Shape Design

Shape design talks directly to people’s heart. Successful products in the market are usually those with designs that elicit positive emotional response from their consumers. Creative designers must be equipped with software tools that enable them to easily craft and adjust the product’s emotional content through their designs, all while collaborating with the engineering department to ensure proper coverage of product functional scope.

CATIA Shape products and solutions covers the entire shape design, styling or surfacing workflow from industrial design to Class A. Our intuitive and easy to use shape design tools give everyone involved in the product design process, from industrial designers, Class A modelers to Aero Lofting engineers, a real freedom to design any kind of complex shapes. Advanced functionalities include reverse engineering, Class-A surfacing, rapid propagation of design changes, powerful real-time diagnostic tools and high-end visualization. CATIA enables shape designers or design studios and engineering departments to work collaboratively in optimizing the product design for aesthetic and engineering purposes.