CATIA V6R2013x Factsheet 1
CATIA V6R2013x Factsheet 1
FACT SHEET
The Digital Product Experience
Table of contents
Value at a glance
As the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, Dassault Systèmes provides business and people with
virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Digitizing products and environments
opens up new frontiers for all participants involved in a product‟s life, from creation to usage.
Realistic experiences allow users to anticipate product behavior and impact on the
environment, thus creating the conditions for sustainable innovation.
More and more products are now a combination of physical, software and electronics, in
other words, “smart products”. This creates increasing pressure on all the specialists who
must create these products, not only individually, in terms of their respective disciplines, but
collectively. Designers, Engineers, Systems & Product Architects and Systems Engineers
need multi-disciplinary collaboration like never before in the development of products.
The mission of CATIA is to serve this population. CATIA provides unparalleled user
experiences which accelerate the innovation potential in creative design, engineering,
systems & product architecture and systems engineering.
The combination the Digital Mockup and the Functional Mock Up makes it possible to
experience a product in its geometric as well as its functional view to realize the full product
experience. This is the CATIA Digital Product Experience (DPE).
Designers
o Create the shape and attractiveness of the product.
Scientists
o Create the proper functional behavior of smart products and components.
Engineers
o Responsible for the end-to-end process to ensure the product can be
manufactured.
Architects
o Define the product and systems architecture and develop concepts.
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CATIA Version 6 R2013x Overview
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Dimension and Position pictures: Natural Integration of Simulayt Fiber
Sketch allows the placement of images Simulation Technology into CATIA V6
into the 3D world to be used as models or
supports. This enhancement allows you to From aerospace and automotive to
accurately size, measure, scale and consumer goods or energy, all industries
position the images in the 3D may need to predict and optimize fiber
environment. You have the ability to put reinforced materials‟ behavior, minimizing
some dimensions on pictures and to their weight while increasing their
position them according to each other's performance.
position.
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CATIA Systems exchange.
Community
More flexibility for systems designers
and more traceability of the impact
between components.
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archiving. AP242 is a merge and When exporting FTA data to V5, FTA
enhancement of AP203 and AP214. data, the links between FTA features and
Support included for import and export of geometries are maintained.
STEP AP242 data. Includes support for
tessellated STEP AP242. This provides a For additional flexibility and mobility,
vendor independent ISO standards-based travelling users who don’t have an
approach to exchanging compressed and internet connection can now continue
tessellated data. to design with CATIA V6R2013x even
when they are not connected to the
With V6R2013 we announced the server. Once back online, un-checking
industry’s best multi-version the “work offline” switch reconnects to
compatibility, allowing V5 and V6 users the server and work can be re-
to share and edit parts at the feature synchronized and shared.
level. CATIA V6R2013x extends the
scope of this capability to include
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CATIA Version 6 R2013x Enhancements
From a tessellation mesh, you can built exact topology, thanks to this new command, even if
you don‟t have construction history. You can then modify them with live shape, are do some
drafting with it. The meshes can come from 3dvia.com or from other software or from former
CATIA versions. Before you had to do it manually, with a command called basic recognition,
so it was tedious. So now this saves some time. Exemple of usage : When you have only the
CGR of old data model and you need to do some maintenance, or remodel some
assemblies, you need to re build the B rep to have exact characteristics.
This enhances and refreshes the global ergonomy of the Distiller workbench. Several panels
have been updated (Decimation, HSR, statistics) and global access to the application have
changed. Provides to the user a simple way to browse and edit structure of a distilled
product. The object of this enhancement is to describe the view in the distiller workbench
which will allow the user to easily edit the distiller product structure. This view is based on
the similar Live Compose-Structure view. It shows the product tree-hierarchy on turntables
and the user may rearrange the structure through drag-and-drop interactions on these
turntables.
This enhancement provides a new option of alignment allows aligning circularly the selected
summits. You now have the ability to align vertices along a dynamic circle. This new option
is added to the modification tools palette, when alignment mode is active.
Natural Sketch allows users to draw two different kinds of curves: rough curves and trace
curves. Firsts are like “drafts” for the second ones. However, the user was not able to draw
on them: for creating trace curves above rough, he had to redo all the work he already did
for the first step ie select plane, draw, select another plane… This enhancement now allows
you to use rough curves as support, as well as surfaces. It provides you with the capability to
draw directly in 3D, not using the plane selection step (the work being already done during
the rough curves drawing). The process is more efficient, quick and intuitive: you have not to
draw twice the same model anymore.
Natural Sketch allows you placing images into the 3D world to be used as models/supports.
This enhancement allows you to size, measure, scale and position accurately the images in
the 3D environment. You have the ability to put some dimensions on pictures & to position
them according to each other's position.
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Industrial Design – Natural Sketch – Photo sketching
Natural Sketch allows users to draw 3D models. However, most of them are more used to
draw in 2D. It is necessary to give them the possibility to import their 2D models in Natural
Sketch. This enhancement provides the ability to automatically extract some rough sketches
from a picture. You can now import an image, launch the sketch from picture command,
select an image support, and a set of rough curves representing the image content is
created.
