This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.
This overview provides the following information:
l Generative Shape Design in a Nutshell
l Before Reading this Guide
l Getting the Most Out of this Guide
l Accessing Sample Documents
l Conventions Used in this Guide
Generative Shape Design in a Nutshell
The Generative Shape Design workbench allows you to quickly model both simple and complex
shapes using wireframe and surface features. It provides a large set of tools for creating and editing
shape designs and, when combined with other products such as Part Design, it meets the
requirements of solid-based hybrid modeling.
The feature-based approach offers a productive and intuitive design environment to capture and reuse
design methodologies and specifications.
This new application is intended for both the expert and the casual user. Its intuitive interface offers
the possibility to produce precision shape designs with very few interactions. The dialog boxes are
self explanatory and require practically no methodology, all defining steps being commutative.
As a scalable product, Generative Shape Design can be used with other Version 5 products such as
Part Design and FreeStyle Shaper and Optimizer. The widest application portfolio in the industry is
also accessible through interoperability with CATIA Solutions Version 4 to enable support of the full
product development process from initial concept to product in operation.
This User's Guide has been designed to show you how to create and edit a surface design part. There
are numerous techniques to reach the final result. This book aims at illustrating these various
possibilities.
Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document
windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure
User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes
the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.
You may also like to read the following complementary product guides:
l Part Design User's Guide
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step
Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial will show you how create a basic shape design part.
Once you have finished, you should move on to the Basic Tasks and Advanced Tasks sections, which
deal with handling all the product functions.
The Workbench Description section, which describes the Generative Shape Design workbench, and
the Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options, will also certainly prove useful.
Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct
access from the table of contents to the information.
Accessing Sample Documents
To perform the scenarios, sample documents are provided all along this documentation. For more
information on accessing sample documents, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the
Infrastructure User's Guide.
Conventions
Certain conventions are used in CATIA, ENOVIA & DELMIA documentation to help you recognize and
understand important concepts and specifications.
Graphic Conventions
The three categories of graphic conventions used are as follows:
l Graphic conventions structuring the tasks
l Graphic conventions indicating the configuration required
l Graphic conventions used in the table of contents
Graphic Conventions Structuring the Tasks
Graphic conventions structuring the tasks are denoted as follows:
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estimated time to accomplish a task
a target of a task
the prerequisites
the start of the scenario
a tip
a warning
information
basic concepts
methodology
reference information
information regarding settings, customization, etc.
the end of a task
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