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Software Announcement February 20, 2001 CATIA Solutions Version 4 Release 2.4 Overview In the Plant Design and Shipbuilding, performance and productivity gains At a Glance CATIA Version 4 Release 2.4 can be observed in the release. demonstrates the commitment of CATIA Ship Hull Design offers new CATIA Version 4 Release 2.4 IBM and Dassault Systemes to possibilities to manage the technical continues to deliver support Version 4 customers with semantics and the design intent enhancements: within the 3D digital model. enhancements in engineering • communication and process Integration with ENOVIA integration for all industries. These Parametric constraints between Product Data Management enhancements guide the integration parts, new set-point on molded line, solutions for process coverage of ENOVIA solutions for complete automatically generated centers of throughout the Digital Digital Enterprise and Supply Chain gravity of holes, and cut-outs make Enterprise. support. the 3D model a complete • technological reference. AEC Thirteen product enhancements in Release 2.4 — bring Release 2.4 supports CATIA Drawing Production is improved to significant improvements or Version 4 customers′ support Shipbuilding-specific new features to support competitiveness and productivity in drawing standards and to facilitate end-to-end processes in advanced modeling, tolerancing, and speed up the generation of such aerospace, automotive, plant, manufacturing, and shipbuilding traditional drawings as long and and shipbuilding industries. domains, while sustaining a cross views. supplemental approach integrating Version 5 products for specific Key Prerequisites domains. Version 4 Release 2.4 runs on This release confirms Version 4′s selected system levels of: leading-edge position in manufacturing for Aerospace • AIX industry. Productivity and • communication throughout the Hewlett-Packard HP-UX supply chain is improved in Lathe • Silicon Graphics IRIX Machining, Prismatic Machining, Surface Machining, and Multi-Axis • Sun Microsystems Solaris Machining. • Microsoft Windows NT or The CATIA NC infrastructure Windows 2000 (for enhancements facilitate the reuse of CATIA/CADAM Drafting products Part Operations and Machining only) Operations, for cost-effective adaptation of corporate methodologies. The additional Planned Availability Date capabilities for local cavity roughing of the Mold and Die Machining February 23, 2001 Assistant fulfill the most demanding users of the Aerospace industry. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 201-039 Description Hardware and Software Support Services In parallel to the continuous development of CATIA SmoothStart /Installation Services Version 5, significant enhancements are delivered for CATIA Version 4. Release 2.4 enhances 13 products and brings significant improvements or new features to SmoothStart or Installation Services will not be provided support end-to-end processes in aerospace, automotive, for CATIA products. plant, and shipbuilding industries. Improvements in CATIA Version 4 Release 2.4 are Reference Information targeted at improving productivity in key areas, supporting the major programs for introduction of new For additional information, refer to the following Software methodologies and throughout the CATIA-installed base. Announcements: • The enhancements to the Global Shape Modeling (GSM) Software Announcement 200-161, dated June 6, 2000 tools provide capabilities to support the major initiatives • Software Announcement 200-160, dated June 6, 2000 within many CATIA Version 4 customers to move from traditional Surface modeling methodologies towards the Also visit the Internet IBM Product Lifecycle Management specification-based approach. This delivers productivity (PLM) Solutions home page: gains across the surface engineering process with the ability to propagate associatively, namely, the required http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm changes through many iterations in the engineering Trademarks process from concept definition to production tooling. These enhancements focus on: SmoothStart is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries • Accuracy of geometry produced or both. • AIX is a registered trademark of International Business Improved handling (robustness) Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries • Ease-of-definition of complex geometric shapes or both. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are trademarks of • Significant enhancements to the already extensive Microsoft Corporation. surface quality analysis tools Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. To link the benefits of associative specification-driven modeling provided with GSM and the Solid Modeling tools, this release enhances the associativity from design through to Toolpath creation using the CATIA Manufacturing Solutions. It improves the links with the CATIA VPM data management tools. The manufacturing tools themselves are also significantly enhanced to improve usability and performance. These tools provide additional capabilities for advanced high-speed machining definition and to support standardization and reuse of machining methodologies. To support further progression, within many existing Version 4 customers, towards paperless manufacturing, the CATIA 3D Functional Dimensioning and Tolerancing tools are also enhanced to provide improved usability for tolerance definition and management. The functionally rich coverage of industrial tolerancing scenarios already provided, is further extended with this release, making this capability even more complete and robust. The success of CATIA in the Plant Design and Shipbuilding area, and the continued roll out of these capabilities on many large Shipbuilding projects around the world, has driven additional improvements in usability and performance to support even greater productivity. The improvements in Drawing production and Ship Hull Design support the specific requirements of the shipbuilding industry, and provide improved associativity and attribute management as well as significant performance enhancements. Euro Currency These programs are not impacted by euro currency. 201-039 -2- IBM US Announcement Supplemental Information February 20, 2001 Generative Shape Modeling (5626-GSM) Enhanced Products • Associative analysis feature: Release 2.4 delivers new functions and enhancements to − Maximal normal distance between two surfaces 13 products to support CATIA′s integrated design-to-manufacturing architecture. − Graphical representation of distance and non associative geometry creation Mechanical Design Solutions − Capability to choose angular sector This release updates two products in this solution family. • New fillet capability: Rolling edge option (as in SOLIDE function) 3D Functional Dimensioning and Tolerancing (5626-FDT) • Sweep quality: less faces are generated • 3D tolerancing display management: • MultiSelection in Transfor/Unspec/Identity with − Ability to define the font to be used for User Defined identical name (useful for multimodel links creation) Textual Annotations (The ability to control the • Intersection quality improvements character font of the default text has been added.) • Reroute: reframe on geometry − ISO representation for geometric tolerance applied in a common zone to cylindrical profile feature Manufacturing Solutions • New tolerancing capabilities: − Support of datum targets on slot (couple of parallel This release updates seven products in this solution planes) datum feature family. − Support of common datum made of more than two Lathe Machining Programmer (5626-LMP) single datum features (only available for ANSI or ASME standards) • New ramping mode in one-way recessing. The one-way recessing operation now includes a ramping • Other improvements: mode dedicated for round insert tools. In this mode, each ramping pass is followed by a leveling pass. − Inactive-feature query and reconnection • New contour parallel mode in one-way recessing. The − Query of views displaying annotations one-way recessing operation now includes a contour − Automatic reorder and relative positioning of parallel mode. In this mode, each pass is parallel to grouped annotations the part profile. − Annotation planes protection against deletion • Enhancement of stock support. Stock update can be visualized by selecting view/simulate command in the Exact Solids (5626-SOE): In Version 4 Release 2.4, an MfgProg panel. extension of the solid import primitive allows an associative integration of a V5 Body: Manufacturing Infrastructure (5626-NCB) • An import primitive can be created by selecting a V5 • Capability to copy POs from one model to another. Body. • Retrieve geometry from one MO and Paste it to • Solid update takes into account V5 Body changes. several other MOs. • Downstream applications (NC, Drafting) inherit this • Conical tools with ball end control. It was difficult to associativity. create a conical tool with the desired ball end value. Now, when the new ball end tip button is checked the Shape Design and Styling Solutions Corner Radius (Rc) is the driving parameter. • Highlight geometry during replay. A new icon in the This release updates one product in this solution family. replay toolbar. APT Window