Products and services
The modular CATIA family of products is designed to meet the needs of customers in product development activities, including style and appearance design, mechanical design, equipment and systems engineering, management of digital prototypes, machining, analysis, and simulation.CATIA products are based on the open and extensible V5 architecture.
By enabling organizations to reuse product design knowledge and shorten development cycles, CATIA solutions accelerate their response to market demands. Since 1999, its digital prototyping process has been widely adopted in the market, making it the most commonly used product development system in the world.
The CATIA family of products has become the premier 3D design and simulation solution in seven major areas: automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, plant design, power and electronics, consumer products, and general mechanical manufacturing.
[edit]Expertise
CATIA's Advanced Hybrid Modeling Technology
Hybrid Modeling of Design Objects:
Hybrid Modeling of Design Objects: True interoperability of both solids and surfaces in CATIA's design environment;
Hybrid Modeling of Variables and Parametrics:
At the time of design, the designer doesn't have to think about how to parametrically represent a design object. CATIA provides variable-driven and post-parametric capabilities.
Geometric and Intelligent Engineering Hybrid Modeling: For an organization, years of corporate experience can be accumulated into CATIA's knowledge base and used to guide newcomers to the organization or to guide the development of a new model, accelerating the time to market for a new model.
CATIA has the ability to facilitate modifications throughout the product cycle, especially late modifiability
Whether it is solid modeling or surface modeling, because CATIA provides an intelligent tree structure, users can easily and quickly repeat the modification of the product, even if it is necessary to make major modifications in the final stages of the design, or an update of the original program. For CATIA, it is all very easy.
All CATIA modules have full relevance
CATIA modules are based on a unified data platform, so there is true full relevance of all CATIA modules, and modifications to the 3D model are fully reflected in the 2D, as well as in the FEA, tooling, and CNC machining programs.
Parallel engineering design environment makes the design cycle greatly shortened
CATIA provides a multi-model linkage of the working environment and hybrid modeling, so that the parallel engineering design mode is no longer a new concept, the overall design department as long as the basic structure of the size of the release, the sub-systems of the staff can begin to work, both collaborative work, but not each other; due to the interlinked nature of the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model, the model. Due to the interconnectedness of the models, the upstream design results can be used as a reference for the downstream, and at the same time, the upstream modification of the design can directly affect the downstream work refresh. Realize a truly parallel engineering design environment.
CATIA covers the entire process of product development
CATIA provides complete design capabilities: from the conceptual design of the product to the formation of the final product, with its accurate and reliable solutions to provide a complete mix of 2D, 3D, parametric modeling and data management means, from the design of individual parts to the establishment of the final prototype; at the same time, as a fully integrated software system, CATIA can be used as an integrated software system. At the same time, as a fully integrated software system, CATIA will mechanical design, engineering analysis and simulation, CNC machining and CATweb network application solutions are organically combined together to provide users with a strict paperless working environment, especially for the automotive, motorcycle industry in CATIA's special module, so that CATIA has the widest professional coverage, thus helping customers to achieve the shortening of the design and production cycle, improve product quality and reduce costs. The CATIA system is designed to help customers shorten design and production cycles, improve product quality, and reduce costs.
[edit]Advantages
CATIA has surface design modules that are far superior to those of its competitors, and it is necessary to introduce them here:
1. Generic Shape Design (GSD), a very complete curve manipulation tool and the most basic surface construction tool, in addition to curve manipulation, stretching, rotating and rotating surfaces. In addition, can complete the stretching, rotation, scanning, boundary filling, bridging, repair fragments, splicing, bumps, cropping, smooth, projection and advanced projection, chamfering and other functions, continuity up to G2, generate a closed piece of Volume, fully meet the ordinary three-dimensional CAD software surface modeling functions, such as Pro / E. Completely parameterized operation.
2. Free Style Surface, FSS, free style modeling, almost completely non-parametric. In addition to including all the functions of GSD, it can also accomplish such functions as surface control points (which can synchronize the adjustment of control points and deformation of polysurfaces to the entire product shape), free constraint boundaries, parameter removal, and surface bridging, chamfering, and smoothing to meet the automotive A-surface standard, all of which can be easily achieved by G2. With GSD and FSS, the surface functions of CATIA have surpassed those of all CAD software, even those of the same CAD software. With GSD and FSS, CATIA's surfacing capabilities have surpassed those of all CAD software, including UG NX, a competitor in the automotive industry.
