CATIA Composite Product Design (CPD)
Intuitively design high quality composites parts, while also anticipating their manufacturability.
Product overview
CATIA - Composites Product Design (CPD) is an advanced composites process centric solution that allows manufacturers, from aerospace to automotive 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 its manufacturability. CATIA - Composites Product Design (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 Highlights
· Uses a specification driven composites design approach
· Supports specific geometrical configurations
· Manages manufacturing parameters at the early stage of the design
Uniquely takes advantage of the CATIA V5 infrastructure and integration with other applications
Product Key Customers Benefits
Specification driven composites design approach...
CATIA - Composites Product Design, like every CATIA V5 product, but more specifically as a CATIA solution, is a process-centric solution for designing composites parts. It delivers all the tools needed to ensure compliance with composites part design best practices. Based on CATIA's experience in the high-tech composites domain, as well as on the latest CAD V5 technologies, Composites Product Design uniquely delivers an intuitive, specification-driven solution that helps the user concentrate on the design, not on the tool.
Support of specific geometrical configurations...
Owing to their geometrical parameters, some composites parts require complex designs. CATIA - Composites Product Design (CPD) can manage multi-part geometries, such as T-shaped parts, more easily than standard composites design solutions, such as CATIA V4, can. In addition, Composites Design can speed-up ply generation with such techniques as self-overlapping plies, always taking into account the zone's or part's geometry.
Manufacturing parameter management at the early stage of the design process...
Productibility checking enables users to predict how composites materials will behave on complex surfaces. Users can visualize fiber orientations, predict manufacturing problems, such as wrinkles or bridges, and take corrective action in the initial stages of design, eliminating costly change orders and ensuring a producible part. Productibility checking results in the generation directly from the CAD model of accurate flat patterns according to ply characteristics and fiber behavior. Downstream operations then offer direct integration of these flat patterns with the major nesting and cutting systems used by composites industry leaders.
Uniquely takes advantage of the CATIA V5 infrastructure and other applications...
Composites Product Design is a unique CATIA V5 technology-based product that takes advantage of the power of the PPR (Product Process Resource) infrastructure. One example is the specific V5 relational design change management capabilities that use automatic updates to reduce the impact of changes to the design-to-manufacturing process. Another example is the ability to create and reuse rules instantiated in stacking sequences to take into account industrial standards and corporate know-how. Using CATIA V5's knowledgeware capabilities in preliminary design permits the automatic update of a part in the engineering design phase for design change management purposes. This ability avoids the need to restart the full design phase, saving time and expense.
