CATIA V5.17 boosts innovation for product excellence

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1 Software Announcement September 5, 2006 CATIA V5.17 boosts innovation for product excellence Overview Integrated portfolio supports seamless industry processes CATIA V5.17 strengthens the integration between 3D electrical harness design and documentation, further reducing design to manufacturing cycle time for the automotive and aerospace industries. This release further increases CATIA Machining NC programming and simulation efficiency to significantly reduce overall manufacturing process time. High-performance design with knowledge capture and reuse encourages innovation CATIA V5.17 further facilitates design innovation with core styling capabilities that enable designers to explore product ideas more rapidly while permitting last-minute styling modifications. CATIA V5.17 extends the 3D master approach by enabling fast and convenient display of product information, such as tolerances and annotations, in a familiar drawing layout within the 3D environment. Breakthrough technologies speed time to market CATIA V5.17 delivers a unique auto-filleting capability that enables automotive powertrain and chassis designers to reduce the time required to fillet complex parts from hours or days to minutes. This release also accelerates adoption of CATIA V5 s breakthrough functional modeling for the automotive powertrain process. Integrated Product Lifecycle Management maximizes collaboration The V5.17 VPM Navigator boosts the use of relational design by making it easier for designers to work concurrently on different part versions and to manage advanced product effectivity and configuration. The SMARTEAM Reconciliator further facilitates interaction among companies and concurrent engineering across the supply chain through ergonomic enhancements, such as batch capabilities and advanced queries. A richer 3D XML format now includes finite element analysis output to widen the scope for the use of this lightweight format and makes it easier to reuse and share 3D outside the design office. Open and scalable architecture increases flexibility Key Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market players are adopting the V5 architecture. Additional partner V5 applications launched since CATIA V5.16 extend the process coverage of V5 solutions with highly specialized applications that cover many disciplines, such as sheetmetal design-to-manufacturing and digital mock-up (DMU). Key prerequisites CATIA V5.17 runs on selected versions of: Microsoft Windows IBM AIX Hewlett Packard HP-UX SGI IRIX Sun Solaris Planned availability dates September 29, 2006, CATIA V5.17 October 20, 2006, CATIA Web-based Learning Solutions V5.17 At a glance CATIA V5.17 enhances 71 products to: Extend end-to-end industry process coverage through major enhancements in 3D harness flattening and CATIA Machining NC programming and simulation efficiency Rapidly explore design ideas with new core styling enhancements Dramatically improve design productivity with breakthrough auto-filleting Improve the ability to work concurrently across the extended enterprise through enhanced ease-of-use in the VPM 1 Navigator and SMARTEAM Reconciliator Maximize collaboration by exploiting 3D XML to share information beyond the design office 1 Virtual Product Manager This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

2 Description Integrated portfolio supports seamless industry processes CATIA V5.17 increases the value of the CATIA Electrical Harness Flattening product for harness drawing production by enabling reuse of existing flattening harnesses. This enhances productivity for faster layout editing of flattening harnesses and improves harness drafting quality with automatically generated dress-up. The flattening process becomes more robust and completes the layout process more efficiently. The enhanced CATIA Electrical Harness Design offering reduces design-to-manufacturing cycle time, especially for CATIA V5 automotive and aerospace electrical design customers. V5.17 widens the scope of the end-to-end collaborative composites solution to reduce overall design to manufacturing time. An automatic mirrored part generation function enables the designer to create a fully-associative opposite part of a design, such as wing, with a single click, saving low added value design time. The robust composites analysis and simulation tools (core sampling, nonstructural ply management, fiber direction indication) are improved to manage more complex geometries and to easily help the designer to validate the design early in the process. In addition, V5.17 offers an interactive way to easily migrate CATIA V4 models (materials, geometry, data structure) to CATIA V5 and enables the user to define zones where a splice or an overlap is not allowed, such as for structural reasons. The cut pieces will be automatically generated according to these specifications. The release improves composites manufacturing export capabilities for nesting and cutting processes and offers a new automatic ply book generation capability. This associative document enables the manufacturing operator to easily and accurately locate the ply on the mold to avoid incorrect draping. The book includes all information required to perform the process, such as 2D geometries, ply manufacturing annotations, ply group, sequence and material names, and ply thickness. In conjunction with DELMIA, CATIA V5.17 reinforces the entry-level end-to-end process for shipbuilding. It performs manufacturing preparation of heavy structure parts directly on top of 3D design data in a semi-automatic way. Release 17 further increases CATIA machining programming and simulation efficiency to significantly reduce overall manufacturing process time. It offers three new operations to significantly boost NC programming and to reduce machining time. For hard material machining, V5.17 introduces a comprehensive operation for managing plunge milling. Developed with tool makers, it features a process-oriented tool path style and