🟦 [CATIA] What's new | Generative experience & Virtual Companions

 

Today marks a milestone in how the industry works. Virtual Companions — Aura, Leo, and Marie — are now globally available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS, in the Age of Industrial AI.

More than AI assistants, Virtual Companions are trusted experts who embody decades of industrial knowledge and know-how. They understand your intent, reason with Industry World Models grounded in the laws of physics and materials science, and orchestrate actions across the full lifecycle of your products — helping you see the invisible and achieve the impossible, before anything physically exists.

This is not about adding AI to your tools. It's a new kind of teamwork — humans and Virtual Companions co-creating, safely and at scale, on your most complex challenges.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform integrates  AI-driven Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences—to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation.

But what are Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences?

Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences help you complete and automate activities reliably, from analyzing technical data, to generating deliverables, to solving complex engineering problems.

 

Virtual Companions

Virtual Companions are the AI-powered virtual workforce of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS.

They reason, plan, and act to address complex industrial problems and interact with you through natural conversations.

Each Virtual Companion has a specific mission, accomplished through Competencies, and a distinct personality

Competencies are the ability, to perform a particular job or purpose. A Competency covers an entire domain of expertise, relying on more granular skills. Virtual Companions embody Competences. For example, AURA project management or LEO Mechanical Engineering.

 

There are three distinct Virtual Companions: 

AURA - the Business Expert 

Empowers any user by leveraging Enterprise Knowledge & Know-How

 

LEO - The Engineer

Effectively solve technical challenges in all engineering disciplines

MARIE - The Scientist

Bring Deep Scientific Knowledge to Engineers or Researchers

Generative Experiences

Generative Experiences leverage Industry Knowledge & Know-How to automate industrial processes. 

They create or enrich Virtual Twins, while ensuring quality and compliance with industry and enterprise standards

Generative Experiences handle complex and repetitive tasks efficiently, improving the overall operational efficiency of users, teams, and organizations.

By taking on lower-value tasks, they enable users, teams, and organizations to focus on creative, strategic, and high-value work, fostering innovation.

 

What is a Generative Experience for CATIA?

CATIA Generative Experiences are AI-powered, specialized features that operate within a given context and rely on industry knowledge and know-how to help you automate industrial processes.

They let you create or enrich Virtual Twins, while ensuring quality and compliance with industry and enterprise standards. They transform multimodal inputs (text, documents, representations, etc.) into expected, actionable outputs (deliverable creation, task completion) that you can employ for sales engagement and operational usage.

 

What's New in R2026x FD03

LEO | Mechanical Engineering reveals the invisible and help anyone to understand a design made by others or rediscover his own design, and manages modification of geometric parameters, relations, and wireframes, and of Product Structures, with a specific focus on:

  • Solid Features Creation for Sketch profiles, Pad, Pocket, Hole 
  • Part Generation from multimodal inputs to reach 5 stars design quality and editability and adjust to your working context 
  • Assembly Generation by Predicting Mechanical Interfaces and generating assembly automatically from a set of parts avoiding manual positioning

 

And because every discipline works differently, each Virtual Companion comes with Competencies designed for the way you work. Here's what this means for YOU:

 

Virtual Companions Competencies

 

Aura Moments

 

Knowledge that already exists finally gets used with AURA.

You stop answering the same question twice. People find existing answers before they even finish asking.

More to come...

 

Moment 1: LEO | Mechanical Engineering

 

 

 

 

Challenge
Engineers design complex mechanical products and engineering workflows in CATIA that require deep domain expertise to navigate and understand intricate product structures and shapes, managing engineering knowledge.

 

Solution
LEO | Mechanical Engineering reveals the invisible and help anyone to understand a design made by others or rediscover his own design, and manages modification of geometric parameters, relations, and wireframes, and of Product Structures

 

Benefit
Engineers are up-to-speed in a quicker way to modify and re-use existing designs, and to better understand customer existing assets, protecting Customer asset value.  

 

 

Moment 2: LEO | Knowledge-Based Engineering

 

 

 

 

Challenge
Designing products and components with future evolution and reuse in mind demands both a deliberate mindset and dedicated time. Yet mechanical teams are often under intense delivery pressure, leaving little room to build on past work. As a result, too many designs are treated as one-off, disposable solutions, useful only once, forcing engineers to repeatedly reinvent the wheel and recreate the same errors. This cycle not only wastes time and talent, but also undermines the scalability and quality of the entire product portfolio.

