Mechanical Design

CATIA - Composites Design 3 (CPD)

CATIA V5R18
Mechanical Design
CATIA - Composites Design
Provides an all in one solution to cover the whole engineering to
manufacturing design process of high quality composite parts

Product overview

CATIA - Composites Design 3 (CPD) is an

advanced composites process centric
solution that allows manufacturers, from
aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding or
consumer goods companies, to reduce the
time needed to design composites parts. It
delivers tools to cover both the preliminary
and detailed design phases while taking into
account, even at the concept stage, the
product's requirements for its Easy acces to material properties and
manufacturability. Thanks to powerful attributes
synchronisation mechanisms CPD is the Powerful ply modeling tools (dedicated ply
essential link between engineering design and modification 3D features),
physical manufacturing and allows Exact solid generation from plies for digital
manufacturing designers to closely mock-up review
collaborate with engineering designers. CATIA Complete Composites Inspection tools
- Composites Design 3 (CPD) uniquely (for instance core sample and numerical
delivers a powerful composites design analysis, plie table..)
solution with all the advantages of the CATIA Producibility analysis tools embedding
V5 architecture: native integration, pervasive manufacturing contraints early in the design
knowledgeware capabilities, and CATIA V5's phase
ease-of-use.
MANUFACTURING DETAILED DESIGN
Dedicated manufacturing part modeling
Product Highlights capabilities such as manufacturing shell
swapping and material excess definition
PRELIMINARY DESIGN 3D multisplice
Easy-to-use zone (geometry and Accurate fiber behavior simulation
laminate)and transition zones modeling Automatic flatten geometry creation
definition Effective manufacturing export capabilities
Solid and top surface generation from and automatic shopfloor documentation
zones for early 3D representation Powerful synchronization/collaboration
Automatic ply generation including ply mechanisms with engineering detailed
staggering with stacking rules design

ENGINEERING DETAILED DESIGN

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Product Key Customers Benefits between engineering design and physical
manufacturing and allows suppliers to closely
Specification driven composites design collaborate with OEMs to the composite
approach... CATIA - Composites Design 3, design process. Using CPD, Manufacturing
like every CATIA V5 product, but more Designers can work concurrently to the
specifically as a CATIA P3 solution, is a design detailed design phase and
process-centric solution for designing automatically take into account any design
composites parts. It delivers all the tools modification.
needed to ensure compliance with
composites part design best practices. Effective manufacturing export capabilities
Based on CATIA's experience in the and strong partnerships to support all
high-tech composites domain, as well as composites manufacturing processes:
on the latest CAD V5 technologies, Thanks to Dassault systemes' partnerships,
Composites Design 3 uniquely delivers an CPD offers a complete integration with major
intuitive, specification-driven solution that production systems: such as Laser Projection
helps the user concentrate on the design, to improve reproducibility and shorten the
not on the tool. lay-up time, Nesting and Cutting of fabrics
,Resin Transfer Molding Simulation, Tape
Support of specific geometrical Laying Design and Programming, Fiber
configurations... Owing to their geometrical Placement Automation. This ensures that
parameters, some composites parts require CPD can be used by any companies,
complex designs. CATIA - Composites Design whatever the manufacturing process and the
3 (CPD) can manage multi-part geometries, machine provider are.
such as T-shaped parts, more easily than
standard composites design solutions, such Uniquely takes advantage of the CATIA V5
as CATIA V4, can. In addition, Composites infrastructure and other applications...
Design 3 can speed-up ply generation with Composites Design 3 is a unique CATIA V5
such techniques as self-overlapping plies, technology-based product that takes
always taking into account the zone's or advantage of the power of the PPR (Product
part's geometry. Process Resource) infrastructure. One
example is the specific V5 relational design
Manufacturing parameter management at change management capabilities that use
the early stage of the design process... automatic updates to reduce the impact of
Detailed productibility checking enables users changes to the design-to-manufacturing
to predict how composites materials will process. Another example is the ability to
behave on complex surfaces. Users can create and reuse rules instantiated in stacking
visualize fiber orientations, predict sequences to take into account industrial
manufacturing problems, such as wrinkles or standards and corporate know-how. Using
bridges, and take corrective action in the initial CATIA V5's knowledgeware capabilities in
stages of design, eliminating costly change preliminary design permits the automatic
orders and ensuring a producible part. update of a part in the engineering design
Productibility checking is done directly from phase for design change management
the CAD model to generate accurate flat purposes. This ability avoids the need to
patterns according to ply characteristics and restart the full design phase, saving time and
fiber behavior. expense.

Powerful Synchronisation/Collaboration
Mechanisms with detailed design:
Ensuring true Associativity/consistency
between design inputs and manufacturing
outputs: Thanks to powerful synchronisation
mechanisms CPD is the essential link

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