CATIA V5.18 strengthens collaborative solutions to

At a glance

CATIA V5.18 delivers 7 new products and enhances 90 products to:

• Improve end-to-end industry process coverage for composite designto manufacturing, electrical harness design to documentation, andprinted circuit board design

• Increase range of manufacturing parts designed with functionalmodeling

• Dramatically improve productivity for the powertrain and chassisdesigner with breakthrough auto-drafting

• Extend the scope for the multi-discipline 3D collaborationenvironment with the ENOVIA VPLM Navigator

• Expand the reach of 3D to a wider community with CATIA 3DLive and3D XML

Overview

Your CATIA Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Designed for you, designed with you

• CATIA V5.18 further improves the quality of final composite parts,delivering a new composites analysis capability along with a newdesign review environment, which provides access across the entirevalue chain to part specifications.

• CATIA V5.18 enables effective Electronics CAD and Mechanical CADdesign collaboration by strengthening the Printed Circuit Board (PCB)design process, delivering new benefits to the high-tech industry.

• CATIA V5.18 takes Electrical Harness Design performance one-stepfurther by integrating knowledge early in the design process forsignificant quality improvements.

Design performance for innovation

Just be the "imagineer"

• CATIA V5.18 strengthens 3D Master representation and maximizesusers' productivity by allowing automatic creation of FT & A features.This ensures that 3D conceptual design complies with productspecifications.

• Functional modeling now supports the design of complex machinedparts, especially in the aerospace industry, extending this uniquemodeling approach to more manufacturing processes.

• CATIA V5.18 popularizes photorealistic rendering of product design,

IBM United States Announcement207-215, dated September 25, 2007

CATIA V5.18 strengthens collaborative solutions to streamlineinnovation

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providing all users with exciting feedback at the start of product development.

Breakthrough technologies

Your innovation starts with ours — CATIA V5.18 brings stunning productivity to automotivepowertrain and chassis designers for foundry tooling design thanks to the breakthroughAuto-draft capability that complements Auto-fillet, introduced in V5.17.

Collaborative PLM

Networking minds to speed up innovation

• CATIA V5.18 and 3DLive leverage 3D XML as one of the most efficient backbones for live 3Dcollaboration. This step greatly extends 3D collaborative interaction from designers tocollaborators to consumers.

• CATIA 3DLive brings 3D functional tolerancing and annotation into the reach of thousands ofnon-specialized CATIA users, spreading product information to virtually the completeextended enterprise.

• CATIA V5.18 extends the scope for multi-discipline 3D collaboration, extending applicativedata support from within the VPM Navigator to offer a superior design environment for CATIAusers.

Easy, open, and scalable

Adaptable to you

• Key PLM market players continue to adopt V5 architecture. V5.18 reaches with more than 100partners, launching several CAA applications, and extending the process coverage in manydisciplines, such as reverse engineering and electrical design.

• ICEM Shape Design (ISD) V5 sets a new standard for Automobile Class A design in theautomotive industry. V5 users benefit from improved workflow operations and increasedproductivity.

Key prerequisites

CATIA V5 runs on selected versions of:

• Microsoft™ Windows™

• AIX®

• Hewlett Packard HP-UX

• Sun Solaris

Planned availability dates

• October 1, 2007, CATIA V5.18

• October 12, 2007, CATIA Web-based Learning Solutions V5.18


Description

Improves quality of the final composite part through post-processing analysis

CATIA V5.18 extends the end-to-end composites process from design to simulation tomanufacturing for automotive and aerospace industries. CATIA V5.18 delivers post-processinganalysis on composite parts for an accurate product behavior evaluation. It embeds failurecriteria specification to composites structure (Tsai-Hill and Tsai Wu criteria) to give a betterassessment of composites parts. In addition, the composites analysis environment can receiveall producibility information needed to ensure accurate manufacturing results.

Enables effective Electronics CAD and Mechanical CAD design collaboration bystrengthening the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design process

A library of 3D components, defined in neutral data exchange format, from several constructionmethods, either designed in CATIA or imported through data exchange formats, makes it easy tomap with several ECAD tool import/export references to the position of electrical componentswithout the need to redesign in CATIA.

Integrates knowledge early in the design process for significant quality improvements

V5.18 enables Generative electrical design based on company rules captured in V5 knowledge— Generative Harness covering placement (Tube, Tape), Generative electrical partsconnections (auto create electrical assemblies from catalog), and delivers more electrical designchecks (part connection compatibility, wire route and manufacturability, splice location inharness, completion of V5 electrical model).

Reinforces end-to-end electrical process by integrating manufacturing constraintsdirectly in the design

CATIA V5.18 enhances CATIA Electrical Harness Flattening for harness drawing production bydelivering more accurate harness manufacturing documentation (Backshell representation),smoothing harness flattening process for device orientation and improving the harness draftingquality. The CATIA Electrical Harness reduces the design to manufacturing cycle time especiallyfor Automotive and Aerospace CATIA V5 Electrical design customers. The flattening processbecomes more robust and completes the layout process more efficiently.

Improves the structure functional design on 2 major axis

• Process — The introduction of a new Finite Element Method (FEM) command makes theprocess of designing a ship easier. Naval architects are required to validate the structure ofthe ship during this iterative phase. This requires making analysis quickly using finite elementsolvers. CATIA Structure Functional Design 2 (SFD) provides a new bridge to developautomatically the Mesh Model within CATIA. Specific SFD object geometries and propertiesare taken into account such as seams on SuperPlate, stiffener trace, and so on. Then, theuser is able to locally redefine a detailed mesh, using the regular Advanced Meshing Tools.

• With multiple changes and improvements, drafting solution for classification gets a massiveupgrade. Performances have been increased by 50% in average, and several new featuresare facilitating the automatic generation of the drawings.

• The structure detailed design in many ways, among them include:

– An important evolution in V5.18, named "Thickness compensation" enables users toautomatically delimit object (plates or stiffeners) to other objects while taking into accountthe thickness of the limiting objects.

– V5.18 reinforces existing detailed design with new built-in end cuts, new Opening fromCatalog for more productivity and the Break command now supports more features and agreater number of computed attributes.

Enhances CATIA Machining solutions efficiency from NC Programming to simulation toincrease manufacturing process productivity.

V5.18 expands the CATIA Machining simulation coverage to mill-turn process by allowing theuser to define, program and simulate ISO Code on lathe and mill-turn machines includingmulti-spindle, multi-turrets and auxiliary devices. Lathe productivity is significantly enhanced byimproving global lathe operations, by releasing new turning revolution envelop computation andby supporting new "4-axis pocketing" operation.

Programming and machining time of milling process is appreciably reduced with the 3- to 5-axis


switch capability on finishing operations to prevent collision and greatly improve machining timeand cutting tool life. Users take advantage of the new 5-axis spiral milling operation andimproved existing 5-axis operations, leading to major productivity gains in 5-axis solutions.

Multi-part programming time is drastically reduced by merging and reordering the sub-programsto machine several parts on a single setup. CATIA V5.18 enlarges and improves 2.5- & 3-axisoperations with T-Slotter function for efficient undercut areas finishing, new sequential axialoperations for more flexibility on non-standard holes, and helical machining strategy formachining time reduction.

Accelerates quality control and enforces inspection mechanism during reverseengineering process

• A new deviation analysis command allows users to analyze the deviation between elements.With this new command, the quality is a key point in reverse engineering process. Users canrapidly compare physical mock-up to the CAD model, and easily check the quality of rebuildsurfaces in comparison to the scanned data.

• The role of inspection during the reverse engineering process is reinforced by allowing usersto create associative annotations on a deviation analysis.

Using CATIA V5.18 associativity mechanism, any modifications to the deviation analysisupdates the associated annotations. In addition, the users can use a report that summarizesthe results of the deviation check to cover the last stage of part inspection process.

Supports 64-bit advantages for analysis

CATIA V5.18 takes full advantage of the 64-bit initiatives to leverage companies' resources. Itenables the manipulation of large analysis models (over 2 GB) including many load cases thatare handled thanks to the capability of multi-occurrence combination.

Includes productivity acceleration for automotive cast and forge manufacturing process

• CATIA V5.18 takes the productivity of the detailed design of rough parts to ensuremanufacturability in automotive cast and forge processes to a new level:

– Solves more complex geometrical scenario thanks to the management of twisted surfacesby automatically providing a re-limitation in the twisted zone.

– Drafts up to 98% of complex forged automotive parts in one session by adjusting the partingline within the boundaries of the flash zone to remove unwanted sharp edges.

– Includes new enhancements and improvements to the robustness of the revolutionaryAuto-Fillet operation since its introduction in V5.17. A new parting element definitionensures the perfect match of a fillet on the parting surface in a single step for the roundingand filleting of sharp edges.

– Dramatically reducing the time required to model a cylinder head port with a new filletenhancement.

Brings improvements in the sheetmetal arena

• SheetMetal design processes, based on industrial requirements is accelerated and improvedwith new functional capabilities to help designers in the SheetMetal part definition. Byenhancing capabilities efficiency with function evolution, their is greater process coverage anddesign-time saved.

• Productivity gains are won with powerful extrusion capabilities, to design more complex partswith the joggle plane definition at start or end, and better process coverage with Characteristiccurves improvements.

• SheetMetal design workbench is improved with a new technological differentiator thatdramatically increases the number of parts that can be designed. Now double curvature,non-ruled SheetMetal parts can be managed. CATIA V5.18 opens a new technologicaldomain that enables more complex design with double curvature hopper, and allows display ofdistortions management when surface is not ruled.

Expands the CATIA Tooling capabilities and efficiency with dedicated functionality

New productivity gains for toolmakers, with streamlined design procedures for complex moldtooling function and gives users more freedom and automation tools.

• Users can now replace one conceptual plate by one detailed with the management of existing


tooling drills with the Replace Plate function.

• Time during die process creation and reduce memory size is decreased with a new GenerateFinal Holes & Pads command to delay execution of tooling drills.

• Components can be inserted with adaptable geometry in Morphing User Component. This isuseful for toolmakers designing punches for progressive die tooling.

• Productivity and ease-of-use improvements allow independent rotation of componentsmanaged by the Manage All option Component insertion panel.

Design performance for innovation

Enhanced design to manufacturing performance

Design-to-manufacturing performance, especially for the industrial equipment industry, isenhanced with the introduction of a new assembly feature.

It generates a single "machined" part from an assembly of parts, so that the part preparation cannow be done and machining operations added in the context of assembly without modifying thereference parts.

Expands functional modeling to support the design of complex machined structure parts

The scope of functional modeling applicability to additional manufacturing processes andindustries is expanded from plastic molded parts and automotive cast and forged parts, throughmachined parts. The aerospace industry also fully benefits from breakthrough functionalmodeling for the design of complex machined structure parts.

• Full support of detailed design as the transition from a functional design to the rough part andthe machined part is enabled through the import of geometrical features from one part toanother.

• Improved design to manufacturing process coverage. The intelligence embedded in a holefeature can now be completely propagated as a technological result to provide informationnecessary to downstream applications, such as drafting thread generation and machining,while protecting intellectual property.

• Improved flexibility for complex parts design methodologies. The specification tree is managedmuch more easily and effectively as users can now automatically insert the input bodyunderneath the functional feature. Quality and productivity are also improved with thedefinition of one draft properties for multiple solid functional sets.

Strengthens 3D Master representation and maximizes users' productivity

It is of paramount importance that the final product precisely matches its original concept anddesign. The 3D Master process enables users to precisely produce the same product that isconceptualized at the earliest stages with a unique associative approach. This approach updatesall 2D/3D engineering data as it changes so that every user is working with exactly the sameinformation, making it easy for every user to design with quality. CATIA V5.18 drasticallyincreases productivity and quality with its enhanced 3D Master process:

• Users can easily perform 2D conceptual design in a complex environment, including relationaldesign with existing components. In addition, they can quickly create easily understandableand high-quality 3D model layouts.

• The dimension line-up capabilities drastically help users to achieve the utmost output bylimiting the number of interactions and automatically creating several features (frameddimensions).

Popularizes photorealistic rendering of product design

Photo Studio 1 (PH1) gives users an easy way to produce photorealistic images at the earlystages of the product development. It is designed to fit casual users needing to quickly createhigh-quality renderings.

Easy-to-learn, easy to use photorealistic rendering solution

• Photo Studio 1 (PH1) is designed to fit the needs and skills of casual users who need toproduce rendered images. From a usability perspective, only a few options can be customizedand users can preview the results before launching computation to obtain fast results and tryout different options quickly.


• The ease of use of Photo Studio 1 (PH1) coupled with the fact that it is seamlessly integratedwith CATIA V5 decreases the time required to create and validate product appearance. Thereis no need to convert or export / import data, users just need to click on the icon in the V5toolbar to start generating pictures.

• Because it is simple to use and part of the complete V5 set of tools, it is easy to integrateproduct appearance validation, making it a key factor in product development, early in theprocess.

Speed up Body in white (BiW) process for automotive BiW specialists

Automotive BiW specialists are given new capabilities to speed up the Automotive BiW process.For example, the new capabilities strengthen the associativity mechanism during curvesstretching, promoting the automation of CATIA — 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation 2(FTA) weld annotation, and the integration of knowledge formula.

Maximizes efficiency in Product Engineering Optimizer

The efficiency of the Product Engineering Optimizer is optimized with the lean update protocol,allowing the user to update only what is needed to reach the engineering specifications.

Breakthrough technologies

Enhanced fillet for more productivity in molded parts design

• Huge productivity gains are achieved in plastic molded parts design. It allows designers toaccurately control fillets, especially plastic molded parts. Depending on the fillets' parameters,users can choose between:

– Conical fillet — To use any type of conic as the fillet section

– Chordal Fillet — To control the width of a fillet

– Associative G2 Fillet — To quickly define the shape of G2 styled fillet

• The new CATIA Imagine & Shape multi-edition capability enables stylists to propagatemodifications from a subdivision surface to other subdivision surfaces. For example, they canmodify detailed design surfaces linked with styled concept surfaces. Thanks to this newapproach, it is easy to iterate on design change between stylists and mechanical designers.

Brings stunning productivity to automotive powertrain and chassis designers for foundrytooling design

CATIA V5.18 continues to dramatically improve design productivity with a revolutionary capabilityon the market. A new, unique breakthrough, Auto-draft function, which complements theunmatched Auto-fillet capability introduced in V5.17. It brings stunning productivity to automotivepowertrain and chassis designers for foundry tooling design and optimizes the resulting castingparts. The drafting activity is shortened considerably as all drafts are computed in a singleoperation.

Collaborative PLM

Delivers a new product for Composites Review 2 (CPR)

CATIA V5.18 delivers a new light design review environment, DMU — Composites Review 2(CPR) product, to provide access to composite material and knowledge across the extendedcompany value chain. It extends the access to composite material defined in CATIA V5 to crossdisciplines teams and suppliers. It fosters better communication and collaboration between thedifferent stakeholders for more efficient design to manufacturing process.

Leverages 3D as one of the most efficient backbones for live 3D collaboration

CATIA V5.18 is a milestone for adopting the light 3D XML format as a standard for efficientcommunication across the supply chain. A big step forward is achieved in the archiving processvia STEP and/or IGES, V5.18 makes possible to visualize archived data on 3D XML via a batchconversion program between STEP, IGES and 3D XML. This release enriches 3D XML formatwith:

• 3D annotations

• Real-time rendering camera and lights exposure


Easy, open and smart

CATIA V5.18 delivers a new geometrical range with small scale that operates from 0.01um to1m. This allows the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) industry to create smallergeometry with greater accuracy, less than 1 micron. This requirement is also key for the clockand watch industry.

Key PLM market players continue to adopt V5 architecture. In V5.18, a new partner and severalCAA V5 CATIA applications are launched, extending the process coverage of V5 in manydisciplines such as reverse engineering and electrical design.

• V5 applications launched by partners since V5.17 extend process coverage of V5 solutionswith highly specialized applications including:

– RealViz V Experience

– IGE+XAO will delivers three new products:

-- V5 Generative Schematic

-- V5 Generative electrical & Wiring diagrams for engineering

-- V5 Functional System Definition

ICEM Shape Design (ISD) V5 set a new standard for Automobile Class A design in theautomotive industry. V5 users benefit from improved workflow operations and increasedproductivity.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

Owing to the graphics-intensive nature of its engineering design applications, this product hasbeen granted a deviation.

Product positioning

CATIA V5 is the leading solution for product excellence. It addresses all manufacturingorganizations, from OEMs, through their supply chains, to small independent producers. Therange of CATIA V5 capabilities allows application in a wide variety of industries, such asaerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, electrical, electronics, shipbuilding, plant design,and consumer goods, including design for such diverse products as jewelry and clothing.

CATIA V5 is the only solution capable of addressing the complete product development process,from product concept specification through product-in-service, in a fully integrated andassociative manner. Based on an open, scalable architecture, it facilitates true collaborativeengineering across the multi-disciplinary extended enterprise, including style and form design,mechanical design and equipment and systems engineering, managing digital mock-ups,machining, analysis, and simulation. By enabling enterprises to reuse product design knowledgeand accelerate development cycles, CATIA V5 helps companies speed-up their responses tomarket needs.

In conjunction with ENOVIA VPLM and ENOVIA SmarTeam for life-cycle management anddecision support and DELMIA for manufacturing engineering, CATIA V5 is a key component ofcollaborative PLM.

Much beyond pure CAD software packages, which provide geometry modeling features fordesign-centric companies, CATIA V5 delivers the keys to PLM for process-centric companies:

• Product to market. CATIA is about product excellence. From the earliest product concept toproduction tooling, its concurrent engineering and design-in-context capabilities create valueby enabling companies to create products and bring them to the market.

• Time to market. The unequalled process coverage of CATIA, combined with the nativeassociativity among all of its applications, gives CATIA customers the means to shorten thetime to market.

• Right to market. CATIA's integrated analysis, simulation, synthesis, and optimizationapplications provide product engineering validation at each design step to ensure productquality and market acceptance.

• Lead the market. CATIA's advanced capabilities for collaborative engineering, knowledgecapture, and re-use boost innovation and help customers to lead the market.


The three CATIA V5 platforms (P1, P2, and P3) make CATIA the most scalable solution forproduct creation. CATIA V5 P1 users benefit from PLM productivity in an affordable way with thesecurity of potential growth. They can conduct associative product engineering based on CATIAV5 product design-in-context, product knowledge reuse, end-to-end associativity, productvalidation, and collaborative change management capabilities.

CATIA V5 P2 users can optimize their PLM processes through knowledge integration, processaccelerators, and customized tools. They can drive generative product engineering based on thelargest application portfolio. They can perform "design-to-target," extensively capture and re-useknowledge, and stimulate collaborative innovation.

CATIA V5 P3 users access the highest productivity for specific advanced processes withfocused solutions. They can lead expert engineering and advanced innovation, relying on uniqueand specialized applications that integrate product and process expertise.

The CATIA V5 world is fully scalable because the P1, P2 and P3 platforms operate on the samedata model, methodology, and management schemes. By enabling users to install P2applications on top of P1 seats and by standardizing graphical user interfaces across platforms,P1 users can immediately do collaborative design within their extended enterprise with P2 usersand later grow with P2 and P3 platforms as their business grows.

Product positioning — Globalization

CATIA V5 program integrated information (PII) and softcopy product information are available in:

• French

• German

• Italian

• Japanese

PII is stored in compressed unicode format (UTF-8) for world-wide exchange without the loss ormisinterpretation of characters.

Hardware and software support services

SmoothStart™/installation services: IBM SmoothStart/Installation Services are not availablefor CATIA products.

CATIA V5 services plan

PLM Services, part of IBM Global Services, offers a robust portfolio of services to assist with theimplementation of CATIA V5. Careful planning and implementation are essential to getting themost from CATIA V5. IBM PLM Services provides an Implementation for CATIA V5 ServicesOffering specifically designed to move an enterprise smoothly and successfully from CATIA V4or other CAD systems to CATIA V5 via a flexible path that can be customized to the enterprise'sneeds. We can help with assessment, solution design, planning, installation, data migration,custom application development, best practices consulting, user and administrative training,support, and project management.

For additional information on service offerings and how IBM professionals can assist with theimplementation of CATIA V5 in your environment, contact your IBM representative or IBMServices organization or visit

http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm

Select PLM Services from the list of related links.

Enhanced Support Offering

Direct customer support is available under the Product Lifecycle Management Support Services— Enhanced Support Offering (ESO). Refer to this topic in the Terms and conditions section foradditional information.

Reference information

For information about ENOVIA VPLM V5.18, refer to 207-214, dated September 25, 2007.



http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS207-214&appname=USN

For information about ENOVIA SmarTeam V5.18, refer to 207-212, dated September 25, 2007.

For information about Component Application Architecture Rapid Application DevelopmentEnvironment (CAA RADE) V5.18, refer to 207-213, dated September 25, 2007.

Availability of national languages: National language versions of the CATIA V5 WLS productsare available as the CATIA V5 NLVs Product (5671-NL3). Use the ShopPLM Optional suppliesmenu to select the language desired.

5671-NL3

Description Language

User Companions for French (LCD4-7857)CATIA V5 for UNIX German (LCD4-7851)

Japanese (LCD4-7854)

User Companions for French (LCD4-7858)CATIA V5 for Windows German (LCD4-7852)


User Companion for DMU French (LCD4-7860)for UNIX and Windows German (LCD4-7853)


Trademarks

SmoothStart and Tracer are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the UnitedStates or other countries or both.

AIX and SP1 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the UnitedStates or other countries or both.

Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries.

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

Additional details

This section describes the enhancements to previously announced products delivered in thisrelease. For descriptions of previously announced CATIA V5 and CATIA WLS V5 products andother PLM solutions, visit the PLM Web site


Controlled availability of selected CATIA V5 products

The following products, which were in a controlled availability status, are generally available withCATIA V5.18:

• CATIA — Business Process Knowledge Template (BK2)

• CATIA — Business Process Knowledge Template 3 (BKT)

• CATIA — Knowledge Definition 3 Configuration (KD3)

Because of its introductory nature, and to ensure proper coverage of customer data exchangeprocesses, Digital Product Rights Manager 1 (RM1) is subject to controlled availability in thisrelease. This product will be delivered via the Release 18 Service Pack process. Addressquestions about the controlled availability of this product to Alan Morgan (Alan JMorgan/UK/IBM@IBMGB).