fully takes into account residual stock for a collision-free tool path. In addition, V5.17 adds the capability to automatically detect full-diameter engagement situations and manages tool overload (reducing the feed rate, adding extra machining planes, adding trochoidal paths) to greatly improve machining time and cutting tool life. A new 4-axis sweeping operation machines parts with a sweeping tool path style and a tool axis driven by a 2D curve. Finally, V5.17 provides the NC programmer with a complete operation to support the machining of tubes and other parts that present an obvious central axis/curve. This availability of this operation leads to major productivity gains in NC programming for such parts. V5.17 improves the breakthrough realistic integrated machine simulation capability released in CATIA V5.16. Simultaneous, synchronized simulation of material removal and machine motion enables realistic simulation of the complete machining environment, including collision detection between machine parts and in-process stock. The simulation can use NC code generated inside or outside of CATIA V5. This capability enables a final virtual buy-off of the NC program. Additionally, the user can now analyze machined stock during integrated material simulation by accessing the Analyze, Video Measure, and Remove Chunks commands to validate the accuracy of the machined part. V5.17 greatly improves CATIA core and cavity design, especially for the stamping die process. The CATIA Core & Cavity Design product uses rough offset technology to offer a new light surface. The die designer can use this light surface in place of the original during the die design phase, providing major capacity and performance gains for ultra large designs. In addition, designers can rapidly and easily identify and modify the fillet radii of the stamping dies prior to milling, leading to significant cycle time reduction. The enhanced associativity between the parting line and the design contribute to improved productivity. Finally, V5.17 enhances mold tooling design efficiency and intuitiveness and makes it easier for the tooling designer to classify tooling elements more explicitly in the specification tree. In parallel, designers can more easily manage the component replacement process and its possible impacts. V5.17 delivers major productivity gains to sheetmetal designers for complex designs. This release greatly improves wall-on-edge design by enabling the user to define a wall-on-edge in the assembly context. In addition, the user can intuitively define most of the attributes of the wall-on-edge and the bend properties directly in 3D. Combined with the sketch-based wall definition, these enhancements significantly reduce design time. The ability to create several corner reliefs in a single operation contributes to the unmatched efficiency of CATIA V5 sheetmetal design. V5.17 also greatly simplifies the complex sheetmetal part prototyping and strip layout processes with the ability to locally fold or unfold bends with stamping features, making the design fully compliant with manufacturing processes. V5.17 extends the reach of CATIA aerospace sheetmetal design by enabling the process to handle more complex designs. Sheetmetal designers can select a ruled surface for the web and can design more complex joggles. In addition, V5.17 automates design validation and compliance with company standards, thanks to knowledge rules or checks based on characteristics curves or joggle parameters based on design tables. CATIA V5.17 delivers high-end surface quality with the CATIA V5 reverse engineering portfolio. Dedicated to surface reconstruction, the new Deviation Analysis command lets the designer control the accuracy of generated surfaces. With advanced options, it performs distance analysis of a shape according to reference elements

3 CATIA V5.17 ensures the manufacturability of non-ruled surface shapes. This release embeds a new breakthrough technology to support complex non-ruled surface flattening operations, enabling accurate manufacturing preparation of any designed shape, from rough fabrics in the textile industry to raw materials in aerospace. High-performance design with knowledge capture and reuse encourages innovation CATIA V5.17 further facilitates design innovation with core styling capabilities that enable designers to explore product ideas more rapidly while permitting last-minute styling modifications. There is no limit to complex styled surface creation, including shapes with sharp edges, thanks to unmatched offset technology. Powerful symmetry technology helps to achieve major styling productivity while conserving G2 continuity. Linking subdivision elements enables the user to perform accurate global deformation on the components of several models in a single operation. Integrating Generative Shape Design advanced operators optimizes the styling-to-design workflow. CATIA V5.17 extends the unique 2D/3D associative approach for conceptual design and extends the 3D master approach by enabling fast and convenient display of product information, such as tolerances and annotations, in a familiar drawing layout within the 3D environment. It boosts conceptual design within the 3D environment by enabling designers to easily create in-context 2D sketches from the automatic detection of existing 3D geometry displayed in the view background. Efficient, comprehensive, and standards-compliant CATIA V5 drafting capabilities always guarantee high quality when realizing drawing layout and dress-up, whether immersed in 3D or in a separate drawing document. It is continuously enhanced to cover specific needs, such as new support for customized symbols, strokes, and open type fonts. CATIA V5.17 further promotes 3D as the master representation for part and product definition. Designers can define and manage standards-compliant tolerance specifications and annotations linked to the 3D geometry so that they are directly reusable for manufacturing planners and can be shared throughout the enterprise. Designers can easily present and share 3D tolerancing