Please find an overview of BRANDs improvements delivered in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform R2018x FD03 update.

[App New Feature] CATIA Functional Generative Design 

• It is now able to take into account constraints specific to 3D Printing. A new manufacturing constraint which considers the overhang criteria in the topology optimization formulation in order to obtain results suited for the 3D Printing process.

[App New Feature] Product Explorer 

• New generation of filter functionality with new intuitive user interface

• New feature enabling search in context restricting the perimeter of the Search to the current Product Finder app:
  • By allowing to search the component in the restricted perimeter of the current Product Finder app, new “Search in Context” facilitates the scenario of retrieving a component in a large mockup

See the video demonstration

[App New Feature] Collaboration & Approvals/Companies

• “Companies” menu supported with 3DSpace Baseline Behavior.
  • Dedicated function for Organizations, Companies, Business Units, Departments management
  • Management of “Employee of” and “Member of” attributes

[App New Feature] 3DDashboard and 3DSpace

• Management of multi-organizations credentials is now available on cloud:
  • On a given platform, in case of Organizations defined through ”Collaboration & Approvals / Companies” app, Access Rights on a given Collaborative Space can be set by taking into account this Organization axis through the Advanced view in 3DSpace / Members

[App New Feature] 3DDashboard and Collaborative Spaces Configuration Center

• New feature to select 3DSpace baseline behavior roles for transfer ownership
  • Adapt Transfer Ownership scenarios, to customer processes
  • Separated options for Responsible, Organization and Collaborative Space
  • User applying the Transfer Ownership, must have authoring credentials for content to be transferred

See the video demonstration

[App New Feature] Filter

• Filters are no more broken when the components needed for their definition are missing
  • Ability to reroute the Filter by selecting the proposed replacing components
    • Revision
    • Evolution
    • Configured split instances

[App New Feature] ENOVIA Copy & Artwork Management and ENOVIA Copy & Artwork Composition

• Time saving enhancements for copy management, eliminating clicks and automating manual tasks
  • Copy POA
    • Artwork copy managers can now make a copy of a POA across any node in the Brand Hierarchy, carrying forward all of the common set of elements shared between the nodes of the hierarchy resulting in a much faster setup time for similar POAs
  • Copy Element Ordering
    • Artwork copy managers now have the ability to specify the order of elements in a Copy List and a POA, with that same order being passed to the designer to ensure that copy elements of the same type are placed in the correct sequence on the artwork. E.g. When 3 warning statements are to be placed on the artwork, the artwork copy manager can specify for the designer which is to be placed first, second and third.
  • Copy List Improvements
    • Copy List authors can now specify the Instance ID and Notes on a copy list, which in turn will be copied to a POA when the Copy List is used.
    • Artwork copy managers can now manually add a copy list to a POA. Previously a copy list could be incorporated into a POA only when first generating a POA, limiting the use of copy lists when the artwork copy managers desires to start with an empty POA assembly.

[App New Feature] 3DSpace

• Precisely define access rights to your IP taking into accounts multiple companies and organizations
  • On a given platform, in case of Companies or Organizations defined through “ENOVIA Collaboration & Approvals”, Access Rights on a given Collaborative Space can be set by taking into account this Company / Organization axis through the Advanced view in 3DSpace / Members
  • Available on the Cloud and on premises

[App New Feature] ENOVIA IP Classification

• User Experience convergence
  • Previous behavior required a Librarian user to have a very restrictive access control. Baseline Behavior “owner” role of the Collaborative Space of the data was needed in order to classify it in a library, once the data had reached a “Release” maturity status.
  • New behavior defines a control access for the Librarian user more aligned with customers’ business processes since the « Leader role » is now sufficient to classify a « Release » data. 