3. Automotive Class A, ACA, is a fully non-referential surface module that provides powerful curved-surface editing and one-click surface smoothing. Almost all commands can be used to achieve G3 without destroying the original smooth shape. Synchronized surface operations (control point dragging, smoothing, chamfering, etc.) can be performed on multiple surfaces or even the entire product profile. For Toyota and other companies that have crazy requirements for Class A surfaces (full G3 continuity, etc.), this program can handle it with ease. Currently, only pure modeling software like Alias, Rinho can reach this high level, but not to the high precision of CATIA.
4. FreeStyle Sketch Tracer, FST, free style sketching, can be based on the product's three views or photographs of the basic shape of the curve tracing.
5. Digitized Shape Editor (DSE) is a digital surface editor that samples, edits, and cuts the input point cloud data to achieve the closest possible shape to the product, generating high-quality mesh triangles. Completely non-parametric.
6. Quick Surface Reconstruction, provides various ways to generate curves for surface modeling based on input point cloud data or small triangles after mesh.
7. Shape Sculpter, a shape editor for small triangles, allows you to perform a variety of operations on small triangles, almost as powerful as CATIA surface operations, and is completely non-referential.
8. Automotive BIW Fastening, automotive body-in-white fastening, design of the automotive body-in-white between the various sheet metal parts of the welding method and welding geometry.
9. Image & Shape, can be pinched like playdough drag, stretch, twist the product shape, add "playdough blocks" and other ways to achieve the ideal design shape. Can be extremely fast to complete the product shape concept design.
1~9 are included in the Shape design & Styling module
10. Healing Assistant, an extremely powerful surface mending tool, can automatically find and mend all kinds of broken surface defects.
CATIA is widely used in automotive, aerospace, marine, military, instrumentation, construction, electrical plumbing, communications, and other areas.
The largest customers are: General Motors (while using UG), Boeing McDonnell Douglas, Airbus, Ford, Volkswagen, Dyker, BMW, Volvo, Peugeot Citroen, Toyota, Honda, Renault, Dassault Aviation, Fiat, Mitsubishi Motors, Siemens, Bosch, Hyundai, Kia, China's SAIC, FAW, Dongfeng and other large companies. The European Union and its member states military, the United States military are its loyal users.
CATIA V4 version has a powerful surface, structural design capabilities, unparalleled accuracy, and is currently the main design software for the above customers. Boeing 777 aircraft in addition to all parts of the engine, as well as the general assembly completely using CATIA V4, from the conceptual design to the final debugging operation to achieve the success of a completely paperless office. This shows the power of CATIA.
CATIA V4 can only run on IBM's UNIX graphics workstations, in order to be more versatile to run on a variety of different graphics workstation platforms and PCs, V5 was born, which includes a server-workstation version and stand-alone node version, the workstation version can be run on a variety of types of graphics workstations and Windows or a variety of versions of Unix operating system (not under Linux), while the workstation version can run on various types of graphics workstations and Windows or various versions of Unix operating system (not under Linux). The workstation version runs on all types of graphics workstations and under Windows or various versions of Unix (not Linux), while the stand-alone version runs on PCs, laptops under Windows or other operating systems.
CATIA's competitors include UG NX, Pro/E, Topsolid, Cinmatron. CATIA's competitors include UG NX, Pro/E, Topsolid, and Cinmatron, with NX and Pro/E in a three-way tie with CATIA. CATIA currently has the largest market share among design and engineering software. This comes from the fact that it has such a strong customer base and a military-industrial background. Compared to its competitors, CATIA's strengths lie in its pleasing interface, easy-to-use and powerful features, strong functional support in specialized industries such as automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, etc., and the global sales cooperation of IT boss IBM. There is also a very important point, is from CATIA parent company, Dassault Systemes Dassault Systemes other brother software support:
1. Delmia, a powerful production line planning and management software, with Catia to complete the manufacturing feasibility analysis and implementation;
2. Inovia, a powerful data management and design support system
3. Smarteam, a powerful PLM software, and UGS Team Center is listed as the most successful PLM software, the originator of PLM.
