What's New in 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA

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

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.

Optimize the physical design of complex electrical and tubing systems.

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

Enable creative design anytime, anywhere on any device, with web browser Applications for 3D Design, Freeform shape sculpting and Pattern design

• Freedom of creativity anytime, anywhere, on any device thanks to browser-based web applications on the Cloud
• Quickly create and explore organic shapes with digital clay modeling approach based on subdivision surface technology
• Quickly generate 3D patterns for styling exploration
• Experience a consistent 3D innovative modeling workflow with a unique integration of state-of-the-art Solid modeling and Assembly capabilities

Ensure the aircraft industrial spaces definition with the right dimensions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Accelerate complex airframe fastened assemblies design, simulation and manufacturing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ensure the consistency of Avionics architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A powerful way to create and manage sophisticated mechanical design for boats

• Cover the end-to-end process of boat modeling, from concept to detailed phase
• Explore multiple ideas and accelerate decision making with virtual design
• Take advantage of advanced develop shape algorithm to ensure product manufacturability

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rapid convergence of chassis and suspension systems development.

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

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

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

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

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

• Accurately create and geolocate realistic 3D terrain representations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Experience new global deformation capabilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Define and manage custom apps developed within the 3DEXPERIENCE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Create manufacturable composite parts with a fully automated manufacturing process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Generate and edit laser projection files to the shopfloor. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Generative, Algorithmic and Computational Modeling for All
• Create any kind of shape regardless of complexity, including advanced wireframe & surface design with high automation.
• Hybrid modeling interface with interactive and graphical scripting.
• Easy & scalable geometric and scripting design patterns that are easy to reuse.
• Contains xShape Design as well as the converters, AEC data model and Geolocation plus much more.

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.

Avoid critical safety issues and late and costly design changes by exploring and validating the complex Human interactions within virtual Aircraft Cockpit

• Innovate, increase comfort and ergonomics with Virtual Humans
• Enhance safety by virtually anticipating possible human errors
• Explore and Define Human Factors References based on validated Aircraft requirements
• Specify main usages, Human Factors Issues and Benefits and Tests Objectives

Virtual Human-centered design solution to imagine, design, adapt and review the physical environment 

• Imagine, explore, consolidate and fine-tune 3D shapes with 3D Sketching and inclusive Modeling technologies
• Experience the design proposal in context of the human with high-end real-time visualization and immersive experience
• Present the design and make decisions with real-time visual experience and accurate photorealistic rendering

Rapid assessment and convergence for the right aircraft system concept by using multi-physics simulation

• Accelerate development convergence by enabling concurrent engineering and common understanding of the system behavior
• Allow performance trade-off of main aircraft systems for different configurations, scenarios
• Rapid estimation of electric power components requirements
• Simplification in design processes by easily composing hydraulic systems

Rapid convergence of controlled surfaces systems and landing gear system development by using multi-physics simulation

• Determine loads acting on linkages due to aerodynamic forces acting on the flap With rigid and flexible bodies
• Optimization Loops between the different parameters for control strategy definition
• Perform dynamic system behavior studies including retraction, deployment, locks and hydraulic system failure, vibrations, wind tests

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.

Import multiple Design/Styling file formats into 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA with one role

• Deliver bundle of converters for creative designers and stylists: 3DEXCITE DELTAGEN Models, ICEM Surf 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 project in a single role

With virtual design, explore more ideas for better design creativity, maturity end design success

• Imagine and explore quickly many creativity styling ideas in 3D with 3D Sketching, Virtual clay Modeling, Color and Material
• Experience the design intent in context of Human with High-End realtime visual and immersive experience
• Present your design and make decision with realtime visual experience and accurate photorealistic rendering

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

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.

Evaluate human postures and user experience for comfort and safety studies at the early stage of conceptual design

• Create and animate human avatars with advanced postures
• Rich specific libraries of high definition humans, environments and materials
• Immersive VR capabilities to explore in a more realistic way the user interactions with the environment
• Create and replay scenarios to review variants and make appropriate design decisions

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

Design and manage all technical areas of the model, collaborate with mock-up organization for technical reviews and facilitate link with engineering teams

• Design and manage all the technical shapes and parts of the model
• Generate variants and review slides for the modeling team with the right openness for style exploration and iterations
• Create and manage the product assembly for the design and Class-A team, managing links and access rights

Accelerate the development and understanding of complex dynamic systems through modeling and simulation.

• Rapidly model and simulate the performance of complex products and systems.
• Accelerate understanding and validation of complex systems through early virtual simulation.
• Quickly find solutions to complex multi-physic system design problems.
• Uses Modelica compliant component models to ensure Intellectual Property capture and re-use.
• Size, tune and optimize system components and parameters quickly, accurately and early in the system design process.

Rapid convergence and investigation of the full electric powertrain performances by using multi-physics simulation

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

Enables the physical design of wire harness and cabling in the context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design and optimize the harness routing
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths
• Generate automatic annotated scaled drawings and needed manufacturing documentation
• Easily synchronized changes to reflect changes in the 3D design to the manufacturing documents

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.

