Construction

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Import multiple Construction file formats into 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA with one role.

• Delivers a bundle of converters for Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Civil Engineering: Autodesk Revit Models, McNeal Rhinoceros 3D Models, Autodesk FBX Models, OBJ Models and Collada Models.
• Instead of buying individual converter roles, get all the converters for a construction project in a single role.

Create a defined engineering template capturing knowledge behavior parameters for reuse.

• Create features, parts and assembly templates interactively that encapsulate geometry specifications, associated parameters and relations for associative reuse.
• Define engineering template capture.
• Re-use design from all applications.
• Easily and interactively capture engineering know-how and methodology for highly efficient reuse.
• Enrich templates with formulas, equations, knowledge patterns, reactions and equation resolution.