Surface Refinement

Going from Concept to Production Quality Class A Surfaces

What is Surface Refinement?

Surface Refinement is a discipline involved in all processes involving complex surfaces design or re-work. The title “Surface Refinement” is an industry expression encompassing all the processes required to reach a very high level of quality in surface design. The corresponding tasks for CAD users are mainly:

Geometry quality & mathematic optimization
Continuities between surfaces
Curvature & reflection highlight refining
High-quality & realistic rendering review

The Art of Explicit Surface Modeling

Thanks to the powerful and industry leading Curve and Surface modeling tools (ICEM Surf), designers have the full freedom to create high quality Class A surface geometry within intuitive and ergonomically optimized user interface supporting the need for rapid and efficient interactions during geometry creation and modifications.

The next generation of surface modeling for Styling & Class A ICEM Design Experience delivers an innovative, new, specialized modeling application on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for CAS and Class A surfacing specialists. It delivers a comprehensive and completely integrated set of tools for industrial design, providing a high level of design freedom, an efficient and intuitive user interface, and precise, industry-leading surface results.

CATIA Surface Refinement Highlight 1 Media > Dassault Systemes

Improve Your Design Shapes and Production Surfaces

Why do we believe that our customers are facing an increasing need for high quality complex shapes? In all industries, product sophistication is a necessary trend to meet final customer expectations. To get a chance to stay competitive on the market, companies now have to take care of aspects that cannot be avoided anymore, among which:

High technology
Industrial design merging nature and technology
Customization (market segmentation)
Sustainability

Seek for Perceived Quality

CATIA Surface Refinement solutions, as the globally accepted industry standard, offers key benefits to reach aesthetical criteria within technical constraints:

Innovative flexible sculpting tool
Sophisticated industry-driven diagnostics
Explicit and parametric solutions
Highly accurate precision
Scalable from entry-level to expert solutions
Reach of the right level of surface quality on time

CATIA Surface Refinement > Dassault Systemes

On the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, CATIA Surface Refinement 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.