We can create interactive product documentation, animation, technical illustrations and more by reusing your 3D CAD data. 
We use 3DVIA Composer to avoid a costly deliverable production process, having to re-do documentation when there is a design change and more…

By using 3DVIA Composer, we can quickly and easily automate your deliverable production processes while reducing costs and improving quality.

Now you don’t need to manufacture your product before you can market it. Using a free player anyone can view your lightweight 3D data, with animations designed to show your customer what you want them to see.

 Click the image to see a small AVI

The Bulb file here is small and simple (392KB). Please contact us and we will send you the bulb’s file. You can then download the Free player and play around with the bulb, play the animation and see some snapshots. Imagine showing your data to a prospective client. We can convert almost any 3D CAD data.

Download the FREE player at the link below…

http://www.3ds.com/products/3dvia/3dvia-composer/resource-center/

Bear in mind this is a simple demo and there is so much more we can do to make you product look more attractive to the potential buyer.

Just to wet your taste buds further:

Serious Airplane teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0eEAOEhVo&feature=related

Field Service by Hagie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdrAlYVL6M&feature=related

Volvo maintenance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOC2-Gct00

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CDC is comprised of experienced, qualified and highly skilled mechanical design engineers who are able provide affordable mechanical and industrial design services.

By choosing CDC as your design partner you are taking advantage of our years of mechanical engineering design experience and knowledge. All of our mechanical engineers use the world’s leading CAD/CAM/CAE software, CATIA V5, which means that your project will be completed faster with the benefit of virtually simulating performance to ensure that it is right the first time with no need for costly prototypes.

All we need is your PDS (Product Design Specifications) and we will do the rest.

Call us now on 011 786 3516 to talk to one of our highly skilled mechanical design engineers!

At a Glance

• Support customers in production for production and quality improvement in all domains and industries
• Reach functional completeness for CATIA ICEM Design products
• Ensure easy transition to CATIA Version6
• Best in class machining strategies

Discover what is new in CATIA V5R21

Shape

CATIA V5R21 delivers top quality surfaces achievement for body work in the automotive industry, with superior user experience from CATIA Imagine & Shape

CATIA Imagine & Shape, the virtual clay modeler based on subdivision surface technology, delivers world-class surface tools to address body shape details such as cutting face plus superior usability tools for designers. Designers take also advantage of real-time rendering visual feedback during the creation phase. This makes CATIA Imagine & Shape fully suitable for body design in automotive industry.

CATIA V5R21 reach functional completeness and V5-V6 feature equivalence for CATIA Icem products

CATIA V5R21 extends its advanced and powerful freeform surface modeling, modification and analysis capabilities within the Class A modeling domain. V5R21 improves the Quality of the produced surfaces with more efficient tools to validate shape quality. User efficiency & Workflow are also improved thanks to a dedicated modeling environment embedding an adapted user interface. This completes the feature set alignment of V5R19, V5R21, and V6R2012.

CATIA V5R21 keeps improving mechanical surfacing design technologies with Loft command enhancements.

The Loft command has been enhanced to define continuity in curvature (G2) with section supports or guide supports where previously only tangent continuity was supported. This new capability increases the quality of the Loft because you can define precisely which continuity you want to apply on sections and guides. Another improvement lets you create a surface with a punctual extremity in one shot. In the Loft command, one section and two guide curves intersecting each other at one extremity are sufficient to create such shapes, resulting in increased productivity.

Mechanical

CATIA V5R21 improves CATIA Sketcher for a better accuracy of design in context

CATIA Part Design brings time saving in Conceptual Design phase thanks to new associativity that exists now between  reflect lines or internal profiles and the product shape. You can then refine accurately a design with 2D geometric details from the associative silhouette of its 3D faces/features. The area included in this outline can also be used to show a specific treatment area. Projection and intersection curves provides user with the same ability.

CATIA V5R21 enhances exchanges of conceptual study data through external 2D formats.