4. VPM, the design data **** enjoyment platform, multinational design centers can use this software for data and information status **** enjoyment
5. Solidworks, the ruler of the global mid-range market of 3D engineering software, was acquired by Dassault Aviation, and has become the signature weapon to fight against the other mid-range software, and effectively supports the high-end software. CATIA penetration in the low-end market
6. Abaqus, one of the most powerful FEM software, the advantage of non-linear, dynamic, implicit calculation, become can effectively solve the automotive and aerospace field of the complex problem of effective tools, and LS-DYNA and listed as high-end CAE software 2 giant.
[edit]History
CATIA is an acronym for Computer Aided Tri-Dimensional Interface Application. It is one of the world's leading CAD/CAE/CAM integration software. In the 1970s Dassault Aviation became the first user and CATIA was born. From 1982 to 1988, CATIA released version 1, version 2, version 3, and in 1993 released the powerful version 4, and now CATIA software is divided into two series: version V4 and version V5. version V4 is applied to the UNIX platform, and version V5 is applied to the UNIX and Windows platforms. development of version V5 began in 1994. The development of V5 started in 1994. In order to make the software easy to learn and easy to use, Dassault Systemes started to redevelop the new CATIA V5 version in 1994. The new V5 version has a more user-friendly interface, is increasingly powerful, and creates a new style of CAD/CAE/CAM software.
France Dassault Aviation is a world-renowned aerospace company. Dassault Systemes, the product developer of CATIA, was founded in 1981 and is best known for its Mirage 2000 and Rafale fighter jets. Dassault Systemes, the product developer of CATIA, was founded in 1981 and is now recognized worldwide for its leadership in CAD/CAE/CAM and PDM. Its sales have grown from one million dollars to nearly two billion dollars. The number of employees has grown from 20 to over 2,000.
CATIA is the French Dassault System's CAD/CAE/CAM integration software, the world's leading CAD/CAE/CAM field, widely used in aerospace, automotive manufacturing, shipbuilding, machinery manufacturing, electronics \ electrical appliances, consumer goods industry, its integrated solutions to cover all the product design and manufacturing areas, its unique DMU electronic prototyping. Its integrated solutions cover all areas of product design and manufacturing, and its unique DMU prototyping module functionality and hybrid modeling technology is to promote the competitiveness and productivity of enterprises.CATIA provides convenient solutions to meet the needs of large, medium, and small businesses in all industrial sectors. CATIA offers convenient solutions that cater to the needs of small, medium and large companies in all industrial sectors, including: virtually all manufacturing products, from large Boeing 747 airplanes and rocket engines to cosmetic packaging boxes. More than 13,000 users around the world have chosen CATIA. CATIA originated in the aerospace industry, but its powerful functionality has been recognized across all industries and has become the de facto standard in the European automotive industry. Its user group has a pivotal position in the world manufacturing industry. Boeing Aircraft Company used CATIA to complete the entire Boeing 777 electronic assembly, creating a miracle in the industry, thus also determining the leading position of CATIA in the CAD/CAE/CAM industry.
CATIA V5 is the culmination of a long history of exploration by IBM and Dassault Systèmes in the service of the digital enterprise. Designed around the concept of integrating digital products and e-business, CATIA V5 provides digital enterprises with a working environment for the entire product development process. In this environment, all aspects of the product development process can be simulated and electronic communication between engineers and non-engineers can be realized. The entire product development process includes conceptual design, detailed design, engineering analysis, finished product definition and manufacturing, and even the use and maintenance of the finished product throughout its entire lifecycle. CATIA V5 features:
1. A new generation of architecture that has been reconstructed
In order to ensure that the development of CATIA's product lineup, CATIA V5's new architecture breaks away from the traditional design techniques and adopts a new generation of technologies and standards. The new CATIA V5 architecture breaks through traditional design techniques and adopts a new generation of technologies and standards that can be quickly adapted to the business development needs of
organizations, giving customers an even greater competitive advantage.
2. Support for scalability at different application levels
CATIA V5 provides a flexible combination of development processes, functionality, and hardware platforms that can be configured to provide the most
reasonable solution for each specialized member of the product development chain. Allowing any configuration of the solution to meet the needs of the smallest supplier to the largest multinational corporation.
