 | | | Functionality and support |  Shape design and styling solutions help define 3-D models of product ideas that express design intent and produce high quality engineering surfaces to drive NC manufacturing. By providing Dassault Systems’ CATIA product line and our proven technology, we can help you implement enabling applications as well as the infrastructure to support it. |
| | | | The experience and the technology | Shape design and styling solutions provides industry-leading design applications from Dassault Systemes. Our high-performance workstations and servers, with superior middleware, integration and technical support, support the solutions. Our solutions: - Offer CATIA software, which helps serve the needs of more than 24,000 customers and has more than 180,000 seats in daily production
- Provide IBM installation experts that can install and customize engineering environments, whether you have one or thousands of seats, in a single location or sites worldwide
- Run on certified IBM IntelliStation® workstations and support a range of graphics cards, including NVIDIA, ATI, 3Dlabs, Intense3D, ELSA and Intergraph
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| | | | The right technology |  In addition to helping designers quickly and easily create 3-D conceptual models, shape design and styling solutions can enable the creation of high-quality surfaces that can then be analyzed to ensure quality. Once defined, these same surfaces can be used to define the molds or dies and then the related NC manufacturing paths.
The CATIA modules for shape design and styling are: - Realtime Rendering -- provides virtual realtime display of design changes
- Generative Shape Design -- defines shapes as a combination of wireframe and surface features
- FreeStyle Sketch Tracer -- allows the transformation of 2-D design content to 3-D
- Generative Shape Optimizer -- helps deform complex shapes
- Class A Optimizer -- enables the creation of Class A quality surfaces to drive downstream manufacturing processes
- Photo Studio -- generates photo-realistic images and animations
- Freestyle Shaper -- enables dynamic creation of shape and surface designs
- Freestyle Optimizer -- globally change multiple surfaces
- Quick Surface Reconstruction -- offers several surface recovery approaches
- Digitized Shape Editor -- addresses data editing and quality checking with near realtime diagnosis
- Freestyle Profiler -- addresses intuitive dynamic surface creation by sweeping a profile curve along guides
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| | | | Supporting conceptual design | One of the world’s leading manufacturers needed a design solution that could help them conceptualize complex bottle surfaces and quickly handle multiple design variations. In addition, they wanted to implement systems that supported the new application, but leveraged their existing infrastructure.
The company’s choice was CATIA from Dassault Systemes and IBM, running on Windows NT®. The selection was influenced by the software’s ability to handle complex designs and variations rapidly, as well as its open architecture and Web accessibility. CATIA's ability to run on the lower-cost Windows NT platform was an added bonus. |
| | | | Getting your money’s worth | Shape design and styling solutions can help lower your total cost of ownership by: - Providing one integrated system that links design and manufacturing
- Leveraging open standards to support diverse computing environments to preserve your previous IT investments
- Providing application flexibility and multiple operating systems choices
- Offering easy-to-use tools to reduce training costs and help designers be productive quickly
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