1. CATIA V6 Live Rendering www.nvidia.com/catia
Need permission from Xavier Melkonian at 3DS before any NDA discussion with CATIA users.
NVIDIA/mental images
CATIA V6 Live Rendering

2. iray in Dassault Systemès V6 Catia Live Rendering
What is RealityServer.pptx - Alex Fuchs
iray in Dassault Systemès V6 Catia Live Rendering
Examples from Automotive, Packaging, Industrial Manufacturing, Architecture, Toys, Industrial Design, Energy
Rendering Imagination Visible™ 2

3. Quadro and CATIA The Trusted Combination for Designs
Highest Performance
Interactive performance with complex 3D CAD models
Improved productivity with new GPU accelerated features
CATIA Live Rendering – integrated real time ray tracing, only with Quadro
Simulia/CATIA – Coming soon – CAE solver GPU accelerated
Trusted Driver and Certified Platforms
NVIDIA brings both large framebuffer graphics for complex models and GPU-accelerated parallel programming for increased functionality to the CATIA software suite.
NDA until 5/19/11: Simulia Abaqus 6.11 announcement planned with 2X perf gain over CPU .

4. CATIA Live Rendering Unified Visualization Solution
Integrated in CATIA V6
Based on mental images iray and CUDA
Physically Correct Rendering
Easy to use
The engineer works in rendered environment with physically correct visualization of lighting and materials.
iRay 1.0 has architectural shading model but with some limitations for material properties.
June 28th v release contains material handling, parameters to tune materials, improved workflow with iRay 1.2
Nov2011 release called v contains complex materials such as car-paint including layered BRDFs such as a clear-coat or flakes layer, & fabric materials. The underlying NeuRay library provides networking as well as handling multiple users & clusters with logical GPUs for hi-res or hi-perf rendering ( benefits are more interactive or hi-res for powerwalls ) including larger assemblies.
Dassault considering upgrade to v5 to add iRay live rendering – no commitment yet.

5. Innovative, Intuitive UI Ray Tracing as Simple as Taking a Picture
Press-button control solution illustrated with camera control menu (aperature & focal length)

6. Illustrates physical simulation of light -> you can simulate light sources accurately with low/reasonable cpu/gpu overhead.

7. Illustrates physical simulation of light -> you can simulate light sources accurately with low/reasonable cpu/gpu overhead.

8. This rendering is physically correct based on complex shape of reflecting surfaces in the diamonds.

9. CATIA Live Rendering — Usage Cases
Casual User
Creative Designers
3D Modelers
Viz Expert
Color and Trim Expert
CG Imagery Expert
Team Review
Large Display and High Resolution
Casual – Quadro4000, 5000 or 6000 in single workstation.
Viz Expert – single WS with dual Quadro 6000 for larger models or faster rendering.
Team – Cluster driven ( NDA: Catia v in Nov. ) – iRay does work on CPU only clusters but GPU clusters higher performance. QuadroPLEX typically used for PowerWalls and caves with large numbers of projectors.
NVIDIA Quadro Workstation
Single GPU
NVIDIA Quadro Workstation
Multiple GPUs
GPU + CPU Clusters for Rendering & Powerwalls

10. Quadro — The Trusted Solution for CATIA
Quadro in 9 out of 10 CATIA certified platforms!*
Joint certification process with DS engineering team
The most robust drivers in the industry for CATIA
Need permission from Xavier Melkonian before any NDA discussion with CATIA users.
Current Live Rendering in v6 contains iRay 1.0
Dassault may release or disable features before the late June 28th launch CATIA v with Live Rendering (iRay 1.2).
Material Handling – better workflow (see slide 4)
Nov iRay 2.0 added
* As of November 2010

11. Thank You! www.nvidia.com/catia
?can we guarantee similar results to v5 with Mental Ray rendering? Yes, if use architectural shader in iRay. iRay 1.0 is completely new sw architecture for new technology as follow on to Mental Ray, we only reused the shading module. Supports large models and increased performance. “Neu-Ray” = new technology
?animation & simulation? - yes, light sources & interiors with lighting from the windows.