This new Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA R2021x release FD03 delivers new Roles and enhancements for designers, engineers, systems engineers and construction professionals.
3DEXPERIENCE
The 3DEXPERIENCE® platform is a business experience platform, which transforms business performance delivering multiple enhancements for Designers, Engineers, Systems Engineers and Construction Professionals.
Mold & Compensation Engineer
Enables the designer to automate design tasks and assist decision-making of a complex mold.
- Assess cost of innovative tooling concepts including accurate pulling direction, wall thickness analysis, placeholder for ejectors and cooling systems.
- Anticipate and check manufacturing compliance with plastic injection simulation integrated in the environment of the mold designer.
- Extract parting lines and parting surfaces in dedicated features providing a productive design change automation.
- Assess complex mold kinematics.
- Re-use company know-how.
Mold & Tooling Designer
Automate design tasks and assist user decision-making at any step of a complex mold design.
- Accelerate the complete mold and tooling process, from molded part design to mold design.
- Access to plastic injection accessible in the environment of the mold designer.
- Manage parting lines and parting surfaces with dedicated features, support design change automation.
- Propose catalogs of standard mold-bases and intelligent tooling systems, automate design tasks and assist user decision-making.
- Facilitate and reduce design change from the part to the mold by using automatic update.
Visual Experience Designer
Produce high-end, real-time and interactive photorealistic visual with a visual and rendering companion for non-specialists.
- Easy evaluation of designs in realistic environments and light situations in real-time.
- Deliver high-quality renderings with global Illumination, physically correct reflections and shadows.
- Accessible at any state of product design to take accurate design decisions.
- Study colors, material, volume, proportions and 3D Human.
Cutting Tool Technologist
Create Cutting Tool Assembly Catalogs for NC Programmers
- Helps standardize on common practices for tool use across the machine shop or the entire enterprise
- Uses the ISO13399 standard for cutting tool data representation and exchange to create tool geometry and assign cutting attributes automatically to make them usable in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
Machine & Tooling Designer

Easy, fast and efficient creation of any type of mechanical device along with its kinematics
- Create all the mechanical devices used in a manufacturing setting, from simple clamps to NC machine tools and 3D Printers
- Allows programmers to define, optimize, and validate their programs
- Validate and optimize mechanical equipment designs to mitigate costly errors and accelerate start of production
NC Machine Simulation Engineer

Full NC program validation based on NC Code (ISO Code/ G-Code) Machine Simulation for Milling, Turning & Riveting
- Complete Milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
- Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process planners & NC Programmers
- Share the same data in a single environment
NC Milling Machine Programmer

Dedicated solution to machine complex parts on a multi-axis milling machine or robots with advanced operations
- Provides complete milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
- Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process Planners and NC Programmers sharing the same data in a single environment
NC Mold & Die Programmer

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines
- Reduce programming time and errors to make machined part creation lean and efficient
- Complete 2.5 and 3 axis Milling solution for Molds, Dies & Stampings, including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
- Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
- Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors