Based on an open, scalable architecture, CATIA Version 5 Release 17 facilitates true collaborative engineering across the multidisciplinary extended enterprise, including style and form design, mechanical design and equipment and systems engineering, managing digital mock-ups, machining, analysis, and simulation.
| Integrated portfolio supports seamless industry processes |
CATIA V5 R17 increases the value of the CATIA - Electrical Harness Flattening product for harness drawing production by enabling reuse of existing flattening harnesses. This enhances productivity for faster layout editing of flattening harnesses and improves harness drafting quality with automatically generated dress-up. The flattening process becomes more robust and completes the layout process more efficiently. The enhanced CATIA - Electrical Harness Design offering reduces design-to-manufacturing cycle time, especially for CATIA V5 automotive and aerospace electrical design customers.
V5 R17 widens the scope of the end-to-end collaborative composites solution to reduce overall design to manufacturing time. An automatic mirrored part generation function enables the designer to create a fully-associative opposite part of a design, such as wing, with a single click, saving low added value design time. The robust composites analysis and simulation tools (core sampling, nonstructural ply management, fiber direction indication) are improved to manage more complex geometries and to easily help the designer to validate the design early in the process.
In addition, V5 R17 offers an interactive way to easily migrate CATIA V4 models (materials, geometry, data structure) to CATIA V5 and enables the user to define zones where a splice or an overlap is not allowed, such as for structural reasons. The cut pieces will be automatically generated according to these specifications.
The release improves composites manufacturing export capabilities for nesting and cutting processes and offers a new automatic ply book generation capability. This associative document enables the manufacturing operator to easily and accurately locate the ply on the mold to avoid incorrect draping. The book includes all information required to perform the process, such as 2D geometries, ply manufacturing annotations, ply group, sequence and material names, and ply thickness.
CATIA V5 R17 reinforces the entry-level end-to-end process for shipbuilding. It performs manufacturing preparation of heavy structure parts directly on top of 3D design data in a semi-automatic way.
Release 17 further increases CATIA machining programming and simulation efficiency to significantly reduce overall manufacturing process time. It offers three new operations to significantly boost NC programming and to reduce machining time. For hard material machining, V5 R17 introduces a comprehensive operation for managing plunge milling. Developed with tool makers, it features a process-oriented tool path style and fully takes into account residual stock for a collision-free tool path.
In addition, V5 R17 adds the capability to automatically detect full-diameter engagement situations and manages tool overload (reducing the feed rate, adding extra machining planes, adding trochoidal paths) to greatly improve machining time and cutting tool life. A new 4-axis sweeping operation machines parts with a sweeping tool path style and a tool axis driven by a 2D curve.
Finally, V5 R17 provides the NC programmer with a complete operation to support the machining of tubes and other parts that present an obvious central axis/curve. This availability of this operation leads to major productivity gains in NC programming for such parts.
V5 R17 improves the breakthrough realistic integrated machine simulation capability released in CATIA V5 R16. Simultaneous, synchronized simulation of material removal and machine motion enables realistic simulation of the complete machining environment, including collision detection between machine parts and in-process stock. The simulation can use NC code generated inside or outside of CATIA V5. This capability enables a final virtual buy-off of the NC program. Additionally, the user can now analyze machined stock during integrated material simulation by accessing the Analyze, Video Measure, and Remove Chunks commands to validate the accuracy of the machined part.
V5 R17 greatly improves CATIA core and cavity design, especially for the stamping die process. The CATIA - Core & Cavity Design product uses rough offset technology to offer a new "light surface." The die designer can use this light surface in place of the original during the die design phase, providing major capacity and performance gains for ultra large designs. In addition, designers can rapidly and easily identify and modify the fillet radii of the stamping dies prior to milling, leading to significant cycle time reduction. The enhanced associativity between the parting line and the design contribute to improved productivity. Finally, V5 R17 enhances mold tooling design efficiency and intuitiveness and makes it easier for the tooling designer to classify tooling elements more explicitly in the specification tree. In parallel, designers can more easily manage the component replacement process and its possible impacts.
