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Product Overview

3DCS CAA V5 Based is the state-of-the-art dimensional tolerance analysis tool for simulating design and manufacturing / assembly processes. As a Dassault Systemes Premier Gold Partner, 3DCS is fully integrated into CATIA V5 leveraging the digital prototyping and visualization capabilities of V5. Tolerance analysis modeling has never been more accurate, effecient to perform and easy to use. Design & tolerance changes are immediately reflected in the 3DCS tolerance model. The result is faster development of higher quality products at a lower cost.

Business Values

Optimize Product Designs and Processes

3DCS CAA V5 Based allows CATIA^TM users the ability to evaluate design and assembly concepts up front, where problems can be identified early in the product development lifecycle. Optimizing for dimensional integrity improves the robustness of your design and process by maximizing part tolerances while maintaining the dimensional requirements of your final assembly.

Reduce Cycle Time and Rework Costs

Shorten development time, accelerate time to market, and reduce costs by utilizing the capabilities of 3DCS CAA V5 Based for digital prototyping. By maximizing part tolerances while still controlling dimensional requirements, manufacturing costs can be reduced with less rework to tools and gages, minimized scrap and reduced warranty defects. 3DCS CAA V5 Based reduces your bottom line and significantly improves product quality by validating that parts fit and function together before design release and throughout production.

Key Product Features & Benefits

• Identify Contributors - Localize tolerances and assembly processes responsible for variation.
• Fully integrated into CATIA V5 - Model data stays within the CAD system. Automatically read embedded FTA (GD&T) for accurate tolerance definition.
• Accurate assembly modeling - Vast array of “Move” routines to simulate any assembly process.
• Animate variation On-Screen - Visualize clearances & interferences, sweep parts and assemblies within their statistical boundaries.
• Create Models Without Geometry - Perform tolerance analysis before CAD geometry exists to help drive the design.
• Specify Distribution Types - Select from a comprehensive set of statistical distribution types to represent differing manufacturing processes.
• Comprehensive tolerance analysis - with Monte Carlo Simulation, High-Low-Mean (Sensitivity Analysis) and GeoFactor Analysis.
• Perform What-If Analysis - Learn the impact of dimensional variation on the final assembly before costly tooling begins.
• Evaluate Geometric Factors - of critical dimensions within assemblies and enhance the robustness of the design.
• Easy to use - Quickly build analysis models with an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphical user interface, all within a single CATIA V5 window.
• Reuse Models - Capture commonly used processes and build a library of easily accessible models.

Add-on modules to 3DCS CAA V5 Based

Check out these additional cutting edge modules for 3DCS CAA V5 Based

• 3DCS CAA V5 FEA Compliant Modeler - simulates compliant part and assembly deformation resulting from manufacturing operations such as clamping, welding, unclamping, and force application.
• 3DCS CAAV5 Analyzer Optimizer - (3DCS AAO) provides the ability to precisely Analyze contributors to variation and Optimize component tolerances and associated costs.
• Geofactor Analysis - assesses the geometric effect of part interfaces and locating strategies, assembly sequence, and assembly process during the design phase; where changes are most cost effective.

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