Overview

Composites Design is an advanced composites process centric solution that allows manufacturers, from aerospace to automotive or consumer goods companies, to reduce the time needed to design composites parts. It delivers tools to cover both the preliminary and detailed design phases while taking into account, even at the concept stage, the product requirements for finite element analysis and manufacturability.

This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Composites Design product.

Composites Design in a Nutshell

Composites Design uniquely delivers a powerful composites design solution with all the advantages of the V6 architecture: native integration, pervasive knowledgeware capabilities, and V6 ease of use.

The following products are also available as sub-parts of Composites Design:

  • The CATIA Composites Engineering (CEG) product provides process oriented tools dedicated to the design of composites parts from preliminary to engineering detailed design. Automatic ply generation, exact solid generation, analysis tools such as fiber behavior simulation and inspection capabilities are some essential components of this product. Enabling users to embed manufacturing constraints earlier in the conceptual design stage, this product shortens design-to-manufacturing period.
  • The CATIA Composites Manufacturing Preparation (CMP) product provides process oriented tools dedicated to manufacturing preparation of composites parts. With the powerful synchronization capabilities, CMP is the essential link between engineering design and physical manufacturing, allowing suppliers to closely collaborate with their OEMs in the composite design process. With CMP, manufacturing engineers can include all manufacturing and producibility constraints in composites design process.
  • All three products are split into two workbenches.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Composites Design will also certainly prove useful.