[App New Feature] Collaborative Lifecycle Management/Change Maturity

• Ease user productivity for promote scenarios with controls
  • Compatibility with Baseline rule “Reject if any of the Governed Children is not on Target State”
  • Ensure automatic promote of whole Product Structure in one step
  • Support of Change Management scenarios with large Product Structure

[App New Feature] Exchange Management/Import/Export 3DXML file

• 3DDrive integration in Unified import/export experience
  • Ability to import or export, by using 3DDrive integration

[New Feature] in role Engineering Adapter for xPDM 

Description:

• Exchange on configuration data
  • Capability to create a Configuration Dictionary from a XPDMXML file
    • Restrictions :
      • Only one hardware product
      • No revision of hardware product

[App New Feature] DELMIA Wire EDM Machining

• Enable NC users to benefit from advanced and easy-to-use Wire EDM manufacturing techniques. This function provides off-line programming capabilities of conventional EDM machines with dedicated wire EDM strategies:
  • 2X & 4X contouring
  • “Destruct cut”

[App New Feature] DELMIA Additive Part Preparation

• It allows the user to estimate the cost of a build tray at different stage of the process definition. The function provides the capability to compute the print time and cost of the build defined in the application.
  • Capability to create reusable print time and cost estimation rules
  • Capability to have the result for one or multiple parts or the whole build tray

Note: this new feature also concerns the app DELMIA Powder Bed Fabrication available in the role Additive Manufacturing Programmer (AMP)

[New Role] Fatigue Specialist (FGA)

Fatigue Specialist (FGA) is a Role Option that uses fatigue simulation to predict accurate fatigue lives ensuring complex engineering products are designed for durability.

When subject to cyclic loads that repeat time after time, component parts can suffer from fatigue failure in which small amounts of damage from each load cycle accumulates over many thousands or millions of cycles to cause fatigue failure. Fatigue simulation extends ordinary stress analysis to provide estimates of the lifecycle for components subjected to such cyclic loads. Fatigue simulation can therefore be a valuable addition to simulation best-practices to detect improper design, reduce fatigue failures and warranty costs, and produce fatigue-resistant components the first time
Fatigue Specialist (FGA) is an Extension Role that enables the user to define and conduct fatigue loading models and scenarios. Fatigue lifecycle output results are calculated based on the fatigue characteristics of the material. Special fatigue algorithms (David: describe a couple of them by name) developed over many decades of fatigue science provide accurate fatigue estimates for multi-axial load cases for many different types of commonly used engineering materials
Fatigue Specialist benefits from Simulation Data Science capabilities enabling all simulation activities, models, and results to be linked, traced, managed, updated, published, re-used, and analyzed with ease by all impacted users.

Fatigue Specialist is an Extension Role for the following:

• Mechanical Analyst (SMU)
• Structural Stress Engineer (DRD)

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[App New feature] SOLIDWORKS xDesign

• Collaboration
  • New feature available of Update & Reload
  • It is now possible to share model picture to 3DSwym community
  • It is now possible to Lock & Unlock Components (Reserve/Unreserve)

• Export / Import
  • It is now possible to import 3DXML, IGES and STEP file format

• Modeling
  • New function to sketch in-context in assemblies
  • New function to Make Components from Features
  • New function to lock Mate
  • New command Knit available
  • New command Fill available

• Tools
  • Integration of Make Services

• Views
  • New feature of transparency for edit in Context

• Interoperability
  • New feature to export to 3DDrive
  • New feature to import from 3DDrive
  • New “Save as” feature on a physical product in xDesign
  • From 3DDrive, it is now possible to open with xDesign

• Materials
  • New feature to control the context of material application in xDesign
  • Material browser integration in xDesign

• Usability
  • Usability Enhancement for Design Guidance
    • Use in-context in assemblies
    • Use standard materials (default shipped by the material browser)
  • Improve Touch Support for Modeling Environment
  • Simple S Key for short cut menu
  • First dimension scales the sketch
  • 3D Print UI improvements

• Search
  • Search in-app

[App New feature] SOLIDWORKS Product Designer

• Export / Import
  • Import files from Colaborative Space in Product Designer apps
  • Export files from Product Designer apps to Collaborative Spaces

• Modeling
  • Ruled Surface
  • Surface Trim
  • Surface Extend

• Modeling
  • Fill
  • Reference Point
  • Coordinate System