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Enhanced app: Functional Generative Design

Possibility to activate Stress Constraint per Design Space

Finer stress-driven generative design of an assembly

• Allow the user to define local Stress Constraints instead of global Stress Constraints only
• Enrich the setup with a support selection for Stress Constraints : one or multiple Design Space features

Example:  a study performed in GDE in which two Design Spaces are assigned with different materials (aluminum and titanium for instance). It is now possible to account for the elastic limit of each materials as a Stress Constraint during the computation of the new shape.

Enhanced app: ICEM Design Experience

Enhanced modeling & usability

OmniSurf

• Fast access to standard Edge directions X,Y,Z, View, Object

OmniMatch

• Ability to adjust slave input order before matching
• Smart detection of matching intent on curves
• Improved Soft Parametric Adapt behavior
  • Features in Adapt mode now stay unchanged until conditions can be correctly restored

OmniPlane

• Indication when OmniPlane is parallel to View

Analyze

• Show sections on invisible (No show) surfaces and on invisible (No Show) clouds

Enhanced modeling & usability

Display

• Improved display and selection of manipulators

Navigation

• New Shortcuts to freeze/unfreeze navigation view

Selection

• Position selection panel now supports “Last used values”
• New Curve Filter types - Space curves or Surface boundaries
• Extended Selection Table capabilities
  • new Contextual Menu, multi-selection of list inputs,  optimized usability

Enhanced apps: Piping/Tubing/HVAC/Raceway Systems Designer

3D Routing Function improvements

Functional completeness

3D Routing Function improvements :

• Segment Modification : Maintain direction of adjacent segments in “Keep direction” mode
• Segment length computation : Consider directional length as part of straight length
• Node List Improvements: New columns for  Spool Length and Node type
• Node Selection : Keep last active Manipulator when switching between nodes

Isometrics generation through PCF File :

• When generating Isometric with ISOGEN from 3DEXPERIENCE, the generated drawing can be automatically imported into 3DEXPERIENCE platform and attached to the spool also with .DWG extension (not only DXF).

Enhanced app: Rendering Scene Design

Support UV mapping type in Decals

• New  mapping type “Geometry UV” within Decals Mapping and appearance command
• Supported operations:
  • Arbitrary placement
  • Axis movement
  • Scaling
  • Flipping
  • Rotation
  • Repeat

Enhanced app: 3DPlay

User experience and Replay CATIA | Composer experiences within 3DPlay

User experience

• Fly/walk mode improved with speed adjustment
• 3DPlay loading time optimized

Share and Play CATIA | Composer experiences in 3DEXPERIENCE platform by

• Upload & Sharing of smg files in 3DDrive or 3DSpace
• Replay the CATIA | Composer assets including Views, Animations, Dress-ups…
• Based on the JavaScript / WebGL technologies (plugin less )

“Right Management ” restrictions created in CATIA | Composer are not supported  on this level

Enhanced app: Civil Engineering 3D Modeling

Road/Rail functional improvements

Alignment : Improve Transition Curves

• Improved definition of horizontal curves with the support of Compound transitions

Road/Rail : Subgrade Geometrical Design

• A new command used to design the layers of the road/rail project that are between the track and the excavation

Road/Rail Design : Sculpting enhancements

• New option when creating modified terrain to choose the result with or without “excavations and fillings”
• Creation of Boundaries on modified terrains

Enhanced app: CATIA Terrain Preparation

Terrain Image Mapping

• Parameter update: Management and synchronization of mapping parameters of all images through a sheet table
• Propagation: New option added to allow the propagation of an image mapping extension defined on a terrain on features having the same terrain as input.

Enhanced app: xDesign

Sketch Text

Add letters and numbers for creating geometry for embossed or engraved logos or information or 3D lettering/numbering

Customer Benefits: Add 3D text geometry easily and quickly with a range of fonts to choose from for a range of applications

Reimport of SOLIDWORKS files

If changes are made to SOLIDWORKS Part files in SOLIDWORKS and need to be reflected in xDesign or xShape, the updated files can now be refreshed with a reimport

Customer Benefits: Work collaboratively across the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with simplified updates to any changes made to SOLIDWORKS Part files

Sketch Solve Status in Design Manager

Sketch Solve Status in Design Manager shows clearly and graphically which sketches contain a lost reference or is unable to solve correctly

Customer Benefits: Easier to see where and when errors have occurred and therefore address them faster.