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Better Design for Improved Quality


GeomCaliper®

for

CATIA V5®


Topics

• Need of Wall Thickness Analysis• Traditional way• GeomCaliper Overview• Benefits• Features• Customer Testimonials• What’s New in 2.1


Need for Wall Thickness Analysis

• Designers & Engineers spend significant time in various analysis tasks

• Wall thickness in certain class of parts governs product quality

• Existing tools – such as FEA – are too complex for running “quick checks” & also require expertise to use

• Quick Thickness check required for• Manufacturability check• Product Design (strength) validation• Weight reduction


Traditional Way…

Take sections of the CAD model at every 5 mm along X, Y and Z axes

Inspect each section for Critical Thickness Location


GeomCaliper® for CATIA V5®

• The tool for quick & easy measurement of thickness in 3D models.

• Check thickness along various sections in the 3D models

• Strongly integrated with CATIA V5 R14, R15, R16, R17 and R18


Benefits

• Quick & easy way to check design for manufacturing

• Savings in downstream costs due to improved part quality, as a result of early analysis and design correction

• Improved design productivity and quality

• Fits in workflow- Toolbar in CATIA V5

• Locates thick and thin regions in castings


GeomCaliper Thickness Analysis within CATIA V5


GeomCaliper Features

• Quick and accurate thickness measurement tool

• Easy to locate critical thickness areas

• Advanced visualization for easy interpretation of results

• Dynamic thickness display at point click

• Compute thickness at selected regions

• Ability to Ignore small thickness at edges

• Customizable reports in XML format


What our customers say

"From the beginning of tests on GeomCaliper, we found that GeomCaliper was an efficient and high quality solution to the conception work. It is clear that GeomCaliper brings so many advantages if compared to the old way of making thickness analysis. Without GeomCaliper several sections of the model were created manually along X, Y and Z axes and then some detailed analysis were made locally. Time need for the 2D classical analysis was very important.

GeomCaliper let users make semi-automatic 3D analysis on the entire model. GeomCaliper input data are exactly the same data that are produced from user, no additional pre processing is needed: GeomCaliper read directly CATIA V5 files! Other kinds of thickness analysis are available too but their utilisation in PSA is lower.

GeomCaliper integration in PSA environment has been easy and low cost; its interface with CATIA V5 is good and improved at every new release."

Mario BASILEChargé d'Affaires CAO SSCPSA PEUGEOT CITROËN

"From the beginning of tests on GeomCaliper, we found that GeomCaliper was an efficient and high quality solution to the conception work. It is clear that GeomCaliper brings so many advantages if compared to the old way of making thickness analysis. Without GeomCaliper several sections of the model were created manually along X, Y and Z axes and then some detailed analysis were made locally. Time need for the 2D classical analysis was very important.

GeomCaliper let users make semi-automatic 3D analysis on the entire model. GeomCaliper input data are exactly the same data that are produced from user, no additional pre processing is needed: GeomCaliper read directly CATIA V5 files! Other kinds of thickness analysis are available too but their utilisation in PSA is lower.

GeomCaliper integration in PSA environment has been easy and low cost; its interface with CATIA V5 is good and improved at every new release."

Mario BASILEChargé d'Affaires CAO SSCPSA PEUGEOT CITROËN

"GeomCaliper has proven to be an effective and valuable tool in the campaign to keep quality up and costs down. We have integrated GeomCaliper into our design process and it has resulted in a 75% reduction in the time taken to check wall thickness of complex models. At the same time it is allowing us to discover those hidden critical areas that otherwise may have gone undetected"

Scott Lanski,Design ManagerDaimler Chrysler Corporation

"GeomCaliper has proven to be an effective and valuable tool in the campaign to keep quality up and costs down. We have integrated GeomCaliper into our design process and it has resulted in a 75% reduction in the time taken to check wall thickness of complex models. At the same time it is allowing us to discover those hidden critical areas that otherwise may have gone undetected"

Scott Lanski,Design ManagerDaimler Chrysler Corporation


What’s New in 2.1


Customizable Color Band Define your own intervals, colors and range values


Customizable Color Band Define your own intervals, colors and range values


Thickness analysis based on Contact Distance in Sphere Method


Enhanced mechanism for generating thickness analysis reports


Ability to find critical regions lying 'Outside' the given thickness range


Define / Modify parameters like Status, Color and Comments for multiple critical regions at a time


Customizable options for display of critical regions


In GeomCaliper workbench in CATIA, color band shifted from dialog to the CATIA viewer


Import GeomCaliper results in CATIA, shifted from Part Design workbench to GeomCaliper workbench


Thickness analysis with GeomCaliper through command line or batch mode (needs batch license).

Performance Improvement:

a. Significant Improvement in Visualization Performance for Large Models.

b. Computation Time Reduced by about 30 %.

Ability to Import GCX files created in version 2.0

Added support for CATIA V5 R18

New Features…


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