 | The next generation CATIA Solution Version 5 is built on a totally new scalable architecture which combines the best of the current CATIA technologies with new generation standards. It offers total single system image across native Microsoft® Windows® and UNIX® environments, and an extensible environment capable of supporting all aspects of the digital enterprise, from digital mock-up, digital manufacturing, to digital operation and digital plant definition. The Version 5 system architecture offers a unique scalability environment which gives to customers the choice of selecting the optimum set of solutions, given the CAD specialization of the intended users, the complexity of the project and corresponding functional requirements. The three possible choices are CATIA Platform 1 (P1), CATIA P2 and CATIA P3 installations. Features - The ultimate in 3D design technology for even more user-friendly and advanced 3D usage based on leading edge technology
- Core user functions for CATIA Version 5 P3 product and user interface consistent with all CATIA Version 5 applications
- Extreme ease of use due to a state-of-the-art user interface for CAD systems
- Immersive 3D manipulation and modification of objects
- Unrivalled quality of visualization
Key customer benefits - Ultimate in 3D technology
CATIA Platform 3 (P3) solutions offer highly advanced, knowledge-based digital product and process development environment. CATIA P3 products comprise highly specialized industry specific solutions, all of which are targeted to meet advanced design requirements for selected critical industrial processes, such as aerospace, sheetmetal, airframe design, and automotive Class A styling. The completely reengineered CATIA Version 5 is built upon next generation technologies such as C++, object-oriented programming, STEP, CORBA and OpenGL, OLE, and Java™ software. These leading-edge standards ensure architecture scalability, and increased overall system quality and openness.
- Extreme ease of use
With CATIA Object Manager 3, designers focus on creativity rather than software manipulation. You benefit from all Windows standards for ergonomics. All applications are homogeneous and therefore let you combine their usage seamlessly along your design. Your specifications are structured in a tree view with a user-friendly navigation. The interface is structured around integrated workbenches that comprise the necessary tools needed to make tasks readily accessible. Customizations are possible to fit your specific needs. For example, you can customize your graphical user interface by creating your personal toolbars or selecting your favorite workbenches.
- Immersive 3D manipulation and modification of objects
A key element in CATIA V5 is the intelligent object creation providing direct 3D manipulation and modification of objects. You can manipulate the visual presentation with such functions as rotation and translation while modifying them. Rather than having to enter values, you can move and directly modify objects or employ the drag and drop technique, which works with tools as well as objects. With auto-detection guides, the system highlights object relations (such as parallelism) and best choices to guide you in the selection and creation process.
- Unrivalled visualization
CATIA V5 provides through CATIA Object Manager 3 unrivalled quality of visualization. Actually, "What You See Is What You Get" as the simulation fully reflects the reality for both product structure and motions (user manipulations and assembly interferences). Graphic performance is enhanced due to the level of detail management, depth cueing (clip and fog) and multithreaded graphics (IBM-AIX, SGI-IRIX and SUN-Solaris). Ground and light source effects allow the digital mock-up to be placed in a reference environment.
- Specification driven to accelerate design process
Version 5 provides a unique specification driven and generative modeling approach, which captures and re-uses process specifications, ultimately accelerating the design process. Version 5 offers a specification modeler which allows you to concentrate the design effort on establishing the proper design specifications while leaving it to the system to compute or update the resulting geometry when required. Such an approach is implemented as a generalized mechanism for all Version 5 applications. The specification modeler offers unique ways to manage links between objects stored in different documents thus making possible multi-user implementations and concurrent engineering methodologies. The persistence of objects facilitates the implementation of your methodologies and especially concurrent engineering.
- Capture and reuse knowledge
Version 5 captures the design intent as design specifications, and allows you to edit either the specifications themselves or the resulting geometry. Beyond a traditional parametric or variational approach, this third generation of modeling technology offers both flexibility and high productivity gains. As a basic function of CATIA Version 5, it is possible to establish and manage design specifications in the form of parameters and formulas. The Design Table relation allows you to create part variations from a table of parameter values. Configurations can then be modified automatically and/or dynamically, providing you smart parts. COM is the entry point to knowledgeware tools: Knowledge Optimizer, Knowledge Advisor, Knowledge Expert, Generative Knowledge.
- Advanced features for high productivity
In order to accelerate designer productivity, the system provides advanced usability features including dynamic and mouse-based manipulation of geometrical objects, availability of numerous multi-selection options avoiding repetitive tasks or selections; and a power input approach for shortcutting most panel selections. With the 3D compass, you always keep a precise awareness and control over parts movements and can make a quick drag and drop and snap.
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