The following previously announced products remain in a controlled availability status in thisrelease:





• CATIA — DMU Space Engineering Assistant 2 (SPE)

The purpose of the controlled availability designation for this product is to ensure customerawareness of its introductory nature and the need to verify the readiness of support resourcesand product function to maximize successful deployment. Address questions about thecontrolled availability of this product to Bernie Clark (Bernie Clark/UK/IBM@IBMGB,44-141-3148858).

• CATIA — Electrical System Functional Definition 2 (EF2)

• CATIA — Electrical System Functional Definition 2 (EFD)

The purpose of the controlled availability designation for these products is to ensure customerawareness of their process-oriented nature and the need to verify the readiness of supportresources and product function to maximize successful deployment. Address questions aboutthe controlled availability of these products to Dimitri Steijlen (DimitriSteijlen/Netherlands/IBM@IBMNL, 31-205134845).

During the controlled availability period, orders for the previously listed products can be placed inthe usual manner. However, warning messages are to the configurators to serve as a reminderof their controlled availability status.

CATIA P1

CATIA V5.18 enhances 29 previously announced products.

New products

Enhanced products: Enhancements to a P1 product also apply to the corresponding P2product.

Mechanical Design:

CATIA — Assembly Design 1 (AS1)

• Associative product to part — This new assembly feature generates a single "machined" partfrom an assembly so that the part preparation can now be done with machining operationsadded in the context of the assembly, without modifying the reference parts. This enhancesdesign-to-manufacturing performance and is particularly useful for the Industrial Equipmentindustry.

• Annotations toolbar completeness — The Annotations toolbar, as well as Insert/Annotationssub-menu, are enriched to make all annotation commands available directly from theAssembly Design workbench.

• Small-scale support for very small geometry — A new setting is available to select a smallscale for all the documents of a CATIA session. This small scale option is particularly valuablefor micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).

• Customized default option to be managed by the symmetry feature — The symmetrycommand is enhanced to let the user define default values for the Geometry to be mirroredin new parts option.

• Editing a part or product by coordinate or angle — The user can easily edit the position of apart involved in a fix constraint by either editing the fix constraint or by manipulating the valuesthat define its position in knowledge applications. This makes the assembly design processwhere designers change the part's position frequently more user-friendly.

CATIA — Part Design 1 (PD1)

• Conical fillet — This new option significantly improves productivity by using any type of conic— from an elliptic profile to a hyperbolic profile — as a fillet section. Particularly useful in thestyling area, where it allows the designer to control the exact shape of the fillet, conical filletscan also be used to approximate G2 continuity between a fillet surface and fillet supportswhen the "visual" curvature continuity is sufficient.

• Chordal fillet — This new fillet enables a better design, especially for plastic molded parts, bymaking it possible to control the width of the fillet. Whereas the radius of a fillet is generallyvariable, in many cases, such as the design of plastic molded parts, it is required to keep thewidth constant.


• Thread-up-to-plane and support depth — The user can now create a thread feature with adepth defined by a planar geometrical element or a depth set by the length of the support.

• Display of tolerances on sketcher dimensions — Dimension tolerances are now displayeddirectly on the sketch for quick visualization.

• Tolerances display and modification in multi-constraint (multi-Cst) user interface — Thetolerances can be quickly and easily modified through the Edit Multi-constraint panel, enablingsignificant productivity gains, especially for casting and forging processes.

• Integration of transformation axis-to-axis and affinity features in Part Design — These twotransformation features, available in Part Design, complete the set of transformationsapplicable to solid objects.

• Fillet long relimitation — This modification in the fillet propagation allows users to generate afillet shape with no sharp edges by allowing the relimitation of fillet skin on the initial body.

• Multiple viewing direction (MVD) rib and slot — Enables the user to manage full 3D sweepmotions without undesirable rotation by using a multiple viewing direction moving framewhenever possible. Now, instead of having one unique direction for the whole spine, a viewingdirection is computed for each spine edge, leading to more reliable results and less cuspedsurfaces.

• Interrupt local update — When performing a local update, users can now see the progress ofthe update and cancel the computation if it takes too long or if it was launched by mistake,which is particularly useful when working on large parts.

• Ability to change the link of a copy/pasted body as the result of a link — This brings moreflexibility with the ability to edit the generic solid feature created by this operation, redirect theinput link towards another body, and keep design consistency within the model.

• Removal of advanced user option for manual dependencies management in the Fix Togetheruser interface — The add/remove dependencies option is removed from the definition panelmaking the interactive management of dependencies for a geometric element that is added orremoved no longer possible. When adding or removing an element, its dependencies will nowautomatically be added or removed.

• Ability to update error if iso-constraints status is modified — With this new setting, the user isnow notified of an error if the sketch that is being updated is not constrained correctly. Theuser then should edit the sketch and set the right constraints in order to fully define thegeometry.

• Small-scale: support of very small geometry — A new setting selects a small-scale setting forall the documents of a CATIA session. This small-scale option is particularly valuable forMEMS. This feature also applies to CATIA — Part Design 1.

• Powertrain Control System (PCS) powertrain — V5.18 brings significant performanceimprovements to the delete and re-order operations, leading to considerable time-savings forpowertrain processes.

CATIA — Wireframe & Surface 1 (WS1)

• Small scale support

– New option allows users to handle the geometric modeler tolerance to manage small-scalenumerical values.

– This is useful to address the high-tech industry needs, especially in themicro-electro-mechanical systems domain.

• Split option that allows:

– Many surfaces to be split in one operation when the cutting element does not intersect allthe surfaces

– A non-connex surface to be split

• Reorder of secondary branch for all sub-elements — New reorder algorithm allows users totake into consideration secondary branches if features were re-plugged in main inputbranches. This is useful to re-plug features that use sub-elements (such as edges, faces andvertices) on the features on which they resolve themselves.

• Switch manual/auto update in the Tools toolbar — New button in the Tools toolbar to switcheasily and rapidly from manual to automatic update mode or from automatic to manual mode.


• New connect checker — This enhancement offers one consolidated command to checkcontinuity criteria (C0, C1, and C2) for both curves and surfaces. Based on exactmathematical solutions, this new command allows the user to check the continuity between:

– Curve-curve

– Surface-surface

– Curve-surface

• Ability to get compass coordinates in point — A new button enables users to extract thecoordinate of the compass in order to create a point of type point coordinates at the compasslocation. This improves productivity when the user wants to identify a position. It is usefulwhen dealing with electrical wires.

• Tolerant fill algorithm

– Lets users clean gaps, before operating Fill command, by smoothing input contours andimprove the curvature using the input maximum deviation given by user. This tolerancemust be greater than the resolution tolerance.

– It allows users to clean geometries coming from external systems.

• Parents-children from update error panel command — A new command added in thecontextual menu lets users identify the parents of the element having a problem in the errorpanel. It allows users to better understand the origin of the error.

CATIA — Generative Drafting 1 (GD1)

• Ability to recreate a view callout — It is possible to recreate the callouts of section or detailviews, which enables the recreation of a missing callout or the transfer of the callout from oneview to another, offering a solution to missing or invalid callouts.

• Propagation of view definition modifications — Helps maintain view definition consistency byallowing the user to synchronize the definition of one view originating from a different view.After a change in the definition of the original view, the user can request a synchronization ofviews, such as section and detail views as well as views created from Functional Tolerancing& Annotation and 2D layout views. This increases productivity by eliminating the need todelete and recreate views and dress-up elements.

• Associativity angle section profile — Enhances the capability and productivity of section profileview creation by enabling the user to define a profile to be associative with an angle relative tothe 3D geometry, which makes the section profile follow any change in the 3D geometry. Thisensures the drawing's consistency and eliminates the need for the user to manually modify theprofile.

• EV5 integration: Exploded views (associative to scenes belonging to technological packages)— Views of enhanced scenes stored with ENOVIA V5 in technological packages, making itpossible to create exploded views of assemblies. The view will be associative to the definitionof the enhanced scene.

• PLM-compliant drawing batch update — The new batch utility performs batch updates ofdrawings stored with ENOVIA V5.

• Repositioning of section profile start point (during creation) — The user can reposition thestarting point of a section profile during the section view creation, even if it had beenautomatically computed. This eliminates the need to modify the section profile afterwards andupdate the view, thus enhancing productivity.

• Persistency of last used generative view styles (GVS) — During view creation, the defaultGVS that will be proposed to the user is the last used style, rather than a predefined default.This reduces the number of user interactions and increases usability.

• Creation of detail views on clipped views — It is now possible to define a detail view on aclipped view (a view that only shows a portion of the 3D geometry).

• Creation of detail views on broken views — The user can define a detail view on a brokenview (a shortened view of long parts).

CATIA V5.18 delivers a new geometrical range with small scales that operate from 0.01um to1m. It allows the MEMS industry to create smaller geometry with greater accuracy, less than 1micron. This requirement is also key for the clock and watch industry.

CATIA — Interactive Drafting 1 (ID1)


• Annotations blanking enhancements — The users can now manage their needed blanking:

– Define if the blanking should follow the frame.

– Define if the blanking should be applied to the leader symbol.

– Define the margin for blanking polygon for the value and/or frame.

– Define the margin for blanking polygon for the leader symbol

– Define the kind of blanking (allow to overlap geometry)

All of these new capabilities help improve reading annotations in complicated drawings andallow the user to decide how the blanking of the background is managed.

• Thread dimension enhancement — This removes current limitations of thread dimension. Thethread dimension behavior is the same in top view and in side view, meaning that in bothcases it is now fully associative to the 3D thread standard definition. The 3D thread descriptionis completely displayed in the thread dimension value. The 3D thread description seen in thedimension value is associative in top view as well as in side view.

• Support of AutoCAD 2007 in DXF import

– Get an AutoCAD 2007 DXF or DWG file

– Interactively open the 2007 DXF or DWG file. This creates a new CATDrawing ortools/import external format into an existing CATDrawing

– Convert the 2007 DXF or DWG file to a new CATDrawing with the batch utility

• Reorder sheets and views — This improves usability by allowing users to conveniently reordersheets or views inside a document. A new view/sheet is always created after the lastview/sheet, but for some processes, the views/sheets order is significant, making the reorderfunction a strong help.

• Ability to coordinate dimension value display format — This highlight enables a rich and stableformat, including precision, for coordinates dimensions values' display. Moreover, it makes itpossible to set a different format on each coordinate dimension separately. This is key, asdisplayed precision may influence the industrial process.

• True Type font support on UNIX® — Ensures this type of font is visualized equally inWindows™ and in UNIX.

• Sketch analysis — Delivers a new way to analyze the content of sketched geometries in theview. It allows investigating constraints diagnostics on geometries and implicit profilescharacteristics. It is a review tool to better understand the structure of the sketched elements.

• DXF import of proxy graphics — Users need to exchange data with suppliers who useAutoCAD. Importing data as DWG files that contain proxies is insufficient and data is lost.When a user receives such DWG-files from his suppliers and opens them in CATIA V5, somedata is lost, such as standard parts, threads, patterns, and symbols. The new functionalityallows users to import these DWG files and receive the contents of the proxy graphics.

• Small-scale geometrical range — Operates from 0.01um to 1m. It allows the MEMS industryto create smaller geometry with greater accuracy, less than 1 micron. This requirement is alsokey for the clock and watch industry. This feature also applies to CATIA — Interactive Drafting1.

CATIA — 2D Layout for 3D Design 1 (LO1)

• Associative use edges — Dramatically enhances the productivity during the design cycle ofmechanical parts. It makes it possible to closely integrate specifications and annotationscreated and displayed in 2D Layout with the definition of 3D geometry and 3D specifications.More precisely, the functionality of associative use edges adds more possibilities for sketching2D profiles in 3D context within the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench.

• Projection views enhancement — Enables the customization of primary views and relatedview boxes at creation in order to increase productivity. It is now possible to change theprimary view type or to use the current model size to define view boxes, thus helpingdesigners to speed up the layout of data intended for 3D design.

• Clipping view enhancements, support of circular and polygonal clipping — Up to now, clippingof views was limited to the activation of a rectangular clipping frame. This frame was neithercustomizable nor printable. This enhancement enables the creation of circular and polygonalclipping views. This new clipping capability helps layout a relevant subpart of a part/product in


a way that is easily recognizable, making it easier to read a complex layout.

• Paste driving dimension as sketcher constraint — Users can export the specifications definedin the 2D Layout part of the document to the sketches of the pure 3D part. 2D Layoutdimensions driving geometry will be pasted as sketcher dimensional constraints.

• 2D mode for view background — Introduces a new mode for the display of backgrounds thathides all solids and surfaces and only shows 2D elements in the same plane as the viewsupport plane. This helps to get a clear visualization of 2D sections of the various parts of aproduct structure. It simplifies the concurrent design of these sections and helps not tointerfere with the work between different designers in different sections located in differentplanes.

• Coordinate dimension value display format — Enables a rich and stable format, includingprecision, for coordinates dimensions values' display. Moreover, it makes it possible to set adifferent format on each coordinate dimension separately. This is key, as displayed precisionmay influence the industrial process.

• Reorder sheets and views — Improves usability by allowing users to conveniently reordersheets or views inside a document. A new view/sheet is always created after the lastview/sheet, but for certain processes, the view/sheet order is significant, making the reorderfunction helpful.

• 2DL Persistent rendering mode — Designers can now store the rendering mode of a layout inthe CATPart document containing it so that reviewers opening the same layout on anothermachine will get exactly the same visualization. This helps to avoid misreading the layouts.

• Annotations blanking enhancements — The user can manage the required blanking:

– Define if the blanking should follow the frame

– Define if the blanking should be applied to the leader symbol

– Define the margin for blanking polygon for the value and/or frame

– Define the margin for blanking polygon for the leader symbol

– Define the kind of blanking (allow to overlap Geometry)

All of these new capabilities help improve the reading of annotations in complicated layoutsand allow the user to decide how the blanking of the background is managed.

• Sketch analysis — Delivers a new way to analyze the content of sketched geometries in theview. It allows the investigation of constraint diagnostics on geometries, implicit profilecharacteristics, and the status of projections/intersections. It is a review tool to betterunderstand the structure of the sketched elements.

• Functional tolerancing and annotation support when generating a drawing from a 2D layout —Supports the 3D master process by providing the ability to automatically generate FunctionalTolerancing & Annotation annotations and Functional Tolerancing & Annotation constructiongeometry during the extraction of a 2DL layout view.

• Cutting plane and background display management — This new option ensures when a useropens 2D layout data for the first time, the display background and cutting plane switches areactive. It applies independently to every new 2D layout that is open and helps to avoidmisreading the layout, since the user will have a relevant display; that is, backgroundsdisplayed as specified and section planes cutting material.

• True Type font support on UNIX — Ensures this type of font is visualized equally in Windowsand in UNIX.

• Small-scale geometric range — Operates from 0.01um to 1m. It allows the MEMS industry tocreate smaller geometry with a greater accuracy, less than 1 micron. This requirement is alsokey for the clock and watch industry. This feature also applies to CATIA — 2D Layout for 3DDesign 1.

CATIA — 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation 1 (FT1)

• 2D generative view from FTA property to control validity checking of generated annotations(red X crosses) — Enables the user to deactivate the red crosses that appear in 2D drawingsto indicate the annotations might not be understood (because the geometry they are applied tois not displayed in the view).

• Support of FTA features as impacted features when replacing a geometrical element by


another one — When replacing any geometrical feature, FTA features are automaticallyrerouted to the replacement. The user does not have to manually reconnect the FTA featuresto the new geometrical features, providing a significant productivity gain. This capability islimited to FTA features that belong to CATPart documents.

• Ability to coordinate dimension value display format — Enables a rich and stable formatting forcoordinates dimensions values. It makes it possible to set a different format on eachcoordinate dimension separately.

• Geometry selection propagation capability for FTA feature creation — Allows improvedproductivity and usability by automatically selecting all the faces that correspond to the samesurface. Also enables automatic selection of all the components of a pattern of cylinders orspheres. The capability to propagate the selection of all the faces that define a same surfaceor a pattern of parallel cylinders (or spheres) provides significant productivity gains forcomplex designs.

• Support of thread technological result features within the thread representation creation andthe constructed geometry creation commands — Adds the support of thread technologicalresult features within the thread representation and constructed geometry creation commands.Propagated thread features through technological result technology are now supported withinthe FTA capabilities.

• New icon for product FTA workbench — This feature provides users with different icons forFTA and Product FTA (PFTA) workbenches. The feature provides ease of use and eliminatesthe confusion between FTA and PFTA workbenches.

• Capability to ensure capture name is unique (differs) — Ensures the capture feature does nothave the same name.

• 3D preview of view and capture features — Improves the ergonomics and visualization of FTAview preview and capture preview by helping the user to easily see the view to be investigatedin 3D. There can be many captures in a document and sometimes it is difficult to find theactive view inside the capture just by looking at the profile. Allows the same behavior forcapture selection as for view selection. It is easy to use and helps users to achieve betterquality and higher productivity.

• Removal of the link of Note Object Attribute (NOA) instance to NOA reference — Thishighlight enables the user to directly synchronize NOA instances upon drafting modificationsmade in the 2D components features that are used in the NOA instances 3D display.

• True type font support on UNIX — Ensures the fonts are visualized equally in Windows and inUNIX.

• New option to control the display of current view axis system — View axis display issometimes misleading for reviewers, as they may misunderstand the meaning of such an axis.It could be confused with some dimensioning local axis, and so on. On the other hand,designers sometimes need this view axis representation to understand view plane normalorientation, for instance. This new capability helps the user to easily read annotation planes,as no view axis' are visualized. It also provides a fast way to display view axis when the viewis selected.

• Dimension line-up capability — Up to CATIA V5.17, the Functional Tolerancing & Annotationproduct supported line-up capabilities at creation time on 3D dimensions and now extends itsscope of capabilities. The new line-up capability helps to layout 3D dimensions after creationin a way that is easily recognizable and makes it easier to read a complex drawing.

• Clipping plane enhancement: Removal of the permanent display of the clipping plane dress-up— When the display option of clipping plane hatching, coloring or dotting is active. (Thehatching, coloring or dotting of the section will only be displayed when the section is visible) —The dress-up of the cut is no longer visible upon part rotation, eliminating misunderstanding.

CATIA — Tooling Design 1 (TG1)

• Component insertion panel: rotation of components managed by the Manage All option —The user can now apply a given behavior — rotation, direction reverse, and axis modification— either to a specific component from a set of tooling components created at the same timeor to the entire set, through the Manage All option.

• Suppress access to the Explode Holes command — With V5.18, the Explode Holes commandis removed from the tooling applications. The exact information regarding tooling componentsholes required for machining and drafting applications is now directly available with thetechnological results.


CATIA — Healing Assistant 1 (HA1)

Compare: Find added and removed areas with boundaries — New algorithm compares modelswith greater precision and a higher level of details by providing the boundaries of the areas thatdiffer from a model to another.

CATIA — Sheetmetal Design 1 (SM1)

• Transformation features — Translation, rotation, symmetry, and axis-to-axis transformationsare now available in CATIA — Sheetmetal Design.

• Extrusion enhancements

– Ability to select all kinds of opened profiles

– Ability to invert the extrusion direction

– Ability to specify the fixed area through a border vertex or an edge of the profile

– Automatic bend allowing users to create fillets on sharp vertices of the profile

– Automatic connection to the sheet metal part

– Tears selection enabling users to control the union of the extrusion and the sheet metal part

– KFactor management, making it possible to specify the KFactor from a bend resulting fromthe extrusion of a circle contained in the sketch, as well as for a bend that is automaticallycomputed

– Exploded mode that explodes the extrusion into elementary features to easily makemodifications

• Multi-connected wall function

– Define the wall profile at the middle of the thickness.

– Connect a wall to several faces. This new enhancement in the wall function enables you toselect multiple sheet metal features (for example, faces, walls and so on) for defining thetangency.

• Partial unfold of flanges — Up through CATIA V5.17, the local unfold worked only on canonicfaces. Now, in V5.18 the user can locally unfold non-canonic faces, like curve flanges, in 3D.Then, the design can continue after the local unfolded of a non-canonic face.

• Small scale support of geometry — A new setting is available to select a small scale (=0.1) forall the documents of a CATIA session. This small-scale option is particularly valuable forMEMS.

CATIA — Functional Molded Parts 1 (FM1)

• Import of single functional specification — Enables the transition from a functional design tothe rough part and the machined part by enabling geometrical features to be copied from onepart to another "as result," while keeping a link.

• Technological result integration — Ensures a complete propagation of a hole feature'sintelligence in mixed CATIA — Part Design and CATIA — Functional Molded Parts structuresvia the various kinds of functional imports, providing the information necessary fordownstream applications, such as drafting thread generation and machining, while protectingthe intellectual property.

• Ability to display body under functional features — This improves the management of thespecification tree by providing a mechanism for users to automatically insert the input bodyunderneath the functional feature.

• Ability to select the draft properties of other bodies in another solid functional set for featuredefinition — This enhancement brings productivity and quality improvements by enabling theuser to define one draft property for multiple solid functional sets.

• Scan integration for understanding a part — The scan function, which enables the user tofollow the design steps of a body or a geometrical set by easily moving the in-work objectalong the specification tree, is now also available for functional features. This enhancementprovides a first level of information to understand the design of a functional molded part.

• Chordal fillet — This new fillet enables a better design, especially for plastic molded parts, bymaking it possible to control the width of the fillet. Whereas the radius of a fillet is generallyvariable, in many cases, such as the design of plastic molded parts, it is required to keep the


width constant.

• Conical fillet — This new option will significantly improve productivity by providing the ability touse any type of conic — from elliptic profile to hyperbolic profile — as a fillet section. Conicalfillets are particularly useful in the styling area where it allows the designer to control the exactshape of the fillet. Conical fillets can also be used to approximate G2 continuity between afillet surface and fillets supports when the visual curvature continuity is sufficient.

• Fillet long relimitation — This modification in the fillet propagation enables the relimitation offillet skin on the initial body to generate a fillet shape with no sharp edges.

• Graphical properties for functional features — V5.18 brings graphical property management tofunctional features.

• Workbench simplification — In an on-going effort to improve the usability, only the mostimportant features are now accessible through icons, while all others are now availablethrough menus.

• Ability to remove shell creation by default — The creation of any feature in CATIA —Functional Molded Part no longer generates the shell properties by default, since mostindustrial scenarios do not require shell-based features.

• Ability to rename cavity as external — The cavity feature is renamed into "External" feature toavoid the confusion with the term cavity widely used in the mold industry.

• Preview performance improvement — Only the features necessary to display the current solidfunctional set are updated, and not the whole part.

