You will find below an overview of the key new additional values provided  by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and all 3DS Brands roles and apps  (CATIA; ENOVIA; DELMIA; SIMULIA; 3DEXCITE; NETVIBES EXALEAD; Quintiq; GEOVIA; BIOVIA) delivered in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform R2019x on the cloud.

In addition to this overview of the key Values, you can find a tier1 description, by role & app in the official Cloud Program Directory.

3DEXPERIENCE platform Business Innovation (IFW)

[New in 12/2018] New App: User Groups

Adding users 1 by 1 in your communities or in 3DDrive can be very painful when your audience is composed of hundreds of people. A new service, User Groups, is being deployed to help you with that! This group notion will help you share content from 3DDrive, 3DSpace, 3DSwym or even to grant platform roles to a large group of users.

More details in the dedicated article​​​​​​​.

Native apps installation

Until now, installing native apps code required the user to be admin on his machine.  Now, it is possible to launch install of 3DEXPERIENCE Launcher and the native apps without being administrator on the machine.

Moreover, there is a new look and feel at installation.

Click on this article to read more on how to update your 3DEXPERIENCE platform

3DSwym

Highlight your favorite communities

To quickly access your favorite communities, you can now add them to your favorites in the dedicated section and order them by order of importance. It is only accessible in the What’s New section.

Pin a content at the top of your community feed

As owners of communities, we often need an information to be visible and not to get lost inside the community feed.

3DSwym now offers the possibility for the communities owners to highlight one and only one content at a time (from any type) at the top of your community feed! Pinning a content can also be a way to have a 'welcome' content, with the key information of your community.

Surveys & Wikis appear in the community feed

Until now, new surveys and wikis weren't displayed in the community feed. It was inconvenient, especially for surveys. Once we created a survey, we had to write a post about it so that the information was available in the community feed.
This workaround is no longer required, as all the types of content now appear in the feed!
Surveys can be answered directly from the What's new. For wikis, they will only appear in the feed at their creation not when they are revised.  

Surveys: several new features

When creating your next surveys, you'll be glad to see the new features that have been deployed. First of all, the order for the survey creation has changed. Now, you first have to create the questions, then in a second step, you declare the timing of your survey (reverse of what we had until now). Your questions can have files attached, and a new type of answer is available: the rating scale. 

Until now, as the survey creator, you had to answer to your own survey to have a look at the results during your survey timing. This is over! You can check results whenever you want, and you can also visualize those results in a pie graph format if you want!

"My Communities" page has a new display 

To make it easier for you to read the 'My Communities' page, the new layout is all about perfectly aligned cards.

Animated GIF supported

It's a trend that has come back in the last years on social networks, GIF has become a way to express an idea, a feeling, and a state of mind. You could already add GIFs in your content, but they were not animated. Now they are, enjoy!

It will also support the display of animated GIF on 3DComments made on 3DSwym items only.

As we introduce here a new media_type, these items are available within 6WTagger under “Animated Pictures”.

Finally, in case you already uploaded GIF media in the past (prior to this function), it will remain definitively static. The function applies only to the newly uploaded GIF media files.

3DDashboard

A new dashboard management role 

There is now an intermediate role between "Reader" and "Owner" in dashboard management. This role allows people to update information but not delete widgets or even the whole dashboard.
Here are now the 3 roles that you can have in a dashboard:

• Reader: has read-only access.
• New! - Contributor: Can edit the content of widgets but cannot modify the structure or properties of the dashboard or widget position or size.
• Owner: Can edit the dashboard structure and widget content, modify the dashboard properties, and delete the dashboard.

Please pay attention to the wording of the roles! Contributors in a dashboard don't have the same rights as contributors in 3DSwym. Here is the equivalence:

3DDrive

Retrieve your deleted files with the trash

This function will improve the usability of the 3DDrive service. The Trash will allow to retrieve the deleted content, if the user has deleted it by mistake.

When some content is deleted, either from the 3DDrive web application or from the 3DDrive Windows Sync client, the content is moved into a Trash folder.

This folder can be retrieved in the 3DDrive web application. The user can then either delete permanently a content or restore it.

3DPassport

3DEXPERIENCE ID

The 3DEXPERIENCE ID is the new name for User ID.

Moreover, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers compliance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) for data protection and privacy regulations on the cloud. Standard access to the platform includes a review and acceptance of the policy by users.

3DEXPERIENCE CATIA on the Cloud

New role: 3D Generative Innovator (XGG)

Unconstrained Creativity

“3D Generative Innovator” delivers a browser-based on-the-cloud generative modeling environment that uniquely combines graphical visual scripting and interactive 3D-modeling, with the ability to use one or the other interchangeably at any time.

Any 3D Model can also be described by a program/script which defines the 3D elements and the relationships between them. Visual Scripting makes this easier, as it is a visual approach to creating programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually (eg, drag and drop of boxes and links). Using this approach, advanced automation and computational design techniques can be introduced to the parametric model creation process.

This new, intuitive and smart approach allows creative people in Architecture, Design/Styling and Engineering to quickly design, explore and validate variations of complex, repetitive and non-regular shapes and patterns. All created geometry is available to be used in the world of detailed design and manufacture through the rich portfolio of roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Uniquely, at any stage of the design, the user can swap freely between the graph and the interactive 3D, as these are bi-directionally dynamically sync’ed. For instance, the user can start a command in the interactive 3D environment and finish it in the graph or vice-versa. The benefit is even more artistic creativity and productivity, leading to more successful designs.

