Engineering

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

An integrated 3D electrical development environment which enables the physical design of wire harnesses and cabling in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• 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 avoid the need of costly physical prototypes, thus reducing costs.
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths.

An integrated 3D electrical development environment which enables the physical design of wire harnesses in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• 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.
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths. 
• Reduce the need for costly physical prototypes and decreasing design and manufacturing cost.

Generate harness manufacturing documentation or formboard layouts using a highly automated process fully integrated with the 3D wire harness design.

• Flatten the 3D harness in a 2D plane and optimize the complete layout for formboard preparation and full scale drawing generation.
• Generate automatic annotated full scale harness documentation including drawings and reports.
• Manage synchronization of all generated documents to reflect changes in the 3D design.

Simplify the design and management of complex fastened assemblies.

• Define, position and instantiate fasteners easily, for any general fastening technology.
• Reduce errors by leveraging company rules and standard checks in the fastener definition.
• Reduce time in Assembly Definition by analyzing millions of fastening links.
• Facilitate real collaboration and synchronization between engineering and manufacturing departments.
• Detect clashes between a fastener and a part, or between fasteners.
• Quickly identify fasteners and fastened parts.

An integrated 3D fluid systems development environment which enables the physical design of tubing, piping and HVAC systems in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes and HVAC from basic routing definition to detailed design.
• Take advantage of generative and specification driven design and automated part placement capabilities to ensure compliance with corporate and industry standards.
• Create spools and all necessary associative drawings and reports.

Explore and generate organic specification driven shapes, for additive and traditional manufacturing.

• Automatically generate function-driven conceptual and detailed organic shapes.
• Reduce product-costs with an efficient product engineering tools.
• Capture all functional specifications.
• Easily validate the structural behavior of multiple concepts.
• Perform a trade-off studies to select the best concept.
• Assist designers to easily validate concepts before moving to manufacturing.

Design and refine Science-based Generative and Functional Shapes.

• Seamless integration with Function Driven Generative Designer.
• Fully scalable with a specialist solution.
• Interactive selection to automatically define key parameters to include for refinement.
  
• Reduce local stresses and further reduce mass through shape optimization.
• Drive the design to meet KPIs by leveraging single objective parametric optimization.

Provide an associative feature-based modeling to design hydroformed sheet-metal representations in concurrent engineering.

• Reduce design and manufacturing errors thanks to process oriented sheet-metal features.

• Cut tooling design thanks to dedicated manufacturing preparation functions.

• Cut design modifications capitalizing IP and applying automated design and check rules.

• Reduce decision times using concurrent engineering delivered by the single platform.

Create complex plastic, cast and forged parts for automotive interiors.

• Create advanced surface design capabilities for plastic parts, for cast and forged parts with behavior-driven mechanical features.

• Apply know-how rules capitalizing best design practices, automates all tasks from simple to complex.

• Provide strong engineering validation capabilities.

• Create parts of any complexity while ensuring compliance to engineering requirements.

• Deliver direct access to manufacturing-ready parts without having to proceed with multiple design iterations.

Allow the creation and management of sophisticated Machine and Equipment products. 

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Be ready to overcome new challenges with a scalable solution.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Take benefits from your assets and reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies with flexibility.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.

Create and manage sophisticated mechanical projects, including advanced surface design.

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Overcome new challenges with a scalable solution.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.
• Reduce design and manufacturing errors with process-oriented sheetmetal & weld features

Create and manage sophisticated mechanical projects.

• Reduce design and manufacturing errors with process-oriented sheetmetal & weld features
• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Overcome new challenges with a scalable solution.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Benefit from your assets and reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.

A sophisticated and productive mechanical design add-on role, complementing the product definition & creation process.

• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.
• Accelerate detailed design and check the feasibility to ensure manufacturing requirements.
• Accelerate your design with natural manipulations and contextual interactions.

Create and manage the simulation of products which include complex mechanisms including new Static Study application

• Understand and review large mechanisms.
• Create a complex mechanical system from elementary mechanisms.
• Capitalize on your assets.
• Limit physical prototypes and produce right the first time.
• Track and analyze the entire kinematics behavior of your system.
• Collaborate effectively.
• Guided workflows for linear static analysis.
• Part and assembly simulation with linear contact.
• Automated modeling. 
• Local compute.

