The vice-president —Sales, Transportation & Mobility Industry, Dassault Systèmes, France, is bullish on the manifold opportunities the Indian market is set to provide across the passenger vehicle, two-wheeler, commercial vehicle and component industry as a result of new and upcoming regulations on the emissions and safety front.
What, in your view, are the reasons behind the increasing popularity of 3D modeling from vehicle conception to manufacturing processes globally?
3D modeling in vehicle design has been there for many years now. The world around you is threedimensional and if you want to do virtual twin of your car, allowing it to forecast its behaviour, then you need to have a 3D model.
You need to have a 3D model if you want to do flow simulation, CAE simulation, or in any kind of simulation. 3D modeling is a must if you want to do simulation. I don’t know of any carmaker that does not use 3D modeling today in developing vehicles. This includes carmakers in India. Many of them are using Dassault’s Catia V5, which is widely used by many today in the automotive industry including OEMs and suppliers. We continue to enhance Catia V5 regularly.
Does Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience mean all software solutions with different core functionalities (ranging from Catia and Solidworks to 3DExcite) come together in one package?
The 3DExperience platform is a business platform, which provides an environment where you can put together different applications and make them run together in an integrated manner. We have an integrated user interface for easy access, a data model that is unique to the different disciplines, and also data that integrates together between the different applications.
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