Shape Design and Styling:

CATIA — Generative Shape Design 1 (GS1)

• Conical fillet — V5.18 allows the ability to the use any type of conic as fillet section, fromelliptic profile to hyperbolic profile. A parameter will allow the user to modify the tightness orthe smoothness of fillet cross-section so that the user will have a better control of fillet shape.This enhancement allows designers to control their exact fillet shape useful in the stylingdomain.

• Styling G2 fillet — with FS1 product corequisite

– New command quickly defines the shape of G2 styled fillet using various new optionsdepending if the fillet is created between surfaces, curves, or a curve and a surface.

– This command needs FS1 as a corequisite.

• Small-scale support

– New option enables handling geometric modeller tolerances to manage small-scalenumerical values.

– This is useful in the high-tech industry, especially in MEMS domain.

• Split — New options allow users to split:

– Many surfaces in one operation when the cutting element does not intersect all the surfaces

– Non-connex surface

• Reorder of secondary branch for all sub elements — A new reorder algorithm enables users totake into consideration secondary branches if features were re-plugged in main inputbranches. It is useful to re-plug features that use sub-elements (such as edges, faces andvertices) on the features that resolve themselves

• Switch manual/auto update in tools toolbar — New button is available in the Tools toolbar toswitch easily and rapidly from manual to automatic update mode and from automatic tomanual.

• New connect checker — It offers one consolidated command to check continuity criteria (C0,C1, and C2) for both curves and surfaces. Based on exact mathematical solutions, this newcommand enables the user to check the continuity between:

– Curve-curve

– Surface-surface

– Curve-surface


• Get compass coordinates in point button — Users can extract the coordinates of the compassin order to create a point of type point coordinates at the compass location. This improvesproductivity when the user wants to identify a position. It is useful when dealing with electricalwires.

• Tolerant fill — Allows users to clean gaps, before operating the fill command, by smoothinginput contours and improving the curvature using the input maximum deviation given by user.This tolerance must be greater than the resolution tolerance. It is helpful when cleaninggeometries coming from external systems.

• Parent-children from update error panel — A new command is added in the contextual menuallowing users to identify the parents of the element having a problem in the error panel. Usersgain a better understanding of the origin of error.

CATIA — Developed Shapes 1 (DL1) — Create a ruled developable surface directly processedin order to unfold it without distortion.

Product Synthesis:

CATIA — Product Knowledge Template 1 (KT1)

• Scan de-synchronization in comparison window — Scan command can work independently oneach side of the Comparison window. If the command's synchronization button is switched on(default behavior), the scan command works simultaneously on both sides of the comparisonwindow. If the command's synchronization button is switched off, the scan command islaunched on the active side of the comparison window only.

• Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) language improvements — Additional knowledgefunctions allow:

– Easy assembly constraint creation and publication creation

– Management of product instance from elements found in a catalog

– Ability to obtain the list of attributes found on an object

– Ability to update a design table to take into account modifications of an external file

CATIA — DMU Navigator 1 (DN1)

• File/Save management command: editor scope only — Restricts the scope of the File/Savemanagement command only to the current editor

• File/Save management: Preserve user preferences — Augments usability and efficiency ofuser interface. Dialogs provided by the File/Save management command memorize the sizeof the dialog panel so that when displayed the next time, the end user gets what waspreviously set and shown.

• File selection box: Preserve user preferences based on the calling client — Enables the userto set a default directory path for the File selection box dialogs; once set, these defaults areused only with the File selection box application.

• Toolbar positioning enhancements

– Docked/undocked and positions are initialized, saved and restored workbench byworkbench.

– In each row or column of dock bars, toolbars are packed whenever space is needed.

– Double-clicking on an undocked toolbar re-docks it at its former location

• No Hidden Line Removal (NHR) print support of geometry representation group clipping —Enables VECTOR print rendering process to support the local 2D layout views clipping planes.

• Hidden Line Removal (HLR) print support of geometry representation group clipping —Enables VECTOR technology print to handle clipping effects when used with wireframegeometry in hidden lines mode or in dotted hidden lines.

• Full scene anti-aliasing: performance enhancement — Full scene anti-aliasing requires muchcomputation time. When used in interactive mode, it can become useless. The V5.18performance enhancement makes sure the Full scene anti-aliasing is not activated when theend user performs local transformation. It is only activated (when initially checked inTools/Options) when the model is stationary.


• View alignment command: New command available in all V5 workbenches — Allows users tomodify the current viewpoint of a 3D model. The viewpoint orientation is automatically set tothe closest horizontal or vertical orientation.

• Openness / 3D XML

– Productivity: CATDMUUtility2D batch improvement Generate 3DXML from a CATDrawing(CATDMUUtility2D).

– Productivity: CATDMUUtility2D batch improvement — Generate 3DXML from a CATPart.

– Usability: Interrupt active terminal node process if required — Users can abort thecomputation of CGRs when activating a given node.

Equipment and Systems Engineering:

CATIA — Circuit Board Design 1 (CBD)

• Integration of constraint area patterns — Before V5.18, CATIA — Circuit Board Design 1(CBD) could not transcribe the patterns of a pad in an Intermediate Data Format (IDF) file.Now, this enhancement supports transcribing in IDF the pattern of Pad extended as CBDConstraints Area. It results in a model containing a Board with the pattern of the constraintsarea. This is useful when creating constraints areas. Especially around the holes. It avoidsduplication and improves productivity.

• Ability to choose the separator format for IDF export — The export as IDF, command of CircuitBoard Design Workbench, allows users to transcribe the contents of an assembly CBD(board, constraints areas, holes, components) in a text file based on the format IDF. The usercan choose the export language and separator decimal before exporting IDF file (for instance,in French, the decimal separator is a comma and in English/US, the decimal separator is apoint).

• Export of CBD objects built on the pad based on 3D curves — Previously, CBD onlysupported export in IDF files of pads built on a sketch. Now, it also supports the export of thepad based on 3D Curve. With this enhancement, the user can use a number of possibilitiesproposed by Wireframe and Surface Design to design the geometries of its board andconstraints areas.

• Define axis system as export origin for board — The user can define the origin of the boardbefore exporting as an IDF file.

Analysis:

CATIA — Generative Part Structural Analysis 1 (GP1)

• Overcome the 2 GB limit for CATAnalysis — Removal of the limitation of 2 GB for analysisdocuments to enable the creation and manipulation of large models on which many loadcases are defined. This allows the user to take full advantage of the 64-bit initiative.

• Automatically names mesh parts, user materials, and properties

– Allows automatic naming for user material, property connection, mesh part connection, andthe mesh part to ensure homogeneity in the naming in order to facilitate searchingelements.

– Optionally, the user can keep the former naming behavior.

• Nodal coordinates image displayed in specified user axis.

– The user can check the node position and mesh in a chosen coordinate system.

– The export can be done in a local coordinate system to facilitate data exchanges betweenteams.

– Users can take full advantage of assembly of analysis by having a local coordinate systemat the chosen level.

• Ability to display a warning when equilibrium is not reached — The designer is warned whenthe residual force is not negligible to better assess the accuracy of the results.

• Keep cut plane position and orientation in user preferences — The cut plane position is savedas a user preference to allow immediate model comparisons when checking internal parts ofmodels.


Machining:

CATIA — Lathe Machining 1 (LG1)

• Sequential turning — Allows reference point definition (by selection or initialization fromprevious activity) for first GO standard motion of the operation. This allows users to define acomplete predictability of the tool position considering the check modes and offsets.

• Groove turning — Enables option for single center plunge for narrow groove. The user canhave a single or multiple (by level) plunges in a single pass at the center of the groove. Now,no part offset definition is required to define the center plunge. This capability reducesprogramming time.

• Full feeds unit management on all lathe machining operations — Allows input in linear(inch_per_mn) and angular (inch_per_turn) feed-rate for all types of motions and for localfeed-rate of macro motions in order to improve productivity and tool path quality.

• Linking macro on groove turning operation: Optimization of motion (return to work area) —Optimization of interrupted linking macro by returning to next cutting position instead ofprevious tool path.

• Groove roughing: Interrupt based on levels (1 or n) — The groove operation tool-path orprogram can now be interrupted at the end of each specified level. The new interrupt mode bylevel will ensure that the interruption of the linking macro occurs at the end of every specifiedlevel for reasons known before further machining. User can stop the groove operation to eitherinspect the groove tool or for part cleaning.

• Groove turning feed-rate optimization — With this enhancement, tool feed-rate values duringgroove turning operations are optimized; that is feed-rate values are increased duringnon-cutting movements of the tool, which is the return movement to the first pass of the nextgrooving level. Rapid or air cutting feed-rate is used until the tool is near the groove wall. Thiscapability allows the user to improve productivity, to define a safer tool path and to reducemachining cycle time.

• Lathe groove finishing modification — The groove turning activity enables the user to machinecircular bottom grooves with overlapping or circular-lift-off without error messages or invalidtool paths.

• Start/End limit offsets using a grooving tool — This enhancement allows the user to respectin/out tool insert positions according to the start/end limit. The insert geometry is now takeninto account when determining the tool position, rather than only the tool radius linked to thecompensation point. This improvement produces more accurate tool positioning .

• Stock extension for rough turning operation — Extends stock profile in machining direction(along spindle axis). It ensures that no ridge of material is left prior to the next tool path. Theuser is now sure that the tool is going far enough to machine beyond the stock. This reducesthe amount of geometry creation, improves the programmer's productivity and provides abetter and safer tool path.

• Profile finish turning operation improvement related to usage of asymmetric grooving tool —This enhancement avoids material remaining in profile finishing when an asymmetric groovetool insert has nose radius (left or right) greater than half its width.

CATIA — Prismatic Machining 1 (PG1)

• New sequential operations to support specific axial machining methodology — With fullflexibility to define specific tool-path on non-standard machining hole geometry, the two newoperations, sequential axial and sequential groove, can define all elementary motions andpost processor (PP) word syntaxes to be applied at each point of a machining pattern of holesor grooves.

• Support for tool compensation point as guiding point on axial operations — Enlarging supportof shop floor methodology, allows users to define the tool path computation with respect oftool compensation as guiding point. This is done using the new tool compensation applicationmode by making a guiding point/output point available on all axial machining operations.

• New helical strategy in profile contouring operation — A helical tool path style is now possiblein "between two planes" mode for rough and finishing passes. This new capability increasesproductivity, reduces machining time, and offers better tool path quality because it maintainsconstant tool contact with the part (reduction of air time). It controls maximum depth of cut andensures maximum ramping angle.


• Support for helix motion in approach macro on pocketing, profile contouring operations —When a cutter approaches raw material, a new helix approach macro can be used rather thana ramping approach macro. It is a better strategy for approaching raw material and enhancesproductivity and machining quality.

• Capability to manage machining features in manufacturing view — Users can now sort andfilter machinable axial features and machinable milling features with several criteria(geometrical criteria like direction, face, machined or non-machined status). This capabilityincreases the productivity of the user while managing machining features.

CATIA — NC Manufacturing Review 1 (NG1)

Support chamfers on T-Slotter tool — The user can define four additional parameters (topchamfer angle, bottom chamfer angle, diameter at the top, diameter at the bottom) related to thechamfer angles at the top and bottom of a T-Slotter tool. This enhancement allows a completedefinition of the T-Slotter tool for the user.

Infrastructure:

CATIA — IGES Interface (IG1)

• Conversion of V4 models referenced by V5 product structures into IGES files — Supports thetranslation of geometry of V4 models referenced in a V5 structure when translating to IGES(structure and geometry in one file). V5 allows users to create product definitions with V4 partsgeometry and V5 parts geometry definitions.

• IGES to 3DXML (batch mode) — Enables the direct conversion from IGES/STEP to 3DXML inbatch mode without having to generate CATParts/CATProducts.

CATIA — STEP Core Interface 1 (ST1)

• STEP to 3DXML — batch mode — Enables the direct conversion from IGES/STEP to 3DXMLin batch mode

• Import of FACETED_BREP — FACETED_BREP entities are handled via STEP translation.Improves the coverage of the STEP norm by the CATIA translator. (This old-style modelizationof solids is common in old STEP files, for example in old STEP V4 files). TheFACETED_BREP entities are imported as CATIA V5 Solids. Geometric validation propertiesare checked if available in the STEP file. This greatly improves the long-term archivingstrategy where V5 STEP now allows storage and retrieval of data whether it uses exact orfaceted definition.

• Small-scale geometrical range with small scale that operates from 0.01 um to 1m — It allowsthe MEMS industry to create smaller geometry with a greater accuracy, less than 1 micron.This requirement is also key for the clock and watch industry.

CATIA — Object Manager 1 (CO1)

• Visualization

– Sweep multi-viewing direction — Improves handling of sweep cases with 3D spines. Oneviewing direction is computed on each spine edge instead of a unique viewing direction forthe whole spine. Improves display and reliability of the geometry

– Small-scale geometrical range with small scale that operates from 0.01 um to 1m. It allowsthe MEMS industry to create smaller geometry with a greater accuracy, less than 1 micron.This requirement is also key for the clock and watch industry.

This new geometrical range can be operated from the following CATIA products:

-- CATIA — Assembly Design 1 & 2

-- CATIA — Part Design 1 & 2

-- CATIA — Generative Drafting 1 & 2

-- CATIA — 2D Layout for 3D Design 1

-- CATIA — Interactive Drafting 1

-- CATIA — Sheetmetal Design 1 & 2

-- CATIA — Wireframe & Surface 1


-- CATIA — Generative Shape Design 1 & 2

-- CATIA — STEP Core Interface 1

The small-scale capability in V5.18 is available for the following workbenches

-- Sketcher

-- Part Design

-- Generative Shape Design

-- Assembly Design

-- Sheet Metal Design

-- Drafting

-- STEP

At export scale — The scale is taken into account by the converters. The tolerance in thegenerated files is set according to the scale.

At import scale — The scale and the file tolerance are taken into account to driveconversion algorithms. Advanced settings define tolerances relative to the scale (GVPchecks and C2 optimizations).

– Full-scene anti-aliasing performance enhancement — Full-scene anti-aliasing requiresmuch computation time. When used in interactive mode, it can become useless. The V5.18performance enhancement checks to make sure the full-scene anti-aliasing is not activatedwhen an end user performs a local transformation. It is only activated (when initiallychecked in Tools/Options) when the model is stationary.

– View alignment command — New command is available in all V5 workbenches and allowsusers to modify the current viewpoint of a 3D model. The viewpoint orientation isautomatically set to the closest horizontal or vertical orientation.

• Printing and imaging

– NHR print support of geometry representation group clipping — Enables VECTOR printrendering process to support the local 2D layout view clipping planes.

– HLR print support of geometry representation group clipping — Enables VECTORtechnology print to handle clipping effects when used with wireframe geometry in hiddenlines mode or in dotted hidden lines.

• Enterprise architecture

– Adds authorized inputs in the template reference creation process — Allow automaticselection of all the inputs of a given component or of the template reference itself. It bringsproductivity gains to the creation process of the template references by reducing thenumber of interactions.

– Includes reorder inputs of template reference during instantiation — Enables the user to setthe order in which the inputs of template references are displayed during instantiation.

– Includes design table linked document localization — Enables full integration of design tablefile links to the document retrieval options.

• PLM infrastructure

– V5.17 was the last release to support SGI Irix. V5.18 does not support SGI Irix.

– Solaris 10 SPARC HW 03/05 is the minimum SUN Solaris OS supported in V5.18.

– Windows XP SP2® support as min XP level (Client side only).

– AIX® 5.3 ML03 as minimum support level.

– AIX 5.3 TL04-SP01 as minimum support level for WAS Server and P185.

– HP 11iv1 December 2004 is the minimum HP-UX supported level.

• V5 frame

– File/Save management — Editor scope only — Restricts the scope of the File/Savemanagement command only to the current editor.

– File/Save management — Preserve user preferences — Augments usability and efficiency


of the user interface. Dialogs provided by the command will memorize the size of the dialogpanel so that when being displayed the next time, the user will get what was previously set.

– File selection box — Preserves user preferences based on the calling client — Enables theuser to set a default directory path for the file selection box dialogs. Once set, thesedefaults will be used only with the file selection box application.

– Toolbar positioning enhancements

-- Docked/undocked and positions are initialized, saved and restored workbench byworkbench.

-- In each row or column of dock bars, toolbars are packed whenever space is needed.

-- Double-clicking on an undocked toolbar docks it again at its former location.

– String search in catalog — Accelerates user query in the catalog browser. Enables the userto put any string in the query that will run against every keyword of the object to search. Theuser does not need to know what keyword contains the string.

• Openness with 3D XML

– 2D Layout for 3D Design & Drafting are now saved in 3D XML format and opened in CATIAV5.

– 3D annotations saved in 3D XML format and opened in CATIA V5.

– From IGES/STEP to 3DXML direct output.

– Real Time Rendering camera and lights exposures are used for the 3D XML player.

CATIA — Product Data Filtering 1 (DF1)

• Improves FTA management with unbreakable support of functional tolerance annotations dataof CATPart documents. The following capabilities are covered:

– View associativity to the geometry support

– Properties annotations (position, dress-up) kept in the resulting filtered document

– Support for annotation features grouping

– FTA deviation and distance between points and construction geometry features support

CATIA P2

V5.18 enhances 57 previously announced products.

Withdrawn products: The following products are withdrawn from marketing effective December31, 2007:

CATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 Product 5671-PFOCATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 Add-on product (AOP) 5673-PFO

The following products are withdrawn from marketing effective October 1, 2007:

CATIA -- Equipment Support Structures 2 Product 5671-ESSCATIA -- Equipment Support Structures 2 AOP 5673-ESS

CATIA -- Structure Preliminary Layout 2 Product 5671-SPLCATIA -- Structure Preliminary Layout 2 AOP 5673-SPL

Enhanced products: For P2 products with P1 counterparts, only enhancements that are inaddition to those described for the P1 product are included here.

Mechanical Design:

CATIA — Assembly Design 2 (ASD)

Enhancements for Assembly Design 2 are the same as for Assembly Design 1.

CATIA — Part Design 2 (PDG)

Enhancements for CATIA — Part Design 2 are the same as for CATIA — Part Design 1.

CATIA — Generative Drafting 2 (GDR)


Enhancements to Generative Drafting 2 are the same as for Generative Drafting 1.

CATIA — 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation 2 (FTA)

• New additional commands for automatic creation of framed dimensions within the framed(basic) dimensions command — Manually creating all the framed dimensions that define thetolerance zone position of a geometrical tolerance is time consuming. This task is nowperformed automatically, increasing productivity in the definition of the geometric productspecifications. The user can create the construction geometry and framed dimensions thatdefine the tolerance zone position of geometrical tolerances. The one-click automatic creationof construction geometry and framed dimension features significantly increases productivity.

• Support of ISO 2768 general tolerances for angular dimensions — This enhancementcompletes the support of ISO 2768-1 (1989) and ANSI B4.3-1978 standards, which werepreviously supported in CATIA V5.17 only for linear dimensions. In CATIA V5.18, thesestandards are also supported for general tolerances of angular dimensions.

• Consistent units for angular dimension between the numerical display description of thedimension properties tool bar and the tolerance values in the limit of size definition panel — Inthe limit of size definition panel, the unit displayed in this panel is automatically mapped withthe unit displayed in 3D for the angular dimensions. This improves usability when working withdimensions of different units.

CATIA — Core & Cavity Design 2 (CCV)

Radii fillet enhancement — The user can select a geometrical set independently of its name, aswell as surfaces or faces, to recreate a new fillet with a smaller radius.

CATIA — Mold Tooling Design 2 (MTD)

• Plate replacement — This new command lets the user easily replace a plate of a mold basewith another one. The position and dimensions of the replacing plate will be automaticallyadapted to the mold base.

• Delay the Boolean operation in MTD — This lets the user perform the Boolean operation onthe drilling body at the end of the process to significantly save time in the die creation process.

• Instantiate a morphing user component — The user can insert an instance of a component ina mold and adapt its geometry to its new environment.

• Component insertion panel: rotation of components managed by the Manage All option —The user can now apply a given behavior — rotation, direction reverse, and axis modification— either to a specific component from a set of tooling components created at the same timeor to the entire set, through the Manage All option.

• Suppress access to the explode holes command — With V5.18, the command is removedfrom the tooling applications. The exact information regarding tooling components holesrequired for machining and drafting applications is now directly available with the technologicalresults.

CATIA — Sheetmetal Design 2 (SMD)

Double curvature hopper — Lets the user create a hopper from any compound curvaturesurface.

CATIA — Composites Engineering 2 (CPE)

• New DMU Composites Review workbench — All the capabilities included in the new DMUComposites Review products are included in this product.

• Core sample in product context — The core sample command is now available in theCATProduct context across multiple parts.

• Numerical analysis in product context — The numerical analysis command is now available inthe CATProduct context across multiple parts.

• Material library management enhancement — In V5.18, the CATPart contains the minimuminformation needed to allow users to understand the context and the content of a compositesstructure and to enable the update mechanism even if the corresponding material catalog isnot available. It is important for composites part review in preparation for manufacturing andfor data exchange between partners.

• Darts command — Gives the designer a choice when creating darts. Two modes areavailable:


– Using two points, called a "line" type dart.

– Using a selected curve, called a "curve" type dart.

The generation of the dart would be also made easy via the producibility command.

• Section cuts: 3D feature — A new command allowing the designer to view section cuts of thecomposites stacking or plies group along the cutting plane without exploded surfaces. Theuser can easily create planar section cuts of a composites part.

• Material roll width management

– Gives users the capability to determine whether the ply/cut-piece shape would fit into thegiven material roll width of the ply during producibility analysis and flatten creation.

– Allows improved review and preparation of the composites manufacturing.

• Draping direction imposed at ply group level attribute — Allows the designer to lock thedraping direction of all plys in a group to match the draping direction of the plies group. Thisenhancement increases the consistency between ply and ply group draping directions.

• Real-time composites information — It gives users a new command to get information aboutthe composites elements by simply pre-highlighting them.

CATIA — Composites Design for Manufacturing 2 (CPM)




• Material library management enhancement — In V5.18, the CATPart contains the minimuminformation needed to allow users to understand the context and the content of a compositesstructure and to enable the update mechanism even if the corresponding material catalog isnot available. It is important for composites part review in preparation for manufacturing andfor data exchange between partners.


– Using two points, called a "line" type dart.