Key Values:

• Browser-based on-the-cloud generative modeling environment
• Combines graphical visual scripting and interactive 3D-modeling, 
• Uniquely provides the ability to use one or the other interchangeably at any time.
• Quickly design, explore and validate variations of complex, repetitive and non-regular shapes and patterns
• All created geometry is available to be used in the world of detailed design and manufacture.
• The benefit is even more artistic creativity and productivity, leading to more successful designs. 

Enhanced App: CATIA Natural Sketch

Immersive Design Experience with 3D Natural Sketching. Brings the immersive experience to the hands of the designer

With R2017x, we introduced immersive virtual reality fully integrated in CATIA and available naturally in an instant. In R2018x, we extended that to VR collaboration so teams could experience the product together in real time. 

Today with R2019x, we take a further step which brings the immersive experience to the hands of the designer, with the ability to create in 3D Virtual Reality using CATIA Natural Sketch.

This new way of 3D Sketching extends the ability to express and communicate creativity and to transform 2D ideas into a 3D reality.
Now designers can simply plug-and- play their HTC Vive head mounted display to jump into VR directly from their 3D Sketching App to immediately design in 3D. A new immersive user interface, allows the designer to 3D sketch and model directly in the 3D VR space with an immersive experience.

Key Values:

• Create in 3D Virtual Reality using CATIA Natural Sketch.
• This new way of 3D Sketching extends the ability to express and communicate creativity and to transform 2D ideas into a 3D reality.
• Plug-and- play  HTC Vive head mounted display to jump into VR directly from 3D Sketching App
•  A new immersive user interface, allows the designer to 3D sketch and model directly in the 3D VR space with an immersive experience.

New Role: Product Experience Presenter (VXP)

Create & Play 3D visual experiences for compelling styling presentations 

A new role, “Product Experience Presenter”, enables the creation of compelling visual product experiences in 3D, for more effective and professional styling presentations, design explorations and reviews. 

The user can quickly and simply set up a design review experience with styling variants, packaging options, animations, views and configurations. The presentation can be enriched with ambiences, environments, lighting and behaviors. 
The experience can then be played, switching between and exploring alternatives in real time. 

Product Experience Presenter helps creative designers to explore in 3D many design variants and combinations. It allows creative teams to brainstorm together, live in 3D, on multiple design possibilities.  Full integration with the design data and high quality and accurate visualization leads to improved communications and better decisions across all disciplines. The presenter can leverage touch-screens for effective presentation, and, with the Immersive Visual Experience role, VR is available.

Key Values:

• More effective and professional styling presentations, design explorations and reviews. 
• Quickly and simply set up a design review experience with styling variants, packaging options, animations, views and configurations. The presentation can be enriched with ambiences, environments, lighting and behaviors. 
• Play the experience, switching between and exploring alternatives in real time. 
• Full integration with the design data and high quality and accurate visualization leads to improved communications and better decisions across all disciplines.

New App: ICEM Design Experience

New levels of productivity, innovation and collaboration

ICEM Design Experience provides an intuitive and optimized user experience to accelerate the creation and sculpting of high quality surfaces.  

Based on the best in class and proven ICEM technology, and in collaboration with industrial user champions, we have designed the next innovative solution for surface modelling.
This new user experience is based on an innovative approach to user interaction and selection of surfaces, and a new user interface. Both are optimized for surface modelers, boosting their productivity and flexibility to create and shape surfaces. 
Innovation

A new “OMNI” smart technology, inside several features, recognises and predicts the designer’s intent, based upon his geometry selection. For example, the OMNISurf feature, based on the number and 3D position of curves, will generate the right surface, for example flange, blend or sweep.

ICEM Design Experience also introduces innovative commands and features, including sculpting laws, Greville points (control points) and global deformation. These combine with a new reverse engineering workflow that accelerates the overall hybrid-design process.
ICEM Design Experience brings an innovative Mathematics, called “Soft Parametric”, to the hands of surface modelers.  Soft Parametric gives the user the flexibility to choose explicit modelling or various levels of parametric surface modelling. This can be fully explicit, locally parametric, or fully parametric. The modeler can choose the most efficient approach for the current task – taking as much parametric capability as he wishes for this particular task, and can switch back and forth as needed.
Collaboration

With ICEM Design Experience, CAS and Class-A surface modelers can now seamlessly connect with the enterprise on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, taking advantage of full digital continuity across the product development process.

Key Values:

• Innovative approach to user interaction and selection of surfaces, and a new user interface. Both are optimized for surface modelers.
• A new “OMNI” smart technology recognizes and predicts the designer’s intent, based upon his geometry selection
• Innovative commands and features, including sculpting laws, Greville points and global deformation. These combine with a new reverse engineering workflow that accelerates the overall hybrid-design process.
• Full digital continuity across the product development process.

New role: Function Driven Refinement Designer (DOF) + enhanced role: Function Driven Generative Designer (GDE)

Generate optimized conceptual assemblies from functional specifications. 