Automate design tasks and assist user decision-making at any step of a complex mold design.

• Accelerate the complete mold and tooling process, from molded part design to mold design.
• Access to plastic injection accessible in the environment of the mold designer.
• Manage parting lines and parting surfaces with dedicated features, support design change automation.
• Propose catalogs of standard mold-bases and intelligent tooling systems, automate design tasks and assist user decision-making.
• Facilitate and reduce design change from the part to the mold by using automatic update.

A flexible and highly-customizable set of applications to detail and validate mold tooling design.

• Accelerate the complete mold and tooling process.
• Manage parting lines and parting surfaces with dedicated features.
• Propose catalogs of standard mold-bases and intelligent tooling systems including kinematics animation for design validation.
• Automate design tasks and assist user decision-making.
• Reduce design change from the part to the mold using automatic update
• Lead the designer to the right methodology for complex mold structures

Create and manage multi-discipline & mechanical projects, with one single full 3D product definition.

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical & sheetmetal design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Scalable solution to overcome new challenges.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Take benefits from your assets and reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.
• Create the full definition (dimensions and tolerances) directly on 3D.

Create and manage multi-discipline & mechanical projects, with one single full 3D product definition. 

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical & sheetmetal design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Enrich your design with sophisticated and complex shapes.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Reuse existing designs.
• Flexibly work on large assemblies.

Create and manage multi-discipline & mechanical projects.

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies.

Optimize the creation of any sophisticated mechanical chassis product.

• Reuse existing designs to gain productivity and cost, and feature based design to embed bets practices and manufacturability rules.

• Provide all capabilities required for a complex chassis design, including sheet-metal parts, forged parts, advanced kinematics and complex surfaces.

• Define components with custom behaviors, delivering engineering connections and mechanism animation.

• Anticipate any manufacturing and assembly instruction feasibility.

• Experience direct manipulation, advanced surface and detailed design features which allow multi-skills design and cover all complex surface requirements.

Design rigid and flexible printed circuit boards while taking the overall mechanical design into account.

• Create 3D mechanical shapes of printed circuit boards in the context of the mechanical assembly.
• Retrieval and intelligent placement of electronic components from ECAD through the bi-directional IDF (Intermediate Data Format) & IDX (Interdomain Design eXchange) format.
• Define flexible circuit boards, including electronic components, working interchangeably between the flattened and folded representation.

Address the complete high-tech product enclosure design process and leverage design intent with engineering excellence.

• Delivers ultra-fast functional modeling applications addressing the complete design-to-manufacturing preparation process of molded parts.
• Provide manufacturing-ready plastic, sheet-metal, cast and forged parts, as well as machined parts.
• Integrate both rigid and flexible printed circuit boards (PCB) for designing concurrently.
• Address all your design needs, from easy brackets and chassis to the most sophisticated and complex housings.
• Prevent manufacturing concerns such as mold filling time, flow restrictions, air entrapments, weld lines, way up-front in the design phase.

Optimize the product definition process, respecting key performance indicators.

• Define and capture engineering templates. 
• Create sophisticated templates, without complexity for end-users.
• Model product constraints as a set of equations and inequations, to interact and discover solutions to a given problem.
• Enrich templates with Formulas, Equations, Knowledge patterns, Reactions, Equation resolution.
• Product optimization convergence allows Min Max optimization, design of experience, constraint satisfaction.

Create Quality Check Profiles specific to OEMs, processes and projects to control and guarantee the quality of their models.

• Full integration of 3DSearch and drag & drop functionality, user can easily affect project’s model to this application in order to assess and follow their quality.
• Synthetic view allows faster highlighting and identifying of defects.
• Adapt view: This dashboard can be customized to become more efficient using filters, 6WTags and calculation modes. 

Optimize virtual 3D shapes from simulation results or digitized real operating or manufacturing conditions.

• Import and optimize clouds of points and STL data, create and refine meshes.
• Create virtual shape from simulation computation or digitization results.
• Compare nominal shape with predicted or real shape and measure deviations.
• Update and optimize nominal shape by applying or compensation difference.
• Compensate forming deformation. 

Advanced Design of Rigid-Flex printed circuit boards to optimize layout and material cost. 