• Section cuts: 3D feature — A new command allowing the designer to view section cuts of thecomposites stacking or plies group along the cutting plane without exploded surfaces. Itprovides the capability to create easily planar section cuts of a composites part.


– Gives users the capability to determine whether the ply/cut-piece shape would fit into thegiven material roll width of the ply during producibility analysis and flatten creation.

– Allows improved review and preparation of the composites manufacturing.

• Draping direction imposed at ply group level attribute — Allows the designer to lock thedraping direction of all plys in a group to match the draping direction of the plies group. Thisenhancement increases the consistency between ply and ply group draping directions.

• Real-time composites information — It gives users a new command to get information aboutthe composites elements by simply pre-highlighting them.

CATIA — Functional Molded Parts 2 (FMP) — Fillet face-face hold-curve with keep edge — Theuser now has the option to specify the edge of the support body to keep, allowing the user tocreate a port modeling in a single step, thus saving considerable time and surface designresources.

CATIA — Cast & Forged Part Optimizer 2 (CFO)


• Automatic Draft for Casting (Tooling & Water Jacket) — This new major enhancement enablesa part to be drafted in a single operation. Time spent on foundry and forge tooling design isreduced and optimization of the resulting parts is enhanced.

• AutoFilleting parting element definition — Parting elements can now be taken into account forthe rounding and filleting of the sharp edges of a solid in one shot through automatic filletingby removing the step on the parting element.

• Draft both sides: Additional tolerance for forging process — The draft both sides function isenhanced to better address the forging process by removing the unwanted sharp edges thatcan occur parallel to the pulling direction by authorizing an adjustment of the parting line withinthe boundaries of the flash zone.

• Draft both sides: Automatic re-limitation command — The draft both sides command is nowmore robust thanks to the management of twisted surfaces by automatically providing are-limitation in the twisted zone.

• Draft both sides: Neutral/neutral fitted command — This new option is particularly valuable forcast and forged part tooling design, and makes it possible to create drafted faces on a solidbody in a single operation by selecting the neutral faces on both sides of the parting element.The result is drafted faces of the same angle with no step on the parting element.

• Smoothing deviation thick surface/thickness/shell capability — Perform all thick surface,thickness and shell operations by cleaning the geometry and topology of a solid in order toperform offsets. The user can control the deviation between the new computed faces and theinput faces by giving a maximum deviation value.

• Fillet face-face hold-curve with keep edge option — The user can now has the option tospecify the edge of the support body to be kept, enabling users to create a port modeling in asingle step, thus saving considerable time and surface design resources.


CATIA — Shape Sculptor 2 (DSS)

• Replacement of the old GSD & FSS commands and components by new ones. CATIA V5.18delivers new intuitive and easy-to-use control points command. In addition, it offers newcommands to rapidly insert bodies and ordered geometrical set.

CATIA — Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)

• Multi-edition subdivision — New enhancements allow the user to propagate modifications toother subdivision surfaces. Users can modify detailed design surfaces linked with styledconcept surfaces. This enhancement makes it easier for stylists and mechanical designers toiterate design changes.

• Alignment icon removal — Integrating the alignment command into the modification commandallows users to quickly define and easily align parameters to achieve productivity gains.

• An exact dimensioning command allows users to define the exact dimension of a subdivisionsurface, allowing more accurate control of styled shapes and achieve more reality on conceptdesign.

• A subdivision fill command extends the possibilities of fill option on close boundaries, allowingusers to create a number of faces greater than one. The user can automate the fill process toobtain an optimized fill.

• General improvements

– New ergonomic improvements on the cursor manipulator make it easy and intuitive toincrease manipulation productivity. It also gives information, allowing the user to betterunderstand the context of the design.

– New option allows the user to apply a selection filter on front elements and to boost thestylist productivity. The two modes of selection are:

-- Full selection — This is the default mode of view, making all elements visible andselectable.

-- Front selection only — Only front elements are visible and selectable.

– A new light command allows the user to preview modifications before launching the updatecommand. Users benefit from this enhancement by now being able to quickly and safely


verify changes before operating geometrical updates.

• Journaling on subdivision — A new algorithm stabilizes the subdivision internal naming featureafter a topology modification is done in CATIA — Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) or in CATIA —Generative Shape Design 2 (GSD), increasing user productivity by avoiding costly manualoperations when iterating design changes between stylists and mechanical designer.

CATIA — Generative Shape Design 2 (GSD)

• Tangent intersection edge: A new option allows users to define an intersection edge betweentwo features as a consistent element. It ensures that this intersection edge remains tangencycontinuous after several updates. This is a relevant enhancement to guarantee the stability ofupdates and to keep unchanged design constraints.

• Sweep: Complete surface even with twists algorithm

– Allows users to clean automatically a twisted area, if it exists, and create a swept surface

– Allows users to achieve a huge productivity gains while working on complex surfaces

• Chordal fillet: Lets users control the width of a fillet by constraining the fillet using the distancebetween its traces. This is useful to create plastic molded parts.

• Adaptive sweep: A deactivate sketch instances option is added.

– Activate/deactivate a sketch instance during the creation or the edition of an adaptivesweep feature

– Reduce time while iterating on an adaptive sweep

CATIA — Generative Shape Optimizer 2 (GSO)

• Volume: smoothing deviation for thick surface/thickness/shell

– Allows the user to clean the patches that lead to a computation error during offset. Thedeviation between the new computed faces and the input faces can be controlledautomatically or by the user by giving a maximum deviation value.

– Increases the robustness of the thick surface, shell and thickness features.

• Variable offset: Medium curve management

– Constrain the deformation of a variable area by defining a curve that the variable area mustinclude

– Give better control over the variable area deformation

• Fillet face-to-face hold curve with keep edge option — The user can specify the edge of thesupport body to be kept while creating fillet surfaces.

CATIA — FreeStyle Shaper 2 (FSS)

• Control points evolution

– New enhancements, such as enabling the alignment of control points of different meshes.These enhancements allow users to optimize the workflow between Free Style and ICEMShape Design.

– V5.18 continues to improve the productivity of the control points command to speed upsurface shape deformation and to permit a smooth transition to a class-A process.

• New Connect Checker command offers one consolidated command to check continuitycriteria (C0, C1, and C2) for both curves and surfaces. Based on exact mathematicalsolutions, this new command enables the user to check the continuity between:

– Curve-curve

– Surface-surface

– Curve-surface

The capabilities of the command are enhanced to optimize the workflow for surface stylingprocesses.

• Continuity constraint evolution brings more productivity to the daily work of designers by


allowing:

– Fast display of the constraint's deviations in the 3D view

– Directly select a surface's edge as a source for curve-to-curve matching

– Quickly convert an element within the command

• Break enhancements

– New user interface enables users to optimize the number of interactions between the userand the command to be homogenous with the ICEM Shape Design environment.

– It enables users to achieve productivity gains by optimizing the workflow for Class-Aprocess.

• Extend with negative value option — This new option allows the user to quickly andinteractively shorten a curve.

• Zebra analysis: new dialog box interface — New user interface common with ICEM ShapeDesign allows users to optimize Class-A processes.

• Fillet command — The user can quickly define the shape of a G2 styled fillet employingvarious new options depending on whether the fillet is created between surfaces, curves, or acurve and a surface.

• Draft analysis: shaders algorithm — Embedding NVIDIA shader technology in the new draftanalysis algorithm improves the quality of the analysis of the draft angle of surfaces andspeeds up its performance.

• Untrim enhancements: Local untrim algorithm — Users can untrim a portion of the externalloop of a face. The multi-selection mode is available and allows creating several local untrimfeatures in one step and provides more control accuracy while untrimming a face.

• Untrim enhancements: Loop curves extraction

– Untrim enhancements loop curves extraction option. This new option in the untrimcommand enables users to extract boundary curves according to these modes:

-- Extracting all edges of selected surface while untrimming a surface

-- Extracting all edges of selected surface without untrimming a surface

-- Extracting edges of selected loop while locally untrimming loop

-- Extracting edges of selected loop without locally untrimming loop

This option allows the user to refine boundary curves or to reuse those boundary curves onanother surface.

CATIA — Digitized Shape Editor 2 (DSE)

• Import color management

– New format allowing color management — Users can now take into account colorinformation while importing data.

– Display options: Colored mode management is added.

• Registration enhancement

– The alignment command can now be used to move the original cloud of points or to createa new cloud, while maintaining the original cloud that the user wants to move. It is veryuseful to keep the cloud of points definition when it shares points with another cloud.

– Replacing the selective display option with a show/hide option hides or showssimultaneously both clouds to align and references option. Using the selective displayoption, only the cloud of points where the user should define the computation areas isdisplayed.

• A new deviation analysis command gives users the ability to analyze the deviation betweensolids, surfaces, meshes, clouds of points, scans, or curves. Using the running point option,the deviation value between the point below the pointer and the reference data is displayedwhen the user moves the pointer over the element to measure. The projection option gives theuser a choice between two projection modes: normal or along a direction.

This command


– Compares physical mock-up to the CAD model

– Checks the quality of the rebuild surfaces in relation to the scanned data

– Checks the quality of the alignment process

• 3D curve on mesh support — Allows the user to create an accurate 3D Curve using a meshas a support. It gives better curves totally lying on a mesh for a fast and easy 3D curvecreation for a reverse engineering process.

CATIA — Realistic Shape Optimizer 2 (RSO) — RSO Limit curve capability — The user canselect an open or closed limit curve to determine the area of the deformation and enabling theother part of the surface to remain frozen.

CATIA — Quick Surface Reconstruction 2 (QSR)

• Deviation analysis command enhancement:

– Curves as references

– Surface and curves as elements to measure

– Projection mode along a direction

– Running point

• Inspection

– 3D annotations — Allows the user to create associative annotations on a deviation analysis.With this associativity any modification of deviation analysis updates the associativeannotations.

– Reporting — Summarizes the result of the deviation check in a report to cover the last stageof part inspection process.

• 3D curve on mesh support — A new command allows the user to create an accurate 3D curveusing a mesh as a support. It provides better curves totally lying on a mesh for a fast and aneasy 3D curve creation for a reverse engineering process.

• Sketch from scan command enhancements

– Fixed point removal in closed contour

– Sketch from scan command is enhanced to reduce the number of interactions with thecommand, it allows users to:

-- Select scans that are not necessarily planar

-- Select meshes in order to treat their free edges

• Sub-selection

– A new "flood" mode enables the user to select areas by propagation.

– Integration is available in some commands that manipulate cloud selection, (such asactivate, remove, and, basic surface recognition) to reduce the number of interactions.

CATIA — Automotive Body in White Templates 2 (ABT)

• Bead stabilization with reference element — Users can specify a reference element for thebead enabling users to calculate automatically (no need for user intervention) the beadorientation when the location point is modified.

• Diabolo — Multi-value draft angles

In V5.18, this command allows users to define a new option to specify different angles alongthe seat surface boundary. Thereby, there would be three ways to define the draft angle forthe diabolo:

– Wholly defined: The user can specify the angle using law to all edges of the seat surfaceboundary.

– G1-constant: In this case separate draft angle value can be applied to each set of the G1continuous edges.

– Location values: In this case draft angle can be specified at different vertices along the seatsurface boundary. The seat boundary should be G1 continuous.


• Diabolo: stabilization of diabolo on volume option — Users can choose the orientation ofcreated diabolo in case of multiple solutions. In fact, the user can use normal orientation of theseat surface, and then the diabolo will be created on the nearest face of base element, whichis found along the normal orientation of seat surface.

• Mating flange: hole on reference location — There is enhanced support for the creation of amating flange even if the hole location is at the reference location, margin location or ridgelocation.

Product Synthesis:

CATIA — Product Engineering Optimizer 2 (PEO)

In V5.18, the CATIA — Product Engineering Optimizer 2 update mechanism requires either theupdate of its output (through spec=>Update) or to update the document inside which it iscontained. A local update is for knowledge only types of problems (no measures). A globalupdate is for optimization problems containing measures or triggering additional behaviors duringthe optimization (especially report generators on quantities that are not related directly to theoptimization).

CATIA — Product Knowledge Template Definition 2 (PKT)

Enhancements are the same as for Product Knowledge Template 1.

CATIA — Business Process Knowledge Template 2 (BK2)

Enhanced supported list of objects by Business Knowledge Template (BKT) — V5.18 enables allmechanical features being typed as a BKT object to be re-used in any BKT generatedworkbench. It is also possible to type an object from a knowledge script.

CATIA — DMU Navigator 2 (DMN)

Enhancements for CATIA — DMU Navigator 2 are the same as for CATIA — DMU Navigator 1.

CATIA — DMU Space Engineering Assistant 2 (SPE)

This release improves the computation time of clash feedbacks relative to part modificationthrough:

• SPE computation

• Result merge

• Knowledge optimization

Equipment and Systems Engineering:

CATIA — Electrical Library 2 (ELB)

In this release, integration with ENOVIA Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing (CES) for deviceplacement improves management of standard parts in the electrical domain during smartplacement and placement from an external specification.

CES enables a much more complete and much more usable management of standard partscompared to catalogs that are already strongly integrated to electrical products.

CATIA — Electrical Wire Routing 2 (EWR)

• Enhanced bundle segment diameter computation formula — The diameter computation forbundle segments is modified to improve accuracy.

– Provides an improved formula to compute a bundle segment based on its content (wire/wiregroups)

– Provides a way to modify this formula

– Is useful when using CATIA — Electrical Wire Routing 2 (EWR) for routing wires to getaccurate harness geometry in the context of the digital mock-up

• Electrical network assistant for validation before wire routing — Allows users to avoid errors,or if not avoidable, to have an easy way to detect and fix those errors, especially for networkconnections between segments and devices. It insures the creation of electrical wire harnessdata that will be consumed correctly in the wire routing and harness documentationprocesses.


CATIA — Electrical Harness Installation 2 (EHI)

• Internal protection instantiation inside harness representation — The internal protection modelallows the user to create new types of protection configurations, such as protection with onelimitable extremity and a given length or with a given length on both sides of a limitablemidpoint. It simplifies the design and improves productivity. This enhancement reduces thesize of the harness model and improves the save/load performances during the electricalprocess by comparing it to the old protections (called external protection). A set of newinteractive commands are available along with the new set of electrical knowledge functionsand attributes to fulfill the wire harness design scenario.

• Easier selection of bundle segment through protections — Avoids the need for the user toswitch show/no show some protection, to zoom, pan, and move the view point to select thevisible piece of segment. It enhances productivity of daily usage of the product.

• Improved user experience of bundle segment validation — Helps user to avoid errors, or if notavoidable, to provide an easy way to detect and fix those errors, especially for networkconnections between segments and devices. It insures the creation of electrical wire harnessdata that will be consumed correctly in the wire routing harness documentation processes.

• Enhance knowledge rules and checks — This release features further electrical harnessintegration in the V5 Knowledge Expert application to enable a breakthrough for automatedrule checks and design automation.

– Knowledge based design automation for harnesses

-- Ability to place on bundle segment harness coverings as corrugated tube and tapewith knowledge expert

-- Ability to connect two device instances

– New scenarios for knowledge rule check

-- Wire integration in 3D harness (from-to, route)

-- Connectivity between electrical devices (connectors)

-- Completion of wire 3D harness versus logical system definition (connectors and wires)

-- Location of internal splice in harness

-- Geometrical bundle and bundle segment branch type exposition

• New construction mode for segment using circles and lines — "Straight bend mode" tosimulate tight bend bundle

– Includes centerline that is made of circle portions and lines

– Ensures compliancy with input bend radius

– Can be used for bendable (rigid) harness technology

• Handles support rotation after arrangement.

CATIA — Electrical Harness Flattening 2 (EHF)

• Integration of new design behavior

– New internal protective covering — Lets the user create new types of protectionconfigurations such as protection with one limitable extremity and a given length or with agiven length on both sides of a limitable midpoint. It simplifies the design and thereforeimproves productivity. It also reduces the size of the harness model and improves thesave/load performance during the electrical process by comparing with the old protections(called external protection).

– New straight bend mode — Allows the user to extract, flatten and manipulate the branchrouted with the new straight bend build mode. It is completely integrated in the current clientprocess for creating a formboard layout.

• Synchronization of backshell orientation — During the design of 3D harness model, abackshell part can be connected to a Single Insert Connector (SIC), then the direction of thebranch with respect to SIC is determined from the orientation of the connected Backshell.During the manufacturing of a wire harness, it is important to correctly take into account theorientation between the SIC and the backshell, otherwise there could be some problems (thatis, length is too short) during the installation of the harness onto the vehicle. Improves thecapability of Electrical Harness Flattening product to manage the orientation angle of


backshell with respect to the single insert connector. During the synchronization process, theorientation angle between the single insert connector and backshell are synchronized from the3D harness model.

• Length tolerance — Two new commands are added in the Electrical Harness Flattening (EHF)product:

– The length tolerance command allows users to define the portion for the modification and toadjust the length of bundle segment within the defined portion with consideration of theapplied tolerance.

– The remove length tolerance command allows users to remove the effect of lengthmodification done by the length tolerance command.

– This new function improves the client process during the modification of the flattenedharness model layout with capability to adjust the portion length of the bundle segment withconsideration of the dimensional tolerance.

– The length tolerance command is integrated in the synchronize process so the length of thebundle segment is properly synchronized and also keeps the added length tolerance.

• Improved quality of flattening is less dependant on harness design methodology — Reducesthe dependence on harness design methodology by suppression of the external link betweenthe bundle segment and other electrical components (devices and supports). In the HarnessFlattening command, the master elements are bundle segments and other components mustfollow it. These commands recreate electrical data without creating external references andadding some green line between electrical element and bundle segment to show the link if theelectrical component is not in the right place on flattening harness. The bundle segment is themaster and no longer broken by other components, even if these elements are not in the rightplace.

• Electrical network assistant for validation before harness flattening — Lets users avoid errors,or if not avoidable, to have an easy way to detect and fix those errors, especially for networkconnections between segments and devices, which ensures the creation of electrical wireharness data that will be consumed correctly in the harness documentation process.

• Flexible flattening process for devices orientation on formboard independently from devicesdesign in catalog — In the harness manufacture industry, the supplier can work with manycustomers. Each customer can have an internal methodology to build the geometry ofreferenced electrical components. It is important to take into account the orientation ofelectrical components to flatten the harness properly. The supplier can choose the orientationof electrical components during the flattening step without modifying the reference component.

CATIA — Systems Diagrams 2 (SDI)

• Diagram support for flexible line routes — Tubing, waveguide, and HVAC diagrams let usersspecify a flexible route and to be able to identify the flexible route visually. Users need to routelines first and then specify the section of the route that is flexible. They can specify entire routeas flexible if desired.

• Report management — Within ENOVIA, users can generate a consolidated bill-of-materials(BOM) report for all work packages under a generic component node.

• Image insertion (for example, JPEG and BMP) in schematic diagrams — Users can nowinclude additional information in the diagram that may be useful to down-stream processes.When creating diagram designs for a project, users can have an image of the intendedbackground for the system design or a related image/picture that they would like to haveincluded in the diagram. For example, a customer may use an image of a ship compartmentlayout or a plane sectional layout as a background for the design of their schematic layout.This background gives the user perspective of their design and is used to communicateimportant information to reviewers of the schematic design document.

• This release also adds:

– The ability to modify background view of schematic diagrams

– An easier mechanism for updating the generative view inside a schematic diagram

– Integration of a drafting tools palette toolbar for creating drafting objects in schematic workbenches

– The ability to import multiple image objects in one step

– The ability to transform line functions by moving node points during direct manipulation toprovide additional flexibility in determining the shape of the route


CATIA — Piping Design 2 (PIP)

• Design tools

– Copy/paste optimization integrates automatic management of technology

– Keeps instance attribute on new copy

– Gives new UI to position/rotate new copy

– Enables users to define the targeted product and allows mirror copy

• Design validation — Check to see if 2D components are already placed in 3D:

– Automatically identify the 3D design from the schematic documents. The user only inputsthe schematic documents.

– Validate the consistency between all the logical designs (2D schematics) and all thephysical designs (3D layouts).

• Design validation — Validate the design using design checks

• Part placement

– Place equipment on a 3D point

– Copy equipment multiple times along a specific direction with a specific offset

• Route definition — A new option allows the user to chose whether or not to convert objects todesign mode:

– An option exists to consider or ignore objects in cache mode — this includes thebackground structure of a ship.

– With the option off (ignore), the user will not "accidentally" select the background structureduring routing. Selection is interpreted as select "in space" instead of selecting the object toconvert to design mode.

– If the user truly wants to convert an object in cache mode to design mode, the existingConvert to design mode, in the general environment tools toolbar can be used.

• Route modify: Run command — Identify all branch runs that are outside the straight runsegment that they are branching from. In V5.18, it can be moved in space outside of the mainrun length.

• Allow fitting make-up placement on a run command.

• Drawings generation: ISOGEN command — The user can include supports and sleeves in the3D layout definition.

• Layout modification — A new move/rotate equipment command is available to line-upequipment with a piping part.

CATIA — Tubing Design 2 (TUB)

• Measure distances to support 3D runs — Measure distance between parts on a run andrelated functions:

– Analyze distance between runs

-- Along a run

-- Run-to-run

-- Run-to-connector

-- Run to plane or line

– Analyze distance between connectors

• Part modification: Compatibility rule scope — This new validation tool identifies connectedobjects that are not compatible.

• Part placement error messages — The clarity of the "Part not found" error message makes itmore informative and easier to understand. It allows designers to understand why the part isnot found. It minimizes designer confusion and provides detail system administratorinformation.


• Route definition: Manage broken runs — This function delivers tools to identify and locatebroken runs. Then the user can fix them using existing tools.

• Route definition: Quick route solutions — It changes the order of the alternate routes for tubingdesign workbench to offer the direct connection option as the first path because the path isusually the shortest and simplest and, unlike piping, tubing usually does not need to beorthogonal or adhere to the major axes.

– The simplest path is presented first for the tubing designers.

– Clicking to select the alternate solution saves user time.

• Flexible routing: Route is parallel to existing flexible route (follow tube) — It allows users toconstrain a route to a master route.

• Flexible routing — Bundle section creation

– Constrains a set of tubes to a master

– Controls the modifications of a set of flexible tubes

• Flexible routing — Bundle section management

– Optimizes the position of flexible tubes in a bundle

– Adds/removes flexible tubes to a bundle

CATIA — Compartment & Access 2 (CNA)

• Define attribute-driven graphic properties for compartment boundary geometry generation indrawings — The user has extra geometry, that is, offset curves and patterns, representing theboundaries, created by the view generation process, and can specify the graphic propertiesfor those elements based on the attributes of the corresponding boundaries. Thisenhancement fits into the standard customer process. User administrators can define in theGenerative View Style (GVS) file all the data to be used by the attribute-driven boundaryreplacement mechanism.

