A 2-Step Approach to Optimize Your CATIA V5 Products with MODSIM

Today’s exciting product innovation possibilities include autonomous operation, sustainability, electrification, connectivity, and more, creating new market leadership opportunities. However, innovation starts with great design. By unifying design and simulation tools, teams can left-shift the design process, supporting a performance-driven design approach that will result in market-leading products.

In this context, you may already use a wide range of CATIA V5 tools and features for creating complex and detailed designs. However, do you benefit from simulation applications to analyze their performance and optimize it? If this isn't your case yet, let's see how to leverage this integrated MODeling & SIMulation approach, called “MODSIM”, at your own pace, in a 2-step or 2-option process.

Develop the Best Design by Optimizing it Thanks to V5 or Stand-Alone

With the CATIA SFE Portfolio, CAE and CAD teams can 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 V5 includes many simulation applications. Additionally, by taking a first step, CATIA V5 users can share and manage their CATIA V5 product designs and other documents on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. They can also review projects, manage tasks, and collaborate instantly. IT costs are reduced, and management is simplified. The connection offered by Collaborative Designer for CATIA V5 makes your company more agile and productive, even from the home office.

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Why Not Benefit From the Unique Capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE on Top of CATIA V5?

Because both SIMULIA and CATIA solutions operate on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, they share a common user interface, which makes it easy to create designs, setup and run simulations, and share results using a web browser. A single-source of data ensures all team members are leveraging the current design to evaluate and improve product performance. As Cloud services are always on and secure, you can take advantage of cloud technology without disrupting your processes and finally speed up project delivery.
See below the solutions available to benefit from MODSIM capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

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Explore the MODSIM Solutions Available on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

CATIA software products are packaged as Roles to get you up to speed faster and work more efficiently with all needed applications available at your fingertips. Select a package that corresponds to your role in an organization.

Main Roles
Additional Roles

Concept Structure Engineer

Create agile and robust Conceptual Structure, from shapes to fastening. Explore it thanks to a one click simulation model and find the best design alternative.

Role

Flow Driven Generative Designer

Improve the efficiency of internal fluid systems by generating shapes that respect performance KPI targets, via a streamlined & intuitive workflow experience

Role

Structural Designer

Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature in a guided environment

Role

Structural Engineer

Provide design engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process

Role

Structural Mechanics Engineer

Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, implicit and explicit dynamics, acoustics across a broad range of industrial applications

Role

Structural Performance Engineer

Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions

Role

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
Alexi Charbonneau
In charge of skateboard and cabin, Canoo