CATIA-CADAM Interface Methodology

The CATIA-CADAM Interface product allows you to integrate your CADAM Drafting environment with other V5 CATIA product offerings. Depending on your intended usage, there are two basic design methodologies that the CATIA-CADAM Interface product supports for integrating your V5 CATIA and CADAM drafting environments. They are as follows:

CADAM Preliminary 2D Design to V5 CATIA 3D Design

This integration provides the user with the ability to develop your initial product design with the CADAM Drafting product and then accomplish your 3D design using the suite of V5 CATIA mechanical design products. The following diagram shows the basic flow for integration of the CADAM Drafting and CATIA V5 products using this methodology.

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V5 CATIA 3D Design with CADAM Drafting and Dressup

This integration provides the user with the ability to make use of the full capabilities of the V5 CATIA 3D mechanical design and modeling tools and the full drafting and dressup tools provided by the CADAM drafting product. The following diagram shows the basic flow for integration of the CADAM Drafting and CATIA V5 products using this methodology.

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