Powerful Tools for a Simulation-Driven Design Process.
Today, several global developments impact product design and engineering at the same time and drive major transformations. Higher environmental standards lead businesses and consumers to reconsider and to extend their priorities. New energy and engine technologies, the digitalization of development, the products themselves and progress in automation present a new and ever evolving context for virtual product definition, design and testing. At the same time market globalization is progressing, customization and safety standards keep constantly growing.
The 3DEXPERIENCE empowers engineers, scientists, managers and entire companies to navigate this future. The CATIA | SFE Portfolio provides the parametric geometry capabilities for a high-performance science-based process.
CAE and CAD teams in the automotive industry appreciate the fast creation, parametric flexibility and re-usage value of their CATIA | SFE CONCEPT model libraries. That strongly helps in order to have a quick first model representing the project status very early in the process. Furthermore, CATIA | SFE CONCEPT provides this geometry status as finite element mesh right away, that allows to get feedback of the body structure performance very early as well.
The future of simulation-driven design and multi-discipline performance optimization belongs to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
All aspects of the process are covered: Administration of management decisions and product requirements, creating and reporting early simulation results and even the daily communication of expert teams with each other and with their management. Highly complex cycles like multi-discipline design optimization become easily accessible and benefit greatly from the concurrent process and the unified user experience that considers the needs of everyone involved.
To reach the seamless, reliable development, repeated simulations have to be carried out at an early stage of the process, even when many characteristics of the product are still unknown.
CATIA | SFE CONCEPT is a leading solution for early phase performance-driven conceptual design. CAE and CAD teams in body structure design invest in CATIA | SFE CONCEPT to create a conceptual geometry quickly and early in the process. They keep modifying it conveniently to study many variants and they create ready-to-run FE simulation models from the geometry on the fly.
CATIA | SFE AKUSMOD is a powerful tool for setup and evaluation of interior acoustic simulations in passenger vehicle bodies. CATIA | SFE AKUSMOD puts you into a position to check and to improve acoustics/NVH in an early stage by identifying what parts of the vehicle body contribute to noise emission and vibration.
SFE helped us create the CAE model upfront without CAD data. Within two weeks, we had a full vehicle model up and running. After six months, we synced the two, and the CAD drove the CAE in terms of refinement. We gained a lot of development speed by going straight from the CAE to the CAD, and not the traditional CAD leading the CAE
Hello all,Have you noticed the new "Symbolic material" option in the View Modes panel ? It allows to display symbolic information about threads in any shading rendering mode (with or without materials).Note: before, this thread information was not displayed if the Shading with Materials mode was used.threadsHoles
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A collaborative project with DIAKOMOLD, under the project management of Hamid Fallah.My role focused on reverse engineering the horseshoe from the supplied 3D scan data, reconstructing its geometry and creating the CAD model for the next stages of development. A sincere thank you to Hamid Fallah and the DIAKOMOLD team for their trust and professional collaboration. It was a pleasure to contribute
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According to PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey, only 1 in 8 CEOs say AI delivers both higher revenues and lower costs. Billions invested. Countless pilots. So where is AI creating value?It starts with a real business challenge, and virtual twins give industrial AI the context to solve it.On Thursday, November 19, 2026, join us for the CATIA R2027x Live Release Keynote, in person in Vélizy-Villacoublay
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