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VOLUME 5 ISSUE 01 | April 2009 |

Book Post CATIA (Computer Aided Three Dimensional

Interactive Application) is a multi-platform CATIA V6 offers unique real-time rendering

CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite capabilities with new materials, new effects, developed by the French company Dassault and paint shaders for heightened realism of Systemes and marketed worldwide by IBM. virtual products.The award-winning collaborative 3D Written in the C++ programming language,

environment allows unlimited number of the software was created in the late 1970s online users to participate with immersive and early 1980s to develop Dassault's Mirage video conference in virtual 3D brainstorming, Online creation and collaboration reaches fighter jet, and then was adopted in the leveraging the collective intelligence of new disciplines with CATIA Systems and aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and geographically dispersed teams. People are widens the scope of the product. The other industries. connected to the same PLM Intellectual functional and the logical views of the physical

Property (IP) to make their modifications product could be reviewed in a collaborative together on this single platform, at anytime manner. The feature enables the designer the from anywhere. New tools enable everyone traceability of the product from the beginning to identify other contributors, connect in a to end phases of creation. CATIA V6 delivers

To increase innovation, companies are peer-to-peer manner, chat, exchange PLM objects that match collaborative design harnessing the collective intelligence of snapshots, perform coreview, and, most innovation, eliminating heavy assembly files, customers, marketing experts, sales people, importantly, codesign and exchange design enabling true concurrent design, and

intent in 3D.designers, and engineers before, during, and eliminating the need for complex and high after product definition. CATIA V6 facilitates reference management between parts, this participative process of product drawings, and products.d e v e l o p m e n t . C A T I A V 6 o f f e r s a

In CATIA V6, design data is accessible online CATIA V6 goes beyond the physical aspects of multidisciplinary approach, a full spectrum of from the single PLM platform. It is managed as a product and promotes a systems

virtual design capabilities that enables objects in a database, rather than as engineering or multidiscipline, collective

efficient design collaboration to encourage documents, a breakthrough that allows users approach to product development. Designers innovation across the extended enterprise. to manipulate the PLM objects at the right using CATIA V6 can therefore go beyond CATIA V6 includes shape design, mechanical level of granularity. This guarantees improved modeling the shape, mechanics, and and equipment engineering, as well as lifecycle management and ensures true equipment of a product to model and s y s t e m s e n g i n e e r i n g i n t e g r a t i n g c o n c u r r e n t e n g i n e e r i n g a n d h i g h - simulate the behavior of the embedded requirement, functional, logical, and physical performance online collaboration. For software systems as well.product definitions. It enables advanced example, two users from two distant sites can systems simulation within the 3D digital work in parallel on the same product mockup and leverages “design anywhere, simultaneously. The single PLM platform also anytime” ability to capture and send intended enables faster, easier multidiscipline

collaboration, ensuring all actors – design changes to offline collaborators. The manufacturing, design, engineering, and Composites Design brings in-context beyond – use the same information as the composite design for optimized design and basis for their discussions.mating with noncomposite structural parts.

Here are some important features of CATIA V6:

Highlights of CATIA V6R2009X – way to

design excellence

qLifelike Experience

qGlobal Collaborative Innovation

qOnline Creation and Collaboration

qSingle Platform for IP Management

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Product review - CATIA V6In this issue

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carburetor.The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS The plastic things on the end of shoelaces signal. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is are called aglets.

named Volney.The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 Colgate faced big obstacle marketing percent when a person looks at something Dalmatians are born without spots. toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries. pleasing. Colgate translates into the command “go

Google is actually the common name for a hang yourself.”The roar that we hear when we place a number with a million zeros.seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but Do you know the names of the three wise

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no evil)The attachment of the human skin to The color blue has a calming effect. It causes muscles is what causes dimples.the brain to release calming hormones. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip

moves faster than the speed of sound.The sound you hear when you crack your

Some interesting facts

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CATIA was started as an in-house development by the French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault. Initially named CATI (Conception Assistée Tridimensionnelle The Boeing Company used CATIA V3 to develop Interactive — French for Interactive Aided its 777 airliner, and is currently using CATIA V5 Three Dimensional Design) – it was renamed for the 787 series aircraft. They have employed CATIA in 1981, when Dassault created a the full range of Dassault Systemes' 3D PLM subsidiary to develop and sell the software, and products, comprising CATIA, DELMIA, and signed a nonexclusive distribution agreement ENOVIA LCA, supplemented by Boeing-with IBM. developed applications. European aerospace

giant Airbus has been using CATIA since 2001. In 1984, the Boeing Company chose CATIA as Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier its main 3D CAD tool, becoming its largest Aerospace has done all of its designing on customer. CATIA.

In 1988, CATIA version 3 was ported from the mainframe computers to UNIX.

In 1990, General Dynamics Electric Boat Automotive companies that use CATIA to

Corp chose CATIA as its main 3D CAD tool to varying degrees are BMW, Porsche, Daimler

design the U.S. Navy's Virginia class Chrysler, Audi, Volkswagen, Volvo, Fiat, PSA

submarine.Peugeot Citroen, Renault, Toyota, Honda, Ford,

In 1992, CADAM was purchased from IBM Scania, Hyundai, Skoda Auto, Proton, Tata and the next year CATIA CADAM V4 was motors, and Mahindra. Goodyear uses it in published. In 1996, it was ported from one to making tyres for automotive and aerospace four Unix operating systems, including IBM and also uses a customized CATIA for its design AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems and development. All automotive companies SunOS, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX. use CATIA for car structures – door beams, IP

supports, bumper beams, roof rails, side rails, In 1998, an entirely rewritten version of

body components – because CATIA is very good CATIA, CATIA V5 was released, with support

i n s u r f a c e c r e a t i o n a n d c o m p u t e r for UNIX, Windows NT, and Windows XP

representation of surfaces.since 2001.

