CATIA

COE Administrator

CATIA
WHEN WILL CATIA V5 BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MULTIPLE CORE PROCESSORS, ESPECIALLY IN COMPUTING NC TOOLPATHS? SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS? KINEMATICS AND DMU? CORE WORKBENCHES (MD2)?

COE Administrator

RE: CATIA
(in response to COE Administrator)
For Analysis and Simulation, the V5 applications have been taking advantage of multiple core processors for many years (in solver computations). The V5 and Version 6 Visualization component is also taking advantage of two core processors with all V5/Version 6 applications benefitting from multi-core processing for view point manipulation.

In Version 6, major changes were required in terms of architecture in order to support multi-core processing. Version 6 takes advantage of multi-core processing for:
• Machining: parallel processing technology in tool path computation for roughing, sweeping, slope area, contour driven is supported in V6R2011x
• DMU interference algorithms
• Geometric modeler with significant performance gains