and annotation in a familiar drawing layout embedded in the 3D. V5.17 enables the rapid creation of associative views from Functional Tolerancing & Annotation views or captures. Users can benefit from a more productive 3D annotation definition and layout process by realizing specific operations in a single step, such as directly managing the view ratio property for 3D annotation. It also provides a new mode that allows assembly annotations to be created inside a dedicated CATPart document. Breakthrough technologies speed time to market CATIA V5.17 brings new cutting edge solutions to speed time to market. It delivers a unique capability in the marketplace for creating cast and forged fillets in a single operation instead of through repetitive, step-by-step manual operations. Only CATIA V5 auto-filleting enables automotive powertrain and chassis designers to reduce the time for filleting complex parts for manufacturing from hours or days to minutes. This release contributes to the enhancement of CATIA powertrain solutions with a suite of unique software. Mechanical design applications, especially functional modeling, with its process-specific behaviors encapsulated in features, allow designers to develop parts with a higher level of productivity and flexibility. CATIA V5 considerably reduces the costly and time-consuming creation and modification of the design. In the context of hybrid shape creation with components coming from heterogeneous environments, such as in the body design process, CATIA V5.17 offers a powerful geometrical visualization option that enables engineers to perform accurate analysis of surface connections. Integrated PLM maximizes collaboration CATIA V5.17, with the ENOVIA VPM Navigator, boosts relational design by making it easier for designers to work concurrently on different part versions and to manage advance product effectivity and configuration. Designers can easily develop their own study, relying on approved version of parts made by peers, when in-work versions exist concurrently. V5.17 enables designers to synchronize the links of their designs to other parts and to any versions of these parts. Designers can explore more cases for better understanding and can better anticipate changes, leading to faster time to manufacturing for more innovative products. CATIA V5.17 broadens the scope of using the VPM Navigator for configuration management, with enhanced capabilities for the designer to filter and analyze configured products. Filters using a combination of date, range, milestones, or specifications can be defined, saved and modified. In addition, modification filters can be applied on top of these configuration filters. CATIA V5.17 strengthens navigation and enhances user interface customization to search, understand, and evaluate product and change impacts, improving ease of use and the ability to interpret relationships and changes. It provides a new software openness to make it easy to define the display names of ENOVIA VPLM 2 V5 documents for all generic CATIA V5 menus and windows as well as customized icons for ENOVIA entities displayed in the VPM Navigator tree. In the impact graph, naming of nodes can now be managed through boxes with multiple lines for better layout and enhanced visibility. The SMARTEAM Reconciliator further facilitates interaction among companies and concurrent engineering across the supply chain through ergonomic enhancements, such as batch capabilities and advanced queries. This release supports efficient collaboration with a richer 3D XML format throughout the product development cycle. Display of finite element analysis (FEA) output facilitates reuse and sharing 3D beyond the design office. In V5.17, 3D XML embeds in its format the FEA analysis output. This enables the analysis project manager or engineering specialist to benefit from this valuable information and to make the right product development decision without having an FEA seat. More realistic viewing of 3D XML products makes possible efficient communication and marketing for the final product, thanks to rendering material support. Automation support, also new in this release, enables easy integration of the 3D XML player in custom applications, such as Web applications. It helps to optimize control over the 3D XML player for such

4 functions as cross-highlight management and integrated multi-viewer representation. Open and scalable architecture increases flexibility Major new deliverables in CATIA V5.17 demonstrate the richness of the V5 PLM portfolio. New CAA V5 partners, and the addition of products from existing partners, continue to demonstrate the richness of the PLM portfolio: IGE+XAO Group for full electrical PLM scenarios ESI Group s fiber simulation for composites, with CAA V5-based PAM-QUIKFORM A cost optimizer from Forming Technologies, Inc. for sheetmetal processes New partner Kineo CAM for improved technology for automatic motion and path planning on the V5 platform on top of DMU Fitting In addition to Kineo, Theorem joins the CAA V5 community to deliver native V5 integration of external data (from ProE, UGS, Ideas) within a V5 session. Theorem integration leverages dedicated CAA V5 APIs and infrastructure to improve data quality and consistency. CATIA V5.17 delivers a secured and robust way to integrate data management discipline with CATIA V5, thanks to CATIA-XPDM Gateway. The gateway guarantees CATIA V5 behavior and data in a product data management context, thanks to thorough checking mechanisms. Its open development interfaces ensure high-quality integration of all types of product data management. In V5.17, further improvements put the gateway at the interactive integration level. Check-in and check-out status can be applied and visualized in the CATIA tree structure. Design rules checking secures the data before saving it. The XPDM Gateway also provides a way to actually display the links among the CATIA documents. Accessibility by people with disabilities Owing to the graphics-intensive nature of its engineering design applications, this product has been granted