Conceptual study may starts from 2D legacy data, with the direct import of DXF and DWG files, dealing the content of each 2D layer into a specific sheet. The concept can then be studied taking advantage of the overlaid sheets, as well as of any relevant 3D data. Generating all this data into a single drawing sheet ensures sharing it using 2D external formats whenever needed.

CATIA V5R21 delivers more flexibility for design pattern annotations

CATIA V5R21 brings more flexibility to the user in the definition of tolerances and annotations of pattern of holes. Each pattern instance can get its own semantic annotation. Distance and position annotations are automatically proposed to the user during the pattern creation step, thus providing a significant productivity gain.

Equipment

CATIA V5R21 improves Harness Flattening ergonomy and robustness for Wire Harness manufacturing companies

This release delivers Ergonomic improvement through a new 3D Label selection process during the user manual mapping step for better user productivity. The Synchronise command has been enriched with a better branch management and can now also properly handle hybrid (support + mechanical part) parts components.

Machining

CATIA V5R21 delivers best in class machining strategy and continue to enhance machining simulation for better productivity gain

This release brings new machining strategy dedicated for Hard Material machining in order to increase the tool life duration.  Numerous enhancements Multi-Pocket Flank Contouring such as feed rate reduction in corner or Control overlap for close tool path for unmatched programming and machining time reduction

Interfaces

CATIA V5R21 yet enhances its openness by supporting new format of CAD

New format support includes ProE WF5, UG NX6, SolidWorks 2009, SolidWorks 2010, ACIS V19 and Parasolid V21

Version 6 transition

CATIA V5 and CATIA Version 6 transition

To ensure that our customers can be as successful with deployment moving from V5 to Version 6 as they have in moving from a V5 release to another, DS delivers upward and downward compatibility between CATIA V5 and Version 6 data equivalent to the compatibility between two releases of V5. To enable unmatched collaboration, within a company as well as between OEMs and their suppliers, Version 6 has been engineered to support relational design collaboration between all supported CATIA V5 releases and Version 6. To protect customers’ investment in their existing V5 projects, DS plans to continue the development and support of V5.

Devised and developed by Dassault Systems in France,
CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application)
is acclaimed throughout the world as the leading program for use in design. CATIA offers unequalled scope of functionality, together with total integration of all its functions, thereby ensuring that its users are able to address the most challenging design tasks, and then translate those into realistic, manufacturable products.

It also opens up new frontiers in Concurrent Engineering, leading to better designs, at lower cost, in significantly shorter time. With a development history stretching over more than 15 years, CATIA has proven itself in every imaginable industry, and with the availability of Release 5, which operates on a PC platform, is accessible by even the smallest of manufacturers.

CATIA is the world’s leading CAD/CAM/CAE software. This software gives you a broad range of integrated solutions that cover all aspects of:

• Product design and manufacture
• Driving enterprise competitiveness
• Task productivity Process improvement

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CATIA provides easy to use solutions tailored to the needs of small and medium sized enterprises as well as large industrial corporations in all industries:

• Consumer Goods,
• Fabrication & Assembly,
• Electrical & Electronics goods,
• Automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and process plants.

Companies of all sizes, in all industries, have common requirements and constraints when it comes to designing, optimizing, manufacturing, delivering and supporting products. In many cases they also need to interact with or collaborate with other companies. Responding faster to markets or to changing customer needs, optimizing products to reduce production or aftersales support costs, adding innovative features while meeting tight deadlines… these are common day-to-day concerns that most industries encounter..

Starting from their own strong industrial backgrounds, and with impressive track records for meeting customer needs, IBM and Dassault Systèmes are proud to introduce the centerpiece of their complete e-business Product Lifecycle Management Solutions: CATIA.

CATIA is an integrated suite of software applications covering all aspects of product design: Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), whether by providing the necessary functionality to support collaborative product designs of all types, or the seamless integration that allows full support of company processes, end-to-end (or “bumper to bumper,” as Automotive users would say…)

The unique features and robustness of CATIA help serve the needs of more than 24 000 customers today across the planet, gathering users for more than 180,000 seats in daily production.