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CATIA (Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application) is the world’s leading product design software platform that offers 3D design, 3D digital mock-up, and more. CATIA helps architects, construction professionals, designers, engineers, and small and mid-sized businesses to develop 3D product models with ease.
About CATIA
CATIA Features
- Design Management : Allows companies to better control their design process and helps to enhance their internal business process.
- Requirements Management : Helps analyze, prioritize, and agree on product developments, and goals.
- CAD Tool : Allows experts to create more accurate design representations.
- Project Management : Ensures that the organizations gain control over ongoing projects and makes sure they are on right track.
- Data Visualization : Allows business users to gain insight into their vast amount of data.
- Life-Cycle Management : Helps companies cultivate brand loyalty by identifying opportunities for adding value to the overall customer experience.
CATIA Ratings and Reviews
- Verified UserEngineer
Lots of Workbenches here for CATIA you Have to Design Everything. Mostly OEM Company Only Used This. I like That Very Much, Currently, i am designing HYUNDAI, KIA and GENESIS car Automotive parts. Also Drafting for Manufacturing purposes.
Surface Modeling Method Easy Updating Designing, Analysis and Drafting All we done any time - Aaron J.Project Engineer
Powerful program but simple tasks in other programs are no longer simple in Catia. There are so many good features in other programs like Solidworks (who is also owned by the same company as Catia and costs significantly less). I have used other CAD programs, 4 years of Solidworks, 4 years of ProE, 3 years of Unigraphics, and 5 years of Catia. I used Catia for 2 years before switching to Solidworks for a different job. It really opened my eyes on how easy it was to do basic tasks in Solidworks. Coworkers would say "why are you doing it like that? Don't you know there is a button in Solidworks so you don't have to spend 30 minutes doing that?" I then switched back to Catia 3 years later again for a different job. It was very frustrating for me to go back to Catia after working so much faster and more efficiently in Solidworks. Catia is the least user friendly CAD program have used. I will list a few examples. There is not any way to spell check your drawings in Catia. Engineers are known for being bad at spelling. Solidworks has a spellcheck button. How hard would that be to add to Catia? Another example is assembly mode. There is no way to cut an assembly in Catia. You also can not adjust the datum plane sizes. They are fixed. You can't simply zoom in to make a datum bigger so it is easier to select. You also can not simply drag a new component into an assembly and or pattern it automatically like other programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
