CATIA

CATIA is the world's leading solution for product development and innovation. It is used by many organizations in various industries to develop products that we use in our everyday lives.

CATIA applications for design, engineering, and systems engineering form the basis of Dassault Systèmes' industry solutions, which are designed to meet specific industry needs. This fundamentally changes the way organizations conceive, develop, and deliver new products, providing a competitive advantage through innovative customer experiences.
CATIA is the industry standard for designing and manufacturing products. It is used by leading companies worldwide to create and manage complex products and systems. CATIA's capabilities include:

Engineering

As products and experiences continue to become more complex, performance and quality requirements are becoming increasingly demanding. CATIA meets this challenge by enabling the rapid development of high-quality mechanical products.

Mechanical engineers equipped with CATIA 3D modeling tools can gain insight into key quality and performance factors early in the product development phase. Digital prototyping combined with digital analysis and simulation allows product development teams to virtually create and analyze a mechanical product in its operating environment.

CATIA Engineering provides a platform that allows engineers to create any type of 3D assembly for a wide range of engineering processes.

Advantages

Create any type of 3D part, from rough 3D sketches to fully detailed industrial assemblies.
Unbreakable relational design—a new way to manage relationships between objects and associated behaviors in configured assemblies.
Smooth transition from 2D to 3D design methodologies.
Productive and consistent drawing updates eliminate the need for additional user operations.
Process-oriented tools reflect the intent of the manufacturing process early in the design phase.
A wide range of applications for fixture design, both for general fixtures and for molds and dies.
Advanced mechanical surfacing technologies based on a powerful specification-based modeling approach.

Design

From consumer products to the transportation industry, product style and design play a critical role in the success of a business in the marketplace. Develop a creative approach to form and materials, achieve a high level of complexity and surface quality, and obtain the right decision-making tools with physical and virtual prototypes—these are the key elements of CATIA Design that drive design innovation.

From 3D drafting, surface splitting, and Class A modeling to 3D printing, reverse engineering, visualization, and experience, CATIA Design offers all the solutions you need for creative design, superior surface quality, and product interaction.

Advantages

Industrial design — CATIA at the service of industrial designers and their creativity. Whether you start creating 3D ideas from scratch or from 2D sketches, industrial designers can manipulate shapes with unmatched freedom and take advantage of a true creativity accelerator to explore more ideas in the early conceptual stage.
Advanced surface modeling—CATIA fully implements the automotive Class A shape design process with a surface refinement solution that combines industry-leading surface processing technologies from Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering and Manufacturing (ICEM). Combining the strengths of V6 technology, including the knowledge capture and reuse paradigm, it provides a powerful and intuitive set of tools for modeling, analyzing, and visualizing aesthetic and ergonomic shapes to achieve the highest quality A-class surfaces.