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CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling (SFE)
Advanced surface and wireframe meshing capabilities for complex geometries

CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling

Make CAD-Integrated Advanced Meshing
Work for You
Global competition requires the creation of better products
faster and at lower costs without sacrificing quality. CADintegrated advanced meshing has benefits for analysts in
terms of efficiency, reliability, and lifecycle management.
Meshes generated in a CAD-integrated environment are
fully associative with the geometry, saving time, ensuring
synchronization between mesh and geometry, and providing
consistent management of valuable meshing IP.
Performing simulation earlier in the design phase with
industry-proved design-integrated analysis technology can
provide significant time and cost savings.

About CATIA V6 Surface FE Modeling
CATIA Surface FE Modeling provides meshing capabilities
for specialists who require high-quality meshes of complex
surface parts and wireframe geometries. Complex parts
can be meshed automatically or using a number of manual
meshing tools that provide a high degree of control over
the meshing process. The solution supports creating finite
element models with assembly joints and other fasteners,
including spot seam and surface welds. It also provides
tools to analyze mesh quality according to pre-defined and
customizable criteria.

Features & Benefits
•tAdvanced meshing of surfaces based on geometry

simplification ensures that small geometric features
do not adversely affect element size and quality.

•tMesh associative with the design ensures that

any changes to the geometry automatically cause
the mesh to be updated so that the mesh and the
geometry always remain in sync.

•tLocal mesh constraints can be applied quickly

and easily facilitates user control over meshes
on complex surface parts and to impose mesh
constraints required when modeling connections,
such as spot welds and flexible joints.

•tCustomizable mesh quality analysis provides a

thorough understanding of overall mesh quality and
individual element quality with respect to userdefined quality criteria.

•tIntegration with Knowledgeware technology

enables mesh specifications to be defined with
knowledge-based parameters, ensuring compliance
with corporate standard and the experience of
expert analysts.