• Add the Basic Compartment command from Structure Preliminary Layout (SPL) to CNA —This improvement adds the bounded zone command to the compartment and accessworkbench.

• Add the Complex Compartment command from Structure Preliminary Layout (SPL) to CNA— The Complex Compartment command is added to the Compartment and Accessworkbench. This enhancement allows the user to combine compartments to produce complexvolumes.

CATIA — Structure Functional Design 2 (SFD)

• FEM command — In the process of designing a ship, naval architects have to validate thestructure of the ship. This requires making an analysis using the finite element method. Sincethis has to be done in specific regard of the shipbuilding structural analysis, CATIA —Structure Functional Design 2 (SFD) provides an interface to develop the mesh. The first levelof mesh considers specific CATIA — Structure Functional Design 2 (SFD) object geometriessuch as seams on SuperPlates, stiffener traces, and so on. Then, the user can locally redefinea detailed mesh using the regular advanced meshing tools workbench.

• Report per functional volume (block)

• Beam creation method — Four new modes of creation to support improved off-shore and plantscenarios

– Point, direction, and length

– Plane and two beams

– Reference surface, and orientation

– Point, direction, and limit

• Drafting — Support of subclass in Generative View Style: Structure drafting to customize thegraphic replacement options for structure stiffener and plate subclasses. For example, thereare many subclasses for the stiffener mother class, such as, longitudinal deck stiffener,transversal deck stiffener, vertical transversal bulkhead stiffener, and so on. With thisenhancement, the user can customize the various graphic replacement options for eachstiffener subclass; therefore, it allows users to display different representations for different


subclasses of stiffeners.

• Drafting — Flange orientation symbol — Generate graphical symbols for flange orientation onprofiles on classification drawings. For example, when a top view is dropped for a horizontalL-shape stiffener, it is now impossible to tell the orientation of the flange.

• Drafting — Near/Far and other Generative View Style (GVS) option support — In order toprovide more flexibility and to enable a better end result, the GVS is enhanced to provide perview type a way to customize the line type and line thickness for objects on the near side(seen) and objects on the far side (hidden).

CATIA — Ship Structure Detail Design 2 (SDD)

• Structure thickness compensation — This enhancement greatly changes CATIA — ShipStructure Detail Design 2 (SDD). It allows users to automatically "relimit" object (plates orstiffeners) to other objects while taking into account the thickness or the envelope of thelimiting objects. It also allows adding offset of limiting objects.

• Built-in endcuts improvement — V5.18 delivers three more built-in endcuts (snipe and radiusalong with SP and LP)

– Allows to start faster a project because no set-up is required to place end cuts

– Allows significant data size reduction because of the lightness of the features used

• Opening from catalog command — This new user interface for standard openings. Theexisting opening command is enhanced to allow the user to construct standard openings inplates, stiffeners, beams, and pillars.

• Offset on limits for plates — New management of limits allows offset on limits optimizing thesetup for brackets.

• Improved break capabilities — Supports more features — The break command allows user tosplit a super plate or a super stiffener. If the cutting element intersects the super object, atleast one super object is created, and both super objects are re-limited on the cutting element.Some features aggregated under the super object may be impacted by the split. A clean or amodification of those features is performed during the break. In V5.18, the improvement of thebreak command enables the conservation of detailing features during the break or thecopy/paste command.

• Computed attributes — Painting area ,welding lines, perimeters of plates, stiffener type(straight, curved, or twisted)

• Beam creation method — Four new modes of creation to improve support of off-shore andplant Scenarios

– Point, direction, and length

– Plane and two beams

– Reference surface and orientation

– Point, direction, and limit

• Drafting — Support of subclass in Generative View Style — Allows the user to customize thegraphic replacement options for structure stiffener and plate subclasses. For example, thereare many subclasses for the stiffener mother class, such as, longitudinal deck stiffener,transversal deck stiffener, vertical transversal bulkhead stiffener, and so on. With thisenhancement, the user can customize the various graphic replacement options for eachstiffener subclass; therefore, it allows users to display different representations for differentsubclasses of stiffeners.

• Drafting — Flange orientation symbol — Generate graphical symbols for flange orientation onprofiles on classification drawings. For example, when a top view is dropped for a horizontalL-shape stiffener, it is now impossible to tell the orientation of the flange.

• Drafting — Near/Far and other GVS option support — In order to provide more flexibility andto enable a better end result, the GVS is enhanced to provide per view type a way tocustomize the line type and line thickness for objects on the near Side (seen) and objects onthe far side (hidden).

Analysis:

CATIA — Generative Part Structural Analysis 2 (GPS)


Enhancements are the same as for Generative Part Structural Analysis 1.

CATIA — Generative Assembly Structural Analysis 2 (GAS)

• Define sets of analysis connections

– The user can create as many nodes as necessary to manage the connections allowingusers to organize the data for more efficiency and to facilitate complex model exchanges.

– It is useful when handling high number of connections.

• Virtual bolt tightening connection on faces with a circular hole.

– Create bolt tightening connections on non circular holes

– Extend the patented bolt tightening approach to non-circular holes

• Release DOF on beam inside a user-defined connection property — The DOF of beamsincluded in the connections can be released enabling the completion of the user-definedconnection tool box to simplify specific processes.

CATIA — FEM Surface 2 (FMS)

• Project nodes on geometry in surface mesher — It enables the placements of nodes exactlyon the geometry, which is important for interpolations of results and specific models.

• Group visualization enhancements

– Select a group and visualize it from 3D

– Allow an alternate visualization for groups supporting show/no-show mechanism, graphicattributes such as color, transparency, thickness, marker type, and selection.

– Allow users to visualize at the same manner the group's content (finite element included inthose groups) and mesh parts

• Allow automatic mesh part naming from geometry

– Allow automatic naming for mesh parts, to give a homogeneity in the naming in order tofacilitate searching elements. This automation is optional for user who would like to keepthe former naming behavior.

– Allow users to generalize the usage of search and other named-based tools.

CATIA — FEM Solid 2 (FMD)

• 3D Sweeper Top Capture option — This new option allows users to capture the top surface forthe sweep mesher to process hexahedron meshing. It gives users a fully integratedhexahedron meshing tool.

• Groups visualization enhancements

– The user can now select a group and visualize it from the 3D view.

– It allows an alternate visualization for groups supporting the show/no-show mechanism,graphic attributes such as color, transparency, thickness, marker type and selection

– Users can visualize in the same manner the group's content (finite elements included in thegroups) and mesh parts.

• Automatic mesh part naming from geometry — Mesh parts can now be named automaticallyto ensure naming consistency in order to facilitate element searching. Automatic naming isoptional for users who want to keep the former naming behavior. It allows users to generalizethe use of search and other named-based tools.

CATIA — ELFINI Structural Analysis 2 (EST)

• Enhance XML mapping property capabilities

– Allow the selection of publication and multi-output geometries to extend the use of XMLmapping

– Allow the combination of selections to simplify and reduce the size of XML mapping files

• Export FEM properties in a re-playable XML mapping file

– Export physical properties applied on a mesh in a XML mapping file with actual property


characteristic values

– Easily initialize complex mapping files

• Include failure criteria images for composites — In V5.18, the Tsai-Hill, Tsai-Wu and maximumfailure criteria are available in CATIA analysis. These criteria enable easy post-processing ofcomposites models similar to using Von-Mises for isotropic models. The images enable quickassessment of the behavior of a multiple-material model.

• Combine imported, assembled solutions and occurrences from multi-load case solutions —This new capability enables the combination of multi-occurrence solutions used to handle alarge number of loads. It is useful when the user is analyzing a multitude of combined cases tosimulate the reality of a product behavior.

• Export image locations (x,y, and z) in user specified axis system — Users can now exportimages to a specified axis system. The export can be done in a local coordinate system tofacilitate data exchanges between teams. It allows users to take full benefit of assemblies ofanalyses when post-processing.

• Take fiber orientation of CPD producibility into account — Producibility information can now betransferred to obtain the actual fiber direction transferred in Analysis. Users can strengthen theassociativity between CATIA Analysis and Composites.

Machining:

CATIA — Lathe Machining 2 (LMG)

• Automatic computation of maximum revolution envelope — Computes the maximum turningrevolution envelope automatically of an asymmetric turning part. A sketch is generated andcan be used as input geometry on machining operation.

• Automatic stock management — Supports lead-in and lift-off motions for input stockcomputation of a turning operation. Input stock for the next operation is more accurate. Itreduces programming time, cycle time, and increases productivity and tool path quality.

• Define lathe tool assembly set length for a compensation point — Allows the user to define thereference tool compensation point on which gauge values are defined. It provides new outputparameters to define lathe tool change and lathe reference point modification syntaxes (linkedto PPword table). The syntaxes are generated with parameter values that are automaticallycomputed according to the active compensation point.

• Automatic stock computation for the last operation of the program — It is no longer necessaryto create a dummy operation to get the stock part after the last operation in a program. Finalstock computation is now automatic.

CATIA — Prismatic Machining 2 (PMG)

New operation to support 4-axis pocket machining — This new operation for supporting 4-axispocket machining lets the user compute a tool path to mill pockets on cylindrical and conicalsurfaces. This new capability leads to significant reductions in machining time. Operation isadapted to revolution-parts machined on a turning center. It offers functions to manage the toolpath for open and closed areas with several strategies (helical, back-and-forth, and part offset)and side and bottom finish capabilities.

CATIA — 3-Axis Surface Machining 2 (SMG)

• Add 5-axis motion to 3-axis operations for spherical tools only — Two options are available:

– Switch to 5-axis orientation in case of collision with the tool or tool assembly. Collisionchecking is performed with the selected geometry, not with the rough remaining from theprevious operation. By solving the collision issues, this enhancement allows the user toselect the shortest tool for better quality machined part quality.

– Apply 5-axis tool axis orientation on all points of a 3-axis tool path.

• Close automatically different free collision tool paths generated after collision check —Collision tool paths are automatically identified and replaced by free collision tool paths. Thisenhancements allows the user to safely and automatically define collision free toolpaths.

• Usability and user productivity are improved.

• New function to define tool axis and direction coordinates as normal to the screen — Adedicated button created to setup normal axis to the screen improves the productivity of the


user.

• For all operations, insert PPWords into macro motions — This enhancement improvesstandardization of macros.

• For Z-level operations, T-Slotter tool use and undercut machining is now available — AT-Slotter tool is now available and can be used as a torical tool. Undercut areas of a part arenow taken into account.

CATIA — Multi-axis Surface Machining 2 (MMG)

• 5-axis tube machining enhancements

– New guiding strategies for machining tubes and/or cavities are available:

-- Along guide on tube

-- Cavity

-- Tube and cavity

– New driving tool point options and two computation options (tool tip or contact point) areavailable.

– Three machining zones are now available:

-- Tube

-- Cavity

-- Tube and cavity

• Interpolation interface — The interpolation user interface for multi-axis isoparametric curveand helix machining is improved. Enhancements make it easier to define the set ofinterpolation axes.

• Curve-driven tool axis — A "driven by a curve" tool axis in 5-axis sweeping, contour-driven,isoparametric and curve machining offers the ability to control the tool path with a geometriccurve. It is now easier and quicker to machine a local area between two walls and obtain thetool path without collision. Easy-to-use and predictable, this enhancement reducesprogramming time.

• Plane selection as part in 5-axis curve machining — In contact and between curve and partmode, the user can now select a plane as the part to machine.

• 5-axis strategies for multi-axis spiral milling — Spiral milling can now be programmed with a5-axis strategy. It is now possible to machine the bottom of pockets with a contour or toengrave complex surfaces. Such operations improve surface quality, optimize the tool path,and extend tool life.

• Offset management for limit contours in multi-axis sweeping and contour-driven operations —This enhancement makes the tool path more precise for limit contours.

• Barrel cutter for multi-axis sweeping operation is now supported — Barrel tools increaseproductivity when the cutting part has a large curvature radius. This enhancement reduces thenumber of cutting paths.

CATIA — Advanced Machining 2 (AMG)

• Improved drive element selection for multi-axis flank contouring — A new command in theFace Selection toolbar allow users to select multiple faces when selecting the drives in a5-axis flank contouring operation. The user is warned of that creation of a second belt of facesif the user does not select a face. The multi-selection capability reduces preparation time byreplacing many operations with a single operation, and the warning helps to reduce selectionerrors.

• Support for a helix motion macro for flank contouring operations — When a cutter approachesraw material, a new helix approach macro can be used in place of a ramping approach macro.This enhancement is available for pocketing, profile contouring, multi-axis curve machiningand multi-axis flank contouring operations. It provides a better strategy for approaching rawmaterial and enhances productivity and machining quality.

CATIA — Multi-slide Lathe Machining 2 (MLG)

Time-based video replay for multi-slide lathe machines — The user can now simulate a


time-based video of multi-turret and multi-spindle scenarios with synchronized operations asdefined in the machining Gantt viewer. The user can check realistic program sequence andsynchronization, potential collisions between tools/fixtures and perform an analysis on the videoresult.

CATIA — NC Machine Tool Simulation 2 (MSG)

• New capability to manage the use of sub-programs located in the same or different ISO files— User no longer has to merge sub-programs coming from different ISO files into a new ISOfile. This improvement enhances user productivity.

• Simulation of multi-turret, multi-spindle machines and mill-turn centers — The user can nowverify NC tool paths for travel limits and collisions and modify the paths if necessary.Additionally, users can now simulate any machine type without using competitor products tosimulate their machines. Users benefit from the integration of CATIA products to remove thedata conversion step.

• Collision detection between all parts independent of simulation speed (step size) — Users cannow verify NC tool paths for travel limits and collisions and modify the paths if necessary. Theuser avoids costly errors by generating accurate machining tool paths and, as a result,accurate NC code.

• Collision list management for multiple turrets and spindles — Collisions are now saved in theorder of their occurrence. The positions of the turrets and the spindles for each collision thatoccurred are retrieved and saved. The user can verify NC tool paths for travel limits andcollisions, and modify the paths if necessary.

• Enhanced collision detection independent of step size and including material removal updatesand travel limits reporting — Combining material removal capabilities with fast and accuratecollision detection, this capability allows users to have a better visualization of the work pieceafter the machining process, the information of travel limit overshoot, and the informationabout the faults in machining conditions.

• Capability to run NC machine simulation in batch, save the simulation results and verify it later— This capability performs the simulation in batch mode and saves the results for review at alater time. The batch approach saves the time that would have been spent in visualizing thesimulation and waiting for the simulation results in real time.

CATIA — NC Machine Tool Builder 2 (MBG)

• Ability to create and manage mill turn resources and sub-resources (multi-spindle, multi-turretmill turn centers, turrets, spindles) — Users can now add/remove spindles and turrets to anewly-created mill-turn machine to define a mill-turn machine according to their needs.

• Multiple tool and work piece mount points definition for mill-turn resources (turrets) — Theuser can now create, modify, and delete multiple work piece and tool mount points on turretsand spindles.

CATIA — NC Manufacturing Review 2 (NCG)

These enhancements are in addition to those for NC Manufacturing Review 1.

• Support assignment of kinematic mill-turn machines to a part operation — Currently onlymilling machines can be assigned to a part operation and hence the functions related tokinematic NC machines (including simulation) are only supported for milling operations. Withthis enhancement, mill-turn machines can be assigned to part operations so that all customersusing mill-turn machines can take advantage of the many functions being made available tosupport simulation and other functions related to NC machines.

• Support tool assignments to turret-stations for a manufacturing program — The user canmake such assignments to all the tools available in the program. These stations are availableon the mill-turn machine. This is purely a mill-turn simulation driven improvement by which theuser can assign the tools to the turret station before starting the simulation. The advantage ofmaking the assignment at the program level is that the user does not have to go to each toolindividually to make the assignment.

• Ability to select/modify a station for a tool for a tool-change activity — This is purely a mill-turnsimulation driven improvement that allows the user to make/modify a tool assignment to aturret-station.

• Capability to run video simulation in batch mode and batch queue and save simulationanalysis (collision) results — It is no longer necessary to analyze the results just after the


simulation or to rerun the simulation to get the results. The user can make the analysis at alater time. This enhancement saves time and gives flexibility to user.

• Capability to load batch mode simulation saved results for analysis — It is no longernecessary to analyze the results just after the simulation or to rerun the simulation to get theresults. The user can make the analysis at a later time. This enhancement saves time andgives flexibility to user.

• NC Sub-program management for simulation — Machines can now be simulated based onISO code (ISO files containing sub-programs, ISO files split into many small files). Mostindustrial use cases involve extensive use of sub-programs. This enhancement increasesprocess coverage and will avoid the user having to merge sub-programs within the mainprogram to enable simulation in Machine Tool Simulation 2.

• Table rotation with local machining frames — The machining system axis is automaticallyredefined after modifying the machining program based on a given option. This capabilityreduces:

– Number of activities defined in the program (no more machining axis change defined)

– Programming time needed to create/modify the local machining axis whenever the tablerotation activity is created/modified

• Multi-edition of similar machining operations — User can multi-select a set of machiningoperations (of the same type) and modify in one interaction a parameter that exists for allthese operations. This parameter must have the same value on all operations.

• Identical parts machining — Assemble in a CATProcess many unary processes at differentlocations on a setup. This enhancement extends the copy transformation function tomanufacturing programs. The resulting manufacturing programs can be then mergedintelligently. This highlight saves the time needed to build the machining process in case ofmultiple instances of the machined part.

• Non-uniform Rational® B-Spline (NURBs) format in APT — The user can now define whichoperation will be output in APT by using NURBs format.

• Modify feed-rates, tool gauge, or spindle speed without breaking a tool path — The user whomodifies feed-rates, tool gage or spindle speed does not have to recompute the tool pathanymore. This time-saving enhancement improves productivity.

• Improved performance of tool path analysis — Subsequent renderings are significantly fasterwhen compared to the initial rendering during video analysis. It represents great improvementin performance during view changes in the video analysis function.

• Lathe tool assembly set length linked to compensation — This new capability allows the userto define the reference tool compensation point on which the gauge values are defined. Itprovides new output parameters to define in the lathe tool change and lathe reference pointmodification syntaxes (linked to PPword table). The syntaxes are generated with parametervalues that are automatically computed according to the active compensation point. With thisenhancement, the user can define the reference compensation point linked to Set X, Set Y,and Set Z values. The generated APT source file will include the expected informationgenerated for tool change and tool change reference point change syntaxes defined in thePPword table.

• Create/import tool assemblies — Allows the user to create a tool assembly from scratchand/or import an existing tool Assembly from a catalog or database without creating anymachining activity.

• Support barrel tool — Support is added for barrel tools in the multi-axis sweeping operation(user interface, multi-axis sweeping algorithm, simulation and APT output, collision checkalgorithm). The barrel tool represents many productivity advantages. Thanks to its largecurvature radius cutting paths, barrel tool usage reduces the number of cutting paths.

Infrastructure:

CATIA — Object Manager 2 (COM)

Enhancements are the same as for CATIA — Object Manager 1.

CATIA P3

Enhanced products: This release enhances four previously announced products.


Mechanical Design:

CATIA — Aerospace Sheetmetal Design 3 (ASL)

• Double curvature web — Enables the designer to select any type of surface (planar, ruled,double curvature) as support for a web.

• Joggle: definition plane as start — The user can define the selected plane as either the start orthe end plane of the joggle.

• Characteristic curves enhancements — The characteristic curves currently available for thesurfacic flange are now also available for the swept flange, which enables the designer to bemore productive when creating swept flanges by:

– Automatically generating the characteristic curves for newly created Flanges

– Showing/hiding the characteristic curves on a type per type basis

– Managing the characteristic curves through the Standards Administration tools

– Manipulating the characteristic curves through Knowledge Expert

In addition, a new characteristic curve, the center line of bend (CLB) is added to both thesurface and swept flanges.

• Non-deformed cylindrical hole — The designer now has the option to define whether or not tokeep in the dual view the deformation resulting from the creation of a cylindrical hole on anon-planar surface.

CATIA — Composites Design 3 (CPD)




• Material library management enhancement — In V5.18, the CATPart contains the minimumpieces of information required to enable users to understand the context and the content of acomposite structure and to enable the update mechanism even if the corresponding materialcatalog is not available. It is important for composites part review, preparation formanufacturing and for data exchange between partners.


– Using 2 points, called a "line" type dart.



• Section cuts: 3D feature — A new command lets the designer view section cuts of thecomposites stacking or plies group along the cutting plane without exploded surfaces. Itprovides the capability to easily create planar section cuts of a composites part.


– Adds the capability to determine whether the ply/cut-piece shape would fit into the givenmaterial roll width of the ply during producibility analysis and flatten creation

– Enables a better review and preparation of the composites manufacturing

• Draping direction imposed at ply group level

– Thanks to new attributes, the designer can lock the draping direction of all the plys in agroup to match the direction of the plies group. This capability increases consistencybetween ply and ply group draping directions.

• Real-time composites information — A new command allows the user to get information aboutthe composites elements by simply pre-highlighting them.


Shape Design:

CATIA — Automotive Body in White Fastening 3 (ABF)

• Spot weld size formula: The user can now specify the diameter on the CATIA — AutomotiveBody in White Fastening 3 (ABF) spot point or curve bead using a knowledge formula. Forinstance, the user can link the spot fastener diameter to joined surfaces thicknesses. Thisenhancement improves the productivity of the user when creating and modifying diameters

• Geodesic measurement between fasteners — The user can now create a length-typeparameter at the product level in order to measure the distance between two spot fastenerslying on the same curve.

• Fixed number of welds (welds spot series — instance control)

– Allows users to capture the distance between the last created spot of a fastener series andthe reference curve end point

– Improves associativity, thanks to the re-computation of spot spacing to fit the new curvelength in the case of stretching

• Automatic annotation for spot fastener and curve bead — A new option in the ABF spot orcurve fastener creation command provides the capability to create the associated body inwhite fastener annotation automatically during the creation of the spot or curve fastener.

• Locking the ID of an ABF fastener — A new parameter prevents any fastener identifiermodification. This improves fastener life cycle management and history because eachidentifier must be unique.

• ABF data integration to PVS/PVR — Allows users to create fasteners in a PVR productcontaining the parts to join. A PVR is a product view result generated from a product by usinga VPM Navigator filtering specification (PVS). It enables seamless updates of fasteners aftersynchronization of the PVR product with respect to its original PVS.