In CATIA R2019x, this geometry quality is further improved with smoother and more regular surfaces.
New functionality is also introduced to better control the design of optimized parts to be produced through the milling process. The specifications of the milling process, such as the milling directions, the initial block, and the tool diameter are used to determine the various profiles, for the outer shape and inner pockets.  
 
The new extension role, “Function Driven Refinement Designer”, allows you to further refine and converge the optimized shape, globally or locally, without re-running the full optimization. This can be achieved by:

Parametric optimization convergence: After the automated generation of the concept shape, the user can choose select geometric parameters to tune from the 3D model, set an acceptable range for each one of them and then run an incremental optimization. 

Further optimization of the shape: the software optimizes the outer shape to lower the stress peaks, without the need to specify explicitly which geometric parameters to vary. This can lead to a bulkier shape in stressed areas, and if possible, a thinner shape in lightly loaded areas. Typically, such a shape modification reduces fatigue and enhances the durability of the part. 

Key Values:

• Geometry quality is further improved with smoother and more regular surfaces.
• New functionality to better control the design of optimized milled parts. 
• The new extension role, “Function Driven Refinement Designer”, allows you to further refine and converge the optimized shape, globally or locally, without re-running the full optimization. 
  • Parametric optimization convergence
  • Shape based optimization

Enhanced roles: Concept Building Designer (BDG) + Building Structures Designer (STV)

Enriched industry-focus for AEC. Multiple new advanced capabilities for Facade and Structural Design.

R2019x further enriches the industry-focused 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA solution for Architecture Engineering and Construction, which addresses all participants in the end-to-end building process.

This release delivers multiple new advanced capabilities for Facade Design and Structural Design.

The “Concept Building Designer” role brings many enhancements, including the creation of variable curtain walls, which consist of repeating patterns of glass panels and mullions. Designers can create multiple parametric repetitive patterns (eg a staggered brick pattern) that can be applied associatively across different regions of the building and can be layered on the same surface, in order to create rain screens or multi-layered facades. This new level of automation increases productivity in both the creation and modification of the design.

Building Structure Designers will benefit from increased sophistication in the handling of rebar for concrete structures (eg. split rebars and couplers between bars) and the introduction of steel plate members to design composite steel structures. These 3D features bring further automation and efficiency to the design and engineering process

Key Values:

“Concept Building Designer” - Automation & Productivity 

• Creation of variable curtain walls, which consist of repeating patterns of glass panels and mullions. 
• Create multiple parametric repetitive patterns that can be applied associatively across different regions of the building. 
• Layer patterns on the same surface, in order to create rain screens or multi-layered facades. This new level of in both the creation and modification of the design.

“Building Structures Designer”  - Automation and Efficiency

• Rebar for concrete structures (eg. split rebars and couplers between bars) 
• Steel plate members to design composite steel structures

3DEXPERIENCE ENOVIA on the Cloud

3D Component Designer for PLM Services role (XCD) + 3D Product Architect role (PAU)

PLM Collaboration Services for CATIA/SOLIDWORKS in Action

R2018x opened up the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s PLM Collaboration Services to CATIA V5 and SOLIDWORKS Desktop customers. With this, innovation teams have ready access to the enterprise context for their work through participation in enterprise business processes. CATIA V5 and SOLIDWORKS Desktop users have immediate and seamless access to the 3DEXPERIENCE for Simulation, Manufacturing, Collaboration and unique additional Engineering capabilities.  These are delivered without migrating nor translating CAD data, while allowing designers to continue to innovate in their native environment.  In addition, 3D Product Architects can position and assemble the data, and benefit from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform unique ability to apply configuration services to manage variants and navigate between product configurations.  

R2019x brings significant advancements for the designers leveraging PLM Collaboration Services for CATIA V5 and SolidWorks Desktop.  Designers are given full access to the Compass & Apps capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in the designer’s CATIA V5 and SOLIDWORKS Desktop environment.  These capabilities are delivered with an experience consistent with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  For instance, enterprise processes like task management, change management, IP search and discovery, are experienced as they are in the 3DEXPERIENCE 3DDashboard.  

Additionally, all of the above PLM Collaboration Services will be generally available for NX and Creo in FD01.

Key Values:

• Access to Compass & Apps in Familiar CATIA V5 or SOLIDWORKS Desktop Environment
• Automated Change Governance
• File based to Model based
• Globally Connected

Product Release Engineer role (XEN)

Enterprise product definition can be fully model based

With R2019x, the enterprise product definition (that is the version of the physical structure used for BOM-centric enterprise processes) can be fully model based.  This advances the ability to develop a holistic digital twin of a product, since creating such a twin requires that all digital product representations leverage the same underlying model.  One of the critical processes in the planning and development of the experience twin is the enterprise release process, which is delivered via the new Product Release Engineer role.  

As a result, Product Release Engineers and designers work on a single configured product definition, each with their own view tailored to their needs.  Product Release Engineers are able to refine the definition in preparation for release to the enterprise and manufacturing for execution, all in a powerful web experience that allows them to work anywhere and on any device.

Software Engineer role (XSF)

Manage Software in Context of a Holistic Product 

The experience twin supports development of advanced mechatronics systems and complex multi-function systems by seamlessly integrating IP from all disciplines.  As an example, for R2019x ENOVIA introduces the new Software Engineer role to expose essential software IP into the configured product definition.  This provides full visibility and process consistency, streamlining development operations and maximizing coordination and collaboration among the various functional teams.  Software engineers are able to capitalize on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s collaboration and IP discovery services to work closely with the various disciplines and functions, ensuring successful planning, release, and delivery.

