Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Freestyle Shaper 1 (FS1)

CATIA V5R18

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Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Freestyle ShaperProvide surface-based tools to help designers create styled shapes andsurfaces

Product overview

CATIA - Freestyle Shaper 1 (FS1) provides

easy to use surface-based tools to help

designers create styled shapes, enabling

even casual users to easily smooth and trim

curves and surfaces. Real-time quality

checking is possible through extensive curve

and surface diagnosis tools to ensure quality.

Product Highlights

Integrates styling and production surface

design

Provides tools to dynamically and easily

create shape and surface designs

Presents curve and surface diagnosis

tools for real time visual quality checking

Enables dynamic, interactive shape

deformation

Generates native high quality surfaces

Addresses hybrid modeling requirements

through integration with other CATIA

products

Allows design in context of the Digital

Mock-up in a multiple part environment

Interoperable with Version 4 data and

applications

Offers the same ease of use and user

interface consistency as all CATIA V5

applications

Product Key Customers Benefits

Rapid Shape and Surface Designing... The

CATIA FreeStyle Shaper 1 (FS1) drastically

simplifies the shape design process by

unifying all types of free-form curves and

surfaces in a single math-free representation.

With the comfortable Windows interface,

intuitive surface sculpting and real-time

diagnosis and visualization, designers are

able to reduce their design cycle time.

No Data Conversion... CATIA Version 5

FreeStyle Shaper 1 offers a consistent

approach to conceptual shape design and

production surface design. Industries

requiring industrial design will save design

cycle time by avoiding data conversion

between several systems.

Flawless, Styled Shapes... Designers can

create flawless, styled shapes from scratch,

in order to model three-dimensional free-form

curves and surfaces. The system can blend

and extrude curves, fill, and blend or match

surfaces. Users have total control over all

levels of continuity up to G2 curvature

continuity. Ultimately, the system enables the

use of a pure surface-based approach that

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minimizes the need for curve manipulation.

Real-Time Visual Quality Control...

Shaper 1 provides immediate visual quality

control through real-time curve and surface

diagnosis tools. These tools include:

Environment mapping

Porcupine analysis of curvature

Connection checker

Surface/element distance analyzer

Draft mapping analysis

Curvature mapping analysis

Quality and Aesthetic Control... Interactive

shape deformation allows users to easily

adjust their designs. Designers change the

shapes by matching, smoothing and trimming

curves and surfaces. Users intuitively modify

control points on shapes and trimmed

surface boundaries with direct mouse-based

manipulation. Deformation laws on the control

points refine the actions.

Math-Free Representations with

Associative Propagation... FreeStyle

Shaper 1 uses a unified math-free

representation for all types of free-form

curves, surfaces, trimmed surfaces or

trimmed surface boundaries. It still preserves

the full power of the underlying NURBS

(non-uniform, rational B-splines), Bzier and

other supported representations. This allows

for the direct manipulation of bodies with

associative propagation of surface

modifications on all related topology.

Full Product Integration... Designers often

have to model hybrid parts that involve a

combination of mechanical features and

free-form shapes. FreeStyle Shaper 1

combines with the CATIA V5 Part Design 1

and Assembly Design 1 products to address

this hybrid modeling requirements. This

unique approach allows a seamless design in

context of an environment composed of

mechanical parts.

CATIA Version Compatibility... FreeStyle

Shaper 1 is interoperable with CATIA Version

4 data and applications. Existing V4

customers know their investment is protected

because FreeStyle Shaper 1 can migrate in

their existing V4 design features: curves,

surfaces, faces, skins and clouds of points.

Conversely, V4 applications can use V5

shapes for functions such as analysis,

manufacturing, digital mock-ups and

assembly design.

Ease Of Use... In addition to the unique ease

of use of CATIA V5, FreeStyle Shaper 1 offers

a fast, keyboard free, sketch-like surface

creation and manipulation allowing designers

to unleash their creativity while sculpting

shapes.

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