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CATIA V5-6R2012
Product Enhancement Overview
John Montoya, PLM Technical Support
March 2015

© 2010 Inceptra LLC. All rights reserved.

Release Note

There were very few functional enhancements to this release, as the main R&D
priority was to synchronize the releases between V5 and V6.
R&D efforts were focused on aligning the code for the first major release of
V5/V6 forward and backward compatibility with FULL FEATURE HISTORY.

V5-6R2012
V5R20 V5R21
(aka R22)
As Spec
As Spec

As Result As Result As Spec /

As Result

V6R2010x V6R2011x V6R2012/12x

Overview of Enhanced Products
Overview of Enhanced Products

› Infrastructure
• V4 Integration

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Overview of Enhanced Products

› Mechanical Design
• Part Design

• Interactive Drafting

• 2D Layout for 3D Design

• Sketcher

• Wireframe and Surface

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Overview of Enhanced Products

› Shape Design & Styling

• Generative Shape Design & Optimizer

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Overview of Enhanced Products

› Machining
• Prismatic Machining

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Infrastructure
Infrastructure

› V4 Integration

› New Functionality

› Migrating Draw Data from .Model Files to a Layout

• Help Documentation explains the process of migrating data from .model to a
layout

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Mechanical Design
Mechanical Design

› Part Design

› Enhanced Functionality

› Creating Rectangular Patterns

• You can now create rectangular pattern with the staggered configuration.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Shells
• A new Propagate faces to remove check box is available for creating a shell.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Variable Radius Fillet s

• A new Edit Fillet Values option is available for crating a variable radius fillet.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Chordal Radius Fillet s

• A new Edit Fillet Values option is available for crating a chordal fillet.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Face-Face Fillets

• A new Near Point option is available for creating a face-face fillet.

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Mechanical Design

› Computing Mean Dimensions

• A new warning message is available informing you the active dimensioning
system. It also gives you an option to either convert the active dimensioning
system or retain it.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Remove Face Feature

• You can deactivate the Remove Face feature if it fails at the time of creation. It
allows you to save a lot of time otherwise required for input selection and its
computation.

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Mechanical Design

› Interactive Drafting

› Enhanced Functionality

› Creating Equidistant Points

• You can now create equidistant points by selecting two isolated points rather
than two points on a curve.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Corners
• You can now keep the radius value when creating a corner and use it by default
for other corner creations.

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Mechanical Design

› SmartPicking
• You can now specify the position of an offset curve by taking into account the
limiting point of an existing curve.

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Mechanical Design

› 2D Layout for 3D Design

› Enhanced Functionality

› Creating Equidistant Points

• You can now create equidistant points by selecting two isolated points rather
than two points on a curve.

› Creating Corners
• You can now keep the radius value when creating a corner and use it by default
for other corner creations.

› SmartPicking
• You can now specify the position of an offset curve by taking into account the
limiting point of an existing curve.

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Mechanical Design

› Sketcher

› Enhanced Functionality

› Intersecting 3D Elements with the Sketch Plane

• The Intersection dialog box is available with the Element(s) to intersect, Near
element and No Canonical Curve options.

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Mechanical Design

› Projecting 3D Elements onto the Sketch Plane

• The Projection dialog box is available with the Elements(s) to intersect, Near
element and No Canonical Curve options.

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Mechanical Design

› Modifying a 3D Geometry Offset

• The No Canonical Curve check box is available in the Offset Definition dialog
box.

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Mechanical Design

› Offsetting 3D Geometry Offset

• The No canonical curve detection option is available in the Sketch tools
toolbar.

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Mechanical Design

› Creating Equidistant Points

• You can now create equidistant points by selecting two isolated points rather
than two points on a curve.

› Creating Corners
• You can now keep the radius value when creating a corner and use it by default
for other corner creations.

› SmartPicking
• You can now specify the position of an offset curve by taking into account the
limiting point of an existing curve.

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Mechanical Design

› Wireframe and Surface

› Enhanced Functionality

› Stacking Commands
• You can remove the unused contextual features by selecting the Remove
Unused Contextual Features contextual command. The stacked commands
are organized in two levels during edition.

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Shape Design & Styling
Shape Design & Styling

› Generative Shape Design & Optimizer

› New Functionality

› Creating a Rolling Offset

• This new functionality lets you create a rolling offset curve to the reference
element.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Silhouettes
• This new functionality lets you create silhouettes using reflect lines,
extraction of edges and removal of non visible areas of the contour
capabilities.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Sew Surfaces

• This new functionality lets you add or remove material by modifying the
surface of the solid.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Remove Face Features

• This new functionality lets you simplify 3D shapes when they are too
complex for finite element analyses.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Chamfers
• This new functionality lets you create chamfers by selecting one or more
edges.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating a Blend Corner

• This new functionality enables you to create blend corners and locally
redesign the surfaces.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating 2D-View Sections

