CATIA

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3D product design, visualization, and collaboration software

About CATIA

CATIA is a cloud-based and on-premise product modeling software, which helps businesses across various industry verticals, such as architecture, aviation, consumer packaged goods, transportation, and construction, design, build, and visualize 3D models. Features include team collaboration, simulation, visual scripting, and real-time concurrent designing.

The application includes a 3D pattern shape creator tool, which lets system architects prepare, discover, and validate a variety of repetitive or non-regular shapes to be used for projects. Engineers can automate the designing of building components using custom or generic templates. CATIA allows construction professionals to modify and validate projects based on planning specifications or client requirements and perform daylighting simulation and shadow duration analysis.

It enables electrical engineers to design wire harnesses and cabling, check design quality, and synchronize electrical design elements into 3D forms. Using CATIA, fluid engineers can build and optimize designs for rigid or flexible tubing, piping, and HVAC systems. The application also helps coordinators import 3D models in industry-standard file formats, review designs for geometric issues, and geolocate construction and infrastructure projects.


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Overall rating

4.6 /5
(217)
Value for Money
4.2/5
Features
4.6/5
Ease of Use
3.8/5
Customer Support
4.2/5

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Natalia
Natalia
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It really solves our all design problems and it is also more different than other software....

Reviewed on 2018/07/13

Pros

It is very easy to do anything we want to do via this software from drawing and solid body to surface modeling... The space of CATIA is fantastic for user.it will be more if i say this is the best Solid Modeling Program in the whole market everywhere we look for such soft wares...

Cons

Sometimes CATIA takes a little long while downloading our files and this makes the whole work a little boring for doer. And i also know that it is not a big issue for a software it usually happens while using other ones as well.So this is the great for me .

Veronica
Veronica
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Easy Project File Management Platform.

Reviewed on 2022/08/19

CATIA helps provide excellent and quality product designs and sharing of data is very quick and...

CATIA helps provide excellent and quality product designs and sharing of data is very quick and easy.

Pros

CATIA offers the ability to manage the entire project life cycle and the documentation capability is good.

Valuable Engineering reports creation using CATIA tools and the collaboration across different Engineering teams is effective.

Cons

CATIA is very simple and flexible Engineering platform and easy on the first training.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Good Designing Software for Beginners

Reviewed on 2021/03/05

Overall Experience :
CATIA is a great tool for the people that have entered in the industrial field...

Overall Experience :
CATIA is a great tool for the people that have entered in the industrial field as it helps in designing 3D models.Students who are new in this field can learn alot from this software.It also helps in learning the different machining processes efficiently.

Pros

The tools and options are easy to understand. Part modelling and assembly have been made easy for the beginners. Importing a part is also not a difficult task while using CATIA. Advance machining processes,Tool path generation have actually made it easy to learn the machining of a model.

Cons

The software takes quite time in starting up as compared to other CAD softwares. The interface of the software is not that much user friendly and it needs an update. The analysis on CATIA is also not as easy as others.

Alfred
Alfred
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review from IT

Reviewed on 2019/02/01

Pros

very solid software and stable.
nice to manage license access from server per user.
excellent support
send you CDs

Cons

hard for user to lease license from server when traveling. other CAD software would allow you to take license with you out of office for laptop keeping the main license on server for desktop

very expensive and high yearly maintenance fees

Caner
Caner
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Very good designing program for mechanical products.

Reviewed on 2020/01/12

By working with CATIA V5, i can design and analysis my mechanical parts at the same time.

By working with CATIA V5, i can design and analysis my mechanical parts at the same time.

Pros

Being able to work on product tree is crucial. Parametric design tools and analysis tools are working together and it is awesome.

Cons

It is not super user-friendly program as Solidworks but it works anyway. Sometimes, when i'm working on the big products, update can take lots of time.

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CATIA offers the following pricing plans:

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Contact Dassault Systemes for pricing details.

CATIA has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

CATIA supports the following languages:

English

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CATIA offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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