Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)

CATIA V5R18

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Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Imagine & ShapeEnable designers and engineers to quickly, intuitively, transform a shapeidea into a 3D geometric model.

Product overview

Dedicated to aesthetical shapes creation for

industrial and conceptual design, CATIA -

Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) introduces very new

concepts, breaking the traditional approach

of surfaces modeling. It could be used in any

domains needing quick surface creation,

including rapid virtual prototyping, ideas

expression and simulations. CATIA - Imagine

& Shape 2 (IMA) combines a powerful

technology, based on subdivision surfaces,

and a simple use, making easy for a non

surface specialist to design within a CAD

system. CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) is

really shaped to leverage in V5 the

engineering of emotional content: From ideas

to 3D becomes then quick and easy for all.

Product Highlights

Engineers the emotional content of

products

Enables more free form alternative design

studies, less physical mock-ups

One solution, from styling to

manufacturing

Puts Styling at the heart of PLM

Product Key Customers Benefits

Engineer the emotional content of

products within CATIA V5

Modify the objects, improve their style and

performance, create new shapes, integrate

new functions but also invent the products of

tomorrow, while taking into account

socio-cultural trends, economic stakes and

manufacture constraints: these are the

challenges which fall on the lap of industrial

design.

On this wide and complex area, CATIA -

Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) introduces a

revolutionary way to design products by

enabling (any) users to quickly, and simply,

transform a shape idea into a 3D exact

geometric model. It can be done directly in

CATIA V5 without sketching or prototyping.

This new approach, unique on the CAD

market, leverages the engineering of the

emotional content of products and fosters

innovation.

A unique technology to serve product

innovation with CATIA V5

The subdivision surfaces... CATIA - Imagine

& Shape 2 (IMA) breaks the traditional

approach of surface modeling by introducing

a technology already intensively used in

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entertainment but for the first time adapted

into a CAD system : the subdivision surfaces.

This technology enables users to define,

and control, a shape through a meshing.

Using this meshing, users can then easily

deform the shape locally and globally.

The surfaces created are exacts, could be

opened or closed, support sharp edges and

the connections between surfaces are G2.

Moreover, this technology enables the

creation of surfaces compliant with any

CATIA V5 applications.

This technology implies also very light

data management, and a construction's

methodology easy to understand.

Supported by a dedicated curve modeler...

To support the subdivision surfaces

technology, CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)

introduces a powerful curve modeler based

on an aesthetical approach. This new

modeler provides users with a natural and

intuitive way of drawing and controlling a

complex curve. These curves can be created,

a posteriori, in the model. The subdivision

surfaces can be then controlled by curves for

global deformation. The internal connections

between curves are G3.

Handled in a new user interface... CATIA -

Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) offers also a brand

new efficient user interface, speeding

workflow for experienced users and

accelerating learning curve for new users.

Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) you

can :

From an idea, directly shape high quality

surfaces,

Drive/refine surfaces through curves,

Provides for all an easy access to styling.

More free form alternative design studies,

fewer physical mock-ups

From a designers' perspective, the main

reason for the physical mock-up is to look at

different design shapes and obtain approval.

Because this is an expensive task, the

designer is limited to the amount of different

designs he can review. Using CATIA -

Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), designers can

create very quickly many different digital

design shapes, review the different options,

evaluate the better ones, in conjunction with

the CATIA rendering products (RTR for

dynamic review, PHS for realistic pictures),

and then take the decision to make a

mock-up.

Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) you

can:

Explore more styling ideas, quicker,

Reduce the number of physical mock-ups

by selecting only the relevant ones,

Create innovating products easier.

Start from scratch or leverage your

knowledge

Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA),

users can start to shape a new idea from

nothing, or from sketches, and then

directly continue in detailed design stage

or refine before the shape in others V5

applications, including CATIA Freestyle

Shaper 2 (FSS) and CATIA - Generative

Shape Design 2 (GSD). In another field,

CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) benefits

also from the ability to create quickly

templates through the V5 knowledgeware

capabilities. The user can then start from a

pre-shaped product and define a family of

parts for instance.

Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), in

conjunction with V5 Styling and

Knowledge portfolios, you can:

Benefit from a complete and flexible

V5 styling solution,

Accelerate new products development

by leveraging your knowledge

capitalization.

One solution from styling to manufacturing

As a V5 product, CATIA - Imagine & Shape

2 (IMA) is natively integrated with all the

others V5 applications, from style surface

engineering to manufacturing. Integrated

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implies : firstly, there is no need of data

conversions between the styling and the

engineering design departments during

the required modification loops. Secondly,

the native integration supports a full

assossiativity between the styling and all

the downstream V5 applications, meaning

that a styling modification can be quickly

propagated.

Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), in

conjunction with V5 portfolio, you can :

Leverage the collaboration between

different teams, and especially between

designers and engineers,

Accelerate the early stages of the

design process by iterating sooner,

quicker and more often on high quality

style definition,

Ensure a fast and right propagation of

the style modifications to the engineering

team : replace, or modify, doesn't mean

any more redo !

Put styling at the heart of the V5 PLM

The CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)

users benefit naturally from the overall

PLM Solution provided by Dassault

Systmes including ENOVIA V5 and

SMARTEAM for data and product lifecycle

management. This unique referential

leverages collaborative work giving

access to advanced PLM practices such

as concurrent engineering and change

management.

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