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CATIA V5 and V5 PLM for Toyota Motorsport
CATIA V5 is used by Toyota Motorsport to drive design solutions for their most powerful cars. CATIA V5 has enabled Toyota Motorsport to accelerate their entire design and development process so much so that they are able to produce double the number of wind tunnel tests before a race.
In Formula 1 teams only have a two week window in which to cover the entire design cycle of a car and need a powerful set of end to end collaborative tools to keep up with the fast paced ever evolving pack.
CATIA V5 Used for Ford Global Powertrain
CATIA V5 has been chosen by many divisions of Ford for its ability, in all aspects ranging from world leading surfacing technology to the fact that everything is collaborative and all workbenches are unified. Design time is minimized by CATIA V5′s parametric modeling methodology and hence design changes now take a matter of minutes where in the past could have taken days. Ford has incorporated design rules to capture the company’s intellectual property within their CATIA V5 models and not with the personnel.
Delmia helps NASA space out
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center uses Delmia
Challenge
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center needs to be able to simulate ground operations before they occur in order to ensure that projects are not only feasible, but carried out safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
Solution
With DELMIA, KSC’s Design Visualization Group has built 3D virtual models for 20 different facilities at KSC and for ground support equipment, including transporters and fixtures for rotating and assembling parts.
Benefits
3D virtual models in DELMIA allow engineers working on highdollar, one-of-a-kind systems to: understand how equipment and operators will work together; evaluate both predictable and improbable processes; and communicate through the global language of lifelike simulations.
3DVIA Composer help 3DMP reduce data transfer time by 90%
3DMP (3D Marketing and Production) provide services to marketing and communication teams of companies that need specialised 3D digital imaging and animations. 3DMP’s goal is to depict their customer’s product as realistically as possible. The challenge in the past was working with very large models. To solve this 3DMP chose 3DVIA Composer to create all the content for its customers’ interactive as well as paper-based product documentation. 3D content is derived directly from 3D models of the product. 3DMP can now work directly with the design office to obtain 3D CATIA models and transfer them to 3DVIA Composer. 3DMP CEO, Jean Marcel Heudier, says that “Thanks to 3DVIA Composer, we can work with an entire airplane engine, for example, and don’t need to ask the design office to break down the model for us beforehand. Product designers can concentrate on doing their job and not preparing content for documentation.” He also states that “We have reduced by up to 90% the time it takes to transfer heavy models to 3DVIA Composer,”
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