Software Announcement March 9, 1999 CATIA/CADAM Solutions Version 4 Release 2.1 for Workstations Enhances Design-to-Manufacturing Integration and End-User Productivity Overview Also announced today is the availability of CATIA Version 5 — At a Glance Release 2.1 continues to build on the Next Generation Scalable “process-centric” focus of Applications. This new software CATIA/CADAM Solutions Release 2.0 by offering: complements the CATIA Version 4 Version 4, Release 2.1 for product line, which continues to be Workstations • A new product for the Mechanical enhanced. For related information • Design Solutions composites on CATIA Version 5, refer to Enhances 21 current products, family Software Announcement 299-060, adds a generative tape design dated March 9, 1999. product to the composites • A new composites add-on product set, and adds a new configuration Key Prerequisites add-on configuration for • Enhancements to 21 other composites. Workstation Solutions products Version 4, Release 2.1 runs on • Expands support for selected system levels of: implementing “process-centric” The new and enhanced capabilities design-to-use concurrent provided by Release 2.1 further • AIX engineering methods. support CATIA′s commitment to • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX provide an integrated suite of • Silicon Graphics IRIX • Improves industry-specific concept-to-use products. • Sun Microsystems Solaris applications for optimizing • Microsoft Windows NT critical path processes. CATIA.Generative Composite Tape (CATIA/CADAM Drafting products Design (5626-GCT), the new only) • Improves end-user productivity composites family product, with ease-of-use enhancements. complements the current set of composites applications by providing Planned Availability Date EXTRA! EXTRA! . a set of tools for: Subscribe to IBM iSource, your electronic • March 12, 1999 source for customized IBM information! Tape course design Go to our Web site at • http://www.ibm.com/isource Analysis for both design and or send an e-mail to manufacturability [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body. • Manufacturing quality control The new Tape Design product is combined with the enhanced Composites Covering (5626-COV) and Generative Composites Covering (5626-GCC) products to create the new Generative Composites Design Add-on Configuration (5626-GCD). This new configuration delivers an integrated design-to-manufacturing solution for all types of composite parts in a cost-effective package. 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. 299-062 Description Year 2000 These products do not have date dependencies and are While continuing to provide unique solutions for Year 2000 ready. integrated product development processes and teamwork optimization, CATIA Version 4 Release 2.1 enhances the product set for the mechanical and construction Hardware and Software Support Services industries. • It expands competitiveness and productivity in the SmoothStart /Installation Services advanced modeling, digital manufacturing, and plant design domains. SmoothStart or Installation Services will not be provided • For industries that design large industrial parts, such for CATIA products. as powertrains and plastic parts, this release optimizes system performance and productivity for part creation, modification, and analysis. Reference Information • Part tolerancing is enhanced to better address specific For information on the CATIA/CADAM AEC Plant and customer methodologies. Shipbuilding Solutions products, refer to Software • New types of tolerances are supported to control Announcement 299-063, dated March 9, 1999. surface roughness. Also, it is possible to transfer Additional information on CATIA/CADAM Solutions annotations (GD&Ts) included in CATIA drawings into Version 4 Products is also found on the Internet using the 3D tolerances with automated coherence checking. following URL: The ultimate goal is to help 2D design-centric customers http://www.catia.ibm.com to easily and safely migrate to a 3D process-centric approach. Trademarks CATIA continues to improve its industry specialized SmoothStart is a trademark of International Business applications to optimize customers′ critical processes Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries from product creation to manufacturing. or both. AIX and SOM are registered trademarks of International • The CATIA Body in White Template (BWT) design Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other functions can now be used with multi-model countries or both. implementations, enabling the use of concurrent Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. engineering methods and the exploration of alternative Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft designs. Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be • An increased focus on downstream manufacturing trademarks or service marks of others. steps is also implemented, thanks to new flange excess features for aerospace sheetmetal components. • A new CATIA Generative Composite Tape Design (GCT) product is introduced to address an additional composite manufacturing process. Tape courses can be automatically located and controlled for quality in accordance with manufacturing and stress constraints and can then be flattened for manufacturing. Enriched by this new product, the CATIA composite product set has been combined to create a new add-on configuration that provides an integrated and dedicated environment to address the full sequence of steps from design to manufacturing for complex composite parts made with fabrics and/or tapes. In response to strong requirements from other manufacturing industries, such as automotive and consumer goods, Version 4 Release 2.1 delivers new high-speed milling technologies for handling NURBS and cornerization in both interactive NC and semi-automated implementations. These enhanced capabilities are delivered by the CATIA Surface Machining Programmer (SMP) and Mold and Die Machining Assistant (MAD) products. These improvements increase the quality of surface finish and reduce bench time for manufactured parts. They also increase the quality of tool path generation, especially for automotive parts, by generating NURBS curves in APT files to drive tools. In summary, Release 2.1 continues our commitment to provide service-ready Version 4 releases on an open and flexible architecture to foster customer growth. CATIA Version 4′s evolving architecture, fun-to-use applications, and built-in compliance with industry standards and practices are synonymous with competitiveness and longevity. 299-062 -2- IBM US Announcement Supplemental Information March 9, 1999 The following topics describe the new and enhanced CATIA.Mech.Generative Composites Design Add-on Version 4, Release 2.1 Workstation products. For Configuration (5626-GCD) equivalent information on the AEC Plant and Shipbuilding Solutions products, refer to Software Announcement This Mechanical Design Solutions add-on configuration is 299-063, dated March 9, 1999. made up of the three members of the composites family: New Products and Configurations • CATIA.Composites Covering (5626-COV) • CATIA.Generative Composites Covering (5626-GCC) Release 2.1 contains a new Mechanical Design Solutions • New CATIA.Generative Tape Design (5626-GCT) product and a new Mechanical Design Solutions add-on This add-on configuration is intended for use with configuration. CATIA.Mech.Advanced Part Design and Detailing Configuration (5626-ADD), CATIA.Mech.Solid-Based Part CATIA Generative Composite Tape Design Design and Detailing Configuration (5626-SBD), or other (5626-GCT) suitable CATIA design configurations. Composite parts are made of laminate structures wherein Enhanced Products each layer can be made of different materials. One layer ′ of that laminate structure, called a ply in CATIA s Release 2.1 delivers new functions and enhancements to Composites product family, may be made of one single 21 products to support CATIA′s integrated piece of material or of several pieces. In the case of a design-to-manufacturing architecture. ply made of several pieces of the same material, these pieces are called tapes. Mechanical Design Solutions Given a ply contour, the design of the geometries of the tapes that fill a ply must observe constraints for gaps and In addition to the new Composite Tape Design product, laps between adjacent tapes as well as the orientation of this release upgrades Mechanical Design Solution the fibers that make up the tapes themselves. Tapes are products as described below. generated on the surface while taking these constraints into account. The basic path of the tapes relies on Composites Covering (5626-COV) geodesic curve computation; that is, the center line of a tape is a geodesic driven by the direction of the ply. The • Extends the types of part geometries supported for gaps, laps, and directions of adjacent tapes are then fiber behavior simulation to include highly curved optimized within the range of tolerances supplied by the parts. designer. • Expands the types of parts supported for ply flattening. The CATIA Generative Composite Tape Design product • Enables the migration of draw reference parts to space explicitly defines tapes as new features that belong to a reference parts. ply and uses the tapes′ technological parameters