CATIA Version 4 is the leading CAD/CAM/CAE system in the marketplace. It supports digital design processes from concept to reality in most of the manufacturing industries, as evidenced by numerous digital mock-up realizations. It offers unique design flexibility, which can accommodate even the most sophisticated product designs involving hybrid-modeling techniques, while preserving the ability to make late engineering changes.
CATIA-CADAM V4 Equipment and Systems Engineering Discipline integrates electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical systems within a 3D digital mock-up while optimizing space allocation. Component compatibility and predefined rules are checked to ensure proper connection between all system components.
CATIA-CADAM V4 Manufacturing Discipline enables accurate design, simulation, and optimization of a variety of manufacturing processes using the complete "Digital Manufacturing Process System" approach. Based on the single technological infrastructure, which capitalizes and standardizes the manufacturing knowledge of the enterprise, the user can program production resources such as drilling, 3 to 5 axis milling, and turning machines and robots off-line.
CATIA-CADAM V4 Analysis and Simulation Discipine provides complete and integrated, finite, element-based capabilities to analyze solid and surfacic parts and assemblies from automatic meshing. Full-time analysts requiring sophisticated tools for structural analysis benefit from the ELFINI internal solver or from integrated industry-standard external solvers. Also, a transparent and user-friendly analysis tool brings to design the power of stress analysis technology.
Other disciplines include Shape Design and Styling, Infrastructure, Mechanical Design, and Plant Design and Shipbuilding. CATIA-CADAM Version 4 supports best engineering practices to optimize design productivity, shortening design cycles while improving product quality and reducing design cost.
To further extend the support of product lifecycle integration, the CATIA Version 4 open architecture and application programming interfaces allow you to tailor your product development system to your own particular needs.