a deviation for Product positioning CATIA V5 is the leading solution for product excellence. It addresses all manufacturing organizations, from OEMs, through their supply chains, to small, independent producers. The range of CATIA V5 capabilities allows application in a wide variety of industries, such as aerospace, 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 and associative manner. Based on an open, scalable architecture, it facilitates true collaborative engineering across the multidisciplinary 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 knowledge and accelerate development cycles, CATIA V5 helps companies speed-up their responses to market needs. In conjunction with ENOVIA VPLM and ENOVIA SmarTeam for lifecycle management and decision support and DELMIA for manufacturing engineering, CATIA V5 is a key component of collaborative PLM. Much beyond pure CAD software packages, which provide geometry modeling features for design-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 to production tooling, its concurrent engineering and design-in-context capabilities create value by enabling companies to create products and bring them to the market. Time to market. The unequalled process coverage of CATIA, combined with the native associativity among all of its applications, gives CATIA customers the means to shorten the time to market. Right to market. CATIA s integrated analysis, simulation, synthesis, and optimization applications provide product engineering validation at each design step to ensure product quality and market acceptance. Lead the market. CATIA s advanced capabilities for collaborative engineering, knowledge capture, and re-use boost innovation and help customers to lead the market. The three CATIA V5 platforms (P1, P2, and P3) make it the most scalable solution for product creation. CATIA V5 P1 users benefit from PLM productivity in an affordable way with the security of potential growth. They can conduct associative product engineering based on CATIA V5 product design-in-context, product knowledge reuse, end-to-end associativity, product validation, and collaborative change management capabilities. CATIA V5 P2 users can optimize their PLM processes through knowledge integration, process accelerators, and customized tools. They can drive generative product engineering based on the largest application portfolio. They can perform design-to-target, extensively capture and re-use knowledge, and stimulate collaborative innovation. CATIA V5 P3 users access the highest productivity for specific advanced processes with focused solutions. They can lead expert engineering and advanced innovation, relying on unique and very 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 same data model, methodology, and management schemes. By enabling users to install P2 applications 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 users and 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 or misinterpretation of characters

5 Hardware and software support services SmoothStart /installation services IBM SmoothStart/Installation Services are not available for CATIA products. CATIA V5 services plan PLM Services, part of IBM Global Services, offers a robust portfolio of services to assist with the implementation of CATIA V5. Careful planning and implementation are essential to getting the most from CATIA V5. IBM PLM Services provides an Implementation for CATIA V5 Services Offering specifically designed to move an enterprise smoothly and successfully from CATIA V4 or other CAD systems to CATIA V5 via a flexible path that can be customized to the enterprise s needs. 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 the implementation of CATIA V5 in your environment, contact your IBM representative or IBM Services organization or visit Select PLM Services from the list of related links. Trademarks SmoothStart and Tracer are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. AIX and SP1 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States 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. 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 for additional information. Reference information For information about PLM V5,17, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 5, For information about ENOVIA VPLM V5.17, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 5, For information about ENOVIA SmarTeam V5.17, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 5, For information about CAA RADE V5.17, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 5, For information about ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM V1.6, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 5, Virtual Product Lifecycle Management Business Partner information If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld ID and password are required (use IBM ID). BP Attachment for Announcement Letter mem/sla.jsp?num=

6 IBM United States Announcement Supplemental Information September 5, 2006 Additional details This section describes the enhancements to previously announced products delivered in this release. For descriptions of previously announced CATIA V5 and CATIA WLS V5 products and other PLM solutions, visit the PLM Web site The following previously announced products remain in a controlled availability status in this release: CATIA DMU Space Engineering Assistant 2 Product (5691-SPE) CATIA DMU Space Engineering Assistant 2 AOP 3 (5693-SPE) CATIA Electrical System Functional Definition Configuration (5691-EF2) CATIA Electrical System Functional Definition 2 Product (5691-EFD) CATIA Electrical System Functional Definition 2 AOP (5693-EFD) CATIA Business Process Knowledge Template 2 Product (5691-BK2) CATIA Business Process Knowledge Template 2 AOP (5693-BK2) CATIA Knowledge Definition 3 Configuration (5691-KD3) CATIA Business Process Knowledge Template 3 AOP (5693-BKT) 3 Add-on Product CATIA Platform 1 (P1) CATIA V5.17 enhances 23 previously announced products. Enhanced products: Enhancements to a P1 product also apply to the corresponding P2 product. Mechanical