• Support additional ISO weld codes in ABF standards — New samples are added to allowusers to enrich the ISO welding code.

Product Synthesis:

CATIA — Business Process Knowledge Template 3 (BKT)

Enhancements are the same as for CATIA — Business Process Knowledge Template 2.

Infrastructure:

CATIA — Object Manager 3 (CO3)

Enhancements are the same as for CATIA — Object Manager 1.

Common products

These products are shared between ENOVIA VPLM V5 and CATIA V5 and can be orderedthrough either brand.

New common products:

Photo Studio 1 (PH1)

Photo Studio 1 gives users an easy way to produce photorealistic images at the early stage ofthe product development cycle. Based on the Mental Ray-tracing engine, Photo Studio 1 isdesigned to suit the needs of casual users who want to quickly create high-quality renderings.

From a usability perspective, only a few options can be customized and users can preview theresults before launching computation to obtain fast results and try out different options quickly.Photo Studio 1 (PH1) gives users:

• High-quality, photo-realistic images creation engine based on Mental Ray

• Simple light and viewpoint management

• Easy-to-use shooting, available from any V5 workbench

• Smooth shadows

• Environment samples


Photo Studio 1 benefits include:

• Easy to learn and easy to use. Fits the skill level of casual users and requires a short learningcurve to produce rendering images.

• Fosters product design modifications with appearance validation loops. The ease of use ofPhoto Studio 1, coupled with the fact that it is seamlessly integrated with CATIA V5, reducesthe time required to create and validate product appearance. There is no need to convert orexport/import data. Users need only to switch from one V5 workbench to another to startgenerating rendering images.

• Enables an early assessment of product appearance. Because it is simple to use and part ofthe complete V5 set of tools, it is easy to make product appearance a key factor of productdevelopment at the ver beginning of the process.

Digital Product Rights Manager 1 (RM1)

Digital Product Rights Manager 1 (RM1) allows a company to control and protect its IP whenexchanging documents. Distributed supply chain organizations need a way to exchange data ina secure manner. RM1 lets users apply and enforce digital rights on V5 documents, enablingthem to secure and control distribution and exchanges.

• Protects IP while sharing Dassault Systemes' documents — Digital Product RightsManager 1 (RM1) provides users with an out-of-the-box solution to secure and control V5 dataexchanges. RM1 enables an administrator to define and apply a corporate IP policy to all theV5 users. The administrator can define a list of users and assign to them a list of rights andadministrate this information company-wide. If needed, the administrator can also let someusers add and modify users and rights themselves. By enabling a highly secured fileexchanges environment, RM1 provides companies with a powerful and efficient way tomanage their IP.

• Controls the online and offline access and usages of Dassault Systemes' documents —Digital Product Rights Manager 1 (RM1) enables the protection of V5 PLM documents,including 3D XML, CATPart, CATProduct, CATDrawing and CGR by setting up different rightsto different users. Rights provided allow or prevent individual users performing the followingoperations:

– Open a file. Drag & Drop is also protected by this right.

– Save a file. It ensures that the file will not be modified for instance.

– Save as (and keep rights) by changing the name and file's path and keep the initial rights.

– Save as (and change rights) by changing the name and file's path and change the initialrights.

– Export the data into another format such as 3D XML.

– Copy, Cut, and Paste protected files.

– Duplicate specifications inside power copy and user-defined feature.

– Duplicate geometry in a product.

– Collaborate (for example, chat, view sharing, and so on) on a protected file.

– Forward files to somebody else.

Users can access protected files both when they are online (that is, when connected to a serverwhich manages the users and rights lists), and offline if they have decrypted the data beforedisconnecting from the server. A rights 'expiration date' enables a time limit to be defined for theaccess to the data. This protection is also extended to the cache that may have been createdfrom protected data.

Digital Product Rights Manager 1 (RM1) provides users with a comprehensive set of rightsenabling the handling of simple as well as more complex scenarios. It is completely integratedinto the Dassault Systemes' V5 architecture and based on Microsoft™ Windows RightsManagement Services (RMS) technology.

DMU Composites Review 2 (CPR)

Distributed supply chain organizations need a way for stakeholders to view, understand andevaluate a virtual product definition — anytime, anywhere, in any format. DMU CompositeReview 2 (CPR) allows users to share composite knowledge across the value chain. It givesthem dynamic composite information access, numerical analysis, and core sampling in product


context.

DMU Composite Review 2 (CPR) is part of the global V5 solution for composite design andmanufacturing that allows manufacturers — aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding or consumergoods companies — to reduce the time needed to design composites parts.

• Share composite material information with extended teams — DMU Composite Review 2(CPR) extends the access of composite material defined in CATIA V5 to cross disciplinesteams and suppliers. It fosters better communication and collaboration between the differentstakeholders for a more efficient design to manufacturing process. For instance, it enablesusers to:

– Check design versus requirements data integrity and iterate with designer and analystbased on visualization of the part and core sampling

– Check stacks, drop offs and splices vs. structural requirements

– Assess weight and balance needs

• Perform primary composite design analysis for manufacturability and cost assessment— DMU Composite Review 2 (CPR) allows users to quickly access and perform primaryanalysis of the composite design.

– What kind of materials are used?

– What are the composite stack order and angles?

– What is the weight and where is the gravity center?

All those questions can be answered interactively and results exported in text and Excel files.

At the design stage DMU Composite Review 2 (CPR) enables:

– OEM Design Review Team to review and analyze the composite parts' design structure

– Supplier's designers working with big OEMs to review the design made by the OEMdesigners, without modifying anything in the design

Human Anthropometry Catalog 2 (HTC)

Delivers a set of anthropometry data dealing with different population sizes. HumanAnthropometry Catalog 2 (HTC) enhances precision of analyses results by providing catalogswith advanced anthropometry attributes. Designers can optimize and validate products againstdifferent population segments to increase market acceptance. Selecting from the standardmanikins in the catalog makes it easier to use digital human manikins and promotes the use ofergonomic simulation by more designers.

Human Posture Catalog 2 (HPC)

Boosts user productivity by delivering two sets of catalogs containing more than 350 postures forboth static and grasping postures. These catalogs let users quickly insert a human manikin into adigital mock-up and then, if needed, fine-tune the mock-up until the targeted manikin position isreached. Catalog-based simulations offer up to a 70 percent productivity gain overnon-catalog-based processes.

Offers climbing, driving, crawling, hand counting, sitting, and standing static postures with morethan 200 grasping postures adapted to more than 60 tools. Catalogs are also adapted todifferent population percentiles for maximum grasping precision.

Also affords the designer an improved user experience. Selecting from the hundreds of standardpositions available makes it easier to use digital human manikins and promotes the use ofhuman modeling by more designers. It also makes it easy for a designer to create a new postureby starting with a standard catalog posture, fine-tuning it, and then saving it for future use.

Human Preferred Angles Catalog 2 (HAC)

Delivers a set of preferred angles related to the comfort, safety and strength of differentpostures. Users can quickly optimize human manikin postures. Benefits include:

• Enhances analyses results precision by providing catalogs containing advanced comfort,safety and strength data

• Optimizes manikin posture based on scientific references for comfort, safety and strength

• Promotes human ergonomics simulation to more users though an improved user experience


Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 (VOA):

Reduce the cost of interior vehicle design regulatory conformance validation — VehicleOccupant Accommodation 2 (VOA) delivers a set of tools to reduce the number of physicalprototypes, to minimize customer focus groups, and to reduce the number of design iterationsrequired to ensure an interior vehicle design that meets the occupants' needs in terms of comfortand accommodation. Based on the Human Builder 2 (HBR) product, Vehicle OccupantAccommodation (VOA) allows companies to explore, compare, and validate more designalternatives by letting 3D information be accessible to all stakeholders.

Benefits include:

• Automates elements of vehicle occupant packaging process

• Increases productivity of vehicle occupant packaging analysis

• Enables faster preparation for review sessions in a continuous product quality assessmentprocess

• Leverages enterprise IP and proprietary knowledge

Effectively predict vehicle occupant posture — Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 enablesusers to create vehicle interior dimension packages in compliance with the SAE (Society ofAutomotive Engineers) standard J1100 (September, 200). It includes, among other capabilities,the ability to place the left foot independently of the right based on the SAE concepts of FloorReference Point and Floor Plan Angle, the ability to adjust the diameter of the steering wheel,and even the posture of the hand grip to define passenger seating position in a motor vehicle.

All the elements of the package are associated with a 3D geometry, so users can automaticallyspecify vehicle dimensions based on existing vehicle geometries and/or to easily retrieve thedimensions and locations of specific geometries (seat, steering wheel, and pedal) of an existingvehicle design. New packages can be then saved in catalogs and/or applied to an existingpackage.

Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 gives users by default with an automatic way to predict thedriving posture of a specific manikin based on two methods, cascade and optimization.

• The cascade-based method uses a regression equations formula to represent the positioncoordinates of the ankle, the pelvis, and the eye.

• The optimization method instead is based on the flexion comfort angle of the forearm, leg,and, optionally, the trunk (thoracic and lumbar).

Automatic prediction reduces the time and increases the accuracy of placing the manikin within avehicle. The resulting posture is a function of the vehicle dimension package (SAE J1100) andmanikin anthropometry. Posture can be predicted for more than one manikin at the same time.Choice of left, right, or center seat is available for the second- or third-row passenger. Users canalso create their own user-defined posture prediction method based on these two methods.

Re-use and share information across multiple design disciplines — For further exchange,users can extract data from a package or a posture prediction and present it in HTML or XMLformat. For more efficient reuse and sharing, Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 (VOA)packages can be stored in ENOVIA VPLM and retrieved in CATIA when loading a product fromENOVIA VPLM. The same capabilities are available using ENOVIA SmarTeam.

Enhanced common products


Real Time Rendering 1 (RT1)

• Tune default shading — A new tab in Tools/Options/Infrastructure/Material Library lets userstune the default shading parameters: ambient, diffuse, specular and roughness. The user canfine tune the relief perception in order to better identify shape defects.

• New color palette management — The new user interface of the color editor is based on oneof the most popular interfaces, enabling users to familiarize themselves with it rapidly andeffortlessly.

Real Time Rendering 2 (RTR)


• Material library window — This new command allows the user to align icons automatically inthe material library.

• Environment manipulation — A new option is added to directly snap 3D models on the bottomwall of environments (but sphere, of course), facilitating the positioning of models.

• Improved visual quality — A new anti-aliasing algorithm improves the quality of border edgesof surfaces and lines.

Photo Studio Optimizer 2 (PSO)

Compute larger and more complex pictures — Photo Studio Optimizer enables networkedrendering with up to 24 CPUs (previously there were only 8).

Product Synthesis:

DMU Space Analysis 1 (SP1)

This release improves the selection information in the Measure between command. The usercan now display the selection information and the related components along with themeasurement values in the 3D viewer. Additionally, improvements to the customization dialogwindow afford better control over the 3D display of various other parameters, such as angle,distance, selection name, and components.

DMU Space Analysis 2 (SPA)

Penetration management enables users to retrieve the two catalogs and the KnowledgeWareRule Base file (CATProduct) that are defined as resources in the Project Resource Management(PRM) project file. Users can then load the related design data and update the penetrationinformation.

DMU Kinematics Simulator 2 (KIN)

Users can copy/paste mechanisms within the same product. It allows them to activate/deactivatedifferent degrees of freedom of the same mechanism to create animations and movies.

DMU Optimizer 2 (DMO)

• New wrapping algorithm embedded in the Swept Volume command — A new algorithmcomputes the perfectly rounded envelope of a moving part. This capability is referred to asconvex envelope computation for swept volumes. The resulting envelope can be used whencomputing clashes between moving parts, for instance.

• 3D cutting improvement — The visualization of the volume obtained when using the 3D Cutcommand is cleaned-up for better visualization.

Human Builder 2 (HBR)

This release delivers enhancements to the following functions:

• Vision window camera orientation — The manikin always sees the scene on a horizontalplane, even if it is bending its head.

• Constraints — The width and type of line used to represent manikin constraints in 3D can becustomized to reflect the status of the constraint. This enhancement makes it easier tounderstand the constraints applied to the manikin.

• Look-at behavior — Ease of use is improved for the inverse kinematics (IK) and Reachmodes.

• Dynamic hand grasp — Hand grasp settings can be saved.

Human Activity Analysis 2 (HAA)

This release allows users to display additional NIOSH information, including the intermediatefactors of NIOSH 1991 lift/lower analysis.

MultiCAx Plug-ins — MultiCAx PD Plug-in (PDL)

• Support of ProE Wild Fire 3

MultiCAx SolidWorks Plug-in (DSL)


• Support of SolidWorks 2006

• Support of Windows 64 bits

CATIA WLS V5

Additional details on previously announced functions: The WLS Companion Serverfacilitates deployment by eliminating the need to install the license function and complete usercompanion Java™ client on individual student machines. Instead, the Server runs thesefunctions using a J2EE application server software, such as IBM WebSphere® or ApacheTomcat.

The standard WLS user companion installation, whether in a file standalone mode or HTTP pageserver mode, requires a full Java client and WLS license to be installed on each student clientmachine. The Companion Server consolidates these functions on a single machine to streamlinethe licensing process and to improve user companion response time.

Enhanced products:

CATIA — User Companion for Mechanical Design (MDS)

Note: This product is available only via the CATIA — User Companion for Mechanical DesignConfiguration (MDC).

A V5.17 to V5.18 update course allows end users to self-train on all the new capabilitiesdelivered with the Sketcher, Part Design, Assembly Design, Generative Shape Design (GS1)and Drafting workbenches and with the Mechanical Design Infrastructure. This update course isunique in the marketplace by virtue of its extensive coverage of the new release enhancementsas well as its synchronization with product availability.

CATIA — User Companion for Hybrid Design Product (HDS)

A V5.17 to V5.18 update course allows end users to self-train on new capabilities delivered withthe Generative Shape Design (GSD) workbench. This update course is unique in themarketplace by virtue of its extensive coverage of the new release enhancements as well as itssynchronization with product availability.

CATIA — User Companion for Structural Analysis (SAS)

The CATIA User Companion for Structural Analysis has been enriched to reflect the V5.18enhancements of CATIA — Generative Part Structural Analysis (GPS).

CATIA — User Companion for Sheetmetal (SMS)

A V5.17 to V5.18 update course allows end users to self-train on new capabilities delivered withthe Generative Sheetmetal Design workbench. This update course is unique in the marketplaceby virtue of its extensive coverage of the new release enhancements as well as itssynchronization with product availability.

User Companion for DMU (DNS)

The User Companion for DMU has been enriched to reflect V5.18 enhancements in the DMUNavigator, DMU Space Analysis and DMU Optimizer products.

CATIA — User Companion for Extended Structural Analysis (EAS)

The CATIA — User Companion for Extended Analysis has been enriched to reflect V5.18enhancements in assembly analysis, dynamic analysis and expert analysis provided with theElfini solver products.

Companion Development Studio (5691-CDS)

• Enhancements in the wizard's user interface to quickly create skillets

• New screen templates will be available. These include a new course entry page template anda What's New screen template linking to relevant skillets

• New capabilities to duplicate and tailor DS Courses including the following functionality:

– Show/Hide lessons

– Reorder lessons

– Show/Hide elements (possibility to show/hide nodes in the tree)


– Insert Third Party lessons

• Enhanced management of translation process. Data sent out to translation in Drops. Data isdirectly processed by automatic translation tools

• "Pre-Assessment" component added to assess student on main Companion courses to helpthem quickly determine what skills they need to learn

Education support

Schedules and enrollment

Call the IBM PLM North America (PLM/NA) response line at 800-395-3339 for schedules andenrollments.

CATIA Higher Education and Training (HEAT) program

Under the HEAT program, two configurations are available for qualifying institutions to orderCATIA V5:

• CATIA — Academic Discover 2 Configuration (5671-DIC)

• CATIA — Educational HEAT Configuration 2 (5671-ED2)

When new CATIA P1 or P2 products are announced, they are automatically added to the ED2configuration. When P1 or P2 products are withdrawn in a release, they are removed from theED2 configuration.

In this release, the following products are added to the DIC Configuration:

• Photo Studio 2 (PHS)

• Photo Studio Optimizer 2 (PSO)

• CATIA — FreeStyle Sketch Tracer 1 (FSK)

• CATIA — FreeStyle Shaper 2 (FSS)

These configurations are for academic customers only. Their use is restricted to non-businesseducation and research activities. Models saved using these configurations are flagged so that amessage is displayed when such a model is attempted to be read with a non-academic(production) configuration.

To facilitate their use in the educational environment, a license for the CATIA User Companionfor Academic Discover 2 Configuration (DLC) is included at no charge under the EnterpriseOption model for each 5671-DIC seat ordered, and a license for the CATIA User Companion forAcademic Learn Configuration (LLC) is included at no charge for each 5671-ED2 seat ordered.

Contact Vijay Srinivasan ([email protected]) or 914-642-6587 for additional information andapprovals.

Technical information

Hardware requirements

Summary of changes for V5.18: This release updates related operating system requirements.

Common hardware requirements: The following requirements are common to all operatingsystems supported by this release. Platform-specific requirements are specified in the followingtopics.

• Required components and features

– Disk drive: An internal or external disk drive (minimum recommended size is 4 GB) isrequired to store program executables, program data, the user environment, and to supply


paging space. Installation of all CATIA V5 products requires 2.0 GB on Microsoft Windows,2.4 GB on AIX, 2.7 GB on HP-UX, and 2.3 GB on Solaris.

– Memory: 256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended for all applications. 512 MB ofRAM is recommended for DMU applications on large assemblies and for the DigitizedShape Editor 2 (DSE) product. Requirements may be greater when large amounts of dataare used.

– Internal/external drives: A CD-ROM drive is required for program installation and for accessto the online documentation, which can optionally be downloaded to disk.

– Display: A graphics color display compatible with the selected platform-specific graphicsadapter. The minimum recommended size for usability reasons is 17 inches. Minimumresolution for Windows workstations is 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 for UNIX workstations.When selecting a graphics adapter, hardware texturing capability is strongly recommendedwhen using CATIA V5 products that use texture mapping, in which case the amount oftexture RAM has to be adequate for the number and complexity of textures to be used.

– Keyboard: A specific keyboard compatible with the selected installation locale may berequired for national language support.

– Pointing device: Three-button mouse. On Windows workstations, a two-button mouse mayalternatively be used (the third button is emulated with a keyboard sequence). Thethree-button mouse is recommended for usability reasons. IntelliMouse (two buttons plus awheel instead of the third button) is an alternative to the three-button mouse on Windowsworkstations. The wheel acts as the middle button to allow additional manipulations, suchas panning and scrolling.

• Optional components and features: For CATIA P2 and P3, SpaceBall or SpaceMouse, inaddition to the standard mouse, can be used to perform graphic manipulations (zoom, pan,and rotate). The required drivers are delivered with these devices. Support of these devices isalso available with the DMU Navigator 1 and DMU Space Analysis 1 P1 products.

The robustness of the overall solution is dependent on the robustness of the operating systemand the hardware environment used. Windows XP and UNIX hardware configurations certifiedby Dassault Systemes for running CATIA V5 products are published at

http://www.3ds.com/support/workstations-peripherals/

Although CATIA V5 products might run on configurations or with graphic adapters other thanthose specified for each of the following platforms, incidents specific to such configurations oradapters will not be accepted for support.

Hardware requirements for Microsoft Windows XP

• System unit: An Intel® Pentium® 4 or Xeon based workstation running Microsoft Windows XPProfessional Edition SP2.

• Graphics adapter: A graphics adapter with a 3D OpenGL accelerator is required.

Note: Graphics performance on local transformations (panning, zooming, and rotating model)will depend on the selected graphics adapter. The graphics adapter should have the followingcapabilities:

– 24-bits, true color, double buffered visual

– 24-bits, Z-buffer

– Stencil buffer

– Minimum supported resolution: 1024 x 768; a resolution of 1280 x 1024 is recommended forusability reasons

• Network adapter: An active LAN adapter (Ethernet or Token Ring, installed and configured) isrequired for license key purposes.

Hardware requirements for Windows x86-64 64-bit

• System unit: An Intel Xeon EM64T or AMD Opteron 64-bit based workstation runningMicrosoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

• Memory: 4 GB is the recommended minimum.



• Disk drive: 2.5 GB is the recommended minimum.

• Graphics adapter: A graphics adapter with a 3D OpenGL accelerator is required.

Note: Graphics performance on local transformations (panning, zooming, rotating model) willdepend on the selected graphics adapter. The graphics adapter should have the followingcapabilities:

– 24-bits, true color, double buffered visual

– 24-bits, Z-buffer

– Stencil buffer

– Minimum supported resolution: 1024 x 768; a resolution of 1280 x 1024 is recommended forusability reasons

• Network adapter: An active LAN adapter (Ethernet or Token Ring, installed and configured) isrequired for license key purposes.

Hardware requirements for AIX

• System unit: Any RS/6000®, based on the POWER4™, POWER5™, and Power PC-970processor families, supported on AIX V5.3

• Graphics adapter: One of the following graphics adapters is required.

– GXT500P

– GXT550P

– GXT800P

– GXT800M

– GXT2000P

– GXT3000P

– GXT4000P

– GXT4500P

– GXT6000P

– GXT6500P

Hardware requirements for HP-UX

• System unit: Any B-Class, C-Class, or J-Class workstation based on the PA8000, PA8800,and PA8900 processor family and supported on HP-UX 11iv1


– Visualize-FXE

– Visualize-FX2

– Visualize-FX4

– Visualize-FX5

– Visualize-FX6

– Visualize-FX10

– Fire GL-UX

– Fire GL T2-128

– Fire GL X1

– Fire GL X3

Hardware requirements for Sun Solaris

• System unit: Any Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra10, Ultra30, Ultra60, Sun Blade 100, Sun Blade 150, SunBlade 1000, Sun Blade 1500, Sun Blade 1500+ (1.5 GHz), Sun Blade 2000, or SunBlade


2500 workstation based on the UltraSPARC processor supported on Solaris 10.


– Creator3D

– Creator3D Series III

– Elite 3D (U10-440MHz only for U10 workstations)

– Elite 3D Lite

– Expert 3D

– XVR-500

– XVR-600

– XVR-1000

– XVR-1200

Hardware requirements for WLS: There are no specific requirements beyond those for CATIAV5.

