FreeStyle Shaper & Optimizer & Profiler
Preface
What's New
Getting Started
Basic Tasks
Advanced Tasks
Workbench
Description
Customizing
Glossary
Index
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Preface
CATIA Version 5 FreeStyle Shaper is a powerful modeling tool used to dynamically design all types of
surface elements, from the stylist's drawing to the final surface, ready for the manufacturing processes.
Using this product you can generate free form 3D curves and surfaces from scratch, and dynamically deform
and analyze all produced elements.
Using the FreeStyle Optimizer you can create and modify curve and surface shapes based on other
elements such as digitized data.
Using FreeStyle Profiler, you can directly create complex surfaces based on profiles and sets of curves in
one step, without having to deform them in a second step.
The CATIA - FreeStyle Shaper, Optimizer & Profiler User's Guide has been designed as an aid to using the
FreeStyle Shaper, FreeStyle Optimizer, and FreeStyle Profiler by themselves, but also in conjunction with
other CATIA Version 5 workbenches.
Using This Guide
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Using This Guide
This User's Guide is intended for the user who need to become quickly efficient with the CATIA
Version 5 FreeStyle Shaper, FreeStyle Optimizer, and FreeStyle Profiler.
Before reading it, you should be familiar with the basic CATIA Version 5 concepts, such as the
document windows, standard toolbars and menus.
To make the most out of this book, we suggest that a beginning user reads the Getting Started
chapter first of all and the Workbench Description to find his way around the FreeStyle Shaper
workbench.
User's familiar with the product should browse the Table of Contents rapidly, then move on
directly to specific sections of interest to them: curve and surface creation, edition, and
analysi