I was not able to attend this year but the reports I have received show that it was a good event and people had a good level of discussion and education. Thanks for taking the time to write the article about COE. It was not feasible to migrate all of Cessna’s historical data to V6 in time to support the Latitude’s development schedule.Ĭonsequently, Cessna has to share CAD models among the V4, V5, and V6 versions of Catia. But shortly after the project started, executives decided to re-use the wing and empennage designs of an older model, the Citation Sovereign.īecause the Sovereign was designed in Catia V4 with updates in V5 and because the Sovereign is still in production with part changes occurring regularly, Cessna needs to keep its existing Catia V4 VPM system in production as the Latitude is being designed. Like the Bell 535, the Latitude was supposed to be an all-new design. Cessna Latitude Craig Hull of Cessna Aircraft gave a presentation about how his company is using Catia V6 to design a new executive jet, the Citation Latitude. And despite its power, the advanced search window sometimes behaves strangely. Measure tools don’t work as well as they did in V5. The Composite Workbench is “not robust,” he said.
Tubing and harness tools are missing from the 2011 release. Maestas also pointed out shortcomings of the new product.
In contrast, V5 customers report increasing lag times as designers get farther from the main database server. V6 performs well, according to Maestas.ĭesigners in India are finding no significant latency when opening drawings or models stored near Ft. It’s possible to search for parts in 3D space by specifying a zone, box, sphere, or offset volume around a part and see the context of the entire product.ĭesigners also can subscribe to parts or assemblies and be notified when they are changed. Designers also can search for parent assemblies in which each part or subassembly is used.
Outstanding capabilities of V6 include searching by date, version, or release status.
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Nevertheless, he says it is more usable than Enovia LCA, the PDM software Bell uses with V5. (Source: Bell Helicopter) Maestas says Bell designers complain about the number of clicks to accomplish anything in Enovia V6. A physical mock-up of the new 16-seat twin-engine Bell 525.