Design CATIA Assembly Design 1 (5693-AS1) Assembly Symmetry enhancement Many designs are symmetrical, and symmetry can save lot of time and keep data consistent. Previously, the symmetry command was applicable only to the part body or external view. V5.17 removes these restrictions and improves the usability of this command. The assembly symmetry command now supports bodies, open bodies, geometrical sets, ordered geometrical sets, and axis systems. It is also possible to isolate a symmetry instance (with respect to geometry or position). This enhancement enables the user to remove the geometrical link between the symmetry instance and the original instance so that the original and symmetry instances can be isolated from each other. Control of the sketcher Add to Display function A new option is available in the Constraints and Dimensions options tab page. Any sketcher dimensional constraint created while the option is on can be manipulated as a knowledge parameter, in formulas or in rules, for example. Redundant constraint warning message when creating or editing This message helps the designer to optimize a constraint network by alerting the designer of an over-constraint condition when creating redundant constraints. Each time the user creates, reconnects, or re-activates a constraint that is fully redundant or that makes another constraint redundant relative to one that is already in the current network, an interactive message is displayed to notify the designer of this condition. Scene reordering A new command, Applicative Entities Reordering, is added to complete scenes management. This command enables the user to manually reorder applicative data entities under their respective application node in the specification tree. The command works exactly the same as it does in the DMU Navigator workbench. CATIA Part Design 1 (5693-PD1) Ergonomics and productivity Draft analysis without persistency This enhancement provides the user with a freestyle draft analysis function. Sketcher This release improves the fix together and output profile functions and updates the contextual menu. These enhancements improve productivity and quality. Quality Threads Additional parameters dedicated to thread features can now be set when using formulas. Draft automatic untwist This improvement extends the drafting capability for casting design, core and cavity design, and mold and forging design. Process coverage Split behavior improvement for multi-lump This enhancement: -- Implements the same behavior for a single solid and a lump of multi-lump solids -- Decreases error cases, even if the split result is a null body This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

7 -- Decreases the behavior differences between B-representation face use and surface use Sweep This release introduces a Move Profile to Path option. This enhancement allows the user to create a rib or slot by moving the profile to the path. Technological results Enhancements in this release support the downstream processing of holes, threads, and user-defined features (UDFs). -- Customer-defined knowledgeware parameters are now included in the technological information that is propagated for thread and hole features. -- Technological information associated with UDFs is now propagated. Such information is essential to completing the design-to-manufacturing process for advanced features. CATIA Wireframe & Surface 1 (5691-WS1, 5693-WS1) No Keep option when propagating a datum s status While modifying a datum, its show/no-show status is transferred to the result datum. This capability fosters communication among designers. New option for creating points A point between two given points along a support can now be created by selecting the support (curve or surface). All points must lie on the support. This capability significantly improves productivity when working on the detailed design of complex parts. Tolerant blend enhancements This release adds: Automatic smoothing of generated blended surfaces Creation of continued blended surfaces even if boundary curves are of bad quality These enhancements shorten the tolerant modeling process cycle while assuring reliable surface quality. Replace command The Replace command is now available for generative design on the P1 platform. Users can now replace one geometric element with another. All elements based on the replaced element are automatically updated. This enhancement makes it easier to make updates when modifications occur late in the design phase. Inversion management during replace Inverted features are no longer shown in the tree for better associativity management. This enhancement also improves specification tree management, especially when using ordered geometrical sets (OGS). Deactivate Components command enhancement In V5.17, this improved command allows the user to manage aggregated elements and children. In this way, it is possible to deactivate elements within an ordered geometrical set or a geometrical set in a complex part for such purposes as protecting a part of the 3D model from an update. Reorder command enhancement This command now gives the designer true freedom to move elements belonging to an ordered geometrical set or body to any position within the specification tree to suit their own process. New selective loading agent In the visualization mode, only necessary parts are loaded in the context of the exact intersection of a very large product structure in the datum mode with a GSD plane. This enhancement results in significantly improved performance and reduced memory consumption. CATIA Generative Drafting 1 (5693-GD1) CATIA V5.17 introduces a number of customer deployment enhancements. Associative graphic dress-up reset command This enhancement gives the ability to restore the original graphical properties of generated items that were overloaded. It also provides a set of tools for managing the defined associative dress-up properties. This associativity is optional to improve performance for scenarios where it is not required. Back-clipping plane This new behavior enables the definition