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CATIA V5

Technical detail

CATIA V5.18 features the following enhancements:


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 new design review environment, which provides access across the entire value chain to part specifications.
  • CATIA V5.18 enables effective Electronics CAD and Mechanical CAD design 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-step further by integrating knowledge early in the design process for significant quality improvements.


Design performance for innovation

Just be the imagineer.

  • CATIA V5.18 strengthens 3D Master representation and maximizes users' productivity by allowing automatic creation of FT&A features. This ensures that 3D conceptual design complies with product specifications.
  • Functional modeling now supports the design of complex machined parts, especially in the aerospace industry, extending this unique modeling approach to more manufacturing processes.
  • CATIA V5.18 popularizes photorealistic rendering of product design, 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 automotive powertrain and chassis designers for foundry tooling design thanks to the breakthrough Auto-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 3D collaboration. This step greatly extends 3D collaborative interaction from designers to collaborators to consumers.
  • CATIA 3D Live brings 3D functional tolerancing and annotation into the reach of thousands of non-specialized CATIA users, spreading product information to virtually the complete extended enterprise.
  • CATIA V5.18 extends the scope for multi-discipline 3D collaboration, extending applicative data support from within the VPM Navigator to offer a superior design environment for CATIA users.


Easy, open and scalable

Adaptable to you.

  • Key PLM market players continue to adopt V5 architecture. V5.18 reaches with more than 100 partners, launching several CAA applications, and extending the process coverage in many disciplines, such as reverse engineering and electrical design.
  • ICEM Shape Design (ISD) V5 sets a new standard for Automobile Class A design in the automotive industry. V5 users benefit from improved workflow operations and increased productivity.
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