CATIA - Functional Molded Parts 2 (FMP) is a new generation product for designing cast, molded and forged parts and related tooling with unmatched productivity and flexibility. Its history-free functional design approach for defining the complete functional specification for both parts and their associated tooling makes FMP a breakthrough product for reducing the design-to-manufacturing cycle.

Building on the foundation of functional part definition, it accelerates the time-to-market by intelligently understanding the geometrical and tooling definition from a designer's functional concept. By taking advantage of the unique CATIA V5 geometrical modeler and the process coverage of complementary CATIA products, companies can realize significant efficiency savings. Freeing the designer from the constraints of history-based design, the order in which features are created has no impact on the design itself.

Product Highlights

• Enables designers to concentrate on what they want to model and not how to model it
• Gives molded part designer flexibility and productivity thanks to functional modeling approach
• Provides a collection of process-specific functional features dedicated to concurrently design both the product and associated tooling for molded and plastic parts
• Provides a design to manufacturing process coverage due to integration with CATIA V5 applications
• Provides significant productivity gains as well as all the benefits of being fully integrated in the CATIA V5 product design solution
• Demonstrates the power and the flexibility of the V5 architecture