of a 3D clipping object, limiting the 3D geometry used by the extraction process. This 3D clipping element is stored in the drawing document. The user can now define the 3D limits of the view to be processed in the generative drafting workbench. This new object is integrated by the View Update standard process. Using this new 3D clipping object will allow shipbuilding customers to easily work on a 3D slice in a 2D view or mechanical customers to simplify the geometry of complex parts in a view. (It enables the same capability as the CATIA V4 back-clipping plane.) Detail callout text leaders Text leaders can now be perpendicular to circular callouts. This new behavior enables the leaders for circular detail callouts to respect drafting standards. When creating a circular detail view, the leader associated with the callout remains perpendicular to the circle. The leader anchor point moves all around the circle to keep this perpendicular orientation. Circular callouts created before V5.17 are not affected. Generated points Generated points are named based on the name of the 3D point. A new generative view style parameter specifies whether or not the name of generated points should be inherited from the 3D representation. Non-displayed clipping border outside of geometry A new Clipping View command enables the user to hide the boundary of the clipping profile outside of the part or product geometry. There are two clipping view modes: The new Clipping View command uses a Boolean operator from the 3D view, whereas the Quick Clipping View command computes the view directly from the 2D projection. Either operation can be performed using a circle or a sketched profile as a callout. Support of screw-nut standard representation (the screw being uncut while the nut being cut) In a section view or a breakout view, a screw in a threaded hole is no longer considered to be a clash. Raster views It is now possible to display in the raster view the same colors as in the 3D geometry. A new raster view option is available to deactivate 3D lighting. It provides two additional modes for shading options with default lighting sources deactivated. For the two existing shading modes, the two lighting spots modify the color appearance with reflection effects, but in some cases, it could be useful to have the true color. These new modes are: -- Shading, no light source -- Shading with edges, no light source

8 CATIA Interactive Drafting 1 (5691-ID1, 5693-ID1) Productivity Area fill enhancements This release adds the ability to: -- Detect area fill profiles according to a new tolerance optimized for generative and sketched geometry -- Systematically create isolated area fills on top of 3D generated geometry only -- Modify the shape of area fills without loosing pattern customization -- Manage support geometry deletion when deleting an area fill Dimension leader enhancements With V5.17, users can: -- Lengthen or shorten the leader first part of Leader One Part and Leader Two Parts dimension representation by a manipulator, direct manipulation, or Edit properties -- Change the angle of a leader first part by manipulator or direct manipulation These enhancements improve designer productivity by placing dimension values so they are readable and by providing direct manipulation to change the length of the leader first part and the angle of dimension line sub-parts. 2D components 2D components can now be instantiated without a link. Process Coverage Dimension clipping The user can now create, modify, or remove a dimension clipping. Fix together constraint This constraint provides a way to easily manage a group of geometries as a rigid entity in any design phase. It makes it easy to manipulate a large number of elements and therefore increases productivity. It represents a major improvement for 2D designers, who usually need to manipulate many elements as a rigid body, in that they no longer need to fully constrain all elements. Open type fonts (OTF) This release adds support for the use of customer-owned OTF fonts in annotations. Kerning parameters can be applied to control the spacing between letters for text features. (Kerning applies to OTF fonts only.) Stroke font print ratio This enhancement ensures compliance with ISO for printing stroke fonts by extending the capability for managing stroke font thickness. Minimum distance dimension When selecting two curves, or a point and a curve, a new dimension type, called Minimum Distance, is now available in addition to the Distance type. The Minimum Distance type creates a dimension that is the absolute minimum distance between two curves or between a point and a curve. If this minimum exists at several different locations, only the first location (according to first curve parameterization) will be available as the anchor for dimension line extensions. This new dimension type is used to measure and display the minimum distance between two curves in a normalized way. DXF This release adds support for: -- Exporting layer names (on option) -- Exporting splines -- Importing files from AutoCAD 2004, 2005, and 2006 Support is added for using 2D line types on curves. Customers can now tailor symbol lists to accommodate industry-specific requirements. -- Modify the font and the character of basic symbols -- Add, remove, or modify the parameters of custom symbols -- Reorder engineering symbols CATIA 2D Layout for 3D Design 1 (5691-LO1, 5693-LO1) V5 Openness This release adds VisualBasic (VB) Script support for 2D layout. Productivity Area fill enhancements This release adds the ability to: -- Detect area fill profiles according to a new tolerance optimized for generative and sketched geometry -- Systematically create isolated area fills on top of 3D generated geometry only -- Modify the shape of area fills without loosing pattern customization -- Manage support geometry deletion when deleting an area fill Dimension leader enhancements With V5.17, users can: -- Lengthen or shorten the leader first part of Leader One Part and Leader Two Parts dimension representation by a manipulator, direct manipulation, or Edit properties -- Change the angle of a leader first part by manipulator or direct manipulation These enhancements improve designer productivity by placing dimension values so they are readable and by providing direct manipulation to change the length of the leader first part and the angle of dimension line sub-parts. 