In a feature-based approach, design changes can be time consuming due to the complex history trees of feature-based industrial parts. Designers may feel reluctant to try several alternatives or even light modifications, as it looks to be difficult on a detailed design. To foster innovative product creation, design must become natural to use and easy to learn. It can then expand to communities outside of the design office.
CATIA Live Shape delivers an ultra fast modeling technology, enabling all users, including non-CAD-specialists, to contribute to design either in the conceptual phase or during late modifications, such as adjustments for manufacturing or enhancements following tests and simulation engineering.
CATIA Live Shape enables hybrid modeling including solid, surface and wireframe. A seamless integration into CATIA modeler enables to reuse this conceptual design as a preliminary shape in other traditional workbenches for further detailed design. Conversely, feature-based or non-native parts, coming from V4, V5 or any CAD system, can be very easily modified without knowing the dependences between features, since this history free modeler recognizes in real-time a rib, a hole or a boss for instance.
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Description :
Natural design in a free modeling environment
Leveraging CATIA powerful modeler, the user can shape the product and control its modifications via direct manipulation, pushing and pulling faces or edges or entering exact values. He can structure it easily too, dropping elements on turntables for instance. Persistent dimensioning and positioning makes it simple to capture design intents.
Seamless integration between explicit, history free and feature-based design approaches
A preliminary shape is easy to design with CATIA Live Shape free modeling tools, as the creation order does not matter. This shape can be refined by adding features in Functional 3D Modeling or Part Design workbenches for further detailed design. Conversely, conceptual design can start in one of these two workbenches and be continued in CATIA Live Shape, modifying geometry directly.
Reuse and reshape of existing data from any CAD system
Non-native parts, coming from V4, V5 or any CAD system, can be very easily modified without knowing the dependences between features, since the history free modeler recognizes in real-time a fillet, a rib, a hole or a boss for instance.
Lifelike user experience in 3D modeling
Natively hybrid modeling
Accurate localization and agile product handling
CATIA Live Shape and the V6 collaborative platform extend the 3D community
Customer benefits :
3D Modeling is easy to learn with a natural design environment
Direct manipulations, like push and pull, allow user to sketch his ideas freely in 3D while persistent dimensioning and positioning constraints enable him to capture his design intents. With this ultra fast modeling technology, design becomes natural to use and easy to learn.
Flexibility of the design with integrated approaches in an overall environment
A preliminary shape begun in free modeling can be modified in traditional workbenches for further detailed design. Conversely, conceptual design started in a feature based approach can be continued in CATIA Live Shape. Robust associativity of these transitions ensures a full flexibility in this global environment.
Data reuse and part modifications accessible to non CAD experts
When using non-native parts, coming from V4, V5 or any CAD system, incompatibilities between different CAD softwares often raise. CATIA Live Shape authorizes re-use of non-native parts, coming from V4, V5 or any CAD system. This makes model modifications possible for someone who is not the original part designer or even a CAD expert.
Lifelike user experience in 3D modeling
In a refined environment, contextual tools are available at a click of the mouse, unleashing the creativity. By dropping the 3D robot onto an object such as a body or face, the user can reposition that object or alter it accordingly. The user stops wasting time and energy to understand the tools. As changes occur in real-time, this extensive feedback makes design intuitive
Natively hybrid modeling
CATIA Live Shape provides an easy and quick way to model any shapes such as solid, surface or wireframe. The user can generate solids as extrude, sweep, loft, or run operations as fillet, draft, scaling, pattern, mirror. And it is very easy to distort a set of faces by pulling or pushing a point and controlling the deformation steepness thanks to a small influence sphere.
Accurate localization and agile product handling
The mini-map window allows user to locate his work in context and eases the product handling, through reframe, pan or rotate operations.
CATIA Live Shape and the V6 collaborative platform extend the 3D community
Taking advantage of V6 collaborative platform, CATIA Live Shape fosters a true collaboration as multiple users can share and trade modifications. As design becomes natural to use and easy to learn, it expands to communities beyond the design office.