Overview

Welcome to the DMU Navigator User's Guide!

This overview provides the following information:

• DMU Navigator in a Nutshell

• Using this Guide

• Accessing Sample Documents

• Where to Find More Information

• Conventions Used in this Guide

DMU Navigator in a Nutshell

DMU Navigator Version 5 addresses Digital Mock-Up (DMU) process centric design and review requirements of the extended enterprise. It offers a scalable solution capable of handling digital mock-ups of all sizes, ranging from consumer goods to very large automotive, aerospace, plant, ship and heavy machinery mock-ups.

Available on both UNIX and Windows environments, DMU Navigator is built to be totally compliant with Windows presentation standards.

DMU Navigator Version 5 comprises the following main applications:

• Kinematics Simulator
• Fitting Simulator
• Space Analysis
• DMU Optimizer

The above applications are delivered as totally interoperable workbenches. From a user interface standpoint, switching from one to another is completely transparent and done in a context-sensitive fashion. In addition, to these workbenches, DMU Navigator is an open solution which offers:

• Support of native CATIA Version 4 and Version 5 data
• Interface with the VRML industry standard for data exchange 
• Native OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) compliance. This facilitates the system integration within the office environment and across the digital enterprise.

DMU Kinematics Simulator

Offers motion simulation capabilities. Kinematics Simulator can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as DMU Fitting Simulator and DMU Space Analysis.

DMU Fitting Simulator

Allows the user to define and simulate assembly and disassembly procedures thereby validating product assembly and maintenance at the design stage. Fitting Simulator can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as Kinematics Simulator and Space Analysis.

DMU Space Analysis

Offers advanced interference analysis, sectioning and measurement capabilities. Space Analysis can be cooperatively used with other current or future companion products of the DMU Navigator next generation such as DMU Kinematics Simulator and Fitting Simulator.

DMU Optimizer

Improves user's productivity by computing an optimized representation of data for mockup verification in the context of the immersive and collaborative design review environment of the full digital mockup.

Using This Guide

To get the most out of this guide, it is suggested that you start by doing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial.

You should then move on to the User Tasks section.

The Customizing section, which explains how to configure options, will also certainly prove useful.

Accessing Sample Documents

To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in the online/dmnug_X2/samples and online/cfysm_X2/samples folders, where "X2" is either C2 (for a CATIA product), D2 (for a DELMIA product) or E2 (for an ENOVIA product). For more information about sample documents, see Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

Where to Find More Information

Prior to reading this book, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide.

Note: You can start a DMU Navigator session by entering the command dmu (Windows) or DMU (UNIX). This starts the default DMU Navigator Version 5 environment.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required.

• DMU Fitting Simulator User's Guide
• DMU Kinematics Simulator User's Guide
• DMU Space Analysis User's Guide
• DMU Optimizer User's Guide

Conventions

Conventions used in the documentation are easily accessible at all times via the icon  found at the top of the documentation page.