 

Solution
Automate the instantiation of any Generative Representation, such as Engineering Templates.

Facilitate Engineering Template retrieval by searching in priority in Data Set up resources.

Benefit
Organizations preserve critical engineering knowledge, accelerate engineering reuse, and ensure consistency across products and programs — turning individual expertise into a scalable, operational enterprise asset rather than a fragile, person-dependent one.

 

Moment 3: LEO | Systems Architecture

 

 

 

Challenge
Adopting MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) remains challenging for many organizations. Creating and maintaining systems architecture models requires specialized expertise on SysML language and deep familiarity with MBSE methodologies and best practices

Solution
LEO | Systems Architecture is a Virtual Companion that acts as an on-demand expert , making MBSE more accessible and accelerating system architecture models development. helps engineers reveal, understand, create and improve MBSE models using natural language. Acting as an systems engineering expert assistant, it leverages industry methodologies such as MagicGrid to guide engineer throughout the systems modeling lifecycle.

Benefit
Make MBSE accessible to more engineers to transition from “document-based” to “model-based” systems engineering. 
Accelerate MBSE adoption by empowering Systems Engineers to create consistent systems architecture, and to increase development efficiency, leveraging built-in industry methodology and natural language to interact with models.

  
More to come


 

Generative Experiences

 

Moment 1: [CATIA] Generative Assembly

 

 

 

Challenge

Assembling parts is a tedious, manual process, made worse when parts lack semantic information — forcing engineers to rely on carry-over methods and manually position and constrain each component rather than working from clear, structured design intent.

Solution

CATIA Generative Assembly predicts mechanical interfaces and automatically generates assemblies from a set of positioned parts. By identifying how components should connect them automatically, it eliminates the need for manual assembly constraints and manual placement.

Benefit

Engineers save significant time and effort by removing the tedious, manual assembly steps — even when parts carry little or no semantic information. Assemblies can be generated faster and more consistently, reducing reliance on manual positioning expertise and freeing engineers to focus on higher-value design decisions.

Moment 2: [CATIA] Generative Engineering Rules

 

 

 

Challenge

Engineering knowledge is captured across multiple, disconnected documents, making it complex and time-consuming — often taking hours — to review whether rules have been correctly applied. This review typically happens only after the design is already realized, forcing multiple costly iteration loops rather than getting it right the first time.

Solution

CATIA Generative Engineering Rules generates context-aware design rules that guide engineers toward compliant and manufacturable solutions — bringing rule guidance into the design process itself, rather than as a review step after the fact.

Benefit

Engineers achieve compliance by design, with fewer iteration loops and clear, actionable rules available at the point of design — reducing hours of manual rule-checking and catching issues before they become costly downstream reworks.

Moment 3: [ENOVIA] Generative Systems Requirement Creation

 

 

 

Challenge
Regulations and certification standards evolve continuously, and keeping specification models aligned with the latest regulatory requirements is difficult when that information lives in static engineering documents (PDFs) rather than in a structured, actionable form — creating risk of certification delays or non-compliance as regulations change.

Solution
Generative Systems Requirements Creation captures the continuous evolution of regulation as an actionable model. It takes engineering documents in PDF form as input and automatically generates structured specification models that are directly usable within the design environment — turning regulatory text into design-ready requirements.

Benefit
Organizations can keep pace with evolving regulations without manual re-authoring of specifications, ensuring certification readiness and design consistency, while significantly reducing the time and effort needed to translate regulatory documents into actionable engineering requirements.

Moment 4 : [CATIA] Generative Systems Architecture

 

 

Challenge
Building a SysML model asks three things of an engineer at once: MBSE expertise, fluency in the SysML language itself, and deep familiarity with the methodology plus the company's own modeling rules and best practices.
 

Solution

CATIA Generative Systems Architecture suggest relevant model elements from a set of selected elements (i.e : from Requirements to use case description) as a support to initiate and refine the SysML model and its diagrams (systems, functions, components, ports, parameters). Traceability links between the suggested elements and their source requirements are generated along the way, keeping the specification-to-solution thread as the architecture grows. Suggestions are configurable: the tool can be set to follow company's methodology rules and modeling best practice
 

Benefit
Practitioners who are not SysML specialists can produce a consistent, methodology-compliant architecture, while experienced modelers skip the repetitive scaffolding and spend their time on the design decisions that actually need judgment and creating added values.

More to come

 

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