3. Independence from NT and UNIX Hardware Platforms
CATIA V5 was developed on Windows NT and UNIX platforms and has uniform data, functionality,
release dates, operating environments, and application support across all supported hardware platforms. The use of CATIA V5 on the Windows platform makes it easier for designers to share data with office applications; and the NT-style user interface on the UNIX platform allows users to efficiently handle complex tasks on the UNIX platform.
4.2.2 CATIA V5 is a powerful and powerful tool for designing, building, and operating systems.
4. Capture and Reuse of Specialized Knowledge
CATIA V5 combines the benefits of explicit knowledge rules to interactively capture design intent and define product performance and changes during the design process. Implicit
empirical knowledge becomes explicit, specialized knowledge, increasing design automation and reducing the risk of design errors.
5. Smooth upgrades for existing customers
CATIA V4 and V5 are compatible, and the two systems can be used in parallel. For existing CATIA V4 users, V5 takes them to the NT world. For new
CATIA V5 customers, take advantage of CATIA V4's mature successor applications that comprise a complete product development environment.
[edit]Applications
Aerospace:
With roots in the aerospace industry, CATIA is the undisputed industry leader. With its precision and safety, reliability meets the needs of a wide variety of applications in the commercial, defense and aerospace sectors. CATIA has been used to develop virtual prototypes for several programs in the aerospace industry, including the Boeing 777 and Boeing 737 from Boeing Aircraft (USA), the Rafale fighter from Dassault Aviation (France), the Global Express business jet from Bombardier Aircraft (Canada), and the Lockheed Martin business jet from Lockheed Martin. For the Boeing 777, Boeing Aircraft used CATIA to design 100 percent of the mechanical parts except for the engine, and 100 percent of the mechanical parts, including the engine, were designed in CATIA. The Boeing 777 is the only large jetliner to date that has been 100% digitally designed and assembled. More than 1,700 engineers, tooling designers, technicians, and program managers were involved in the Boeing 777 project, located in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Connected by 1,400 CATIA workstations working in parallel, Boeing's designers modeled all of the 777's components in three-dimensional solid form and pre-assembled the entire 777 full-size on a computer. The pre-assembly eliminated the need to build a physical prototype, and engineers were able to check and modify interferences and inconsistencies in the design on the pre-assembled digital prototype.Boeing Aircraft announced that the application of CATIA saved 50 percent of the duplication of work and time spent on error corrections in the 777 program, compared to the traditional design and assembly process. Although the development time savings for the first 777 were not as dramatic as for other models using traditional design processes, Boeing Aircraft expects to save at least 50 percent in the development of the 777's successor. CATIA's post-parametric processing capabilities were also shown to be superior and powerful in the design of the 777. By utilizing CATIA's parametric design, Boeing did not have to re-design and build a physical prototype to meet the needs of its customers, but simply made parameter changes to produce an electronic prototype that could be previewed on a computer.
Automotive:
CATIA is the de facto standard for the automotive industry, and is the core system used by the top automakers in Europe, North America, and Asia. CATIA has unique strengths in styling, body, and engine design, and provides an end-to-end solution for designing and building a wide range of vehicles. The scalability and parallel engineering capabilities of CATIA can significantly reduce time to market.
Formula 1 racing cars, sports cars, cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, streetcars, subway trains, high-speed trains, and all kinds of vehicles can be digitalized in CATIA as a digital product, in the digital factory, through the digital process, digital engineering implementation. Recognized by automotive component suppliers. The recent purchasing decisions made by some of the leading automobile manufacturers such as Renault, Toyota, Karman, Volvo, Chrysler, etc. are proof of the dynamics of digital vehicles. Scania is one of the world's leading truck manufacturers, headquartered in Sweden. It produces more than 50,000 trucks per year. While other competitors still have around 25,000 truck parts, Scania has already halved its truck parts with the help of the CATIA system. Scania is now using more analytical simulation throughout the truck development process to shorten the development cycle and improve the performance and maintainability of the trucks.The CATIA system is Scania's main CAD/CAM system and is used exclusively for the design of truck systems and components. Through the application of these new design tools, such as the use of CATIA system-created component stress analysis in the engine and chassis divisions, and applications such as support for reuse in the development process, the company has achieved a good return on investment. Now, in order to further improve the performance of its products, Scania is promoting closer collaboration between designers, analysts and inspection departments throughout the development process. This coordinated approach allows Scania to be more responsive to the marketplace, while at the same time building product knowledge from physical and virtual digital prototypes.
