THE LATEST R2020X RELEASE OF 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA IS FULL PACKED OF ENHANCEMENTS TO IMPROVE YOUR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES.

R2020x enriches the industry-focused 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA solution for Construction Cities and Territories, which addresses all participants in the end-to-end building development process, from Architects to Construction professionals.

This release delivers new advanced capabilities for generative and parametric modeling, IFC interoperability, large point cloud management, terrain preparation, steel structures and façades design, road & rails design and components design.

3DEXPERIENCE CATIA RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS- R2020x FOR ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

FOR EXPLORING DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS WITHIN A DESIGN SPACE

Web-based generative modeling with xGenerative Design

The 3D Generative Innovator Role delivers a browser-based on the cloud generative modeling environment that uniquely combines graphical visual scripting and interactive 3D modeling, with the ability to use one or the other interchangeably at any time. This intuitive and smart approach allows creative people in Architecture to quickly design, explore and validate variations of complex, repetitive and non-regular shapes and patterns.

All created geometry to be used in the world of detailed design and manufacture through the rich portfolio of roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

THE R2020X RELEASE EXPANDS THE POWER OF THE SOLUTION BY INTRODUCING NEW SOPHISTICATED AND POWERFUL OPERATORSThe enhanced operators allow an easier control of the graph, giving more flexibility in the choice of design methods, and increasing creativity through multiple approaches to solving design challenges.

Benefit from new and enhanced operators• Create plotter charts

• Improve your sweeping process

• Create convex hulls

• Highlight point ratios on a curve

• Highlight distances along a direction

ENRICH YOUR EKL SCRIPTING WITH GEOMETRY CONSTRUCTORS

THE USER EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN FURTHER ENHANCED, AND OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE/TOUCH DEVICES(For example, casual users on any mobile device can interact with the model and easily vary parameters using sliders or curve editors).

Improved user experience for Graph edition

Additional parameters for design exploration

Usability Improvements on mobile device

FOR EASILY IMPORTING IFC FORMATS

Filter IFC models with a new user interface, to control the type of geometry that is imported and the way it is converted.

Import IFC Piping semantic information, into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Generate CATIA Piping objects directly from IFC models

FOR MANAGING AND EXPLOITING LARGE CLOUD OF POINTSVisualize, analyze, refine and edit large cloud of points. Create meshes and use them with extract geometries

In R2020x, massive point cloud files, containing millions of points, can be imported individually or in batch mode. Once imported, these large point clouds can be visualized, analyzed, refined and edited. CATIA automatically recognizes 3D primitives in the point clouds, and the parameters of these primitives can be edited and controlled. Polyhedral surfaces (meshes) created from point clouds can be used in Boolean operations with exact geometry such as NURBS surfaces, volumes of solids.

Using this approach, a large point cloud can be used to sculpt a complex terrain. This automation technology creates a parametric model enabling the quick and easy calculation of accurate volumes in many scenarios, specifically the calculation of excavations and filling for earthworks, determining excavation depth for a desired volume, or sub-diving the terrain into precise quantities for machine planning.

FOR IMAGING TERRAIN PREPARATIONNew enhancements in the Terrain Preparation applications allows a better control of image-mapping on terrain meshes

FOR DESIGNING STEEL STRUCTURESNew highly productive detailing features enable the rapid creation of plates, stiffeners, coping and hole patterns to structural members in order to create steel connections. These steel detailing members are grouped into connections, and rapidly replicated around the building as PowerCopies.

Steel Connections Design

Rapidly add plates, stiffeners, and hole patterns onto the structural frame.

3D Grids for linear infrastructure

Create horizontal structural grids on alignment curves using axis system patterns to model bridge structures.

FOR DESIGNING ROAD AND RAIL SURFACESR2020x benefits from an enhanced template-based approach, which provides the ability to design a section-driven road or railway surface, while taking into account superelevation, transition lengths between sections and subgrade layers. The layers of materials composing the road of railway are defined within each section, and thanks to this process, the subgrade and earthworks computations can be completed within a single command.

FOR FACADE DESIGNFacade designers will benefit from the ability to quickly pattern building facades R2020x benefits from an enhanced template-based approach, which provides the ability to design a section-driven road or railway surface, while taking into account superelevation, transition lengths between sections and subgrade layers. The layers of materials composing the road of railway are defined within each section, and thanks to this process, the subgrade and earthworks computations can be completed within a single command.

Facade Design Enhancements

• Quickly pattern building facades

• Use elevation planes to control patterning

• Create Diagonal Mullions while activating or deactivating either horizontal or vertical mullions

• Enhanced support for complex or trimmed surfaces

• Offset Façade from surface to create multi-layered facades

• Extract facade panels to be used as input for Engineering Templates

New Hand Rails command for Stairs and Ramps

In R2020x Building Space Planning now allows users to design handrails on stairs and ramps. These new features are interactive and contain a number of automation accelerators to quickly model rails, posts, balusters and handrails.

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FOR PLACEMENT OF BUILDING COMPONENTS IN A BUILDING MODELEasily search, place and then multi-edit building components without depending on local AEC index files. You can select the product in which the component will be created, place the component on surface features and reference planes, or place it outside of a building product structure.

You have also the option to repeatedly place components, modify each component immediately after placing, or select component from a dropdown containing the last 12 placed components

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You can optionally restrict placing the components to the specified sill height or specify a reference plane as reference for sill height. This feature is useful when adding components outside of a building structure.

Benefit from new building components such as escalators, moving walkways, and elevator doors.