• This new functionality lets you create 2D-view sections which is a set used
as a means to visualize geometry details along multiple section planes and
that can contain all types of shape design features.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Enhanced Functionality

› Auto filleting
• A new Round radius option to round convex edges and a new Invert material
side button to reverse the orientation of the material have been added.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Rough Offset Surfaces

• You can now create a rough offset with minimum deviation.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Trimming Geometry
• You can now trim the surfaces using the Pieces mode.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Deforming Elements According to Shape Morphing

• Three new constraint options: None (G0), Rigid tangency and Rigid space are
now available with four new transformation types: Reference translation,
Reference isometry, Reference similarity, and Reference linear transformation.
• The new Parameters tab enables you to define constraint propagation on the
deformed surface.
• You can now easily identify the target point of the corresponding reference
coupling point.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Unfolding a Surface
• You can now visualize the distortion in the 3D view.
• A new Distortion color maps area has been added. The check boxes in this
area enable you to display distortions of the surface to unfold and unfolded
surface.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Fill Surfaces

• You can now define a fill surface using inner boundaries.
• You can select a continuity type for each support surface.
• You can now select curves as passing elements.
• You can now create a fill by selecting only the inner boundaries and passing
points.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Creating Variable Offset Surfaces

• You can now select the offset law type between Linear and S type.

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Shape Design & Styling

› Working with Multi-Sections Surfaces

• A new Area Law tab enables you to define and control the shape of a multi-
sections surface between its sections by defining a law..

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Machining
Machining

› Prismatic Machining

› New Functionality

› Add PP Word in Machining Patterns and Axial Operations

• You can insert and display PP Word instructions before any hole in the
Machining Pattern and Axial Machining Operations.

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Machining

› Create a Pocketing Operation for Machining Closed Pockets

• A new command in geometry panel of Pocketing and Profile Contouring
operations is added for the selection of a permanent representation of a PMA
feature from the 3D viewer.

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Machining

› Create a Profile Contouring Operation – Side Step First

• This provides the following benefits to the user: Reduce overall machining time,
remove unnecessary connecting motions between the guides, and each guide
would be machined completed and then the tool would move to the next guide.
• This would reduce the number of operations the user has to create currently in
order to achieve the result of completing machining on each guide and then
moving to the next guide.

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Machining

› Enhanced Functionality

› Pocketing Machining Operations

• Three new strategies Concentric, Inward Spiral Morphing, and Outward
Spiral Morphing are added in the Tool Path Style.
• These strategies are dedicated to hard material milling and ensure:
• Constant amount of material removal and load on the tool for Concentric
strategy.
• Continuous cutting motion without retract and maximum step over to
control the load on the tool for Spiral Morphing.

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Machining

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Machining

› Profile Contouring Operation

• The following enhancements increase automation and productivity:
• Control of the side to machine: instead of relying on the orientation of the
first curve, you can select a 3D point to indicate the material side without
ambiguity.

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Machining

› Profile Contouring Operation

• The following enhancements increase automation and productivity:
• Improved Processing of Join in Profile Contouring: Chain curves form a
join in contiguous sets and process each set as a guide contour.

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Machining

› Profile Contouring Operation

• The following enhancements increase automation and productivity:
• Control of the Tool Axis Motion in Profile Contouring: A parameter
Smoothing tool path along Tool Axis (%) is added in the Step over tab to
smooth the tool path and avoid motions along the tool axis direction.

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Machining

› Profile Contouring Operation

• The following enhancements increase automation and productivity:
• Support of Multiple Contours: No need to split the Profile Contouring
operation into several operations.

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Machining

› Improved Collision Check and Collision Avoidance

• Ability to include the Part from Part Operation in the collision check performed
on macro for the following Machining Operations:
• Profile Contouring, Groove Milling, Pocketing, Facing, Curve Following, 4x
Pocketing and Trochoid Milling Machining Operations.
• The Part from Part Operation check box is added in the Collision Checking
dialog box and the Collision Checking button is added where needed in
the Geometry tab.

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Machining

• Improved Intermediate Stock Management in Axial Machining Operations

• A Drill through stock up to bottom check box is added in the Geometry tab.
This helps to perform the axial operation start from top of the stock up to bottom
of the stock in case of Through hole .
• A Spot drill to part check box is added in the Geometry tab of the Spot
Drilling Machining Operation. It allows the drilling from the intermediate stock up
to the part (and ensures the spot-drilling depth/diameter on the part).
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Machining

• Prismatic Roughing
• When the tool is in contact with a revolution surface, you can choose to generate
an arc interpolation output.
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Machining

• 3D Viewer of Prismatic Machining, Machinable Axial Feature and Machining

Pattern
• This gives you the capability to identify a Prismatic machining area feature
visually in 3D viewer by moving the cursor over feature or selection in
manufacturing view.
• This also gives you the capability where the system would add representations of
Prismatic Machining Area Feature and Machinable Axial Features in 3D viewer.
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