Shipbuilding industry:
CATIA provides excellent solutions for the shipbuilding industry, including specialized hull products and onboard equipment and machinery solutions. Hull design solutions have been used by many shipbuilders, such as General Dynamics, Meyer Weft and Delta Marin, for the design, manufacture, and assembly of components for all types of ships. The structural design and definition of the hull is based on a 3D parametric model. Parameterization manages the correlation between parts, and changes to related parts can affect the appearance of the hull. The hull design solution is fully integrated with other CATIA products. Traditional CATIA solid and surface modeling capabilities are used for basic design and hull smoothing, and Bath Iron Works applies GSM (Generative Styling) as the parametric engine for conceptual design of the destroyer and data exchange with other ship structural design solutions.
Version 4.2 of CATIA provides direct integration with Deneb machining, and has been developed in collaboration with Fincantieri to allow robots to machine straight and arc welds and overcome bottlenecks in robotic automated line programming.
General Dynamic Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding used CATIA to design and build the U.S. Navy's new Virginia-class attack submarine. The large number of systems from the nuclear reactor, to the associated safety equipment, to all life support equipment required a comprehensive and effective Product Data Management (PDM) system to manage the entire submarine product definition, not just a bill of materials, but all 3D digitized products and welding equipment. enovia provided the powerful data management capabilities.
Meyer Werft has been an industry leader in the use of CAD technology for all aspects of shipbuilding, from design, to parts, to onboard equipment, to commissioning. The entire product has been designed and demonstrated in 3D before the first steel plate is cut.
Delta Marin designs bridges, decks, and propulsion systems in accordance with the hull during the design and fabrication of a ship. The owner utilizes a 4D rover to navigate and inspect.
The Wenchong shipyard in Guangzhou, China, is also using CATIA successfully. CATIA is used for 3D design, replacing the traditional 2D design.
Plant design:
Building on their extensive experience, IBM and Dassault - Systems have developed a new generation of solutions for shipbuilders, power plants, process plants, and engineering and construction companies. This includes piping, rigging, structural and automation documentation. cCPlant is the first system in these industries that is object-oriented and knowledge-engineered.
CCPlant has been successfully deployed at Chrysler and its extended enterprise. The design of the Toledo Jeep plant under construction was modified using CCPlant and Deneb simulation. The cost savings are already evident. The savings are already evident and will have a significant impact on the future operations of the business.
Haden International's paint lines are primarily used in the automotive and aerospace industries. Haden International used CATIA to design their state-of-the-art paint line, and CCPlant significantly reduced the design and installation time. Shell used CCPlant to develop a new production process at its Rotterdam plant, which has a capacity of 20 million tons of crude oil per year and produces a wide range of complex chemicals such as plastics, resins and rubber.
Machining and Assembly:
It is not enough to design a product, it must be manufactured, and CATIA excels at 2D/3D correlation, analysis, and NC for prismatic and tooled parts; CATIA's procedure-driven, hybrid modeling solution ensures high-speed production and assembly of precision products such as machine tools, medical devices, offset press clocks, and factory equipment in a single pass.
In the machine tool industry, users require products that can be manufactured and assembled quickly and accurately, and the power of the Dassault Systemes products makes them useful in a wide range of product design and manufacturing applications. Large manufacturers such as Staubli, who use CATIA to design and build textile machinery and robots, and Gidding & Lewis, who use CATIA to design and build large machine tools, have benefited greatly from Dassault System products.
Dassault Systemes products are also used by many small businesses. Companies like Klipan use CATIA to design and manufacture electronic terminals and controls for power stations, Polynorm uses CATIA to design and manufacture pressure equipment, and Tweko uses CADAM to design welding and cutting tools.
Consumer Products:
Consumer product companies of all sizes around the world rely on CATIA, in part because of the innovative style of the products it designs, as well as its modeling tools and high-quality rendering tools.CATIA has been used to design and manufacture a wide range of products such as tableware, computers, kitchen equipment, televisions and radios, and yard equipment.
Additionally, to validate a new concept with consistent aesthetic and stylistic choices, CATIA can generate realistic renderings from digitally defined products. This promotes sales of the product before the real product is created.