V5 R17 delivers major productivity gains to sheetmetal designers for complex designs. This release greatly improves wall-on-edge design by enabling the user to define a wall-on-edge in the assembly context. In addition, the user can intuitively define most of the attributes of the wall-on-edge and the bend properties directly in 3D. Combined with the sketch-based wall definition, these enhancements significantly reduce design time. The ability to create several corner reliefs in a single operation contributes to the unmatched efficiency of CATIA V5 sheetmetal design.
V5 R17 also greatly simplifies the complex sheetmetal part prototyping and strip layout processes with the ability to locally fold or unfold bends with stamping features, making the design fully compliant with manufacturing processes.
V5 R17 extends the reach of CATIA aerospace sheetmetal design by enabling the process to handle more complex designs. Sheetmetal designers can select a ruled surface for the web and can design more complex joggles. In addition, V5 R17 automates design validation and compliance with company standards, thanks to knowledge rules or checks based on characteristics curves or joggle parameters based on design tables.
CATIA V5 R17 delivers high-end surface quality with the CATIA V5 reverse engineering portfolio. Dedicated to surface reconstruction, the new Deviation Analysis command lets the designer control the accuracy of generated surfaces. With advanced options, it performs distance analysis of a shape according to reference elements.
CATIA V5 R17 ensures the manufacturability of non-ruled surface shapes. This release embeds a new breakthrough technology to support complex non-ruled surface flattening operations, enabling accurate manufacturing preparation of any designed shape, from rough fabrics in the textile industry to raw materials in aerospace.
| High performance design with knowledge capture and reuse encourages innovation |
CATIA V5 R17 further facilitates design innovation with core styling capabilities that enable designers to explore product ideas more rapidly while permitting last-minute styling modifications.
- There is no limit to complex styled surface creation, including shapes with sharp edges, thanks to unmatched offset technology.
- Powerful symmetry technology helps to achieve major styling productivity while conserving G2 continuity.
- Linking subdivision elements enables the user to perform accurate global deformation on the components of several models in a single operation.
- Integrating Generative Shape Design advanced operators optimizes the styling-to-design workflow.
CATIA V5 R17 extends the unique 2D/3D associative approach for conceptual design and extends the 3D master approach by enabling fast and convenient display of product information, such as tolerances and annotations, in a familiar drawing layout within the 3D environment. It boosts conceptual design within the 3D environment by enabling designers to easily create in-context 2D sketches from the automatic detection of existing 3D geometry displayed in the view background.
Efficient, comprehensive, and standards-compliant CATIA V5 drafting capabilities always guarantee high quality when realizing drawing layout and dress-up, whether immersed in 3D or in a separate drawing document. It is continuously enhanced to cover specific needs, such as new support for customized symbols, strokes, and open type fonts.
CATIA V5 R17 further promotes 3D as the master representation for part and product definition. Designers can define and manage standards-compliant tolerance specifications and annotations linked to the 3D geometry so that they are directly reusable for manufacturing planners and can be shared throughout the enterprise. Designers can easily present and share 3D tolerancing and annotation in a familiar drawing layout embedded in the 3D.
V5 R17 enables the rapid creation of associative views from Functional Tolerancing & Annotation views or captures. Users can benefit from a more productive 3D annotation definition and layout process by realizing specific operations in a single step, such as directly managing the view ratio property for 3D annotation. It also provides a new mode that allows assembly annotations to be created inside a dedicated CATPart document.
| Breakthrough technologies speed time to market |
CATIA V5 R17 brings new cutting edge solutions to speed time to market. It delivers a unique capability in the marketplace for creating cast and forged fillets in a single operation instead of through repetitive, step-by-step manual operations. Only CATIA V5 auto-filleting enables automotive powertrain and chassis designers to reduce the time for filleting complex parts for manufacturing from hours or days to minutes.
