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Welcome to CDC, we are the ONLY Business Partner accredited by both IBM and Dassault Systèmes (DS) as an authorised CATIA, Delmia, Enovia and 3DVIA reseller and is proud to be recognised as a leading supplier of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) products to South African Industry.

Archive for February, 2010

Create, experience and share your visions in 3D

Posted by Jethro On February - 10 - 2010

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 here to see small avi 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:

planeSerious Airplane teaser

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

 

 

 

truckField Service by Hagie

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

 

 

 

VolvoVolvo maintenance

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

PLM Market Place

Posted by Jethro On February - 8 - 2010

Visit the PLM Market Place and get Connected to the World of PLM in Dassault Systemes

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CDC Engineering Design Services

Posted by Jethro On February - 11 - 2010

CDC is comprised of experienced, qualified and highly skilled mechanical engineers who are able provide the following engineering design services:

  • Product Design
  • Product Development for Commercial and Industrial Products
  • Custom Machinery Design
  • Mechanical Engineering Design Documentation
  • Virtual Product Testing and Validation
  • Virtual Manufacturing Simulations
  • Kinematic Analysis and Clash Detection of all Machinery
  • Equipment Design
  • Materials Testing Machinery
  • 2D Drafting
  • Project Planning and Cost Estimation
  • Reverse Engineering

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 to talk to one of our highly skilled mechanical design engineers!

CATIA V5R20

Posted by Jethro On February - 17 - 2010

At a GlanceV5R20NEW

  • Native Class A Automotive Surfacing Within V5:  ICEM Shape Design products are now delivered on standard CATIA V5 media supporting traditional V5 installation, licensing and administration procedures.
  • CATIA Composites Excellence:
    The new Light Manufacturing Part Generation product notably enhances productivity and collaboration by allowing users to work concurrently on the same composite part, later merging and synchronizing separately designed stacks into a single manufactured composite part.
    A new grid-based design methodology automatically generates plies by taking each cell’s composite specifications defined during simulation and applying composite design best practices.
  • Enhanced STEP Interface:  CATIA V5R20 enhances openness and collaboration by introducing a unique new product, CATIA Extended STEP Interface.  It advances large assembly archiving with nested assembly support and will include full composite data and FT&A in the standard STEP format.  This enables long-term archiving of this data, as well as improves data exchange between different CAD formats.
  • Mechanical Part Design enhancements:  In particular, progress in functional modeling (from plastic to cast and forged parts) now addresses Powertrain processes, as well better collaboration on complex parts.  Functional modeling allows users to design oil pans, gear boxes, or motor brackets up to 40% faster.

Click here to read More…

Click on the Picture below to see a short video on V5R20 and also discover certified compatibility on the new Microsoft Windows 7.

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CATIA APPLICATION

Posted by Jethro On February - 18 - 2010

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

CATIA CAD CAM CNC Design Consultants, South Africa

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. Check out what customers and analysts say!

 

The Latest in CATIA

V5R20 features in a nutshell

R20 ConfigurationsClick on the picture for a full review of product configurations

 

New on CATIA V5R20

 

  • Native Class A Automotive Surfacing Within V5:  ICEM Shape Design products
  • CATIA Composites Excellence: New Light Manufacturing Part Generation product notably enhances productivity and collaboration
  • Enhanced STEP Interface:  CATIA V5R20 enhances openness and collaboration by introducing a unique new product, CATIA Extended STEP Interface which improves data exchange between different CAD formats.
  • Mechanical Part Design enhancements:  In particular, progress in functional modeling (from plastic to cast and forged parts) 
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     Click here for the CATIA V5R20 Fact Sheet