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.
Converters for Design and Styling
Import multiple Design/Styling file formats into 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA with one role
- Deliver bundle of converters for creative designers and stylists: 3DEXCITE DELTAGEN Models, ICEM Surf Models, McNeal Rhinoceros 3D Models, Autodesk FBX Models, OBJ Models and Collada Models
- Instead of buying individual converter roles, get all the converters for a project in a single role
Creative Designer
Evaluate human postures and user experience for comfort and safety studies at the early stage of conceptual design
- Create and animate human avatars with advanced postures
- Rich specific libraries of high definition humans, environments and materials
- Immersive VR capabilities to explore in a more realistic way the user interactions with the environment
- Create and replay scenarios to review variants and make appropriate design decisions
Creative Designer for Transportation & Mobility
With virtual design, explore more ideas for better design creativity, maturity end design success
- Imagine and explore quickly many creativity styling ideas in 3D with 3D Sketching, Virtual clay Modeling, Color and Material
- Experience the design intent in context of Human with High-End realtime visual and immersive experience
- Present your design and make decision with realtime visual experience and accurate photorealistic rendering
Design Ergonomist for Transportation & Mobility
Create and explore conceptual ideas through a comprehensive set of applications addressing ideation, concept modeling and visualization.
- Import 2D sketches and develop ideas with a unique 3D-Sketching technology.
- Sculpt in 3D with ultra-fast virtual clay modeling using subdivision surface technology.
- Design within the context of the Human.
- Transform real objects to virtual from a set of 2D photos.
- Visualize products and work on colors and trims with high-end real-time visualization and photo-realistic rendering.
- Create, edit and modify Ambiences
Human Experience Designer
Express your design intent using human as a reference. Shape ideas with a human in posture for proportion evaluation and concept design validation. Explore and validate the best product user-experience in the early design and engineering phases
- human motion creation functionalities to better explore the consumer experience
- high quality integrated rendering with ambiences, material library and global illumination
- human interactions within experience context
- human as an avatar in VR review immersive context
Immersive Collaboration Experience
Enable multiple users to experience the same immersive design review in a shared VR world.
- Connect distributed teams and reduce travel costs.
- Multiple users can experience the same data in a shared Virtual Reality world.
- Launch a VR co-review from any CATIA application, without any data preparation.
- VR avatars allow to enhance communication naturally with gestures.
- Teleport to another user’s exact position to see what she is talking about.
Product Design Presenter
Create and experience intuitive presentations for brainstorming, review, packaging and validation.
- Visualize and experience your design for accurate, immediate & defined decision making, working on native and managed CAD data.
- Replace costly physical prototypes with realistic visualization and immersive experiences.
- Create highly realistic, review-ready design models with precise material appearances, environments, lighting, cameras, KPIs & design alternatives.
- Intuitive user experience and a highly realistic view of alternatives.
Reverse Engineer
Create rapid prototypes, 3D-prints and visualize physical objects with reverse engineering with a comprehensive set of applications.
- Manage, repair, refine and improve scanned and mesh data.
- Provide various semi-automatic tools to rebuild exact geometry from Mesh.
- Generate STL or AMF format files from exact geometry for 3D printing.
- Obtain through global deformation the compensated shape able to absorb deforming physical phenomenon’s.
Style & Class-A Modeler
Create, edit and analyze aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to the highest Class-A surface quality.
- Achieve high-end surface quality, up to Class-A Standard Quality.
- Reach a new level of quality and productivity by Integrating the power of CATIA with the precision of ICEM technology.
- Create, modify, analyze and render any type of aesthetical and ergonomic shape.
- Deliver final product surfaces, with G3-continuity, based on inputs such as design-sketches, scanned data or subdivision surfaces.
- Streamline Style, Class-A and Engineering collaboration and convergence.
Templates, Optimization & Rules Designer
Reduce errors and optimize geometry by capturing know-how and best practices.
- Use EKL scripting to create design workflows and automations and capitalize on company know-how.
- Interactively create product templates to empower design reuse.
- Create advanced relational designs with embedded rules and checks to increase design adaptability.
- Create and use standard checks for geometry methodologies and compliance to avoid expensive redesigns.
- Utilize established algorithms for design optimizations and create design of experiments.
Transportation Designer
Improve transportation designer’s creativity and gain competitive advantage by design thanks to a complete and unified industrial design solution.
- Integrate VR capabilities with HTC Vive to enable immersive sketching
- Explore ideas by sketching in 3D – with a unique and natural 3D-Sketching technology.
- Sculpt in 3D with ultra-fast Virtual Clay Modeling thanks to subdivision surface technology.
- Design within the context of the Human.
- Visualize products and work on colors and trims with high-end real-time visualization and photo-realistic rendering.
- Design with direct solid modeling and compose products with automated assembly features.
- New ICEM Design Experience application provides a more productive UX to Surface Modelers.
Virtual Reality Reviewer
Improve understanding with integrated & direct access to immersive VR inside 3DEXPERlENCE applications
- Experience your design in life-size and stereoscopic visualization for immediate decisions on native data in 1:1 scale.
- Leverage the direct support of latest Head-Mounted Display devices.
- Benefit from built-in intuitive navigation and tools for immersive analysis.
- Detect defects for immediate decision directly in your design or engineering workflow to replace costly and late physical prototypes.
- Accelerate your decision making with integrated solutions.
Visual Experience Content Collection
Provides a variety of ready-to-use visualization assets, such as material appearances, ambiences, human mannequins and props.
- A selection of highly realistic, complex material appearances in different categories to serve multiple industries
- Multiple ambiences providing photorealistic illumination for different products and industries scene background
- A collection of multiple realistic 3D Humans, fully poseable in different ages, ethnics, genders and professions
- Props to enrich products and give context in little time and without requiring expert knowledge
Class – A Expert
Enriches the Class-A Modeler role productivity with an additional set of advanced tools for transportation designers.
- Upgrade Class-A Modeler functions: feature modeling and over-crowning…
- Increase productivity with specialized and advanced features such as Gap, Blend-corner, Cylinder-glass, Tube and Accelerated surface.
- Experience new global deformation capabilities.
Design Studio Engineer
Design and manage all technical areas of the model, collaborate with mock-up organization for technical reviews and facilitate link with engineering teams
- Design and manage all the technical shapes and parts of the model
- Generate variants and review slides for the modeling team with the right openness for style exploration and iterations
- Create and manage the product assembly for the design and Class-A team, managing links and access rights
Virtual & Real Reconstruction Designer
Process scanned data from real prototype to generate virtual model
- Quickly generate virtual models from scanned Real Prototypes
- Check, repair and optimize scanned data.
- Prepare Virtual Models for 3DPrinting
- Visually compare the Virtual Model to check consistency with Real Prototype
- Immersive and Collaborative Experience for better perception of Virtual model