Software requirements

Summary of changes for V5.18

• V5.17 ended support for the following. These operating systems are not supported in V5.18.

– Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

– AIX 5.2

– SGI IRIX (all levels)

– Sun Solaris 8

• 32-bit requires Orbix 3.3 for all platforms.

• Minimum run-time support for AIX running on Power4 or Power5 processors for both 32- and64-bit is provided by AIX 5.3 ML03.

• Minimum run-time support for HP-UX Run-time is HP-UX 11i December, 2004 (on 32-bit only).

• Minimum run-time support on Sun Solaris SPARC is Solaris 10 SPARC. The minimum levelrequired is Solaris 10 HW 03/05 with 119280-06 CDE 1.6 — Runtime library patch for Solaris10.

• For interoperability with CATIA V4 CDM and ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM on AIX, Windows,HP-UX, or Solaris:

– The required level of a DB2® UDB database server is Version 8.2.4.

– The required level of an Oracle database server is Oracle 10gR2.

– The required level of HP-UX 11i is -UX 11i.v1 (11.11) December, 2004

– The required level of Sun Solaris (SPARC) is Solaris 10 HW 03/05

– The required level of AIX is AIX V5.3 with ML03 applied as the minimum level

• The required level for document browsers in a UNIX environment is Mozilla 1.7 for AIX,HP-UX, and Solaris and FireFox 2.0 for SUN Solaris SPARC.

• The required level for document browsers in a Microsoft Windows environment is MicrosoftInternet Explorer 7.0 or Mozilla 1.7.

• The required level for JRE is 1.5.0 for all operating systems.

Common software requirements: CATIA V5 runs on selected levels of:

• Microsoft Windows XP and XP x64

• AIX

• Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11iv1


• Sun Solaris SPARC

Refer to the program directory or contact your IBM Support Center for appropriate correctiveservice to apply to the following described software.

V5.18 prerequisites Orbix 3.3 on a 32-bit operating system.

Software requirements for Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition SP2

• Windows XP delivers an implementation of OpenGL libraries. These libraries may have to bemodified to accommodate the selected graphics adapter when installing the graphics adapterand its associated drivers. For recommendations related to driver levels based on certifiedconfigurations, visit


• A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installationlocale differs from Latin 1.

• The following patches are required to run V5.18:

– MS06-75 — Vulnerability in Windows could allow elevation of privilege:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-075.mspx

– MSI Installer 3.1 — Windows Installer 3.1 v2 (3.1.4000.2435) available at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893803

Notes

• CATIA V5.18 does not support Windows 2000 Professional. Customers currently running V5on Windows 2000 encouraged to migrate to Windows XP.

• CATIA V5.16 was the last release to support Windows 2000 Server.

For CATIA V5 64-bit on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: A Microsoft implementation ofOpenGL libraries as delivered with Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Theselibraries may have to be modified to accommodate the selected graphics adapter when installingthe graphics adapter and its associated drivers. For recommendations related to driver levelsbased on certified configurations, visit


For CATIA V5 32-bit on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, with the followingcomponents

• A Microsoft implementation of OpenGL libraries as delivered with Microsoft Windows XPProfessional x64 Edition. These libraries may have to be modified to accommodate theselected graphics adapter when installing the graphics adapter and its associated drivers. Forrecommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations, visit


• The following patches are required to run V5.18:

– KB903648 — When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when accessingmore than 2GB of address space, a Microsoft patch corrects this problem, see MicrosoftArticle KB90368:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903648

– KB911021 — Required for applications allowing more than 2GB of address space, contactyour Microsoft Support Representative.

Software requirements for AIX 32- and 64-bit platforms: AIX 5.3 ML03 (using 64-bit kernel),with the following components:

• XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition Run-time Environment at a minimum level of V7.0.0





http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893803





– XL 7 May 2005 PTF R/T (xIC.aix50.rte at level 7.0.0.6), delivered through APAR IY71976

• XL Fortran Enterprise Edition for AIX Run-time at a minimum level of V9.1.0

– November 2004 XL Fortran for AIX V9.1 Runtime PTF available at

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24008377

Or

AIX 5.3 TL04-SP01 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:

• XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition Run-time Environment at a minimum level of V8.0.0 — January2006 IBM C++ Runtime Environment Component for AIX available at


• XL Fortran Enterprise Edition for AIX Run-time at a minimum level of V10.1.0 available at


Software requirements for HP-UX: HP-UX Version HP-UX 11iv1 (11.11) (December, 2004)with the following components at the minimum levels indicated:

• HP-UX Technical Computing OE (TCOE) Component December 2004

• Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11iv1, December 2004

• Gold Application Patches for HP-UX 11iv1, December 2004

• Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11iv1, December 2004 with the following patches applied

– PHCO_31923 — libc cumulative header file patch

– PHCO_33360 — libc cumulative patch

– PHKL_31918 — fsadm;ACL;locking order;8K mount;readdir

– PHNE_32477 — ONC/NFS General Release/Performance Patch

– PHSS_29483 — HP aC++ Compiler (A.03.52)

– PHSS_31271 — PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)

– PHSS_31274 — Starbase/Hardcopy Dev (PA2.0 only)

– PHSS_31275 — OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)

– PHSS_32573 — HP aC++ -AA runtime libraries (aCC A.03.61)

– PHSS_32928 — 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)

– PHSS_32934 — OpenGL 1.1 Run (PA2.0 only)

– PHSS_32939 — Xserver cumulative patch

– PHSS_33033 — ld(1) and linker tools cumulative patch

• HP-UX 700 OpenGL 3D API Runtime Environment

• CDE (delivered with the operating system)

• A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installationlocale differs from ISO code pages.

• WAS 6.1 and WPS support requires HP 11iv2, V5 applications support is not supported on HP11iv2.

Software requirements for Sun Solaris: Sun Solaris 10 H/W 03/05, with:

• 119280-06 CDE 1.6 — Runtime patch for Solaris 10

Requirements for interoperability with ENOVIA VPLM products

• CATIA V5 and ENOVIA VPLM V5 must be at the same release, service pack, and hot fix levelfor proper interoperability.





• CATIA V5 and ENOVIA VPLM interoperability is supported between various CATIA V5release and ENOVIA VPLM PTF levels. Refer to the most recent ENOVIA VPLM PTFprogram directory for the current prerequisite and recommended interoperability PTFs.

Product-specific software requirements for CATIA P2: CATIA — V4 Integration 2 (V4I)requires, on the CATIA V5 client, for interoperability with CATIA V4 CDM and ENOVIA VPLMENOVIAVPM:

• If the database server is DB2,

– On AIX, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, or Solaris: DB2 UDB V8.2.4

• If the database server is Oracle,

– On AIX, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX or Solaris — Oracle 10gR2

Note: Contact your IBM or Oracle representative for support and planning information on DB2UDB or Oracle.

Note: ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM 1.5 on SGI has been withdrawn from marketing. Foradditional information, visit

http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS905-017iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS905-017

CATIA V4 CDM and ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM interoperability is available through CATIA— V4 Integration 2 (V4I) for the following products:

– CATIA — Assembly Design 2 (ASD)

– CATIA — DMU Kinematics Simulator 2 (KIN)

• Interoperability of CATIA V5 on the supported Microsoft Windows platforms with ENOVIAVPLM ENOVIAVPM through ENOVIA 3d com requires, on the client side, either (dependingwhether the database server is a DB2 or an Oracle server):

– DB2 Universal Database® V8.2.4 Client for Windows

– Oracle Client Version 10gR2 for Windows

• Math Kernel Libraries — When on an Intel architecture in a Windows environment, theperformance of the following products can be improved through the use of Intel Math KernelLibraries at level 6.0:

– CATIA — Generative Part Structural Analysis 1 (GP1)

– CATIA — Generative Part Structural Analysis 2 (GPS)

– CATIA — Generative Assembly Structural Analysis 2 (GAS)

– CATIA — ELFINI Structural Analysis 2 (EST)

– CATIA — Tolerance Analysis of Deformable Assembly 3 (TAA)

– CATIA — Product Engineering Optimizer 2 (PEO)

– CATIA — Generative Dynamic Response Analysis 2 (GDY)

MKL Libraries at level 6.0 can be obtained from

http://developer.intel.com/software/products/mkl/

In a Windows XP x64 environment, MKL 8.0 or higher is recommended.

This requirement is optional. Refer to "Before you Begin" in the Generative Structural AnalysisUser's Guide for additional information.

Specific software requirements for CATIA WLS V5:

Access to the companion desktop — Companion desktop access is accomplished using thesame browser requirements as CATIA V5 (refer to the Access to product information section).The Java plug-in (JRE at a minimum level of 1.5) is required to visualize the different types ofsimulations (Show Me, Discover It, Try It, and the Quiz) and to allow for automatic model loadingfrom CATIA.

The supported level of JRE 1.5 can be downloaded from





http://developer.intel.com/software/products/mkl/

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

Additionally

• Some WLS products may provide learning resources using the Portable Document Format(PDF). To view these documents, Adobe Acrobat Reader, at minimum level 5.0, must beinstalled as a plug-in on the browser. The latest level of the Reader can be downloaded from

http://www.adobe.com/

Although access to WLS might work on other HTML browsers, incidents specific to browsersother than the previously mention products are not eligible for support.

• An installation of CATIA V5.18, though not a strict requirement, is recommended to practicethe provided exercises automatically loaded by the User Companion Desktop in the activeCATIA session.

• For the CATIA User Companion for V4 Mechanical Design product, an installation of CATIAV4 at level R2.1 or earlier is recommended to practice the provided exercises automaticallyloaded by the User Companion Desktop in the active CATIA session. For softwarerequirements, visit


WLS license management — Licenses can be managed either using standard CATIA V5licensing or by using the J2EE Companion Server. For standard licensing, refer to thePrerequisites for the license management environment section. Requirements for the J2EECompanion Server are:

• Application server setup — The application server used must support Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0and must be able to handle the Companion Server WAR or EAR files. These files are copiedduring installation if the application server option was selected during the installationprocedure. The server setup operation depends on the application server used and must bedone by the system administrator.

• Companion application setup for license serving — The application server machine must beable to access WLS licenses, and licenses must be available to this server machine. For theEnterprise Option, the total number of licenses must be equal to the maximum number ofstudents that will be connected at the same time to the application server.

Companion Development Studio — The Companion Development Studio is designed tocommunicate with other applications. The Companion Development Studio Product (5691-CDS)requires:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition SP2

• JRE at a minimum level of 1.5.

The supported version of JRE 1.5 can be downloaded from


The following are not requirements, but are recommended to take full advantage of the product.

• Access to one of the following browsers is mandatory for the preview of screens:

– Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Microsoft VM version number 3158, at a minimum)

– Mozilla 1.7 for AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris

Note: Access to the screens developed with the Companion Development Studio might beaccessible directly through the Companion Desktop. The Companion Desktop has been alicense key managed product available with any WLS entry configuration since V5.9.Installation of any WLS standard configuration will provide the Companion Desktop licensekey and will allow access to customer-developed screens and skillets.

• Access to Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word (version Office 2000) through OLEautomation.

Note: Although different versions of Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word may work,incidents specific to other than the versions specified earlier are not eligible for support.



http://www.adobe.com/



Access to product information: Product information is delivered with the product CDs in HTMLformat. An HTML browser is required to access this documentation. Online documentation maybe installed and used only in the same supported operating environments as CATIA V5.

• In a UNIX environment

– For AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris — Mozilla 1.7

– FireFox for SUN Solaris SPARC

• In a Microsoft Windows environment, one of the following browsers is required:

– Microsoft Internet Explorer at a minimum level of 7.0

– Mozilla 1.7 with the Java plug-in installed

In addition to a Java-enabled Web browser, the Java Plug-in at level 1.5 to search onlinedocumentation:

• For AIX, Java Runtime Environment version Java 1.5.0 SR3 can be downloaded from

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

• For HP-UX, Java Runtime Environment 5.0.0.1 can be downloaded from

http://www.hp.com/go/java

• For Sun Solaris, Java Runtime Environment version 5 update 7 can be downloaded from


• For Microsoft Windows, Java plug-in version 5 update 7 can be downloaded from


Although access to the online documentation might work on other HTML browsers, incidentsspecific to browsers other than those specified are not eligible for support.

Note: Improvements in HTML searching and printing capabilities eliminate the need to duplicateproduct information in the Portable Document Format (PDF) format. PDF CDs are therefore nolonger included in the CATIA V5 softcopy collection kit.

Prerequisites for the license management environment: Microsoft Windows workstationsmust have an active LAN card (Ethernet or token ring) and TCP/IP installed and properlyconfigured, even in the case of nodelock keys, though for nodelock there is no need to have theworkstations connected to the network. No additional license management software is requiredwhen accessing nodelock license keys.

IBM License Use Management (LUM) is required to serve concurrent license keys across anetwork. A LUM configuration file (i4ls.ini) is required on CATIA V5 clients to access concurrentlicense keys from these servers. Server and Nodelock license management mechanisms areavailable for CATIA V5 P1, P2, and P3 on all supported operating environments.

LUM level V4.6.8.3 is the minimum level.

The latest release of IBM LUM, together with any applicable patches, can be downloaded at nocharge from

http://www.ibm.com/software/lum

For details about LUM license management for CATIA V5, refer to The license managementmodel section.

Macro replay capabilities: CATIA V5 has built-in macro record and replay capabilities. ForUNIX, the interpreter is VB Script 3.0 from Mainsoft. Its components are included in CATIA V5 asshared libraries.

For Windows, the interpreter is either:

• VB Script at a minimum level of V5.0. It is delivered with Microsoft Internet Explorer. VB Scriptlibraries at level 5.0.0.3715 are delivered with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or at later levelswith later versions of Internet Explorer. Use of VB Script is recommended for developingMicrosoft Windows- and UNIX-compatible macros.


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

http://www.hp.com/go/java



http://www.ibm.com/software/lum

• Microsoft VisualBasic for Applications (VBA) at a minimum level of 6.0. VBA is delivered andinstalled by default with CATIA V5.

Printer and plotter support

• UNIX — CATIA V5 supports the following plotter/printer languages:

– CGM-ISO, ATA, CALS

– Hewlett Packard HP-GL/2-RTL and HP-GL or IBM-GL subsets

– OCE Graphics GPR50: VDF plotting routines

– PostScript

• Windows — Printers and plotters are supported through the vendor's drivers for the targetedprinter or plotter relative to the targeted version of the operating system. Contact the printer orplotter vendor for requirements and support.

Batch monitoring using WebSphere MQ (WMQ) (formerly MQSeries®): Using WebSphereMQ communication tools, some batch operations can be launched remotely. When implementedat the batch level, this optional feature requires WebSphere MQ at minimum level 6.0. Foravailability of client and server components on supported platforms, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/mqseries/messaging/

WebSphere MQ Client is required on systems where the transaction is initiated. WebSphere MQServer is required on systems where remote batches are executed.

CATIA V5 general packaging principles

• A CATIA P1 product or a CATIA P1 configuration requires or must include (in the case ofconfigurations) CATIA — Object Manager 1 (CO1). P1 products can be used on P2 or P3, andin such cases, they operate with CATIA — Object Manager 2 (COM) or CATIA — ObjectManager 3 (CO3), respectively.

• A CATIA P2 product or a CATIA P2 configuration requires, or must include (in the case ofconfigurations), CATIA — Object Manager 2 (COM). P2 products can be used on P3, and insuch cases, they operate with CATIA — Object Manager 3 (CO3).

• CATIA — COM 1 to 2 Extension (5693-C12) allows all P2 products to be added on to P1configurations. The C12 product effectively upgrades the P1 infrastructure (CO1) to the P2infrastructure (COM). The C12 product does not change the underlying P1 configuration;included products remain P1. The C12 product can be used as a shareable (5691-C12) oradd-on (5693-C12) product.

• A CATIA P3 product or a CATIA P3 configuration requires or must include (in the case ofconfigurations) CATIA — Object Manager 3 (CO3). P1, P2, and P3 shareable and add-onproducts are available to P3 configurations as shareable or add-on products.

• License keys for CATIA configurations are acquired and released for the total configuration.

• The functions within a configuration cannot be shared.

• A configuration is required for each CATIA V5 seat.

• CATIA V5 add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require prerequisite products that arenot included in a standard purchased configuration. When a prerequisite product is notincluded in the selected standard configuration, both the AOP and its prerequisite productsmust be purchased and included as AOPs within a custom configuration. Prerequisites forshareable products can be satisfied by a standard configuration, by an AOP within a customconfiguration, or by a shareable product.

• CATIA — V4 Integration 2 (V4I) is included in all P2 and P3 configurations, and CATIA — V4Integration 1 (V41) is included in all P1 configurations.

Planning information

Direct customer support: Direct customer support is offered under a Product LifecycleManagement (PLM) enhanced support contract. This service for a fee enhances the customer's


http://www.ibm.com/software/mqseries/messaging/

productivity by providing voice and electronic access to the PLM Support Center. For eligibleproducts, the PLM help desk can answer questions pertaining to the installation, administration,use, and handling of suspected software defects.

For additional information about the enhanced support contract and other available PLM servicesofferings, visit the PLM Technical Support Web site

http://www.ibm.com/software/applications/plm/support/

Click on the Enhanced support link.

Packaging

CATIA V5 packaging: The deliverables associated with each of the three platforms (P1, P2, andP3) are shipped in separate box kits. The program directory is shipped as a CD.

Platform 1 box kit (LK3T-5100)

Ships with all orders for P1 configurations.

• 12 CDs (LCD4-4077)

– AIX

– HP

– Solaris

– Windows

These CDs include P1 products and configurations and the national language productintegrated information (PII).

• Program Directory CD (LCD4-5571)

• LUM CD (LCD4-7882)

• Publications

– English softcopy publications collection kit (SK3T-4124)

– IBM informal documents

-- Memorandum to Current Users (GI11-4403)

-- Registration Memorandum (GI11-4404)


Ships with all orders for P2 configurations, 5691-C12, or 5693-C12.

• 17 CDs (LCD4-3756)

– AIX

– HP

– Solaris

– Windows

These CDs include P1 and P2 products and configurations and national language PII.



• Publications








Ships with all orders for P3 configurations.

• 17 CDs (LCD4-5339)

– AIX

– HP

– Solaris

– Windows

These CDs include P1, P2, and P3 products and configurations and national language PII.



• Publications





The following table describes the contents of the platform box kits in terms of the installableconfigurations and products each contains.

Installable InstallableBox kit configurations products

P3 P2 and P3 P1, P2, and P3P2 P2 P1 and P2P1 P1 P1

Shipping package

In addition to the box kits, the shipping package contains:

• Licensed Program Specification (GH52-1328)

• COE Brochure (GH52-1319)

• With an order for the CADAM Drafting for V5 (CCD) add-on product, the three CCD productCDs (LCD4-4076)

• With an order for one or more MultiCAx products, the eight MultiCAx product CDs(LCD4-7456)

Note: The CATIA API CDs are shipped with CAA RADE as LCD4-7422. Refer to 207-213, datedSeptember 25, 2007, for information on ordering CAA RADE.

CATIA V5 national language packaging: Product integrated information (PII) is included on theworld-wide distribution media in the box kits for each operating system at general availability.

National language versions (NLVs) of the softcopy collection kits in French, German, Italian, andJapanese at the current release level will be available after general availability.

CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- French (SK3T-4125)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- German (SK3T-4126)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- Japanese (SK3T-4127)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- Italian (SK3T-0575)

CATIA WLS V5 packaging: CATIA user companions for UNIX can be ordered together under asingle form number, and all user companions for Windows under another. The following listsshow which companions are included in the platform deliverables. The companions are renamedin this release.

• CATIA WLS V5 User Companions for UNIX (LCD4-7846, 12 CDs)



– User Companion for CATIA Mechanical Design for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA Hybrid Design for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA Structural Analysis for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA Extended Structural Analysis for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA V4 Mechanical Design for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA for Sheetmetal for UNIX

• CATIA WLS V5 User Companions for Windows (LCD4-7847, eight CDs)

– User Companion for CATIA Mechanical Design for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Hybrid Design for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Structural Analysis for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Extended Structural Analysis for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Sheetmetal for Windows

Common WLS product packaging: The DMU WLS products common to ENOVIA VPLM andCATIA are packaged as the User Companion for DMU — UNIX and Windows (LCD4-7848, fiveCDs).

The Companion Development Studio Product is LCD4-5559 (one CD).

Informal documents for WLS

• CATIA WLS Licensed Program Specifications (GI11-1328)

• CATIA WLS Registration Memorandum (GI11-4404)

• CATIA WLS Memorandum to Current Licensees (GI11-4403)

National language versions (NLVs) of WLS products: National language versions of WLSproducts in French, German, and Japanese at the current release level will be available aftergeneral availability. The standard ordering process applies.

• CATIA WLS V5 User Companions — UNIX (nine CDs) contains:

– User Companion for CATIA Mechanical Design for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA Hybrid Design for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA Structural Analysis for UNIX

– User Companion for CATIA for Sheetmetal for UNIX

The form numbers are:

– LCD4-7857 (French)

– LCD4-7851 (German)

– LCD4-7854 (Japanese)

• CATIA WLS V5 User Companions — Windows (seven CDs) contains:

– User Companion for CATIA Mechanical Design for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Hybrid Design for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Structural Analysis for Windows

– User Companion for CATIA Sheetmetal for Windows






• User Companion for DMU — UNIX and Windows (five CDs) contains:

– User Companion for DMU — UNIX

– User Companion for DMU — Windows





Security, auditability, and control

The announced programs use the security and auditability features of the operating systemssoftware. The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of securityfeatures, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems andcommunication facilities.

Ordering information

Current licensees

Current licensees will receive this update from IBM Software Delivery and Fulfillmentautomatically.

Should you require further assistance, contact your country IBM representative.

Shipment of this release of CATIA V5 is scheduled to be completed by October 15, 2007;shipment of this release of CATIA WLS V5 is scheduled to be completed by October 26, 2007.

New licensees

Orders for new licenses will be accepted now. For new licensees, shipment will begin on theplanned availability date.

An order for CATIA V5 basic licensed programs consists of:

• A licensed standard configuration program order (5671-XXX)

• A licensed custom configuration (5671-XXX) with add-on products (5673-XXX)

• Optional licensed shareable product program order (5671-XXX)

• One system program order (SPO) (5628-CV5)

An order for CATIA WLS V5 basic licensed programs consists of:

• A licensed shareable product program order 5671-XXX

• A licensed standard configuration — enterprise option (5672-XXX)

• One system program order (SPO) (5628-WL5)

The 5671-XXX and 5673-XXX orders are required for billing and asset registration. The5628-CV5 and 5628-WL5 orders are required to ship machine-readable materials andpublications.

