 | 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 3 possible choices are CATIA Platform 1 (P1), CATIA P2 and CATIA P3 installations. Features - Leading edge technology and advanced features for high productivy on a single system image on native Windows and UNIX environments
- Ease of Use due to a state-of-the-art user interface for CAD systems
- Design knowledge can be captured and reused to introduce company standards in the design phase and to increase productivity
- Outstanding visualization
Key customer benefits - Leading-edge technology
The completely reengineered CATIA Version 5 is built upon next generation technologies such as C++, object oriented programming, STEP, CORBA and OpenGL, OLE, Java. These leading-edge standards ensure architecture scalability, and increased overall system quality and openness.
- Ease of use
As with all CATIA V5 applications, CATIA Object Manager 2 (COM) enables designers to focus on creativity rather than software manipulation. 3D design becomes natural and intuitive with CATIA V5 user interface. 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 beside the 3D view. The interface is structured around integrated workbenches that comprise the necessary tools needed to make user tasks readily accessible. These workbenches are totally customizable to fit your specific needs.
- Direct manipulation and modification of objects
A key element in CATIA V5 is the intelligent object creation providing direct 3D manipulation and modification of objects, rather than having to enter values. 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 commands 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.
- Windows and UNIX environments
Thanks to single system image, CATIA V5 users can work with Windows XP® or UNIX environments or a combination of both. CATIA Object Manager 2 provides core user functions, an identical set of utilities with a consistent user interface across both platforms. Because V5 data is totally compatible, it can be seamlessly exchanged between UNIX and Windows XP.
- 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 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 to edit either the specifications themselves or the resulting 3D geometry. Beyond a traditional parametric or variational approach, this third generation of modeling technology offers both flexibility and high productivity gains to users. 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 to create part variations from a table of parameter values. Configurations can then be modified automatically and/or dynamically, providing you smart parts.
- External application integration
Standard data exchange and publishing formats enable you to integrate information across the office environment. When used in the Windows NT environment, native Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) enables users to insert any type of CATIA objects into other OLE applications such as Excel, PowerPoint or Microsoft Word and the equivalent Lotus® SmartSuite products. Conversely, for example, you can insert a word document in a CATIA drafting.
- Automation of repetitive tasks
COM can record macros in a Visual Basic® format from the capture of user interactions to automate repetitive tasks. These macros can be replayed and recorded either on NT or UNIX platforms regardless of which platform they were recorded on. COM is integrated with external OLE application on Windows only.
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- Windows 2000, NT, XP, 98
- SUNOS
- IRIX
- HP-UX
- Test
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