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 manufacturability. Thanks to powerful synchronisation mechanisms CPD is the essential link between engineering design and physical manufacturing and allows manufacturing designers to closely collaborate with engineering designers. CATIA - Composites Design 3 (CPD) uniquely delivers a powerful composites design solution with all the advantages of the CATIA V5 architecture: native integration, pervasive knowledgeware capabilities, and CATIA V5's ease-of-use.
Product HighlightsPRELIMINARY DESIGN
- Easy-to-use zone (geometry and laminate)and transition zones modeling definition
- Solid and top surface generation from zones for early 3D representation
- Automatic ply generation including ply staggering with stacking rules
ENGINEERING DETAILED DESIGN
- Easy acces to material properties and attributes
- Powerful ply modeling tools (dedicated ply modification 3D features),
- Exact solid generation from plies for digital mock-up review
- Complete Composites Inspection tools (for instance core sample and numerical analysis, plie table..)
- Producibility analysis tools embedding manufacturing contraints early in the design phase
MANUFACTURING DETAILED DESIGN
- Dedicated manufacturing part modeling capabilities such as manufacturing shell swapping and material excess definition and 3D multisplice
- Accurate fiber behavior simulation
- Automatic flatten geometry creation
- Effective manufacturing export capabilities and automatic shopfloor documentation
- Powerful synchronization/collaboration mechanisms with engineering detailed design
