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CATIA RenderingThe Digital Product Experience

As designers or engineers you constantly need to visualize, present,and share your ideas. From design review to marketing material,visualization is an essential process to communicate your product andconcept.

CATIA Rendering delivers all the appropriate tools for real-timevisualization and photorealistic rendering. You can interactively createand manipulate your materials, lights and environments and visualizeyour product in real-time. With CATIA Rendering, you can also producephotorealistic images with the integrated mental ray® system, or withthe interactive iray technology to obtain quick results. CATIA Renderingis a key advantage that accelerates the validation process and reducesthe need of physical prototypes, allowing faster decisions and costreduction!

Customer benefits

• Persuade and acceleratedesign validation

• Decrease the need forphysical prototypes

• Benefit from nativeintegration with CATIAdesign environment

• Experiencehigh-performance,real-time visualization

• Create high quality,photo-realistic imagesbased on mental images'mental ray

• Interactive ray tracingrendering solution basedon mental images' iray®

• Use with ease

Key capabilities

Advanced material definition tomatch reality Designers can easily apply materialdefinitions using standard Windowsdrag-and-drop or cut-and-pastemethods and edit/modify them in the3D context. CATIA Renderingprovides a library of 203 predefinedmaterials ready to apply. Thesepreset materials are based on 20CgFx shaders to provide highlyrealistic results.

Creation and manipulation ofscenes CATIA Rendering provides all thecapabilities needed to author ascene. You can define cameras, lightsources, environments, as well asstickers so that you can visualizeyour product within its context andcreate several labeling and graphic

variants on a product for review. Italso includes a library of more than ahundred predefined scenes (includingbackgrounds and tuned lights),allowing occasional users to directlyrender mock-ups out of the box,without having to setup a stage bythemselves.

High end, real-time renderingvisualization Life-like visualization experience forall Available at the core of CATIAV6, a cutting-edge, real-timevisualization is offered for anastonishing lifelike experience for all.Once set and activated with theRealistic Rendering workbench, allthe scenes can be visualized andreviewed at any time in any regularCATIA installation with norequirement for additional products.

The predefined lighting environmentand real-time shadows within CATIAV6 make the lifelike visualizationbetter than ever. Ambiences AllCATIA configurations come withready-to-use advanced visualizationcapabilities. These capabilities aresynthesized in all-in-one predefinedsceneries called ambiences that aredirectly accessible from thecontextual menu of the background,just as if you would like to modifyyour desktop wallpaper. Someambiences are adapted for designcreation and other are for designreview activities. Others come with asignificant visualization enhancementcalled SSAO (Screen Space AmbientOcclusion) that provides an accurateperception of the 3D object by addingsoft shadows between surfaces.

Photorealistic rendering withmental images' mental ray Produce high-quality photo-realisticimages of a digital mock-up, withmental images ® latest generationrendering software componentmental ray®. Its powerful ray-tracingengine dramatically enhances therealism of generated images bycomputing real soft shadows,accurate reflections, refractions oflight, anti-aliasing, final gathering,global Illumination, caustics, etc. Theproduct provides a set ofphotographer-oriented tools, whichallows advanced users to controldepth of field, aperture, shutter time,exposure or any parameters that areusually accessible on a real camera.You can also compute images biggerthan the full screen resolution.

Interactive ray-tracing based onmental images iray® CATIA Live Rendering is aninteractive, physically correct, andphoto-realistic rendering solution,based on ray tracing engine iray®from mental images, that is fast andsimple to use. CATIA Live Renderingis as simple as a Camera. You selectyour lighting environment from alibrary of HDRI (High dynamic RangeImage), then apply and tune yourmaterial color & settings andinteractively choose your point ofView. Producing your high endrendering is only a print screen or-save as- image workflow.

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About Dassault SystèmesAs a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 130,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3Dsoftware market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes applications provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmesportfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for globalcollaborative lifecycle management, EXALEAD for search-based applications and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com.

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