You're home office and your boss is not watching over your shoulder?

While it might be tempting to start watching a new TV series, what about learning CATIA Product Perception Experience ("PPX" for those in the know), this new app released in R2019x? Here are 3 videos to get you started.

1. How to create variants

The 1st one goes through the authoring basics of creating Product and Viewpoint variants in order to present a design project and explore its alternatives.:

2. How to take decisions. And remember it.

This 2nd video focuses on decision-making functionality:

• Side-by-side comparison, using the cross-app command Link Dynamic Cameras
• Validation options, to approve or reject a variant, or simply set it as favorite

On the way it shows how to:

• Copy/paste a variant line from one panel to another
• Make the variant panels smaller
• Change the timing of the animations

3. How to present concepts of product animation

The 3rd video focuses on presenting design animation concepts, eg. a butterfly door opening, by:

• Creating Position variants
• Defining new pivot axis system
• Setting object as trigger to activate variants and start the animations

The goal of such features is for a creative designer to create several animation concepts in a couple of hours, which, even if not physically correct, still look good enough for an audience to get the idea and decide for the most relevant alternatives.

I hope this first series of videos is useful for some of you. Your feedback can only but help me creating the next one!

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