Shape Design & Styling Domain Overview

CATIA V5 offers highly intuitive tools to easily create, validate and modify any type of surfaces, from freeform surfaces to mechanical shapes.

Mechanical designers, shape designers and stylists will find within the following products the extensive set of functionalities supporting their surface modeling, editing and validation processes. High quality rendering will bring your virtual creation to reality.

CATIA V5 Shape Design & Styling solutions allows to all size companies to :

Master up to high complexity shapes

CATIA V5 Shape Design & Styling solutions provide an integrated competitive environment to handle both Free Form, Aesthetical, Aero surfaces and Mechanical Surfaces. According to your industry and your skill, this unmatched surfacic system answers from general to specialized requirements. For example:

• Exterior skin of an airplane: Lofting
• Complex tyre Sculptures
• Aesthetical Bottles
• Automotive inner panels : Body in White

In an accessible intelligent way...

• High Productivity, efficiency
• Meeting precise constraints and environment
• Accessible to non expert users
• Integrating and capitalizing Knowledge

By allowing the most flexible modification schemes...

• Through Specs driven Wireframe and surfaces
• Provide the first Feature based definition of Free Form Surfaces
• In an hybrid (Solid Surfaces) environment