CATIA'S Capabilities
A Broad Range of Integrated Solutions
As the World’s Leading Solution for product design and development, CATIA presents the unique ability to not only model any product but to do so in the context of its real-life behaviour.
Systems architects, engineers, designers, construction professionals, and all contributors can define, imagine and shape the connected world.
Used across a variety of industry sectors including aerospace, automotive, plant design and consumer goods, CATIA can be used to support all phases of the product development process, shortening development cycles to help you create products and bring them to market faster.
VIDEO INTRODUCTION
Learn What CATIA is and How it Can Benefit your Business
Simple, Reliable and Always Connected
CATIA Powered by the Cloud
CATIA, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud, enhances the existing world-class functionality of CATIA, allowing engineering teams to achieve engineering excellence through its powerful array of social and collaborative 3D modelling and simulation tools.
Why choose CATIA on the Cloud?
- Simplicity:
No need for specialised IT administrators or sub-contractors. Engineers can concentrate on engineering. The project structure is delivered “out of the box” and can be easily administered by non-specialists. - Collaboration and Connection:
Generate ideas, innovate with colleagues and suppliers wherever they are located. This unique social innovation experience transforms collaboration, making it the most natural way to work, resulting in compressed cycle times, and fewer late changes. - Security and Reliability:
The most secure system you have ever experienced. CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE removes the worry about losing your data or about unauthorised access to your intellectual property. 24×7 IT Support & system availability, combined with daily backups means you can always meet your deadlines. - Scalability:
Scale your capacity to meet project priorities and business opportunities. Rapidly add new users, new seats or new processes.

"One of the biggest challenges was harmonizing the requirements between the two sites. The Enterprise Solutions Team and our IT departments worked closely for several months to align the project from a hardware and software point of view. The flexibility and support Meggitt received throughout the implementation of the project was where the added value really came from and we were very pleased with how our teams worked together across borders, company cultures and requirements."
Andy Lodge
Design Engineering Manager at Meggitt UK
"The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will help us to develop and share the critical steps of requirements, ensure we’re developing the aircraft according to those requirements, do validation and also manage the certification of the aircraft with the authorities. It’s a one-stop shop and single source of truth for Vertical Aerospace and our business partners that allows us to work concurrently wherever we are in the world."
Eric Samson
Head of Engineering at Vertical Aerospace
"We made the right decision – the upgrade’s gone well and the team have put a lot of effort into it. The Enterprise Solutions Team has been very supportive, and I feel we’ve got value for money – already the team are seeing the benefits from using it. We have a great working relationship and trust the team.”
Graham Clapham
Technology Director at Morgan Motors
“TriMech Enterprise have been great - very responsive. They’re the right partner for us. I feel like I’m important to them.”
Chris Ruthstrom
Chief Engineer at Ligier Automotive
A Complete Solution
Discover the CATIA Portfolio
CATIA V5
CATIA V5 is both a powerful and functional design software which can be used across the entire product development process.
Solutions for disciplines as diverse as composites and generative design sit side by side with traditional solids, surfacing and drafting.
CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE
Get the industry-leading functionality of CATIA V5 with the added power of the Cloud.
With CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE, you can unlock collaborative working with the ability to work on, annotate, and share CAD data, anytime, anywhere.
CATIA Composer
CATIA Composer is a flexible content creation system, ideal for your more dynamic product review and analysis.
Non-technical users can create 2D and 3D files directly from CAD Data.
CATIA ICEM
ICEM Surf is the industry leading surface modelling software for Curve and Surface explicit geometry for defining, analyzing, and performing high-end visualisation.
Additional ergonomic and infrastructure improvements enhance user workflow.
CATIA Magic
CATIA Magic provides standard-based modeling solutions for analyzing, designing, simulating your systems of systems.
This then provides dynamic visual insights as well as additional benefits such as enterprise risk mitigation.
CATIA DYMOLA
CATIA Dymola, (Dynamic Modeling Laboratory) is a complete tool for the modeling and simulation of integrated and complex systems for use within automotive, aerospace, robotics, process and other applications.
Break Through Design Barriers
CATIA Generative Design
In today’s increasingly competitive market designers must push past conventional ways of working to think outside the box. Meeting customer demands is imperative which means innovating one concept at a time is no longer a sustainable method.
CATIA Generative Design Engineering (GDE) enables non-specialists to automatically generate optimized conceptual parts from a functional specification at the push of a button. By varying inputs, designers can generate multiple variations to compare and analyze.
- Optimize product weight and stiffness with lightweight engineering
- Reduce time and cost by evaluating concepts faster
- Evaluate more concepts while maintaining design specifications
- Leverage real editable geometry for both conventional and additive manufacturing
- Easily generate and simulate optimized concept shapes
- Manage collaboration between Design, Simulation and Manufacturing Engineers seamlessly