Shape Design & Styling
CATIA - Generative Shape Optimizer 2 (GSO)
CATIA V5R18
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Shape Design & Styling
CATIA - Generative Shape OptimizerExtend the combined wireframe and multiple surface creation featuresof CATIA - Generative Shape Design 2 (GSD) with its powerful globaldeformation technologies
Product overview
CATIA - Generative Shape Optimizer 2 (GSO)
extends the wireframe and multiple surface
creation features of CATIA - Generative
Shape Design 2 (GSD) with powerful global
deformation technologies. Based on
exclusives smarts tools, CATIA - Generative
Shape Optimizer 2 (GSO) allowing the user to
deform shapes quickly and decreasing the
time to complete the design process.
Product Highlights
Brings a new set of high productive tools
to locally deform complex surfaces
Offers breakthrough means in some
specific industrial processes
Transfers surfaces from a revolution
shape to a plane one and conversely
Product Key Customers Benefits
Local deformations creation ... CATIA -
Generative Shape Optimizer 2 (GSO) offers
several options for creating local, or global,
deformations on a surface:
- BUMP : Relative to a specific point, create a
surface deformation in the form of a bulge or
hollow.
- Wrap Curves : Create a surface deformation
based on an initial and final status. Statuses
are built with networks of curves wherein
each initial curve is associated with a final
one.
- Wrap Surfaces: same logic as Wrap Curves
above.
- Shape Morphing: allows to deform an
existing shape through defined constraints
This is very useful for instance for: 3D Late
editing like Aerodynamics studies ; 3D
Morphing keeping Functional/Manufacturing
constraints ; Introducing Manufacturing
Process based deformations within
Generative Design (Design by Template) ;
Conceptual Design
Process Centric breakthroughs... GSO will
certainly bring a positive productivity gap to
the Body-in-White community through its
Diabolo Seat feature. This allows to create
support seats for some functional parts.
Furthermore, the "Junction" allows the user to
join several surface sections (whether
isotopological or non-isotopological) with
tangency management. The ability to join
surfaces in this way is a major productivity
improvement.
Develop ... This function allows the user to
transfer curves between revolution surfaces
and plane surfaces. This capability will be of
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particular interest to manufacturers whose
products use revolution forms
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