Description :
- The unique CATIA V5 composites design solution
- Relational design
- Knowledgeware inside
- The solution to take over from CATIA V4
Customer benefits :
Composites at the heart of your products...
For manufacturing companies of various sectors such as consumer goods, aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding, composites parts are now becoming a standard in the list of materials specifications. Those parts represent moreover key and/or core areas of the final product. So if you need to design composites assemblies such as a central section of a plane, the hull of a ship or a racing car, or even a golf club, you will get with CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) Configuration, the solution to optimize your composites design process.
THE CATIA V5 composites design solution...
The CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) Configuration is obviously the fully native V5 based solution to design composites parts. This total integration is, for the user, the guarantee of the best incorporation from the composites parts into the Digital Mock-up. This allows a better concurrent engineering management, a faster FEA simulation involvement and a shorter design-to-manufacturing cycle. But furthermore, CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) Configuration takes advantage of the CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CPD) product through: 1) A specification driven composites design approach 2) The support of specific geometrical configurations 3) The manufacturing parameters management at the early stage of the design process
Relational design...
In addition, the CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) Configuration provides also all the necessary tools to perform advanced 3D design of assemblies made of composites and mechanical parts with complex shapes. This configuration includes CATIA V5 recognized comprehensive part and assembly design features, as well as associative drawing extraction capabilities. It also delivers highly productive robust engineering change management capabilities. Engineering changes can be associatively propagated to the entire product definition and to the associated composites lifecycle process. This dramatically reduces the development time and cost, while eliminating risks of human errors and design inconsistencies.
A unique capture and reuse knowledge solution…
Thanks to CATIA - Object Manager 3 (CO3), CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) natively captures the design intent as design specifications, and allows editing either the specifications themselves or the resulting geometry. Beyond a traditional parametric or variational approach, this third generation of modelling 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 creating part variations from a table of parameter values. Configurations can then be modified automatically and/or dynamically, providing you smart parts. In addition, CATIA - Knowledge Expert 1 (KE1) allows designers to import and use corporate knowledge stored in rule bases created using CATIA - Knowledge Expert 2 (KWE). Thus design compliance is ensured with established standards. These rule bases automate knowledge processes such as best practices, application processes, and design validation and corrections.
The solution to take over from CATIA V4...
In brief what CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) configuration delivers is a groundbreaking new approach to design composites parts and assemblies. This configuration takes advantage of all the embedded V5 fundamental technologies such as a single PPR infrastructure, a real knowledge management solution and an unequaled ease of use interface. This solution has also been filled with all the know-how and the strengths of CATIA V4. This combination could make CD3 become already a standard but it goes further by bringing innovations like the manufacturing parameters management at the early stage of the design process. CATIA - Composite Design 3 (CD3) is your right-to-market composites design solution!