Dear ICEM® Shape Design™ Customer.

We are pleased to announce the availability of ICEM Shape Design Release 19, the latest and most comprehensive version of our CATIA V5 CAA based surface modelling solution.

In the meantime, here’s a short overview of some of the significant enhancements within this major release, all of which are designed to make your working life easier and even more productive when using ICEM Shape Design Release 19.
ICEM Shape Design Release 19 based upon CATIA R19 Service Pack 1
software level, introduces five new capabilities related to geometric modelling, modification and analysis, as well as over 100 customer-requested enhancements to its existing surface design capabilities.
In the ICEM Shape Design Centre modelling environment, the following new functionality has been added:

Intersection	Patch from Patches
Refit	Ruler
ICEM DB Export

In the ICEM Shape Design Centre modelling environment, further functionality has been added in existing commands, which significantly improve command capability, ergonomics and user workflow.

Curve Projection	Curve Offset
Curve Blend	Styling Corner
Split Curve	Patch from Curves
Flange	Fillet Flange
Styling Fillet	Surface Offset
Surface Blend	Fill
Sweep	Break
Matching Constraint	Mirror Analysis
Highlight Analysis	Split Analysis
Surfacic Curvature Analysis	Conversion

In the ICEM Shape Design Expert module, further functionality has been added in existing commands, which also improve command capability, ergonomics and user workflow.

Create Gap	Tubing
Global Surface Blend	Accelerated Surface
Advanced Fillet	Global Surface Offset
Tri-Tangent Fillet

To help you get started, we’ve included in this pack a comprehensive set of Installation Notes. These will enable you to load and run the ICEM Shape Design 19 software, while the on-line tutorials will guide through its use and should answer most of your questions.
We are confident that you will find ICEM Shape Design Release 19 a useful and flexible surface creation, modification and analysis tool. However, we would like to know what you think of it.
So please feel free to send us your comments and suggestions. Just e-mail them to us at: info@icem.com.
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy using ICEM Shape Design Release 19.
Yours sincerely
 
Mark Blair
ICEM Shape Design Product Manager