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Virtual DesignCATIA Body in White Modeling

Body in white design teams need to quickly create or modify a carbody in an associative styling and engineering context, taking intoaccount the manufacturability of the created body.

CATIA Body in White Modeling is an advanced product that usesunique ski l led features to boost body in white design phaseproductivity. These powerful features allow body in white designteams to quickly create or modify a car body in an associative stylingand engineering context. CATIA Body in White Modeling takesadvantage of its total integration with the mechanical shape designproducts, the freestyle products, and CATIA Body in White Fastenerproduct.

Customer benefits

• Productive FunctionalShape Design paradigm

• Delivers a dedicated bodyin white design productbased on highlyproductive, skilled features

• Optimize the finalappearance of your BIWdesign

• Strengthens the CATIAPLM end-to-end design formanufacturing body inwhite process coverage

• Embeds processknowledge inside eachfeature

Key capabilities

P e r f o r m D i a b o l o S e a t o nvolumes and solidsProvides, in just a very few clicks,the Body in White community witha functional feature very often usedin any parts. Diabolo Seat can beperformed on volumes and solids.

Create Mating FlangesThis al lows adding a shape to athin part . Most of the t ime, th isshape is used as a contact zonew i t h a n o t h e r p a r t w i t h i n a nassembly purpose. This addeds h a p e c a n b e u s e d t o c r e a t ewelding points in order to assembletwo pa r t s . The Ma t i ng F langefeature comes with the abil i ty tomanage the local thickness of forlocal deformation, the abi l i ty tocreate both sides Mating Flangeshapes in one step, and a spl i t

option.

Quickly define beadsTo stiffen a part, users can create atr iangle bead shape to st i f fen ap a r t , i n a q u i c k a n d i n t u i t i v emanner.

Link up several sections with theJunction featureThis High level feature allows tol i n k u p s e v e r a l s e c t i o n s(isotopologic or not) with tangencymanagement. The abi l i ty to joinsur faces in th is way is a majorproductivity innovation.

Create various shapes of HoleAllows the user to create a Holeshape in a very product ive anduser-friendly way. The Hole featureis used to remove material from a

body. Various shapes of standardhole can be created (Round, Slot ?Elongated, Square ? Rectangular),a n d t h e H o l e c u r v e c r e a t i o nenables to create only the the wireframe structure of a hole instead oft h e h o l e i t s e l f . A d d i t i o n a l l y ,seman t i c recogn i t i on o f ho lesm e a n s t h e y c a n b e u s e d f o rTolerancing purposes.

2D View Section2D-view sect ions are used as am e a n s t o v i s u a l i z e g e o m e t r yde ta i l s a long mu l t i p le sec t i onp l a n e s , d i s p l a y s e c t i o n sinformation on a plane independentfrom the sectioned geometry or thesec t i on i ng p l ane f o r usab i l i t yp u r p o s e s a n d e n r i c h t h e r a wsection information with additionals k e t c h e d i t i n g , c o r n e r a n dthickness operations.

3D Geometrical Grid review tool Powerful design and review toola l lowing to posi t ion the designa c t i v i t y i n s i d e t h e v e h i c l ecoordinates Productive designtool allowing snapping mechanisms Augments comfor t dur ing thedesign process Standard in theautomotive Industry New optionenabling users to use grids lineseither as lines or planes features. Visibility management: enables tomanage the 3D Grid visibility in aproduct including several Partscontaining grids (When a part isactive inside the product: the gridof the active part is displayed (ifactive), when the product is active:none of the grid are displayed)

Powerful g lobal deformat iontoolsEmbeds un ique b reak th roughtechnologies enabling to performq u i c k l y g l o b a l m o r p h i n g o nc o m p l e x s h a p e s . I t a l l o w s t odeform interactively shapes. Thiseasy-to-use environment helpsd e s i g n e r s t o a c h i e v e r e a lproductivity gains to optimize theproduct or the tooling definition.

Realistic Shape OptimizerEnables the user to perform thegeometric morphing of a nominalshape from any displacement filesresulting, for instance, from finitee l e m e n t s a n a l y s i s , d i s c r e t em e a s u r e m e n t s . T h e r e a l i s t i cshapes are then reusable as anyother V6 features.

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About Dassault SystèmesAs a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3Dsoftware market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entirelifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanicaldesign - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. DassaultSystèmes shares are listed on Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) and Dassault Systèmes ADRs may be traded on the US Over-The-Counter (OTC) market (DASTY).

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