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Shape Design & Styling
CATIA - Automotive Body In White Templates
Deliver highly productive capabilities to accelerate automotive
Body InWhite design process
Product overview
CATIA - Automotive Body in White Templates
is an advanced product that uses unique
skilled features to boost body in white design
phase productivity. These powerful features
allow body in white design teams to quickly
create or modify a car body in an associative
styling and engineering context. For instance,
a user can create an associative shape, place
welding points on it, and then assemble the
two parts with unprecedented rapidity. The
manufacturability of the created body is takeninto account, as
well as the management of
potential styling changes. ABT takes
advantage of its total integration with the
mechanical shape design products, the
freestyle products, and the unique Body in
White Fastening product (ABF).
Product Highlights
Dedicated Body-In-White design productwith highly productive
skilled features
Strengthens the CATIA PLM end-to-end
design for manufacturing Body-In-White
process coverage
Embeds process knowledge inside each
features
Product Key Customers Benefits
Delivers a dedicated body in white design
product based on highly productive,
skilled features: ABT closes a major
productivity gap in the body in white
community through the use of unique skilledfeatures. This
productivity comes from the
fact that body in white engineers will find in
ABT unique features that they will use many
times per day. Some examples:
3D Geometrical Grid: Powerful design
and review tool allowing to position the
design activity inside the vehicle
coordinates
Diabolo seat - Create support seats for
certain functional parts.
Junction - Join several surface sections(whether isotopological
or
with tangency management. The ability to
surfaces in this way is a major productivity
innovation.
Mating flange - Add a shape to a thin
part. Typically, this shape is used as a
contact zone with another part within an
assembly. The added shape can be used to
create welding points for assembling the
parts.
Hole - Create a hole shape in a veryproductive and user-friendly
way. The hole
feature is used to remove material from a
body. Additionally, semantic recognition of
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holes means they can be used for
purposes with Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation 2 (FTA)
Bead - Define quickly beads shape to
stiffen a part.
Strengthens the CATIA PLM end-to-end
design for manufacturing body in white
process coverage: When used in
conjunction with CATIA - Automotive Body in
White Fastening 3 (ABF), ABT allows users to
quickly design specific automotive structural
parts while taking their manufacturability into
account. For instance the mating flange
feature in ABT can be used to create a
fixation zone where welding points will be
positioned using ABF. In addition, the body in
white community works in close cooperation
with stylists, especially at the early stage of
the product creation process. The
associativity of ABT with the CATIA freestyle
products thus delivers an appreciated added
value when a styling change is bring during
the conception phase. This is the CATIA V5
Shape Design & Styling Tolerant Modelling
exclusive concept.
Embeds process knowledge inside each
features: CATIA V5 knowledgeware turns
implicit design methods into explicit
knowledge and allows users to capture
and reuse corporate know-how
throughout the product life cycle. CATIA -
Automotive Body in White Templates 2
benefits from the same knowledgeware
capabilities, such as laws, rules, and
optimization features, as its prerequisite,
CATIA - Generative Shape Design (GSD).
Body in white engineers can therefore take
advantage of the ease and the quickness
of these powerful tools for design change
management.