Why/Current Pains:

• Silo-ed tools and domains
• Manual and static processes 
• Limited communication 

What/Benefits:

With the new Software Engineer (XSF) role, customers can

1. Connect software items to the enterprise platform to release and manage a holistic, hardware/software definition
2. Federate Software content metadata to 3DEXPERIENCE to leverage planning and governance of software development as part of the overall development plan of the product
3. Implement software in context of configured solutions made of modular, configured hardware, software and service Products. 

Project Planner role (XPP)

"Planning for all" - for individuals and teams

Planning is an activity for all stakeholders in the enterprise.  However, most of the planning tools support a community of project and program planners that have adopted specific, industrial and formal processes to define these projects and programs.  While these have been adopted in ENOVIA’s project roles, R2019x introduces the new Project Planner role for cloud users to provide a “planning for all” experience for individuals and teams, with the tools needed to plan work and drive innovation in a social and collaborative way.  The experience is web-based, intuitive, simple, and social at its core, while leveraging the powerful knowledge-base and capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.  

With this new role, any stakeholder or innovation team can collaboratively define a plan, create/assign, and organize activities in a simple, intuitive and social way, including:

• Capturing organic innovation bottom up, through the connection of people, skills/capabilities, and tasks as ideas evolve (as opposed to decomposing project tasks from high-level objectives top-down)
• Dynamic and automated planning delivered via an assisted user experience, based on continuous optimization
• Seamless transition from social and unstructured innovation to collaborative content and deliverables review

New Mid-Market roles

The Fastest Path to Model Based Engineering for SMBs

For R2019x ENOVIA introduces a new generation of roles that allow small and medium sized firms to accelerate adoption of model-based engineering, and the experience twin.  These roles are tailored to the type and size of the company/enterprise, and the corresponding nature of the innovation and collaboration required.  This approach, structured around a suite of three roles that build upon each other, also allows firms to grow capabilities over time as the needs of the users and the enterprise evolve.  Those three roles leverage the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform’s business services and apps to accelerate innovation and drive successful delivery of innovation:

• Collaborative 3D Designer provides a next generation collaboration platform for design teams with access to your data from anywhere and built with mobility in mind.
• Collaborative Engineer adds to Collaborative 3D Designer the capability for users to share a common engineering definition throughout the extended product engineering department, preparing innovation for release and delivery.
• Collaborative Product Planner & Leader adds advanced project and change management for the development enterprise on the cloud.

Business Drivers:

• 10+ CAD Licenses
  Connect the distributed enterprise across business units with a minimum of administration
• 6-10 CAD Licenses
  Bridge departments and meet customer requirements with better quality, shorter lead times, and standard compliance
• 3-5 CAD Licenses
  Concurrent collaboration with your value network using a common platform
• 1-2 CAD Licenses
  Data management with a low capital investment

3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA on the Cloud

New Role: DELMIA Powder Bed Programmer (APW)

Setup, Visualize, Validate and Program Powder Bed Fusion Manufacturing

`Additive manufacturing has experienced rapid growth. 3DEXPERIENCE platform release 2019x brings the latest innovation in this segment in the Powder Bed Programmer (APW) role - formerly named Additive Manufacturing Programmer AMP - which, in 3D, performs the setup, engineers the process, runs the physics based simulation, and generates programming of powder bed fusion manufacturing machines or industrial 3D printers.

The role allows the user to user to optimally and efficiently place the workpieces on the build tray, using advanced nesting algorithm. The role is also a comprehensive environment for defining, visualizing, optimizing the actual manufacturing process including material/powder selection, thickness of layer, identification or engineering of appropriate supports, type of machine needed, etc. Importantly, it is a template-based based system which provides for the storage and retrieval of best practices. The user can also visualize the layers, slice by slice.

With Release 2019x, APW provides the unique SIMULIA capabilities available to run a physically realistic thermo-mechanical simulation of the part as it is built up during the 3D printing process, and as it cools down. For example, printed parts warp when they are printed and part distortion is predicted and can be accounted for. Support structures (both their addition and removal) are easily included. Material behavior (such as cool down) variations with print parameters (thickness of layer, print path and speed) are modeled. The Additive Manufacturing Researcher has a virtual environment to assess and optimize the 3Dprinting process and ensure that parts can be property manufactured the first time. All of this functionality is now provided in intuitive and simplified interface tailored to non-simulation-expert users.

In effect, additive manufacturing engineers and machine programmers are able to optimize material/powder selection, beam direction and intensity, layer thickness, identification or engineering of appropriate supports, and type of machine used, etc.

Description:
Powder Bed Programmer allows users to quickly setup, visualize validate and then program the additive process to produce quality additive parts right the first time. 

Key Values:

• Start from Additive Process Templates to rapidly reuse proven manufacturing processes for additive manufacturing.
• Provides part nesting capabilities for optimum production capacity and accuracy.
• Generate supports to stabilize the part.
• Generates the fusion beam path based on the 3D part slices.
• Check for part distortion based on the Eigenstrain method.
• Produces output to program Renishaw and other additive machines.

