Better Design for Improved Quality
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GeomCaliper®
for
CATIA V5®
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Need of Wall Thickness Analysis
Traditional way
GeomCaliper Overview
Benefits
Features
Customer Testimonials
What’s New in 2.1
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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
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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
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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
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Benefits
• Quick & easy way to check design for manufacturing
• Locates thick and thin regions in castings
• 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
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GeomCaliper Thickness Analysis within CATIA V5
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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
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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 BASILE
Chargé d'Affaires CAO SSC
PSA 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 Manager
Daimler Chrysler Corporation
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What’s New in 2.1
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Customizable Color Band
Define your own intervals, colors and range values
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Customizable Color Band
Define your own intervals, colors and range values
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Thickness analysis based on Contact Distance in Sphere Method
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Enhanced mechanism for generating thickness analysis reports
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Ability to find critical regions lying 'Outside' the given thickness range
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Define / Modify parameters like Status, Color and Comments for multiple critical
regions at a time
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Customizable options for display of critical regions
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In GeomCaliper workbench in CATIA, color band shifted from dialog to the CATIA
viewer
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Import GeomCaliper results in CATIA, shifted from Part Design workbench to
GeomCaliper workbench
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New Features…
 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
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