2D components 2D components can now be instantiated without a link. View background manipulation This enhancement facilitates the manipulation of 2D layout views that do not contain any elements and that are represented only by their background. It adds an option that lets the user select and manipulate a 2D layout view by clicking or dragging any element of its background. When the option is off, everything behaves as in prior releases, but when it is on, any element of the background is seen as being the view for the mouse. Highlight propagation V5.17 enhances highlight propagation. Prior to Release 17, when a 2D layout view was selected, all of its content was highlighted. If the view was visible in 3D, view content was also highlighted in 3D. If the view was visible in the background of 10 other views, view content was also highlighted in the 10 backgrounds. In such a use case, view content would be highlighted 12 times. Highlighting so many

9 elements can take too much time when using 2D Layout for 3D Design as a design tool. The V5.17 highlight propagation enhancement significantly improves performance by allowing the designer to control the propagation of the highlight from the layout, the sheet, and the view to their sub-elements. Now, with a view selected, the propagation of the highlight can be switched off so that the view frame is highlighted instead of the view sub-elements. On the other hand, when highlight propagation may be needed for review purposes, it can be switched on. Process coverage Commands for creating and editing geometry in the view background When sketching geometry in a layout view, it is now possible to detect and/or use geometries located in the view s background. The background geometry becomes the reference (but is not modified). This highlight dramatically increases productivity in the 2D conceptual design phase by enabling the designer to work on the entire product structure in 2D against a 3D background. View creation from Functional Tolerancing & Annotation (FTA) view and capture This function takes into account tolerancing captures in order to support customer 3D master processes. It provides the ability to: -- Create associative 2DL views, FTA views, planes, or sketches -- Create filtered 2DL views from FTA captures Dimension clipping The user can now create, modify, or remove a dimension clipping. Open type fonts (OTF) This release adds support for the use of customer-owned OTF fonts in annotations. Kerning parameters can be applied to control the spacing between letters for text features. (Kerning applies to OTF fonts only.) Stroke font print ratio This enhancement ensures compliance with ISO for printing stroke fonts by extending the capability for managing stroke font thickness. Minimum distance dimension When selecting two curves, or a point and a curve, a new dimension type, called Minimum Distance, is now available in addition to the Distance type. The Minimum Distance type creates a dimension that is the absolute minimum distance between two curves or between a point and a curve. If this minimum exists at several different locations, only the first location (according to first curve parameterization) will be available as the anchor for dimension line extensions. This new dimension type is used to measure and display the minimum distance between two curves in a normalized way. Support is added for using 2D line types on curves. Customers can now tailor symbol lists to accommodate industry-specific requirements. -- Modify the font and the character of basic symbols -- Add, remove, or modify the parameters of custom symbols -- Reorder engineering symbols CATIA 3D Functional Tolerancing & Annotation 1 (5693-FT1) Productivity Dimensions With this release, users can change the dimension extension line anchor point when creating a dimension on or between cylinders, cones, and circles. It provides the switch from dimensions attached to an edge or to the center of geometric features through 3D manipulators when using the Dimensions command or the Tolerancing Advisor dimension commands. The capability to modify on the fly the dimension attachment (edge or center) delivers higher productivity and better usability. Dimension leader enhancements With V5.17, users can: -- Lengthen or shorten the leader first part of Leader One Part and Leader Two Parts dimension representation by a manipulator, direct manipulation, or Edit properties -- Change the angle of a leader first part by manipulator or direct manipulation These enhancements improve designer productivity by placing dimension values so they are readable and by providing direct manipulation to change the length of the leader first part and the angle of dimension line sub-parts. 3D annotations 3D annotations are now automatically mirrored when displaying a capture. This enhancement improves ease of use and productivity. Support of customer deployment Dimensions on part geometry Users can now create dimensions on geometry that should be recognized as canonical, even though it is depicted as non-canonical by the geometrical modeler. The user can create dimensions directly on the part geometry without having to add construction geometry. This capability provides ease of use and higher productivity to client processes. FTA view ratio property for 3D annotations for display scaling purposes A new 3D FTA view ratio property allows the user to manage the display size of all the annotation and symbols that are defined in the view. Open type font support This release adds support for the use of customer-owned OTF fonts in annotations. Kerning parameters can be applied to control the spacing between letters. (Kerning applies to OTF fonts only.) Process coverage This release adds the ability to create assembly annotation sets inside a CATPart document. Users can now define a fake value for curvilinear dimensions defined on electrical features. Minimum distance dimension When selecting two curves, or a point and a curve, a new dimension type, called Minimum Distance, is now available in addition to the Distance type. The Minimum Distance type creates a dimension that is the absolute minimum distance between two curves or between a point and a curve. If this minimum exists at several different locations, only the first location (according to first curve parameterization) will be