This release contributes to the enhancement of CATIA powertrain solutions with a suite of unique software. Mechanical design applications, especially functional modeling, with its process-specific behaviors encapsulated in features, allow designers to develop parts with a higher level of productivity and flexibility. CATIA V5 considerably reduces the costly and time-consuming creation and modification of the design.
In the context of hybrid shape creation with components coming from heterogeneous environments, such as in the body design process, CATIA V5 R17 offers a powerful geometrical visualization option that enables engineers to perform accurate analysis of surface connections.
| Integrated PLM maximizes collaboration |
CATIA V5 R17, with the ENOVIA VPM Navigator, boosts relational design by making it easier for designers to work concurrently on different part versions and to manage advance product effectivity and configuration. Designers can easily develop their own study, relying on approved version of parts made by peers, when "in-work" versions exist concurrently.
V5 R17 enables designers to synchronize the links of their designs to other parts and to any versions of these parts. Designers can explore more cases for better understanding and can better anticipate changes, leading to faster time to manufacturing for more innovative products.
CATIA V5 R17 broadens the scope of using the VPM Navigator for configuration management, with enhanced capabilities for the designer to filter and analyze configured products. Filters using a combination of date, range, milestones, or specifications can be defined, saved and modified. In addition, modification filters can be applied on top of these configuration filters.
CATIA V5 R17 strengthens navigation and enhances user interface customization to search, understand, and evaluate product and change impacts, improving ease of use and the ability to interpret relationships and changes. It provides a new software openness to make it easy to define the display names of ENOVIA VPLM V5 documents for all generic CATIA V5 menus and windows as well as customized icons for ENOVIA entities displayed in the VPM Navigator tree. In the impact graph, naming of nodes can now be managed through boxes with multiple lines for better layout and enhanced visibility.
The ENOVIA SmarTeam Reconciliator further facilitates interaction among companies and concurrent engineering across the supply chain through ergonomic enhancements, such as batch capabilities and advanced queries.
This release supports efficient collaboration with a richer 3D XML format throughout the product development cycle. Display of finite element analysis (FEA) output facilitates reuse and sharing 3D beyond the design office. In V5 R17, 3D XML embeds in its format the FEA analysis output. This enables the analysis project manager or engineering specialist to benefit from this valuable information and to make the right product development decision without having an FEA seat.
More realistic viewing of 3D XML products makes possible efficient communication and marketing for the final product, thanks to rendering material support. Automation support, also new in this release, enables easy integration of the 3D XML player in custom applications, such as Web applications. It helps to optimize control over the 3D XML player for such functions as cross-highlight management and integrated multi-viewer representation.
| Open and scalable architecture increases flexibility |
Major new deliverables in CATIA V5 R17 demonstrate the richness of the V5 PLM portfolio. New CAA V5 partners, and the addition of products from existing partners, continue to demonstrate the richness of the PLM portfolio:
- IGE+XAO Group for full electrical PLM scenarios
- ESI Group's fiber simulation for composites, with CAA V5-based PAM-QUIKFORM
- A cost optimizer from Forming Technologies, Inc. for sheetmetal processes
- New partner Kineo CAM for improved technology for automatic motion and path planning on the V5 platform on top of DMU Fitting
In addition to Kineo, Theorem joins the CAA V5 community to deliver native V5 integration of external data (from ProE, UGS, Ideas) within a V5 session. Theorem integration leverages dedicated CAA V5 APIs and infrastructure to improve data quality and consistency.
CATIA V5 R17 delivers a secured and robust way to integrate data management discipline with CATIA V5, thanks to CATIA-XPDM Gateway. The gateway guarantees CATIA V5 behavior and data in a product data management context, thanks to thorough checking mechanisms. Its open development interfaces ensure high-quality integration of all types of product data management. In V5 R17, further improvements put the gateway at the interactive integration level.
Check-in and check-out status can be applied and visualized in the CATIA tree structure. Design rules checking secures the data before saving it. The XPDM Gateway also provides a way to actually display the links among the CATIA documents.
