Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)

CATIA V5R18

Shape Design & Styling

CATIA - Imagine & Shape

Enable designers and engineers to quickly, intuitively, transform a shape
idea into a 3D geometric model.

Product overview
Dedicated to aesthetical shapes creation for
industrial and conceptual design, CATIA Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) introduces very new
concepts, breaking the traditional approach
of surfaces modeling. It could be used in any
domains needing quick surface creation,
including rapid virtual prototyping, ideas
expression and simulations. CATIA - Imagine
& Shape 2 (IMA) combines a powerful
technology, based on subdivision surfaces,
and a simple use, making easy for a non
surface specialist to design within a CAD
system. CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) is
really shaped to leverage in V5 the
engineering of emotional content: From ideas
to 3D becomes then quick and easy for all.

Product Highlights
Engineers the emotional content of
products
Enables more free form alternative design
studies, less physical mock-ups
One
solution,
from
styling
to
manufacturing
Puts Styling at the heart of PLM

Product Key Customers Benefits

Engineer the emotional content of
products within CATIA V5
Modify the objects, improve their style and

performance, create new shapes, integrate

new functions but also invent the products of
tomorrow, while taking into account
socio-cultural trends, economic stakes and
manufacture constraints: these are the
challenges which fall on the lap of industrial
design.
On this wide and complex area, CATIA Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) introduces a
revolutionary way to design products by
enabling (any) users to quickly, and simply,
transform a shape idea into a 3D exact
geometric model. It can be done directly in
CATIA V5 without sketching or prototyping.
This new approach, unique on the CAD
market, leverages the engineering of the
emotional content of products and fosters
innovation.
A unique technology to serve product
innovation with CATIA V5
The subdivision surfaces... CATIA - Imagine
& Shape 2 (IMA) breaks the traditional
approach of surface modeling by introducing
a technology already intensively used in

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entertainment but for the first time adapted

into a CAD system : the subdivision surfaces.
This technology enables users to define,
and control, a shape through a meshing.
Using this meshing, users can then easily
deform the shape locally and globally.
The surfaces created are exacts, could be
opened or closed, support sharp edges and
the connections between surfaces are G2.
Moreover, this technology enables the
creation of surfaces compliant with any
CATIA V5 applications.
This technology implies also very light
data management, and a construction's
methodology easy to understand.
Supported by a dedicated curve modeler...
To support the subdivision surfaces
technology, CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)
introduces a powerful curve modeler based
on an aesthetical approach. This new
modeler provides users with a natural and
intuitive way of drawing and controlling a
complex curve. These curves can be created,
a posteriori, in the model. The subdivision
surfaces can be then controlled by curves for
global deformation. The internal connections
between curves are G3.
Handled in a new user interface... CATIA Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) offers also a brand
new efficient user interface, speeding
workflow for experienced users and
accelerating learning curve for new users.
Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) you
can :
From an idea, directly shape high quality
surfaces,
Drive/refine surfaces through curves,
Provides for all an easy access to styling.
More free form alternative design studies,
fewer physical mock-ups

designs he can review. Using CATIA Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), designers can
create very quickly many different digital
design shapes, review the different options,
evaluate the better ones, in conjunction with
the CATIA rendering products (RTR for
dynamic review, PHS for realistic pictures),
and then take the decision to make a
mock-up.
Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) you
can:
Explore more styling ideas, quicker,
Reduce the number of physical mock-ups
by selecting only the relevant ones,
Create innovating products easier.
Start from scratch or leverage your
knowledge
Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA),
users can start to shape a new idea from
nothing, or from sketches, and then
directly continue in detailed design stage
or refine before the shape in others V5
applications, including CATIA Freestyle
Shaper 2 (FSS) and CATIA - Generative
Shape Design 2 (GSD). In another field,
CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA) benefits
also from the ability to create quickly
templates through the V5 knowledgeware
capabilities. The user can then start from a
pre-shaped product and define a family of
parts for instance.
Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), in
conjunction
with
V5
Styling
and
Knowledge portfolios, you can:
Benefit from a complete and flexible
V5 styling solution,
Accelerate new products development
by
leveraging
your
knowledge
capitalization.
One solution from styling to manufacturing

From a designers' perspective, the main

reason for the physical mock-up is to look at
different design shapes and obtain approval.
Because this is an expensive task, the
designer is limited to the amount of different

As a V5 product, CATIA - Imagine & Shape

2 (IMA) is natively integrated with all the
others V5 applications, from style surface
engineering to manufacturing. Integrated

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implies : firstly, there is no need of data

conversions between the styling and the
engineering design departments during
the required modification loops. Secondly,
the native integration supports a full
assossiativity between the styling and all
the downstream V5 applications, meaning
that a styling modification can be quickly
propagated.
Using CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA), in
conjunction with V5 portfolio, you can :
Leverage the collaboration between
different teams, and especially between
designers and engineers,
Accelerate the early stages of the
design process by iterating sooner,
quicker and more often on high quality
style definition,
Ensure a fast and right propagation of
the style modifications to the engineering
team : replace, or modify, doesn't mean
any more redo !
Put styling at the heart of the V5 PLM
The CATIA - Imagine & Shape 2 (IMA)
users benefit naturally from the overall
PLM Solution provided by Dassault
Systmes
including
ENOVIA
V5
and
SMARTEAM for data and product lifecycle
management.
This
unique
referential
leverages
collaborative
work
giving
access to advanced PLM practices such
as concurrent engineering and change
management.

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