CATIA V5 and CATIA WLS V5 are available only on CD-ROM.

Products introduced in this release:

New CATIA V5 P1 products

Digital Product Rights Manager 1 AOP 5673-RM1

Photo Studio 1 AOP 5673-PH1

New CATIA V5 P2 products


DMU Composites Review 2 Product 5671-CPRDMU Composites Review 2 AOP 5673-CPR

Human Anthropometry Catalog 2 Product 5671-HTCHuman Anthropometry Catalog 2 AOP 5673-HTC

Human Posture Catalog 2 Product 5671-HPCHuman Posture Catalog 2 AOP 5673-HPC

Human Preferred Angles Catalog 2 Product 5671-HACHuman Preferred Angles Catalog 2 AOP 5673-HAC

Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 Product 5671-VOAVehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 AOP 5673-VOA

Products withdrawn in this release: The following products are withdrawn from marketingeffective October 1, 2007:



The following product is withdrawn from marketing effective December 31, 2007:

CATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 Product 5671-PFOCATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 AOP 5673-PFO

Product ordering: IMPORTANT:Effective May 1, 2007, 5671-, 5673-, and 5672-prefixed CrossBrand Solutions/Enterprise Software (CBS/ESW) program numbers replaced their 5691-, 5693-,and 5795-prefixed legacy equivalents. Products can be ordered only using the new programnumbers.

For example:

Old Newprogram program

Product number number

CATIA -- Assembly Design 2 Product 5691-ASD 5671-ASDCATIA -- Assembly Design 2 AOP 5693-ASD 5673-ASDCATIA -- User Companion for Hybrid Design 5795-HDS 5672-HDS

Enterprise Option Product

To configure an order for a license for a standard configuration or shareable product, specify the:

• Configuration/shareable product program number

• User quantity

• The appropriate charge option: Primary license charge (PLC) with an annual license charge(ALC) or yearly license charge (YLC)

Note: The configurator will automatically add to your order the:

• Appropriate entitlement entity identifiers, license options, and pricing metrics

• Appropriate orderable supplies (OSPs)

To order a basic license for a custom configuration, specify the:

• Standard configuration program number

• Appropriate charge option (PLC with ALC or YLC)

• User quantity

• Add-on Products (AOPs) (up to a maximum of 80)

Note: The configurator will automatically add to your order the:


• AOP indicator registration and AOP software order (SWO) number

• Appropriate entitlement entity identifiers, license options, and pricing metrics

• Appropriate OSPs

Entitlement, license option, and pricing metric information for all configurations, shareableproducts, and AOPs are contained in this section.

The following tier levels apply for all configurations and products in this announcement:

• Recurring license

– ALC User 1-9

– ALC User 10-25

– ALC User 26+

• Variable term license

– YLC User 1-9

– YLC User 10-25

– YLC User 26+

Shareable products:

New CATIA V5 P2 shareable products

5671-CPR DMU Composites Review 2 Product

Entitlement License Pricingentity Description option metric

S0148ZD CPR Prod Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148ZJ CPR Prod Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148ZG CPR Prod Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5671-HTC Human Anthropometry Catalog 2 Product


S01490H HTC Prod Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS01490C HTC Prod Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS01490F HTC Prod Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5671-HPC Human Posture Catalog 2 Product


S014904 HPC Prod Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS014901 HPC Prod Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS014900 HPC Prod Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5671-HAC Human Preferred Angles Catalog 2 Product


S0148ZS HAC Prod Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148ZN HAC Prod Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148ZR HAC Prod Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5671-VOA Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 Product



S014915 VOA Prod Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS014914 VOA Prod Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS014916 VOA Prod Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

AOPs:

New CATIA V5 P1 AOPs

5673-RM1 Digital Product Rights Manager 1 AOP


S0148Z0 RM1 AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148XZ RM1 AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148XX RM1 AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5673-PH1 Photo Studio 1 AOP


S0148VZ PH1 AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148VX PH1 AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148VW PH1 AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

New CATIA V5 P2 AOPs

5673-CPR DMU Composites Review 2 AOP


S0148WF CPR AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148W8 CPR AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148W9 CPR AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5673-HTC Human Anthropometry Catalog 2 AOP


S0148WX HTC AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148WW HTC AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148X1 HTC AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5673-HPC Human Posture Catalog 2 AOP


S0148X7 HPC AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148X6 HPC AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148XB HPC AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5673-HAC Human Preferred Angles Catalog 2 AOP


S0148XM HAC AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per UserS0148XF HAC AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148XJ HAC AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

5673-VOA Vehicle Occupant Accommodation 2 AOP


S0148WR VOA AOP Primary License Lic to Use PLC per User


S0148WN VOA AOP Recurring License Basic ALC per UserS0148WK VOA AOP Variable Term Lic Basic YLC per User

Non-billable AOP indicators: Non-billable indicators are set up under each of the 5671configurations for which the AOP is available.

5671-AB3 CATIA — Automotive Body in White Design 3 Configuration


S01493Z 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014941 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014943 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014945 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014942 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014944 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014940 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-ADD CATIA V5 Advanced Dsg 2 Configuration


S014948 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS014949 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS014946 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS01494B 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS01494C 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS014947 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChgS01494D 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Chg

5671-AM2 CATIA — Designer & Advanced Machinist 2 Configuration


S01494L 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494K 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494F 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494J 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494H 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494G 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494M 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-CD3 CATIA — Composites Design 3 Configuration


S01494P 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494V 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494W 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494T 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494R 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494N 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494S 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-CV2 CATIA — Core & Cavity Design 2 Configuration


S01496B 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014965 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014968 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014967 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014966 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014969 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014964 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge


5671-DP2 CATIA — Drawing Production 2 Configuration


S014954 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494Z 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014953 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014950 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01494X 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014952 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014951 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-DR1 CATIA V5 Drafting 1 Configuration


S014957 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014956 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495C 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014955 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495B 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014958 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014959 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-EF2 CATIA V5 Electrical System Functional 2 Configuration


S01495D 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495G 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495J 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495K 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495H 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495F 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495L 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-EI2 CATIA V5 Electrical Wire Harness 2 Configuration


S01495M 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495N 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495V 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495S 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495R 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495T 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495P 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-ER2 CATIA V5 Electrial Signal Routing 2 Configuration


S014960 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495Z 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495X 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01495W 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014961 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014963 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014962 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-FS2 CATIA V5 FreeStyle Shape2 Configuration



S0149GB 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J6 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J5 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J4 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GW 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GV 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-HD2 CATIA V5 Hybrid Design 2 Configuration


S0149GX 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GZ 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H0 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H4 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H2 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H1 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H3 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-KD3 CATIA V5 Business Process Knowledge Definition 3 Configuration


S0149H7 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HB 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H8 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H6 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HC 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H5 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149H9 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-MD1 CATIA V5 Mechanical Design 1 Configuration


S0149FC 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FH 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FJ 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FF 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FG 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FD 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FK 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-MD2 CATIA V5 Mechanical Design 2 Configuration


S0149GF 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GG 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GJ 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GH 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GD 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GC 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GK 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-ME1 CATIA V5 Mechanical Engineering 1 Configuration


S0149HT 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HP 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HV 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HS 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HM 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HR 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HN 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge


5671-ME2 CATIA V5 Mechanical Engineering 2 Configuration


S0149G6 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G3 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G5 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G7 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G8 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G4 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G9 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-MO2 CATIA V5 Mold & Die Maching 2 Configuration


S0149JC 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149JF 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J8 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149JD 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149JB 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J9 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J7 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-MS2 CATIA V5 Mechanical Simulation 2 Configuration


S0149GP 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GT 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GN 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GS 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GR 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GM 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149GL 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-PL2 CATIA V5 Plant Layout 2 Configuration


S0149HX 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HW 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HZ 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J0 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J2 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J1 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149J3 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-PM2 CATIA V5 Prismatic Machining 2 Configuration


S0149FL 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FS 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FN 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FP 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FR 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FT 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FM 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-RE2 CATIA V5 Reverse Engineering 2 Configuration



S0149HD 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HH 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HK 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HF 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HL 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HG 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149HJ 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-RM2 CATIA V5 Prep Mold & Die 2 Configuration


S014996 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014995 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014994 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014992 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014991 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014990 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014993 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-RP2 CATIA V5 Prep Prism Machining 2 Configuration


S014999 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499D 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014997 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499C 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499B 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499F 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS014998 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-SA2 CATIA V5 Structural Analysis 2 Configuration


S0149FZ 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G0 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G2 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FV 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FX 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149FW 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149G1 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-SBD CATIA V5 Solid Base Design 2 Configuration


S01499L 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499J 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499N 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499G 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499K 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499H 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499M 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-SD2 CATIA V5 Sheetmetal Design 2 Configuration


S01499W 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499P 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499S 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499T 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499X 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499R 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge


S01499V 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-SL3 CATIA V5 Aerospace Sheet Design 3 Configuration


S0149B5 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B3 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS01499Z 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B0 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B1 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B4 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B2 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-SO2 CATIA V5 FreeStyle Optimizer 2 Configuration


S0149B6 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B8 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B7 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BC 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BB 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BD 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149B9 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-TA3 CATIA — Tolerance Analysis of Deformable Assembly 3


S0149BG 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BL 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BH 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BK 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BF 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BJ 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BM 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-XM1 CATIA — Extended Mechanical Design 1 Configuration


S0149BR 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BV 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BS 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BN 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BP 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BT 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BW 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-XM2 CATIA V5 Extended Mechanical Design 2 Configuration


S0149BZ 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C3 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C4 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C0 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C2 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C1 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149BX 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-YM1 CATIA V5 Styled Mechanical Design 1 Configuration



S0149C6 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CB 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C5 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CC 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C7 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C9 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149C8 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

5671-YM2 CATIA V5 Styled Mechanical Design 2 Configuration


S0149CL 5673-CPR AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CH 5673-HAC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CJ 5673-HPC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CF 5673-HTC AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CD 5673-PH1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CK 5673-RM1 AOP Indicator AOP Registration No ChargeS0149CG 5673-VOA AOP Indicator AOP Registration No Charge

New upgrades: The product upgrade charge applies to orders for a replacement product when itreplaces a predecessor product that was obtained for a PLC/recurring charge. The predecessorproduct is discontinued upon installation of the new version. For purposes of data modelmigration and validation, a customer may continue to use the predecessor product for up to threemonths without IBM approval, but may not use both the new version product and thepredecessor product simultaneously for productive purposes at any time. If both licenses areused simultaneously the customer will be subject to the full PLC and recurring charges that applyto the replacement program, as well as the recurring charges applicable to the predecessorprogram. The three-month parallel usage of the replacement and predecessor product may beextended to more than three months on an individual basis with prior IBM approval.

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 Product (5671-SR1) from CATIA V5 EquipmentSupport Structures 2 Product (5671-ESS)

Entitlement License Pricingentity To From option metric

S012XDC 5671-SR1 5671-ESS Lic to Use PLC per User

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 Product (5671-SR1) from CATIA V5 StructureDesign 2 Product (5671-STD)


S012XDC 5671-SR1 5671-STD License PLC per userto use

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 Product (5671-SR1) from CATIA V4 3D StructureDesign Product (5676-STM)


S012XDC 5671-SR1 5676-STM License PLC per userto use

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Compartment & Access 2 Product (5671-CNA) and CATIA V5Structure Functional Design 2 Product (5671-SFD) from CATIA V5 Structure PreliminaryLayout 2 Product (5671-SPL)


S0134GN 5671-CNA (CNA+SFD) 5671-SPL Lic to use PLC per userS0131CM 5671-SFD (CNA+SFD) 5671-SPL Lic to use PLC per user


Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 AOP (5673-SR1) from CATIA V5 EquipmentSupport Structures 2 AOP (5673-ESS)


S012TMD 5673-SR1 5673-ESS License PLC per userto use

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 AOP (5673-SR1) from CATIA V5 Structure Design2 AOP (5673-STD)


S012TMD 5673-SR1 5673-STD License PLC per userto use

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Structure Design 1 AOP (5673-SR1) from CATIA V4 3D StructureDesign Product (5676-STM)


S012TMD 5673-SR1 5676-STM License PLC per userto use

Upgrade to CATIA V5 Compartment & Access 2 AOP (5673-CNA) and CATIA V5 StructureFunctional Design 2 AOP (5673-SFD) from CATIA V5 Structure Preliminary Layout 2 AOP(5673-SPL)


S012RHV 5673-CNA (CNA+SFD) 5673-SPL Lic to Use PLC per userS012TKB 5673-SFD (CNA+SFD) 5673-SPL Lic to Use PLC per user

Withdrawn products: The following products are withdrawn from marketing effective October 1,2007:



The following products are withdrawn from marketing effective December 31, 2007:

CATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 Product 5671-PFOCATIA -- Product Function Optimizer 2 AOP 5673-PFO

There are no replacement products. However, migration paths from CATIA -- Equipment SupportStructures 2 (ESS) and from CATIA -- Structure Preliminary Layout 2 (SPL) to other CATIAproducts are available in this release.

Basic machine-readable material

Orderable supplies

Only configurations ship supplies because configurations are prerequisites for all shareableproducts and add-on products. (An exception is those few products that have standalonesupplies.) For each configuration ordered, the ShopPLM configurator will add the 5628-CV5system program order (SPO) and assign an entitlement entity number for the orderable supply.

Customization options: Contact IBM Customer Support Operations for any special handling,such as suppression of media or expediting an order.

Unlicensed documentation

One English softcopy collection kit (SK3T-4124) is automatically included in all shipments.


National Language Versions (NLVs) of the softcopy publications in French, German, Italian, andJapanese will be available after general availability at no charge. Customers of record can orderone additional kit per license by ordering:

5671-NL2 Optional Softcopy Collection Kit

and selecting the appropriate orderable supply ID in ShopPLM to choose the language.

By using the following form numbers, additional softcopy collection kits can be ordered throughthe IBM Publication Ordering System

http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi

CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- English (SK3T-4124)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- French (SK3T-4125)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- German (SK3T-4126)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- Japanese (SK3T-4127)CATIA V5 Softcopy Collection Kit -- Italian (SK3T-0575)

There are no softcopy publications for CATIA WLS V5.

Subsequent updates (technical newsletters or revisions between releases) to the publicationsshipped with the product will be distributed to the user of record for as long as a license for thissoftware remains in effect. A separate publication order or subscription is not needed.

Terms and conditions

Agreement: IBM Customer Agreement

Designated machine: Not required

Variable charges apply: No

Location license applies: No

Use limitation applies: Yes, as implemented by the license management model described.

The license management model

CATIA V5 license management model: CATIA controls the number of concurrent users of aCATIA configuration or product, according to the number of license keys acquired for theconfiguration or product.

CATIA V5 delivers identical license management mechanisms on UNIX and Windowsenvironments, based on IBM License Use Management (LUM). The following licensemanagement principles apply:

• A CATIA V5 configuration (standard or custom) will require a license key. License keys forCATIA V5 configurations are acquired and released for the total configuration. The productswithin a configuration cannot be shared.

• Each CATIA V5 shareable product will require a license key, in addition to one for theprerequisite configuration and any prerequisite product, if applicable.

• In all cases, CATIA configuration license keys are acquired at the beginning of the processand are released at its termination.

• CATIA V5 add-on (AOP) and shareable products may require license keys for prerequisiteproducts that are not already included in a standard configuration. Prerequisites for shareableproducts can be satisfied by a standard configuration, by an AOP within a customconfiguration, or by a shareable product. However, because all add-on products are definedwithin one custom license key, any AOP prerequisites must be satisfied by either a standardconfiguration or by other AOPs purchased and defined within the same custom configuration.

CATIA V5 can be used in three license management modes: nodelock, with concurrent usage oflicense keys on a network, or concurrent offline license management.

Nodelock usage: The use of a local display is mandatory for CATIA V5 usage in nodelock




mode. There is no limit to the number of CATIA V5 processes launched for a given license key(configuration or product). For instance, a user can launch the following simultaneous processes:

• A V5 interactive session

• A V5 process executed through an OLE container application

• Replay of macros recorded from captured sequences of V5 user interactions

In the nodelock mode of operation, only one CATIA license key per configuration and shareableproduct can be registered per machine, and only one CATIA user can run at a time on thatmachine. If multiple license keys per configuration or shareable product, or multiple users on asingle machine, are required, refer to the Concurrent usage section.

Concurrent usage: A user on one machine on one display uses one license key perconfiguration or shareable product used, regardless of the number of processes. If the displaychanges, then an additional license key is taken for the corresponding process.

Dynamic license management: CATIA shareable product license keys can be acquired andreleased during the session. (The ability to acquire and release licenses is not available forconfigurations.) Shareable license keys acquired at the beginning of the session cannot bereleased before the end of the session; only license keys dynamically granted upon user requestduring the session can be released during the session.

Concurrent offline license management: A concurrent license key control technique isavailable via the LUM server.

Note: Concurrent offline license management is not available on 64-bit platforms.

It gives CATIA, ENOVIA DMU, DELMIA, and RADE applications running on a Windows laptopthe ability to disconnect from the license key server for a specific period of time. During thecheckout period, the server license key is unavailable for use by another concurrent user. Thisfeature is designed to add additional flexibility to a user's work environment. It is offered toaccommodate short-term travel needs and collaboration while away from a fixed officeenvironment or server connection. All ICA terms and conditions, including cross-border licensingterms, are unchanged, and users will check-out and check-in license keys at their home server,where rules and procedures are controlled by LUM.

Note to users of the following ENOVIA SmarTeam-branded CATIA integration products:

• SmarTeam — CATIA Team PDM Configuration (TDM)

• SmarTeam — CATIA Integration Product (CAI)

• SmarTeam — CATIA Web Team PDM Configuration (TDW)

These ENOVIA SmarTeam products do not support dynamic or concurrent offline licensemanagement. Licenses for these products are acquired dynamically when the function is invokedfrom CATIA and may not be released until the CATIA session is ended.

Educational allowance available: The standard educational allowance does not apply toCATIA V5 and CATIA WLS V5 products. However, these products are available in severalconfigurations under the CATIA Higher Education Academic Training (HEAT) program. Refer toEducational support for details.

Volume orders: Contact your IBM representative.

Warranty applies: Yes

Licensed program material availability

Restricted materials of IBM: NoneNon-restricted source materials: NoneObject Code Only (OCO): All

Program services: Program Services offer a method of reporting code-related problems forCATIA V5 and WLS licensed software products. Program Services are available electronicallyusing the problem submission process at the PLM Technical Support Web site at




Note: In order to use this facility, you must use an IBM ID which has associated to it the licensedIBM customer number under which the product was purchased. If you have not yet obtained anIBM ID, visit

http://www.ibm.com/account/profile/

If you have not yet associated the licensed IBM customer number to your IBM ID, you will beprompted to do so when accessing the problem submission facility.

When using Program Services, the problem report is submitted via the PLM Technical SupportWeb site; all subsequent communications will be via e-mail. The response time for theseproblem reports, regardless of the severity, will be within two business days. All communicationsmust be in English.

Not all options of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technical support e-services areavailable in all countries.

If the problem reported is not determined to be a code-related problem, the customer will beinformed that work will continue on it provided the customer has ECSR (Electronic CustomerSupport Representative) enhanced support (reference PRPQ 5799-C88) with the CATIA supportfeature. Enhanced support for WLS is included in the base product's feature code; no separateenhanced support is required.

For additional information about the enhanced support contract and other available PLM servicesofferings visit


Click on the "ECSR enhanced support details" link or contact your PLM marketing representativeor authorized IBM Business Partner for more information.

Preventive Service is delivered through the next release of CATIA V5 products. The new releasealso includes corrections to problems, depending on the time of their submission and theirseverity.

During the Program Services period, Corrective Service for CATIA V5 releases is deliveredthrough service packs on a regular basis. A service pack includes corrections for BlockingProblems in production systems reported on this release and all corrections available for allcomponents at the time it is built. Service packs are provided at the same time for all platformscurrently supported. Each service pack supersedes the previous one and may be installed on topof the released level or on top of a previous service pack. (The exception is WLS products whereCorrective Service is provided in the next release of the product. No maintenance for WLSproducts is provided in the service packs.)

Customers may request a correction via a service pack for Blocking Problems. A BlockingProblem is defined as:

• A problem that stops production: The customer is currently using the level for which a fix isrequested in a production environment.

• A problem that prevents migration: The customer must provide the migration plan.

• A problem that halts testing of a given level: A fix will allow customer to continue the testing.

• Installation problem: A problem that prevents the customer from installing or using the product.

• Regression: Problems reported as regressions may be due to an operation that was beingperformed erroneously or created incorrect data with a previous release and the currentrelease no longer permits these operations. Therefore, each problem reported as a regressionmust be evaluated. True regressions will be handled as Severity 1 problems.

Note: Customers experiencing problems with IBM License Use Management (LUM) productswhen used with CATIA V5 products may report these problems through PLM product support.Note this only applies when the LUM product is being used in conjunction with a CATIA V5product and the CATIA product is within its support period. LUM products are not included in theenhanced support offering; LUM problems will receive the Program Services level of support andmust be submitted via the Problem Reporting process at the PLM Technical Support Web site at


Program Services will be provided for this release of CATIA and WLS V5 products until October1, 2009.


http://www.ibm.com/account/profile/



For a list of all currently supported releases of CATIA, ENOVIA VPLM, and ENOVIA SmarTeamproducts visit


At the bottom of the page, select "End of support dates" under Plan, Product life cycle.

IBM Operational Support Services — SupportLine: No

Other support: PLM Support Centers

Prices

For prices, contact your IBM representative.

Use level charge: Charges for this program are based on usage levels. When a customerupgrades to a higher level of usage, a usage upgrade charge will apply, equal to the differencebetween the charge for the current level of usage and the higher level of usage.

IBM Global Financing

IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers to assist them inacquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware,software, and services, from both IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for allcustomer segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can varyby country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit

http://www.ibm.com/financing

IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States, andother IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and governmentcustomers. Rates are based on a customer's credit rating, financing terms, offering type,equipment type, and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply. Rates andofferings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal without notice.

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SP2, AIX, Rational, WebSphere, RS/6000, DB2, DB2 Universal Database, and MQSeries are registeredtrademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries orboth.

Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.

Windows and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries.

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com



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CATIA V5.18 strengthens collaborative solutions to