• Optimize the modeling and shape of rigid-flex printed circuit boards within the digital mock-up to reduce material usage and costs.
• Retrieve electronic components from ECAD through the bi-directional IDF interface (Intermediate Data Format).
• Ease of working interchangeably between the flattened and folded rigid-flex printed circuit boards.

A sophisticated and advanced shape design add-on role, complementing the product definition & high-quality surface creation process.

• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Enrich your design with sophisticated and complex shapes.
• Reuse existing designs.
• Accelerate your design with natural manipulations and contextual interactions.
• Increase efficiency on everyday tasks and increase productivity on very tedious manual tasks during shape design.
• Enrich mechanical products with sophisticated & high-quality shapes.

Allow the creation and management of sophisticated Machine & Equipment products with complex surface. 

• Cover the END-TO-END process for mechanical design.
• Explore innovative solutions and workable concepts for detailed design.
• Reduce time-to-market by designing right the first time.
• Be ready to overcome new challenges with a scalable solution.
• Collaborate with your team and others.
• Take benefits from your assets and reuse existing designs.
• Work on large assemblies with flexibility.
• Be more efficient on everyday tasks.

Accelerate the complete sheetmetal process from design to manufacturing.

• Dedicated solution including Conceptual Design, Detail Design, Advanced Detail Design and Manufacturing Preparation.
• Reduces design and manufacturing errors thanks to process oriented sheet metal features.
• Cuts tooling design thanks to dedicated manufacturing preparation functions.
• Cuts design modifications capitalizing IP and applying automated design and check rules.
• Reduces Decision times using concurrent engineering delivered by the single platform.

Define a project’s working area and subdivide it into zones assigned with a functional classification.

• Ensure compliance with requirements and classification rules.
• Define a coherent design policy by all downstream designers.
• Associate and search design data with spaces for weight and resource estimation in early design phase
• Define 3D grids to be used as design guide.
• Divide the working area into spaces used for design and manufacturing purposes.
• Associate physical and logical objects with spaces.
• Report, 2D layout and GAP creation based on space.

Design for manufacturing of best in class stamping die tools.

• Increases productivity by guiding users from the conceptual planning through to detailed tooling design of complex stamped sheet metal parts.
• Early concept method planning allows to anticipate manufacturing constraints and facilitates collaboration between design, tooling and the supply chain.
• Easy to use specialist features and wizards guide the user in best practices, helping the tool designer work with and extend complex surfaces without having to be a surfacing expert.

Detail design and Intelligent component positioning on metallic structures.

• Provides full parametric detail design with realistic geometric viewing.
• Experience precise and accurate detail design without errors and rework.
• Supports tight and seamless integration with manufacturing.
• Intelligent arrangement of the equipment and components.
• Efficient ways to define templates.
• Define dedicated PLM Objects for detail design and equipment systems
• AEC compliant.
• Synchronization with automatic profile limitation

A comprehensive set of applications that allows designers to create and modify packages accurately.

• Provides a highly productive and intuitive design environment providing different tools to fulfill packaging needs.
• Reduces design and manufacturing errors thanks to process oriented structural package features.
• Cuts tooling design thanks to dedicated standards preparation.
• Cuts design modifications capitalizing IP throw templates and applying automated design using power-copy.
• Reduces decision-times using concurrent engineering delivered by the single platform.

Supports metallic structure design from preliminary design to detail design.

• Support full parametric design with various construction elements.
• Perform early estimation of preliminary design for manufacturing planning.
• Experience robust and flexible detail design piece parts generation.
• Design without errors and rework, plus includes realistic detail design viewing.
• Seamless integration and collaboration with manufacturing and other disciplines.

Create intelligent schematics from principle to detailed definition for Wiring, Cabling, Piping/Tubing and HVAC systems.

• Define electrical and fluid systems interconnection diagrams for a complete systems definition.
• Design assistance and traceability between the systems engineering  process steps and capture attributes and technology automatically within the schematic.
• Analyze connectivity and quality of schematic design and ensure synchronization with the 3D design using business intelligence rules.

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.

A 3D Piping & Tubing development environment for the physical design of bendable and flexible tubing and piping systems.

• Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes from basic routing definition to detailed design.
• Take advantage of company defined component catalogs for standard parts.
• Create spools and all necessary reports.