Integrated 3D electrical development environment, which enables the physical design of wire harness and cabling in the context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to improve electrical systems quality and consistency
• Design and optimize electrical BD wire harness bundles and cable ways accurately in the context of the full product
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths

Enables the physical design of cabling and cable tray systems in context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to improve electrical systems quality and consistency
• Design and optimize electrical 3D networks: cable-way and cable tray
• Facilitate the data generation necessary for Manufacturing: Route 3D cables reusing company standard and specification rules to obtain exact cable list, filling ratio, 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.

Ensure the consistency of Electrical, Electronics & Software architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

Integrates the required functionalities for the development and integration of all Electrical and Electronics systems and components.

• Provides a single source of truth for all vehicle Electrical, Electronics and Software Engineering data.
• Enables collaborative design between different disciplines specific data and the management of all design commonality and reuse across vehicle platforms.
• Define and optimize system Electrical & Electronics (E/E) Architecture by distributing functions onto Hardware and Software components, including network definition.
• Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) design for Aerospace and Defense 

Ensure the consistency of Electrical, Electronics & Software architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

Generates Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in order to integrate and simulate the model on other co-simulation platforms

• Automatically generate a reliable Functional Mockup Unit (FMU) that is fully compliant with the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) standard for co-simulation purposes
• Generate standalone executable FMU from a Modelica compliant 3DExperience model for use in other co-simulation environments

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.

Accelerate the detailed design of sophisticated flight control surfaces mechanical systems.

• Support complex design process with best-in-class advanced surface and detailed design apps.
• Track and analyze the entire kinematics behavior of the mechanical system along the complete development process.
• Re-use and adapt complex 3D templates including company design rules and best practices.
• Validate mechanical motions and share to all the stakeholders 3D animations and space reservations.
• Predict the structural behavior of mechanical assemblies.

HVAC, cabin and life sciences engineers automatically generate shapes optimized for fluid flow, minimizing pressure drop and preserving mass flow rate. 

• Generate shapes for internal fluid flows, minimizing pressure drop and preserving the mass flow rate.
• Increase Product Engineering efficiency, removing bottlenecks that usually make it cost-prohibitive to explore optimized parts.
• Intuitive workflow for Design Engineers guides users through the RANS CFD and optimization setup.
• Automatic generation of flow-driven shapes and easy design preparation functions.
• Seamless collaboration between design and simulation departments.

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.

Improve piping, tubing and HVAC systems quality, shorten design time and reduce material costs.

• Implement basic piping and tubing behaviors, relationships, and attributes.
• Design with a highly interactive and intuitive user interface.
• Easy-to-use, manipulation-driven, object-oriented user interface, with dedicated manipulators and commands based on design context.
• Integrate business rules.
• Automatically decompose 3D systems to individual piping and tubing objects, attributes, and relationships on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Optimize development cost for complex structural assemblies.

• Full parametric design , with various construction elements and full integration with simulation tools.
• Perform early study of alternate designs with associated cost estimations.
• Reuse the preliminary design to quickly generate detailed designs automatically.

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.

Credit Pack to enable the automation of 3D tolerances, leveraging the adoption of model based design.

• Automatic generation of Geometrical Tolerances based on the part’s functional description.
• Enable any Tolerancing designer to deliver the product definition faster while respecting the standard compliance.
• Available for any user from the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation app.
• Geometrical Tolerances are created for validation prior to credit consumption.

A unified creative design workflow solution to imagine, create and experience the Industrial Equipment of tomorrow

• Explore and express design ideas with 3D Sketching
• Turn design ideas into a 3D conceptual model thanks to digital clay approach
• Take benefit of realistic materials, environments and High Resolution humans
• Set and review design variants to take accurate decisions
• Design and collaborate in immersive VR to extend the design experience

A complete and unified industrial design solution for Digital Modelers who want to gain competitive advantage by design

• Explore design ideas with 3D Sketching
• Turn design ideas into a 3D conceptual modeling
• Create Class-A Quality surfaces with advanced surface modeling, Advanced surface evaluation and diagnostic tools
• Take benefit of realistic materials, environments and High Resolution humans
• Set and review design variants, even in VR

Express your design intent using human as a reference. Shape ideas with a human in posture for proportion evaluation and concept design validation. Explore and validate the best product user-experience in the early design and engineering phases

• human motion creation functionalities to better explore the consumer experience
• high quality integrated rendering with ambiences, material library and global illumination
• human interactions within experience context
• human as an avatar in VR review immersive context

Accelerate the Hydroformed Sheetmetal part design with respect to manufacturing rules

• Associative and dedicated hydroformed sheet metal feature-based modeling
• Real-time concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded 3D shape representations
• Access to company-defined standards tables and capture corporate knowledge
• Guide to be compliant with standards (ISO, ANSI/ASME and JIS)
• Detect and track interferences, check the weight distribution

Accelerate the Hydroformed Sheetmetal part design of body and chassis

• Design focusing on the cost-effective Hydroformed sheet metal process
• Capture all sheet metal specifications to build a corporate knowledge-based automation
• All company-defined standards tables are made available to increase the design standardization and reduce the manufacturing cost
• Share modifications real-time and work concurrently in teams on the same product