New App: Wire EDM Machining

Visualize and program Wire EDM machining

DELMIA further extends it’s leadership in the machining domain  in release 2019x by providing a new application to simulate, validate, and program wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) processes. Wire EDM is a machining process by which electrically charged wire vaporizes material rather than cutting it by traditional methods. Wire EDM has capabilities to machine with extremely high accuracy, and is gaining in popularity as it lends itself well to additive manufacturing for removing bases and supports, or to enhance accuracy (e.g. bring additive part within tolerances) 

The new application is included in the NC Multi-Axis Milling and Turning Programmer (NMT) role. It includes the ability to compute the wire EDM path and program the synchronization of each end of the wire (‘the synchronization points’) to the part contours. Users can implement 2 and 4 axes programming capabilities with dedicated wire EDM strategies, and visualize and validate their program strategy, and then produce the machine code to be used in the real machine. As with all DELMIA Machining applications, users can save and re-use best practices by creating the wire EDM paths, storing them in a template, and then re-using the same strategy on other parts to be machined.

Description:
New Wire EDM capabilities broaden DELMIA’s leadership in the machining domain by introducing wire EDM capabilities into the NC Prismatic Machining role.

Highlights:

• Seamless integration into the DELMIA Additive workflow.
• Compute the EDM path and synchronization points to machine contours.
• 2 and 4 axes off line programming capabilities with dedicated wire EDM strategies.
• Create the Wire EDM paths and then use the same strategy on other parts to be machined.
• Machine program generation with integrated post processors

New Role: Manufacturing Process Manager (MGA)

Web based authoring tool to help manage the change process

3DEXPERIENCE Release 2019x further enhances the digital continuity from Design Engineering to Manufacturing and Production with the new DELMIA Manufacturing Process Manager role (MGA). This role will be generally available in FD01. It is a light and simple web based tool to:
search, navigate, create and modify manufacturing resources (DELMIA Manufacturing Systems) such as machine, line, workcell
author the manufacturing routings of parts and products by creating operations and assigning tools and machines
create quickly and efficiently work plans. 
check machine utilization with Pert and Gantt style views of the process. 

As a reminder, with 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA, the manufacturing bill of material (MBOM) can be defined, managed, and updated directly from the 3D design, thereby exploiting both the engineering and the manufacturing contexts. The Manufactured Items Manager role (MFN) is a web app that uses the product structure / EBOM - with it’s 3D and positioning data - as input to the MBOM and makes the authoring process intuitive and easy.
With the Manufacturing Process Manager and the Manufactured Items Manager roles, DELMIA provides a complete and competitive lightweight solution for MBOM and Routings for all discrete manufacturers. These widget based applications provide a simple authoring interface, but fully deliver on the model-based manufacturing promise, which is unique in the industry. 

Description:
 Manufacturing Process Manager is a web-based role to create, search, and navigate Manufacturing Systemes and routings. 

Highlights:

• Light and simple web based authoring tool 
• Tailored search, navigation, creation and modification
• Quick and efficient creation of Manufacturing Systems, Workplans and Operations with related links to Manufactured Items and Precedence constraints
• Pert and Gantt views of the process
•  Associate capable tools or machines 
• 3D viewer with synchronized build-up
• Best practice templates to capitalize and re-use IP

Robotics Surface Engineer role (RSF)

New capabilities added to Robotic Surface Engineer (RSF)

Robotics Surface Engineer role (RSF) handles processes that require the robot to follow the surface of a part such as painting, polishing, and flaming (accounting for number of passes, direction of the robot motion, overlap of each pass, etc.). In 3DEXPERIENCE Release R2019x, users can now simulate, validate, and optimize industrial robot shot peening processes in a virtual 3D environment. Shot peening bombards sheet metal with a stream of metal shot so as to shape the sheet metal, or introduce compressive residual stresses on the component surface to increase resistance to fatigue. Once the robot trajectories are created using the 3D surface in RSF, the user can model shot-peen-specific attributes such as nozzle shapes and pressure,  and visualize the surface exposure to the shot peening process. The Robot Programmer can easily identify surfaces that are under exposed or over exposed to the shot peen process, optimize robot motions, and validate uniform surface exposure to shot.

Description:
New capabilities are available to visualize, validate and program robotic shot peen processes.

Highlights:

• Easily create multiple passes across the 3D surface.
• Select the direction and spacing of each pass.
• Model shot peen specific attributes like the nozzle size and pressure
• Visualize the surface exposure to the shot peening process.
•  Implement the correct robot strategy for surface treatment.

3DEXPERIENCE SIMULIA on the Cloud

In 3DEXPERIENCE R2019x, users can benefit from many powerful Simulation roles from SIMULIA. There are now 28 roles on public cloud (including 5 new roles on the cloud) out of a total of 29 available roles. 

Simulation products are plentiful in today’s marketplace. What is missing is the recognition that, as customers demand that simulation be more pervasive and deliver greater value, using simulation products in a scalable and repeatable manner requires those products to be connected/integrated to execute each high-value industry process being considered. Integrated simulation technologies must work side-by-side on a single data model linked to requirements, concepts, manufacturing, and consumer end-use.