In 2008, Dassault announced CATIA V6. Support for any operating system other than Windows was dropped.

Dassault Systems has begun serving shipbuilders with CATIA V5 release 8, which includes special features useful to shipbuilders.

CATIA is widely used throughout the GD Electric Boat used CATIA to design the latest engineering industry, especially in the fast-attack submarine class for the U.S. Navy, automotive and aerospace sectors. CATIA V4, the Virginia class. Northrop Grumman Newport CATIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER, NX (formerly News also used CATIA to design the Gerald R. Unigraphics), and SolidWorks are the dominant Ford class of supercarriers for the U.S. Navy. systems.

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IBM and Dassault Systemes Help European Automaker Create Digital Design Infrastructure to Speed up Delivery of Fuel Efficient Cars

BMW will use a single digital software environment for the design of all BMW engines across its fuel and diesel-powered cars, motorcycles, and its newest line of eco-friendly, hybrid cars including the industry's first hydrogen-powered vehicle.

With the use of CATIA software, a 3D virtual design platform, engineers can consolidate design environments and create a single reference model for the design of all future BMW engines. IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM experts have helped the automaker to harmonize and consolidate all design initiatives into a single digital infrastructure that provides the latest technologies to aid in the software simulation, calculation and testing of new engine models.

As industrial sector companies intensify efforts to deliver increased value to customers, they are using smart technology to help launch a new class of products. In the past, aerodynamicists, physicists, and product engineers relied on CAD geometry and manual changes to create new design models. With CATIA, product designers can create multiple engineering applications that significantly enhance a manufacturer's ability to digitally share master versions of an engine or a gear-box design. The use of one digital reference model that can be updated and shared instantly across the globe helps BMW respond quickly to consumer changes prior to signing off on production and shipment plans.

Using CATIA software, BMW has shipped 22 new cars with engines that produce less than 140 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometer, an achievement that meets the goals set by Kyoto Protocol participants in 1992 as part of an international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally. Courtesy: www.ibm.com

Can CAD Market Grow in an Economic Downturn? Read on….

Golden Years

Investing in Productivity Gain

CAD Training and Return on Investment

One Region's Loss, Another's Gain

The dreaded “R” word is making a comeback. So how are the IT managers and CAD managers bracing for the inevitable economic 2D to 3D Transition: 3D Modeling tools are slump? Some think loosening the purse strings one of the focus areas companies are for well-timed training and well-placed adopting to succeed in the competitive technology might help tighten their market place today. Companies that can companies' operating margins. respond to consumer demands will be more

successful than others. Realization of the increase in the Return on Investment of the consumer demands has made companies look CAD system. This also helps make the whole at productivity tools that will enable them to process of introducing high technology into come out with better designs and optimum the design department a cost-effective design cost. process, which in turn will lead to faster time to market and improved design quality, two A 3D modeling tool enables much quicker factors that are crucial to a successful designing and encourages a higher level of company. creativity. 3D has also enhanced the

importance of design, as changes can now be Companies consequently realize the made quickly and cost effectively during the importance of training their employees on the design process itself. CAD tools to enhance productivity and thereby increase the revenue multifold. Understanding the need of the hour, there is a

widespread adoption of 3D CAD tools; companies invest on added tools to enhance According to the "2008 CAD Report" from Jon productivity. We see companies moving from Peddie Research (JPR), "CAD software 2D to 3D at a rapid phase. The experts say that vendors saw combined revenues of $5,234.95 there is 40% gain in design productivity after million in 2007" – an astounding 20% increase moving on to 3D. They also agree that 3D is a from the $4,362.45 million reported for 2006. great tool to communicate the design ideas to The analyst firm expects the CAD market to the common man. The potential benefits to continue expanding with roughly an 11% companies moving to 3D CAD technology are compounded annual growth rate through extensive and meaningful to the bottom line, 2012 – "in spite of challenges in the U.S. more profit for the company. economy."

The JPR report concludes, "Strong growth continues in the emerging economies that will The JPR report notes, "In an industry known The recently released report indicates that the offset contractions in the west. Significant for a conservative rate of change, there is a CAD software market has been enjoying a growth is seen in Latin America, India, China, significant shift taking place as smaller "remarkable renaissance" during the past five and Africa. Emerging economies are able to businesses are investing in new technologies years due to "advances that put 64-bit, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages to improve their processes and efficiency. CAD multicore computers into the mainstream; t h r o u g h e n h a n c i n g t r a d e b e t w e e n software market is rooted in many large-scale broadening acceptance of 3D techniques and themselves and stimulating their domestic infrastructure projects that are already in the marriage of CAD visualization with demand. The emerging markets' strong place and the transition to new building information management." growth would help the world economy at techniques, such as BIM [Building Information large to achieve a soft landing.”Modeling], is creating a revolutionary

impact.”

The question often asked is “How can the expense of training be justifies?” Studies prove that the trained user will be more productive in less time, resulting in an

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