Case Study: Asahi Building-Wall accelerates façade design and drawing generation with Dassault Systèmes CATIA

Asahi Building-Wall

Asahi Building-Wall, a Japanese façade engineering specialist, faced the challenge of efficiently engineering thousands of unique louvers and panels for a complex building renovation in Tokyo's Ginza district. The highly customized design required an impractical amount of manual work to create individual 3D models and 2D drawings. To address this, they turned to vendor Dassault Systèmes and implemented CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

With help from Dassault Systèmes and its partner Otsuka Corporation, Asahi Building-Wall used CATIA's parametric design to create reusable master templates and automated, rule-based workflows. This solution allowed them to automatically generate detailed models and drawings for each unique component. The measurable impact was significant; when a major design change required the revision of 1,900 drawings, the process that would have taken a week manually was completed in just two days, drastically improving efficiency and project manageability.

Asahi Building-Wall