In R2019x, the 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation portfolio delivers ‘coordinated’ enhancements to maximize value for end-to-end industry processes of focus, chosen to align with customer priorities. Each specific enhancement in a role is matched by enhancements in other roles and products used within that same process to provide a complete out-of-box capability for customers.
For example, for electric vehicle design in the Transportation & Mobility industry, enhancements include automatic surface fastener detection in the Mechanical Analyst role, a new implicit coupling algorithm for fluid-structure simulation in Multiscale Systems Specialist (MCK), and field expression support in Results Data Analyst (SRA).

Users of simulation products generally do not have access to out of the box capabilities for enabling much needed collaboration & sharing, and simulation management. The previous release changed that to open the power the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to those users and their IP, bringing capabilities to capture & publish best-practices, share & collaborate on results & methods, and integrate fully with non-experts. The IP of the existing user ( data, methods and results of simulations) is managed, and more easily accessible & visible (and hence more valuable) throughout the work-group and the enterprise with no disruption to existing methods and tools. 

3DEXPERIENCE R2019x extends further the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with enhancements including:

• ‘user subroutine’ support during On Cloud execution for Abaqus Specialist for structural simulation (i.e. capability to extend Abaqus with own materials, elements, methods)
• In the Simpack Specialist (PXP) role for the multibody simulation user, enhancements include upload of result data, plots, and animations for vibration studies
• In the XFlow Specialist (PXF) role for the Fluids simulation user, enhancements include: upload of result data, plots, and animations to a 3DEXPERIENCE dashboard for sharing and collaboration with colleagues.
• In the CST Specialist (PX2) role for the Electromagnetics simulation user, enhancements include:  support for 3D CAD (CATIA) assemblies for CST Studio Specialist for electromagnetic simulation.

Role Enhancement: Fluid Dynamics Engineer (FMK)

Validates flow and thermal performance to accelerate product innovation by exploring 100s of design alternatives at early stages of design

A complete set of Multiphysics solution capabilities are required in order to power end-to-end industry processes with simulation. Dassault Systèmes is continuing to enhance its Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) portfolio which covers: 

• Mainstream CFD simulation for rapid evaluation and optimization of digital prototypes and digital certification by designers and engineers
• Industry-specific CFD simulation for high-value industry processes for the Transportation & Mobility, Aerospace & Defense, and Natural Resources and other industries 

Mainstream CFD is delivered by the Fluid Dynamics Engineer role which brings fast turn-around for steady state and long transient simulation, fully automated customer simulation processes, re-usable workflow templates in a unified environment to accelerate product innovation. 

In Release 2019x, Fluid Dynamics Engineer now provides designers and engineers the same CFD capabilities available to CFD experts, in a guided environment including a new radiation solver, a whole-body human thermal comfort model, and e-cooling physics enhancements for cabin comfort industry processes.  For powertrain engineering processes, enhancements include patented M-method for automatic convergence rate update, increased stability with auto cell treatment, and reduced mesh cell count (up to 4x) with intelligent edge capture.  In Aerospace & Defense workflows, a new coupled solver increases accuracy and performance for advanced shock capturing in high Mach flows.

This is the most advanced CFD solution for CATIA V5 (and CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE) users.

Key Values:

• CFD for Mainstream usage
  • Faster design iterations with digital continuity inspiring single source of truth
  • Spend more time engineering and less time building meshes
  • Broader physics coverage validated to address mainstream workflows
  • Democratize simulation processes
  • Embedded compute (8 cores) and pre-requisite (SEI)

• Enhanced Functionality  - R2019xGA
  • Competition – complete coverage of Fluent-for-CATIA (FFC)
  • Confidence - CFD validation document accessible on 3DX help
  • Physics 
    • Native surface-to-surface radiation solver with CHT support
    • Fan boundary conditions (intake, exhaust) 
  • Productivity - HDM Meshing, conformal meshing, intelligent edge capture (4x less cells), memory compression
  • Performance: 
    • Embedded compute for 8 cores
    • Faster rate of convergence for for steady state solutions using  M-Method
    • New coupled solver for high Mach number flows
  • Accuracy and stability – Automatic bad cell identification and treatment

Role Enhancement: SIMULIA Additive Manufacturing Researcher (MDA) 

Provide advanced simulation capability for AM that accurately captures the complex multiphysics of Additive Manufacturing

Dassault Systèmes’ delivers a complete end-to-end solution for digital Additive Manufacturing on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that enables companies on their journey from functional generative design to manufacturing planning and part performance. As part of this solution, the Additive Manufacturing Researcher (MDA) role delivers a physically realistic highly-accurate thermo-mechanical simulation of the part as material is built up during the 3D printing process, and as that material cools down when the print head moves on elsewhere. For example, printed parts warp when they are printed, and part distortion is predicted and can be accounted for. The role represents a virtual environment to assess and optimize the 3Dprinting process and ensure that parts can be property manufactured and will perform as intended the first time.

In Release 2019x, the Additive Manufacturing Researcher (MDA) role increases efficiency, usability, and confidence that resulting parts will ‘Print to Perform’ with the following enhancements:  optimized thermal simulation to decrease solving time, performance enhancements to the Eigenstrain method (a way to simplify the mesh simulation model without loosing accuracy) to further increase the solving speed and reliability, and new Voxel-based mesher specifically designed for STL imports. 

