Create and share mechanical design anywhere, anytime, on any device.

CATIA x3D Design, xDirect Design and xDefine are easy to use web applications, available as a service for mechanical designers. It allows to create, edit and share mechanical products with agility and limited infrastructure cost, running in a browser. It is scalable to the most advanced experience design platform on the cloud, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It provides design guidance based on simulation and optimization algorithms, helping to find innovative solutions to your mechanical problems.

Benefits

• Single Modeling Environment

The single modeling environment gives you the opportunity to focus at what you do the best – innovate!  x3D Design provides intuitive, easy to learn and productive 3D modeling features thanks to smooth and innovative user experience.

• Design guidance

When facing tough structural design challenges, let Design Guidance offer possible solutions. Simply provide the part connection points and force conditions and Design Guidance will give you an insight of what your part should look like, sparking your inspiration. Keep it as a guidance reference or use it in your model.

• Mass Reduction for Manufacturing

One of the critical objectives of product design is ensuring that the cost is as low as possible. x3D Design mass reduction helps you redesign models for lower part mass while ensuring the desired form, function, and performance.

• Reuse legacy data

Save time and cost by reusing legacy data from any CAD system as a reference. If required, edit legacy data in xDirect Design to adapt it to new mechanical problems.

• Manufacturing specifications

Provide manufacturing information directly in 3D with associative annotations and views. Present 2D Layout as drawings.

• No Hassle Cloud

As a web application running in your browser with no installation or configuration, you are always working with the latest version of x3D Design, xDirect Design and xDefine whatever the device it is running on.

• Transparent Data Management

With x3D Design, xDirect Design and xDefine you save, manage, version, and branch/merge your designs, and collaborate with your team securely. Share only what you want and control what other team members can do with design data.

• Social Collaboration

Ensure secure communication and collaboration with team members. x3D Design, xDirect Design and xDefine gives you unique ways to ensure successful collaboration within the ecosystem – through secure and safe communities, complete design and data & file access control, sharing, lightweight visualization, and product review.

• Business Dashboard

View your business information in one central location, regardless of the size of your company. You can read the latest news related to your product or project, see what your team is talking about, access the latest work being done, present and share your metrics with executives and customers, capture notes, and store them in one location or share them with others.

Highlights

• CATIA x3D Design combines ease of use with innovative design methodologies and cloud collaboration from inside your browser.

• Create parametric models and assemblies, or let x3D Design’s Design Guidance suggest solutions for you.

• Reuse CAD data from any CAD system either as reference or edit it to adapt it to a new mechanical problem with xDirect Design.

• Define manufacturing information directly in 3D and present 2D Layout as drawings with xDefine.

• Share designs and collaborate through communities. Test work being done, present and share your metrics with executives and customers, capture notes, and store them in one location or share them with others.