Shape Design & Styling CATIA - Freestyle Shaper 1 (FS1) CATIA V5R18
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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