With native integration to Functional Generative Design (GDE) and Additive Manufacturing Programmer (AMP) roles, the Additive Manufacturing Researcher role extends digital continuity from design and process, to manufacture, unlocks the true power of additive manufacturing by increasing accuracy and output, and helps ensure use of best-practices to maximize ROI on Additive Manufacturing investments.

Key Values:

• A new base role for Additive Manufacturing process simulation
• Guided Simulation Interface for Metal Powder Bed Processes with Native integration to design and manufacturing with automated scan and support inputs
• Build-level simulations with build environment integration for Direct Energy Deposition, Polymer Extrusion, Welding, Extrusion Deposition Additive, Binder Jetting and other methods

Enhanced Functionality:

• Greatly simplified meshing of complex parts and supports.
  • Voxel mesher with support for multiple bodies.
• Arbitrary-sized laser paths.
  • Eliminated 2GB limit for event series.
• Efficient computation of approximate distortion solutions.
  • Eigenstrain method

3DEXPERIENCE 3DEXCITE on the Cloud

Role Enhancement: Marketing Experience Artist (XAR)

Key Values: 

• Wider support for creative Artists through artistic capabilities in scene cameras.
• Reuse product animations to enhance the experience and utilize engineering data for a better storytelling.
• Work more efficient with different UX enhancements and the improved material editing

New Features:

• New artistic properties available for scene camera.
• User assistance panel with quick help directly accessible in App.
• Material Application access from Actor's property view.
• Playback and utilization of product animations.
• Different UX enhancements (Object multi-selection, Camera Navigation, Display Actor).

Role Enhancement: Marketing Experience Scripter (VRS)

Key Values: 

• Enhance realtime experiences with more interaction by the enhanced workflow and the advanced capabilities of the JavaScript editor.
• Create compelling storytelling and deep product experiences by the advanced VR capabilities.

New Features:

• Support for touch events and touch gestures.
• Enhanced VR capabilities (Vibration API, Headset mounted event, additional trackers, presets).
• Improvements in JavaScript editor and API (Autocomplete Docs, more APIs, more types).
• Access to new features and properties released in base role through extended API.

Role Enhancement: Marketing Content Animator (CHA)

Key Values: 
Utilize and enhance animations created by engineering for your Marketing experience storytelling.
Make use of the enhanced capabilities from the Marketing Content Artist to create a lifelike experience.

New Features:
Utilize product animations by adjusting its properties or creating whole product animation sequences on a timeline.
Reuse capabilities released with the Marketing Content Artist in experience context.

New Role: Marketing Experience Reviewer (EXV)

Key Values: 

• Review interactive marketing experiences without the need of an author role.
• Provide feedback and approval at all stages of interactive marketing experiences creation.
• Ensure the on-time delivery of approved interactive marketing experiences using a transparent 3D production pipeline.
• Present the interactive marketing experiences to visitors or customers in kiosk or event environments.

Highlights:

• Load and play content in 3DPlay created with the Creative Experience App.

3DEXPERIENCE NETVIBES EXALEAD on the Cloud

Roles Enhancement: Watcher (NSW) + Social Business Analyst (NBA)

Industry  intelligence roles aggregate and analyze business metrics in the context of the social web, and drive faster decision-making based on real-time insights, using automated alerts and actions. In R2019x, there are now 2 roles: 

• The Watcher role delivers an all-in-one dashboard view, enabling you to read and monitor information from across the social web e.g. you can choose the sources you want to monitor, save searches, and automate actions triggered by events and data. 
• The Social Business Analyst role includes all the capabilities of the Watcher role and adds the ability to correlate and analyze the impact of social data on your business metrics. Users can chart any dataset in their Dashboard, including external files and cloud-based data, compare datasets and find correlations by dragging-and-dropping charts together. 

Those 2 roles have been enhanced as follows:

• In terms of content, the user will be able to benefit from our enhanced industry sources catalog, now curated and maintained by industry experts in each of the 12 industries that we serve. In addition to that, a user can tag content by adding his own opinions. These opinions can then be shared to all dashboard members. 
• Also to better connect market intelligence to product development and fluidify the social ideation process, users can now create a requirement in ENOVIA, or publish content in SWYM or 3DDRIVE directly from a NETVIBES web monitoring app.

Key Values:

• Access enhanced industry sources catalog, now curated and maintained by industry experts in each of the 12 industries that we serve. For more relevant insights.
• Tag content by adding your own opinions. These opinions can then be shared to all dashboard members. 
• Create a requirement in ENOVIA, or publish content in SWYM or 3DDRIVE directly from a NETVIBES web monitoring app. This aims to connect market intelligence to product development and fluidify the social ideation process.

3DEXPERIENCE Quintiq on the Cloud

Quintiq roles enhancement

3DEXPERIENCE Release 2019x introduces new enhancements to the 4 supply chain planning and optimization roles from Quintiq.

The four roles are: Supply Chain Director (QSF), Demand Planner (QDM), Collaborative Forecasting (QCO), and Supply Planner (QSW). They are focused on Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), the critical business process that brings together Sales, Finance, Production, Marketing and other key departments to balance demand and supply in the supply chain on an 18-month. S&P is a critical forward-looking decision making process, which then triggers and feeds the rest of the supply chain management processes such as supply chain planning, production planning..  
 