10 available as the anchor for dimension line extensions. This new dimension type is used to measure and display the minimum distance between two curves in a normalized way. Symbol list customization Symbol lists can now be tailored to accommodate industry-specific requirements. -- Modify the font and the character of basic symbols -- Add, remove, or modify the parameters of custom symbols -- Reorder engineering symbols Ergonomics Clipping planes are enhanced by enabling the clipped contour edges to be displayed when no material is applied to the part. The user can now show clipping as hatching, as dotting, or as coloring when activating the clipping plane command or displaying a capture with a clipping plane. Collaborative SRM 3D annotations defined at the product level can be saved as 3D XML. V5 Openness CAA can be used to: Get and set consumable properties of 3D annotations Create curvilinear dimensions Create a group of annotations Set Link to file or URL of an NOA CATIA Tooling Design 1 (5691-TG1, 5693-TG1) Batch generation of technological results (TR) Release 17 provides a batch process to make it easy to generate all the technological results for a component and its drilled bodies for tooling assemblies that were created before V5.16. This batch facility lets mold designers benefit from the TR technology to maintain: Tight integration between tooling and drafting/machining applications The associativity between the plate to be machined and the tooling assembly design, use patterns, mirror, symmetry, and so on, in the definition of the tooling components while retaining technological information Component insertion This function is enhanced to make it easier for the tooling designer to classify tooling elements more explicitly in the specification tree. Copy Reference is replaced with Isolate Component This change enables users to copy elements independently without retaining the reference to the original element. Replace References This command makes it easier to efficiently manage the replacement of components, such as when changing references to all instances of the component or keeping the position/instance name in the specification tree. The command also makes it easier to manage the impact of replacing components. A new Synchronization command is available for split surface reduction. It automatically updates all reduced split surfaces when changing the position or dimensions of a component. CATIA Sheetmetal Design 1 (5693-SM1) Bend extremity This new type of extremity can be used to obtain closed seam/mitered corners for a laser welding process. Corner relief V5.17 delivers automatic creation and view management for corner reliefs. The new function creates several corner reliefs in one operation and helps the designer by automatically selecting zones where the corner relief is needed. In addition, the sheetmetal designer can now design a corner relief directly in the folded (3D) view. Together, these enhancements deliver major productivity gains. Local unfold Improvements in this release enable the user to locally fold or unfold bends with stamping features, with an option to select all bending faces to unfold (or fold). This capability is particularly relevant to complex part prototyping and strip layout processes. Recognition in the user interface V5.17 significantly enhances recognition capabilities by enabling designers to preselect such geometries as a wall, a bend, or a stamp. In addition, the designer can define zones that are not to be recognized and can preview all the recognized entities. Relief option for bridges This option lets the user define a bridge directly using square or round reliefs. Wall-on-edge This function is significantly improved in this release by enabling the sheetmetal designer to define a wall-on-edge in context. The user intuitively defines most of the attributes of the wall-on-edge directly in 3D (height, width, limits on surface, and so on), as well as the bend properties. In addition, the user can define a sketch-based wall, which leads to significant design time reduction. Mirror transformation The user can generate in one click the mirrored parts of a design with automatic detection of the tear area. CATIA Structure Design 1 (5691-SR1, 5693-SR1) Process coverage V5.17 adds the ability to move an instance of a plate or shape to another location of the product structure. Material management deployment is enhanced to make it functionally consistent with Structure Functional Design (SFD) and Ship Structure Detail Design (SDD). Packaging For piece part generation, Structure Design now supports attribute mapping from Ship Structure Detail Design (SDD). CATIA Functional Molded Parts 1 (5691-FM1, 5693-FM1) Process coverage Internal features can now be extended to the complete core definition. This enhancement changes the behavior of both the user-selected core shellable feature and the core feature so that their volumes are no longer bounded by the shellable volume. Internal features that remove material from the negative core volumes can now extend beyond the shell boundary. This enhancement improves usability by simplifying internal core features. Productivity Automatic-manual update mode switch The user can now use an icon to switch the update mode between manual and automatic without having to select the mode from the Tools->Options menu sequence. The new icon improves usability, performance, and the productivity of advanced users by enabling them to switch the update mode in one click