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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.