Today's competitive market requires companies to quickly deliver innovative and appealing products. Style and design become strategic differentiators to leverage sales, develop customer loyalty, strengthen brand identity and distinguish products from the competition.
CATIA Imagine & Shape delivers ultra-fast modeling technology so that industrial designers can embrace styling creation directly in the CATIA design environment. It introduces a revolutionary way of designing products, by enabling any user to simply and quickly transform an idea into 3D. This new approach, based on exact subdivision surfaces, is unique to the CAD market.
In addition, designers can interactively create realistic renderings in real-time so that their team members can visualize their ideas. Export in STL format is possible for rapid prototyping. Ultimately, this allows design teams to decide earlier in the virtual stage of development, so they don’t waste time or money on expensive prototypes, production resources, and product launch activities.
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Description :
Sketch integration
CATIA Imagine & Shape allows the integration of stylists' work (such as Photoshop 2D Sketches) into the CATIA 3D environment, as the design reference for 3D modeling. It provides intuitive toolset to calibrate the working environment. The user will first position and scale the image in 3D then use the curve and surfacing tools to build the geometry over the sketches.
Ultra fast modeling with Imagine & Shape unique Subdivisions surface Technology
Dedicated to aesthetical shapes creation for conceptual design, Imagine & Shape introduces very new concepts of modeling. It combines a powerful technology, based on subdivision surfaces, with a simple user interface. This new paradigm, similar to clay modeling, allows non CAD specialists to create simply & rapidly very complex Shapes. Imagine & Shape makes 3D accessible for Designers. It helps to explore many variations of Design in few seconds. This technology enables users to define and control a shape through a meshing. Using this meshing, users can then easily deform the shape locally and globally. The surfaces created are exacts, could be opened or closed, support sharp edges and the connections between surfaces are G2. Moreover, this technology enables the creation of surfaces compliant with any CATIA V6 applications.
Suite of comprehensive and easy to use Surfacing modeling tools
CATIA Imagine & Shape drastically simplifies the shape design process by unifying all types of free-form curves and surfaces in a single math-free representation. With the comfortable Windows interface, intuitive surface sculpting and real-time diagnosis and visualization, designers are able to reduce their design cycle time. CATIA Imagine & Shape provides surface-based tools to help designers create styled shapes and surfaces, enabling even casual users to easily smooth and trim curves and surfaces. Real-time quality checking is possible through curve and surface diagnostic and analysis tools.
Real time High-End Visualization
CATIA Imagine & Shape enables designers to interactively create realistic renderings in real-time. They can dynamically create and manipulate materials, lights and environments and immediately view the result of any modification.
Export STL files for Rapid prototyping machining
CATIA Imagine & Shape enables the designer to create meshes in a fast and accurate way by tessellation of CAD data. It allows the import of existing STL files, the display of meshes. The product offers advanced tools to improve the quality of meshes by local editing of triangles. The meshes can be exported as standard binary STL file for rapid prototyping machines.
Customer benefits :
Integrate 2D stylist work into the CATIA 3D environment easily
CATIA Imagine & Shape enables designers to easily transform ideas into exact 3D geometry models in a few minutes, starting from scratch for 3D creativity or 2D sketches. Designers can quickly and easily import their 2D creations and work directly with native files, for example, Photoshop files.
Unleash your creativity
Capture innovative ideas and naturally explore multiple variations with easy-to-use, intuitive, and ultra-fast modeling tools. CATIA Imagine & Shape enriches the traditional approach of concept surface modeling by introducing a new comprehensive approach methodology. Based on the power of the unique subdivision technology, Imagine & Shape stimulates innovation by accelerating the 3D creativity of complex aesthetical shapes. The subdivision technology offers an unrivaled freedom to intuitively define and control a shape and enables the creation of surfaces that are compliant with any CATIA V6 applications.
Make more free-form alternative design studies, fewer physical mock-ups
From a designer’s perspective, the main reason for the physical mock-up is to look at different design shapes in order to validate the design. With CATIA Imagine & Shape’s real-time visualization, you can explore much more virtual design alternatives and decide faster. In addition, you can explore more styling shape ideas quicker, reduce the number of physical mock-ups by selecting only the relevant ones, and create innovative and complex shape products easier.
Shape new ideas and leverage your knowledge
With CATIA Imagine & Shape, users can shape a new idea from scratch, or from sketches, and then directly continue into the detailed design stage. Shapes can also be refined before being reshaped in other V6 applications like the Freestyle and Generative Shape Design workbenches. Additionally, users can quickly create templates with V6 knowledgeware capabilities.
Gain momentum with the complete CATIA design environment
CATIA Imagine & Shape is natively integrated with all V6 applications, from style surface engineering to manufacturing. There is no need for data conversions between styling and engineering design during the required modification loops. Moreover, the native integration supports full associativity between styling and all downstream V6 applications, meaning that a styling modification can be quickly propagated. Using CATIA Imagine & Shape in conjunction with the V6 portfolio, you can leverage collaboration between different teams, especially between designers and engineers.
Persuade and accelerate design validation
The high-end, real-time visualization features in CATIA Imagine & Shape enable designers to persuade and accelerate design validation. They can also interactively create realistic renderings in real-time. By providing the ultimate dynamic display of your mock-up, you can efficiently evaluate and validate your design at any time during the product development process.
Learn and use with ease
This new modeler provides users with a natural and intuitive way of drawing and controlling a complex curve. These curves can be logically created in the model. The subdivision surfaces can be then controlled by curves for global deformation.