Theorem Launches Multi-CAD V5

By DE Editors

Theorem’s Multi-CAD V5 product removes the cost and the complexity of working with both CATIA V5 data and non-CATIA data on a single project. Allowing the operator to access the data seamlessly from within CATIA, it removes the headache of importing data from UGNX and/or Pro/E into CATIA by eliminating translation bottlenecks.

Multi-CAD reduces design costs by enabling the CATIA V5 user to incorporate non-CATIA V5 parts and assemblies, simply, within the CATIA V5 environment.

Theorem’s Multi-CAD V5 solution enables CATIA V5 users to incorporate non-CATIA V5 parts and assemblies within the CATIA V5 environment —  without external translators. Working within CATIA V5, the user selects the “Insert” tab at the top of the CATIA screen and moves to the “Existing component” selector on the drop-down menu. Rather than selecting an existing CATIA design, the user selects a non-CATIA V5 part or assembly. This then appears on the CATIA V5 design tree.

What has actually happened is that the “Insert existing component” command has not only selected the non-CATIA V5 part/assembly, but it has also run the Theorem Multi-CAD V5 application, which has drawn the data into the CATIA design tree.

Multi-CAD V5 is not only easier to use and more cost effective, it is also much more secure than a traditional ‘translate and import’ process, in which there is never a link between source and translated files.

With Theorem’s Multi-CAD product, CATIA V5 maintains and manages the links with the original files. Consequently, if there are changes within the non-CATIA V5 components or assemblies, these will be automatically reflected in CATIA V5 itself.

For more information, visit Theorem.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.