In release 2019x, the user experience has been enhanced for productivity and more seamless collaboration between the 4 supply chain planning and optimization roles. For instance:

• All apps for the roles Supply Chain Director and Collaborative Forecaster are now web based. So, not only this facilitates mobility, but the user experience has been streamlined. 
• In forecasting, data is multi-dimensional and users organize them into the specific hierarchies that best match the needs of their respective departments. (e.g. dimensions are product hierarchy, sales hierarchy, geographical hierarchy, etc.)., and sales forecasts are defined at the intersection of these hierarchies. Now, users can make multiple simultaneous selections on each one of these hierarchies/dimensions when slicing and dicing data. This enhances the ability to find dependencies, and enhances the accuracy of the demand forecast.
• The visualization of the status of your supply chain (in a single view) has been enhanced with capacity and usage of your resources and transport, highlighting the bottlenecks
• Collaboration has increased with the new integration with 3DDrive. Data like demand, prices and suppliers can be imported and shared with multiple stakeholders more seamlessly. Optimized scenarios can be exported and stored for future use.

Key Values:

• All apps for the roles Supply Chain Director and Collaborative Forecaster are now web based. So, not only this facilitates mobility, but the user experience has been streamlined. 
• In forecasting, data is multi-dimensional and users organize them into the specific hierarchies that best match the needs of their respective departments. (e.g. dimensions are product hierarchy, sales hierarchy, geographical hierarchy, etc.)., and sales forecasts are defined at the intersection of these hierarchies. Now, users can make multiple simultaneous selections on each one of these hierarchies/dimensions when slicing and dicing data. This enhances the ability to find dependencies, and enhances the accuracy of the demand forecast.
• The visualization of the status of your supply chain (in a single view) has been enhanced with capacity and usage of your resources and transport, highlighting the bottlenecks in the supply chain.
• Collaboration has increased with the new integration with 3DDrive. Data like demand, prices and suppliers can be imported and shared with multiple stakeholders more seamlessly. Optimized scenarios can be exported and stored for future use.

3DEXPERIENCE GEOVIA on the Cloud

New Role: City Viewer (CTV)

Navigating the digital experience twin of the City

3DEXPERIENCE R2019x continues to enhance 3DEXPERIENCity, the solution to create, consume and contribute to the digital experience twin of the city. City Viewer is a new role to interactively navigate that city experience.
City Viewer is a new role to interactively navigate that twin and experience the city. It allows the playing of 3D navigation experiences published by the City Referential Manager (CRM). The navigation capabilities provide magic user experiences from large scale viewing to pedestrian feeling. The new City Viewer role is available only on cloud.

Key Values:

• Play city experiences in a collaborative environment
• Visualize city data in compelling ways for magic user experience
• Leverage experiences from all city stakeholders
• A new application for 3D viewing:
  • Easily navigate the virtual city
  • Display prepared city datasets
  • Simple tools for viewing, geocoding, snapshot

New Role: Earth Contributor (GEX)

Creating digital continuity between surface & sub-surface

Earth Contributor, a new role available from R2019x FD01, is an extension of the digital experience twin of the city to include earth data referential (terrain, geology and geotechnical), and provides project stakeholders in mining and construction with digital continuity between the surface and the subsurface. The role allows users to explore, analyze and better understand their earth assets. They can configure tailored 3D geospatial experiences using geolocated earth assets.  The new Earth Contributor role is available only on cloud.

Key Values:

• Configure tailored 3D geospatial experiences to stakeholders from geo-located earth assets.
• Deliver specialised tool sets for subsurface  exploration
• Interoperability with GEOVIA SDM format allows seamless data exchange workflows between desktop and cloud applications
• Visualise earth models and assets including
  • Geological models
  • Geotechnical models
  • Excavation designs & plans

3DEXPERIENCE BIOVIA on the Cloud

Role Enhancement: Scientific Decision Maker (BDV)

Scientific Decision Driving Research & Development Success. Improved data for decision making.

The Scientific Decision Maker Role (BDV) enables a company to holistically and collaboratively manage its portfolio of scientific research & development projects such as drug discovery/development and formulated consumer packaged goods. The role provides companies with the environment to decide which projects to focus on, accelerate, or discontinue. The role provides the ability to: 

• Focus projects to a defined Target Product Profile (TPP) that specifies all the key attributes that the final product must meet, resulting in better informed decisions and improved project management
• Set a Discovery Decision Path that focuses experiments and thresholds in order to meet the TPP and end goals
• Record research paths and critical decisions made throughout the project so that knowledge is appropriately recorded and capitalized for future projects, i.e. one can trace the research path
• Consolidate in vivo/vitro/silico results to improve decision making and advance the TPP plan
• Centralize data from simulations and experiments, adding context to support informed decisions
• Track substances, protocols and tests throughout the project 

In addition, it provides the capability to connect and merge various sources of research data, whether they are internal, e.g. data from a lab notebook, or external, using taxonomies.

Key Values:

• Holistically, collaboratively manage a portfolio of scientific research & development projects for better informed decisions & improved project management 
• Focus projects to a defined Target Product Profile (TPP) 
• Set a Discovery Decision Path to meet the TPP goal
• Record research paths & critical decisions to capitalize for future projects
• Merge data from simulations, experiments & external research, adding context to support informed decisions