CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling (SFE) Advanced surface and wireframe meshing capabilities for complex geometries CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling Make CAD-Integrated Advanced Meshing Work for You Global competition requires the creation of better products faster and at lower costs without sacrificing quality. CADintegrated advanced meshing has benefits for analysts in terms of efficiency, reliability, and lifecycle management. Meshes generated in a CAD-integrated environment are fully associative with the geometry, saving time, ensuring synchronization between mesh and geometry, and providing consistent management of valuable meshing IP. Performing simulation earlier in the design phase with industry-proved design-integrated analysis technology can provide significant time and cost savings. About CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling CATIA Surface FE Modeling provides meshing capabilities for specialists who require high-quality meshes of complex surface parts and wireframe geometries. Complex parts can be meshed automatically or using a number of manual meshing tools that provide a high degree of control over the meshing process. The solution supports creating finite element models with assembly joints and other fasteners, including spot seam and surface welds. It also provides tools to analyze mesh quality according to pre-defined and customizable criteria. Features & Benefits • Advanced meshing of surfaces based on geometry simplification ensures that small geometric features do not adversely affect element size and quality. • Mesh associative with the design ensures that any changes to the geometry automatically cause the mesh to be updated so that the mesh and the geometry always remain in sync. • Local mesh constraints can be applied quickly and easily facilitates user control over meshes on complex surface parts and to impose mesh constraints required when modeling connections, such as spot welds and flexible joints. • Customizable mesh quality analysis provides a thorough understanding of overall mesh quality and individual element quality with respect to userdefined quality criteria. • Integration with Knowledgeware technology enables mesh specifications to be defined with knowledge-based parameters, ensuring compliance with corporate standard and the experience of expert analysts.

Other Features & Benefits • Creation and simultaneous solving of multiple analysis cases for static, frequency and buckling analysis promotes efficient modeling and solution for large-scale structures under a variety of different loading situations. • Variable bearing loads, thermal loads and the import of generalized variable loads from external applications enable analysts to accurately analyze the effects of complex loading conditions using both built-in and external tools. • Composite properties specification and postprocessing enables analysis of models built with complex layered composite...