This provides the capability to pattern in Geneative Shape Design workbench multiple
features in one go, through a single pattern command like it was already possible on the
solid pattern in Part Design. The user will be able to transform a selection of multiple GSD
features (either all surfacic or all volumic, but not mixed), through the pattern command. This
functionality will greatly add to the productivity of the user.
This provides the capability to define multiple limiting elements to restrict the deformation. In
addition to enabling to create shape morphing that had not been able to be made so far
(some configurations with more than one limiting element), the highlight enables to create
more complex shape morphing (i.e. with more than one limiting element) in one single step,
while beforehand the user had to perform several steps to get the same result.
This enhancement improves the precision to the diagnosis of the deviation for Surface
Simplification command. This highlight provides a way to visualize for each type of deviation,
the points that exceed the maximal deviation. Each point indicates a percentage of the
maximum allowed deviation value. This new functionality helps the user to visualize the
locations where deviation is high. Then he can do some operations around those locations in
order to reduce the deviation.
Designers benefit from a better integration between Live Shape design and traditional
Features. Design intent is retained: in addition to fillets, there is a new declarative chamfer
and declarative pattern evolutions make it complete. Constraints can now be set on edges
and vertices, in addition to faces. The user can structure his design with rigid blocks which
group bodies to set constraints between them.
Moreover, as constraints are converted when splitting a Live Shape design into new parts,
the designer can start design in CATIA Live Shape, and switch to CATIA Live Compose or
Assembly workbench without losing specifications. A „first draft‟ design can smoothly evolve
into an organized assembly structure.
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CATIA Systems Engineering Community
Five new model libraries complement the CATIA Systems Engineering behavior
modeling and simulation tools.
The Engine Dynamics Library brings Combustion engine system modeling, simulation and
analysis, including the complete gas exchange,
the Electric Power Library for modeling, simulation and analysis of electric power systems,
the Hydro Power Library for modeling and simulation of hydropower plant operation,
and the Thermal Power Library for modeling of thermal power plant operation including
transient operation.
With these new abilities, systems engineering becomes more flexible and ensures
collaboration more easily. Systems designers can define and simulate systems components
on their own, in their own workspace, and synchronize with others when ready.
Navigation among components offers a quick and clear view on impacts between
components
The related objects panel brings more traceability on impacts as it gives a global relational
view of a system object. Systems engineers can navigate on Parents/Children relationships,
Implemented / Implementing objects, Connected objects, or they can follow Exchanged data.
The highlight of objects related to the selected entity provides them with a clear view of the
Functional and Logical connection network. The different levels of connection are visible as
colors display them according to their nearness.
Configuration is taken into account more widely. Thus, any collaborator benefits from an
easy access to the RFLP (Requirements – Functional – Logical and Physical) definition for a
given configuration by the application of a predefined configuration on all the explored or
opened trees.
One of the most critical steps for the harness manufacturing process is to ensure the final
harness will be installable in its environment without any problems.
By orientation of the support and devices in the flattened harness extra torsion is introduced
in the flattened harness on top of the torsion present in the design harness. The user needs
to minimize this relative torsion between the design harness and flattened harness to ensure
installation is possible.
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This highlight gives relative torsion information between the 3D Harness and 3D flatten data.
It also provides an interactive and visual decision-making tool to analyze and fix these
twisting issues before the actual installation. By defining maximum acceptable torsion values
you are now able to visualize in one shot the most critical portions of the harness. This
development also provides an interactive tool to fix these twisting issues before the actual
installation by integrating “Component Orientation” command with the “Analyse Torsion”
command.
Device section views are created because the Front view is not able to provide information
about relative angles between devices in a device assembly. After rotation of a branch in 3D,
front view and section view get updated. Now with this new development the viewing
direction gets updated according to the manipulation in 3D Flatten data, so that the section
view still remains relevant. It enables the correct update of section view according to the
changes done in 3D Flatten data. This will increase the productivity of customer.
This highlight provides a way to share necessary information to the supplier without
exposing the data model through CATIA or 3DLive under Review mode. The goal is to give
access to the attributes of the branches, segments and protective coverings and to display
them for wide sharing through 3DLive (connected or not) for review. It enables quicker
harness data review between OEMs, manufacturers, suppliers. During the review, through
single selection it is possible to access to a cross-highlight and a frame display. The “bubble”
messages will contain the attributes and the knowledge attributes set on the feature and
their irrespective values. This mechanism will be active only under the Live FTA Review
workbench. Automatically and with transparency, the users will be able to export their data
through .3dxml files (For Authoring, For Review) with the necessary information for the
suppliers to make the harnesses. Suppliers will import the .3dxml files in their 3DLive
environment and will be able to review the customer data and access to the necessary
information for the manufacturing.
