NC Drilling and Riveting Programs

• Extended drill & rivet capabilities to customized the 3D representation of the rivet
• Define fasteners from the geometry definition
• Add customer manufacturing information to fasteners
• Provides flexible management of fasteners
• Easily view operations to be performed
• Ensure riveting actions are perpendicular
• Organize simulation reviews with powerful simulation capabilities for early validation
• Create accurate collision simulations of fastener installation
• Use simulation results to make corrections to the process