Teamcenter

Teamcenter: Integration for Catia V5

Capture, manage and share Catia V5 data in a cPDM environment

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Summary
Teamcenter® Integration software for Catia V5 allows you to reduce your product development cycle times and cost by enhancing
your Catia V5 environment to support best-in-class collaboration within your organization and with customers and suppliers, while
enabling access to a preconfigured collaborative Product Data Management (cPDM) environment to further optimize your product
development process.

Benefits Teamcenter Integration for

Less time spent by your technical Catia V5 enables all the design
staff in finding the correct revisions information created in Catia V5
of Catia data
to be captured, controlled and
Enables consistent work processes
to be followed across all data shared by your organization is
formats a single, highly secure cPDM
Faster product change and approval environment, while version
processes resulting in decreased management and access
time-to-market control ensure that the right
Integrate your Catia files with all of people get the right
your technical data to provide a
single source of product information at the right time.
information that supports your
complete design-through- Using the Integration for Catia,
manufacturing process design teams can quickly search
and access Catia parts,
Features assemblies and drawings to eliminate time wasted trying to find and share design information, while
Use Teamcenter cPDM functions reducing change orders by ensuring that everyone is working from the latest design information.
available from the Catia V5 interface
Create and edit Catia V5 models, The capabilities go beyond workgroup CAD data management, enabling design teams at different
drawings and assembly relationships locations and through your supply chain to work closely together to streamline the product
Perform partial load and load merge development process through multi-site collaboration.
for efficient assembly management
Create new product revisions or Extend the value of Catia V5 with Teamcenter’s cPDM environment
version updates for work in
progress Everyday task and process management. Teamcenter delivers a cPDM environment that is focused on
managing everyday tasks and processes for design through manufacturing. Industry best practice
Generate drawing title blocks using
Teamcenter attributes workflows for product release and engineering change are included to ensure that these processes
Manage mechanical properties of are conducted consistently and efficiently.
Catia models and assemblies
Multi-CAD collaboration. Teamcenter’s multi-CAD support enables design teams to create and modify
On demand access to the user’s
Teamcenter workplace component designs on any major CAD system, and assemble their innovations into a multi-CAD
Store, load and migrate Catia V4 product design. Teamcenter synchronizes the product information to ensure that everyone is
data to V5 working from the latest designs while automatically managing both native and neutral CAD
representations.
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Supported Catia items

• Models (load and migrate V4 models to V5)
• CATParts (V5)
• CATProducts (V5)
• CATDrawings (v5)

Integration for Catia V5 – supported functions

• Load – new or merge with existing to create an assembly
• Save – as a new revision, new version, new assembly or individual items
• Save assembly – as a new revision, new version, new assembly or to create new items
• Synchronize title block using Teamcenter database attributes
• Proximity search for selective/partial product structure load
• Preserve and navigate multi-model links
• Create, configure and edit assemblies using Teamcenter and/or Catia V5
• Automatically generate and vault lightweight visualization (JT) files for digital mockup
• Save mechanical properties including volume, weight, surface area, moments of inertia
• Work with multiple Catia sessions and leverage the V5 CGR cache
• Store, load and migrate Catia V4 data to V5
• Workspace – access Teamcenter workspace and functions such as search and retrieve, where used,
check-in/check-out, view and workflow

The Teamcenter advantage

Teamcenter is the world’s most widely deployed PLM system, and is backed by Siemens PLM
Software’s leadership in delivery. Users of Teamcenter can easily expand the scope of their cPDM
implementation by taking advantage of Teamcenter’s comprehensive portfolio of applications and its
proven scalability in terms of performance and global implementation.

Contact
Siemens PLM Software
Americas 800 498 5351
Europe +44 (0) 1276 702000
Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333
www.siemens.com/ugs
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