Rapid Development of High-Quality Mechanical Products
CATIA Engineering
The platform that lets engineers create any type of 3D assembly for a wide range of engineering processes. High geometric accuracy, fast iteration, and integrated PLM — without leaving the design environment.
Overview
Engineering Is Critical to Business Success
With significant global competition, it's hard for companies to bring new products to market that stand out. The world has gotten smaller — small companies now have access to resources that used to be reserved for the largest. The key to bringing competitive products to market lies in engineering.
CATIA Engineering provides the platform that enables engineers to create any type of 3D assembly for a wide range of engineering processes — with the geometric accuracy and assembly performance large industrial programmes demand.
20–50%
Productivity gain
From superior modelling + assembly management
+30%
Additional improvement
With unified MODSIM + design for manufacturability
3
Sub-disciplines
Mechanical / Multi-Discipline / Automated
Key Benefits
What Makes CATIA Engineering Different
Model Anything
CATIA is known for high geometric accuracy. So robust that engineers can iterate quickly without the model failing — even on complex geometries.
Reuse Geometry
Makes working with MultiCAD data easy. Supports reverse engineering from scans, drawings, or imported neutral data.
Work on Large Assemblies
3DEXPERIENCE CATIA ensures efficient assembly design and fast retrieval of large assemblies — the scale that aerospace and automotive demand.
Manage Product Data
Integrated PLM — engineers never leave the design environment to manage product data. Adapt to differing organisational needs without context-switching.
Learn It Easily
Contextual menus, streamlined commands, action pad, and consistent logic enhance user efficiency. Shorter time to productivity.
Industry-Agnostic
CATIA offers all the tools mechanical engineers need to achieve any design, regardless of industry — aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, consumer goods.
Sub-Disciplines
Three Pillars of CATIA Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Driving innovation across industries — the development of new technologies and products at the heart of mechanical engineering.
Multi-Discipline Engineering
Holistic, comprehensive solutions for multi-discipline engineering — mechanical + electrical + fluid + control on one model.
Automated Engineering
Capture company know-how and best practices as automated workflows. Encode organisational IP into reusable, parameterised templates.
MODSIM
Modelling + Simulation, Unified
MODSIM unifies modelling and simulation on a common data model within a single user experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The goal: consider the whole product-development process and break down barriers.
With products becoming more complex, the faster you can validate by simulation, the more time you have to find the best innovative technical solution. MODSIM enables a simulation-empowered shift-left strategy — pulling verification and validation upfront into the concept phase.
The design engineer investigates multiple options, selects the one closest to spec, and reduces the risk of late-stage failures and reworks through Design Of Experience processes.
Roles-Based Packaging
Packaged as Roles, Not Disconnected Tools
CATIA Engineering products are packaged as Roles on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform — pre-bundled application sets matched to a person's job. Get up to speed faster, work more efficiently, and have all the applications you actually need at your fingertips. Select the package that matches your role.
Why Roles work
- Faster onboarding for new users
- No "what apps do I need?" guessing
- Subscription scales with the team
- Apps adapt as roles evolve
- Cross-role sharing built in
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