This is an exciting post for me! Dassault has just come out with a couple of new bundles that blow the doors off anything I have seen previously.

CATMEE – Mechanical Engineering Excellence

The first package is named CATMEE; this would be the “Mechanical” version of the package. In Classic terms, previously for this purpose I would have recommended an MD2 trigram.  In PLM Express bundles, I would have recommended a CAC+MCE bundle to these types of users. They are typically heavy on the mechanical solid modeling portion of CATIA, and do not do very much surfacing.  CATMEE is a CAC+MCE on steroids! It includes CAT3DX (which I talked more about in my last post) AND also includes bundles for FPE (Fabricated Product), JTE (Jig and Tool Creation), PRX (Animated Product Review), FTX (3D Master), and TRE (Technical Specifications Review).

CATMEE Package Bundle

I realize that this sounds like a bunch of trigram soup. What does it really mean in CATIA V5? Well from a workbench standpoint, the CAC+MCE add-on looks like this:

CAC+MCE Workbenches

From a workbench standpoint, CATMEE looks like this:

CATMEE Bundle Workbenches

Take a closer look: you get Sheet Metal, 3D GD&T functionality (the good one, FTA!), Mold Tooling, Structure Design, and also DMU! In fact Kinematics, Space Analysis and Fitting Simulation alone can get expensive as an add-on, but here it comes with the bundle. Imagine cutting a section and it actually still being there when you click OK, and being available in the specification tree and updates when you change your part, as well as clearance checks, interference checks, etc.  MD2 and/or CAC+MCE users know exactly what I am talking about!

If you are in the market for a new seat or two this year and you are a mechanical customer, you should talk to your account manager and ask about this package; the new configurations not only help your productivity, but also help you expand your capabilities of what kinds of parts and markets you can get into.

CATMSE – Mechanical and Shape Engineering Excellence

This package is where you will really get your bang for the buck! CATMSE is a package we would have previously bundled as either an HD2 (Classic) or CAC+MCE+HDX (PLM Express). It is designed more for the mechanical and surfacing (Hybrid) type of role as a designer. Traditionally CAC+MCE+HDX overall gave you the GSD version of the Generative Shape Design workbench (better sweep functions, laws, etc) as well as a DL1 (Developed Shapes Toolbar in GSD) and a light version of Freestyle workbench (FS1).

With the CATMSE, you have CAT3DX+ FPE+FTX+JTE+PRX+TRE (descriptions are above) as well as MPE (Molded Product Creation) HCX (Mechanical Shape Optimization) in place of the above MCE and HDX trigrams. Also included is an FSX (Freestyle Shape Design) add-on.

CATMSE license bundle

The workbenches for CAC+MCE+HDX looked like this:

CAC+MCE+HDX Workbenches

When you look at what workbenches for CATMSE that are included it looks like this:

CATMSE Workbenches

This is a serious seat of CATIA here. Just like in the CATMEE above, sheet metal, and 3D GD&T as well as all the DMU. Also included is Healing Assistant, the better Functional Molded Part (FMP) that includes core-cavity extraction, STL Rapid Prototyping, GSO (Generative Shape Optimizer) functionality, RSO (Realistic Shape Optimizer) for morphing engineering parts to calculate for windage, springback, etc, AND a FULL seat of FreeStyle (FSS) with the Freestyle Sketch Tracer, and Freestyle Shape Optimizer (FSO).

From mechanical and tooling to CLASS A modeling and sketching, this bundle has just about everything you could need in a CATIA Seat to develop parts. A side development married to B side development to the tooling creation and simulation – what more could you ask for? I should also mention on top of everything else, you have a PCS and CNV license to connect to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to manage your data with ENOVIA.

I hope you can tell how excited I am about these new packages – please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or reach out with any questions or to get started with these new options. Our team at Tata Technologies is available for any questions and for all your CATIA needs.