CAD Fusion Plug-ins:
- Dassault CATIA
- PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®
- UGS® NX
Features
- Automatic CAD variables import
- File export in multiple file formats
- CAD rule checking and macros
- Live CAD geometry updates during ModelCenter trade studies
- Common Conceptual and Preliminary design environment
- Early input/feedback from Preliminary to Conceptual designers
- Consistent CAD model hand off from Conceptual to Preliminary designers
- Shorter design process with fewer reworks
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Integrate CAD with ModelCenter analysis.
Join Conceptual and Preliminary design
teams in a common, interactive
environment.
Phoenix Integration's CAD Fusion bridges the hand-off between Conceptual and Preliminary design, enabling your organization to:
- Introduce high-fidelity CAD/CAE tools earlier into the design process
- Integrate design geometry with trade study analysis
- Increase collaboration between Conceptual and Preliminary design teams
- Detect design problems sooner to reduce rework
- Enable expanded analysis of alternatives through automation of CAD models
Our CAD Fusion plug-ins interface PHX ModelCenter® with leading CAD applications, including Dassault CATIA, PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® and UGS® NX. Each plug-in, without end-user programming or scripting, automatically imports geometry from the CAD application. Designers use CAD variables such as volumes, surface areas, weights, CGs, etc. as variables in ModelCenter and view the impact on CAD geometry as variables are changed in ModelCenter. Geometry can be refreshed for each design iteration in ModelCenter and exported to other applications.
Convergence of Conceptual and Preliminary Design
With CAD Fusion, design teams share a common language for a more collaborative and efficient design process. Preliminary designers can provide early feedback to Conceptual designers to help avoid costly rework later in the design process. Conceptual designers give Preliminary designers a CAD model that already meets many of the design criteria, thus shortening the process.
Value-Added Design Capabilities
CAD Fusion increases the value of both ModelCenter and CAD applications in your organization with:
- Robust CAD automation
- CAD tool crash workarounds
- CAD memory leak workarounds
- Direct integration with CAD tools
- No least common denominator translators
- Access special features of each CAD tool
- Export multiple file formats from each CAD program
- Invoke CAD macros
- Run CAD rule checking
- Extract variable units
- Compute commonly used parameters
- Volume
- Surface Area
- Mass Properties
- Show or Hide CAD tool as needed