A new Immersive Panel U.I is created for reporting the modifications during Synchronization
process and as this report will be a part of CATIA UI, interaction between report and 3D
elements of the model will become possible. It provides facility of cross highlight in both 3D
harness and Flatten data when click on a particular element in report. It also provides
facilities of sorting, filtering, search, exporting the report in excel format, etc. The new UI for
reporting is much more user friendly and provides live feedback on every action performed
during synchronization. It enhances user productivity as user does not have to re-run
command again for running multiple simulations.
It is normal scenario in industrial practice that a large bundle of wires that start from a
Energy input source get divided into more than one sub-bundles which end in different
devices. This development introduces a lean and intuitive way to arrange branches at
junctions by providing a new 'Arrange Segments at Junction' Command. This development is
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positioned in the design simulation of Electrical Network, especially where Bundles further
subdivide into small Sub bundles of wires each continuing to different devices in the network.
Thanks to the capability to arrange at Junction, a realistic view can be created with less
manual efforts and the harness can be analyzed close to reality situations.
The combination of the “fix symmetrically” constraint and the electrical engineering
connections sometimes generated over constraint system and an error when updating the
assembly. A new development has been integrated in the assembly symmetry process to
avoid an over constrained configuration. Even is the connections can be manually deleted by
the user to recover a correct situation, an enhancement of the assembly symmetry has been
developed to provide a correct result to end user: the symmetrical electrical parts must be
correctly connected and no over constrained system will be generated.
You can now generate the .pcf file from the piping designs from CATIA V6, which contains
the information of piping design and is to be used by ISOGEN to create piping isometric
drawings (.dxf), using their stand alone application I-RUN. These in turn are used to create
(import) ISO metric drawings. This will help the user to speed up the design of piping
systems, .i.e. drawing generations.
This enhancement allows you to declare multiple catalogs in project resource management
(PRM). In Industrial cases with some partners, the Piping/tubing catalog is not unique, so it
was critical to provide this capability to use in the same time multiple catalogs. A new type of
immersive dialog box is also introduced. It is possible to see through this dialog box the back
ground and give the feeling that the dialog box takes less space in windows. A new
capability of Cache memory also makes it possible to put a software component always
accessible to avoid a long elapse time to get the resources.
The spool can contain some piping part and rigid pipe/tube. With this development you can
now also manage the flexible pipe/tube inside the spool. This new function provides the
capabilities to create new spool from Flexible pipe and to Add/remove Flexible pipe in Spool.
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This enhancement provides the capability to move directly some component between two
spools. The targeted spool can be an existing or a new spool. The link (contextual link,
engineering connection and implement link) is updated with the same level of capability of
drag and drop function. This capability was already possible with the standard drag and drop
function but without the intelligent selection. This is important to allow an easy way to modify
the spool.
This enhancement delivers new Merge Line ID Command, which helps user to merge a Line
ID into another Line ID (both Line IDs exist in the current document). The command will work
same in PTD and PLE workbench.
Real-world components incorporate awkward features like sharp corners, splits and rapid
A more productive and intuitive user interface reflecting stages of the mold design process
enables to display only useful information and provide only relevant commands. Complex
mechanical systems such as Sliders, Lifters, Interlocks are easily created in the tool
assembly thanks to user assistance in defining proper connections and kinematic
interactions.
A new 3D-driven dedicated function makes design of the plastic injection system much less
time-consuming. The Mold Assembly workbench and the integrated Tooling systems design
enable compatibility with off the shelf or customer specific systems.
A more accurate view of the Bill Of Material (BOM) is now possible within CATIA through
the inclusion of parts which do not require CAD design, such as grease or glue. Some other
enhancements make the BOM more productive with the ability to create quickly an inverted
BOM by using default mode or to customize the display of deleted parts.
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In addition, templates can be used to automatically fill any table of a Drawing. These
predefined and reusable tables may contain simple information, such as on site fabrication
instructions, or product related information, such as title blocks or revision blocks.
Dedicated captures can be created as visual filters related to each view. Engineers can
make a relevant capture more visible by setting it as current when activating a view. And
they can present several annotation plans at the same time thanks to axonometric views.
When working on large and complex 3D Assemblies, users can use a combination of
predefined filters to create specific visualization views. This simplifies the work of the
designer and increases productivity. For individual layout view creation each component
had to be manually added to a visual filter. It is now possible to create a mask or display filter
Kinematic simulation and the realistic movement of constrained assembly parts can be
performed with greater speed. This is achieved by enabling the simulation to take place
without loading the full 3d Shapes content, thus reducing memory and processor
requirements.
Sheetmetal designers can make their design intent persistent with constraints between
Walls. The position of all faces from the sheetmetal solid can now be controlled by
constraints. Even top and bottom faces for which unfold transformations are impacted. Wall
position can be specified with five different types of constraints and variants to move or not
mobile parts together with the wall.
With the new support of complex surfaces flanges, designer can create them directly,
without the need of additional Cut Outs, even in case of complex Sides shapes. Side and
joggle compensation can be integrated. In addition, any sheetmetal features can now be
upgraded easily.
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