CATIA

Best friend of a design engineer

Kommentare: In summary, Catia is the best software in CAD world for me. It allows user to design a part from basic level to upper advanced. That's why it's preferred in industry.

Vorteile:

There a lot of things to emphasize. However to be more precise, I'm using for metal and plastic part design and it serves great. Generative sheet metal tool is very helpful and tools under this tab half the time while designing a metal part. In addition user stamping is a great way to design brackets amd evaluate producing process.

Nachteile:

There are lots of tools I didn't feel so comfortable in the beginning about ease of use. But got used to it.

Most Powerful CAD software for design

Kommentare: Using the FEA analysis on CATIA resulted on more accurate results than other options that we used, drafting module also let you build more flexible drawings.

Vorteile:

Using CATIA for designing automotive parts gives you the posibility to perform different type of analysis to research how different conditions will affect the designed part very accurate.

Nachteile:

It is very complicated to perform some operations that are rather easy using other CAD software.

Catia Enovia V6 review

Kommentare: I create large motor boats with large assemblies and i use Catia and NX on a daily basis. I have no problem managing the boat and the parts but when it comes to modelling in Catia i find incredibly tedious and very time consuming. Some days are very frustrating using this software as it is still very buggy. And when i contact helpdesk, they just reply 'oh yes, we know about that. This will be fixed in the next version!*

Vorteile:

Managing large assemblies is particularly good with Enovia V6. I frequently open large assys containing up to 3-4000 parts (some of these individual parts are even 500MB each) and i have no problem with rotating the model with too much lag. The perspective view and general rendering of the parts is very good and quite impressive compared to other top CAD engineering packages.

Nachteile:

Catia is not an easy package to learn. The UX is very over complicated and you really have to be shown by another user how to grasp the endless mouse clicking menus as they are not straight forward. After using Siemens NX for 10 years and then having to learn Catia was a nightmare. Catia takes far longer to model compared to other CAD packages. After 1 year with NX i didnt have a problem with creating anything, it was very reliable and I knew i could have a solution within a certain period of time. With Catia i never know how long something will take. It is far more unstable and it crashes very frequently.

Perfect for Designing

Kommentare: It is a great software and very easy to use and teach interns on

Vorteile:

The User interface is very easy and has many customization options. Can be used easily by new people.

Nachteile:

It is a little expensive and given too many toolbars even if you dont need it

Probably the best software for product design and surface modelling

Kommentare: If you're in automotive industry and not have your own design tool; then Catia is your must to use design software. It is the most complex and capable design tool and perfect for surface modelling. Yes it is not much user friendly and hard to become an expert user; but these doesn't enough to drop Catia V5 from number one seat...

Vorteile:

I'm working with Catia V5 for a long time. I've used other programs such as Solidworks as well; but Catia is the best by far due to it's features. Catia is the most complex tool for part design and assembly management. For instance creating complex large surfaces with Catia (which is a must for automotive industry) is really easy thing to do. Variety of manipulating tools (turn, pan, rotate, etc.) makes you to easily view or manage the designed part. There are several modules which you can add many features to your part when managing the design. There are several material libraries to use for your product. Product tree is detailed and let you to manage the design steps e.g. to make parametric design. Catia is very powerful and fast; but sure you do need a good hardware as well. Creating 2D drawing is a bit complicated; but can be managed easier when you got used to it.

Nachteile:

Probably biggest drawback for Catia is that you really need to spend years to become an expert user (not designer). It's a bit complicated compared to some other design tools. Mouse function is a bit hard to control - for example you need multiple buttons to rotate. Also interface is a bit old fashioned. V5 had many upgrades so far; but I assume it's time for V6 now for a better outlook. 2D generation module is really poor; therefore we mostly use other tools to create 2D's. License fee can be an issue for personal or small company usages.

Comprehensive software for CAD modelling

Kommentare: If you want to deal with complex designs, extended surfaces; e.g automobile body structures, this is the software to use. However for less complex part or tool/mold designs you may prefer Solidworks due to its cost advantages.

Vorteile:

The best thing for Catia V5 is for sure the high capability for surface modelling. Complex surfaces can be designed easily with the extensive library and the functions Catia provide. That's why this is the #1 software used in Automotive for creating the designs. There are lots of features to shape your design product. Creating assemblies and defining movement for the assembly structures also possible and can be managed easily after some experience. If you know parametric design principles, Catia can work wery well with this principle. There is also a broad material library available for your selection, you can even add new material or properties.

Nachteile:

Probably the first and the only thing to mention about Catia V5 is the interface. Although I like to use Catia due to its extensive features; I do not like the somehow retro interface, ribbon and menu designs. Therefore main screen makes you feel little bit uncomfortable. More than this, I think Catia has does not have cons to mention.

Accurate and best design software for design engineers.

Kommentare: The CATIA helps our organization to create part modelling and assembly modelling as per requirements with short period of time. We can do the analysis of the design helps us to avoid problems during production. The designs can be easily edited according to changes in specifications is the most useful feature.

Vorteile:

The CATIA is one of the best software for designing engineering drawings as per specifications with great accuracy. The software is helpful for design the products in 2d and 3d. We can do part modelling as well as assembly modeling with realtime editing is a great feature. The software help our organization to create design of the products within short period of time.

Nachteile:

We didn't noticed any missing feature during our use.

CATIA software has provided me best ways for development and it is easy to model complex designs.

Vorteile:

CATIA is an excellent software that has make our job work too easier. CATIA software offers large number of functionalities that is linked with other CAD softwares.With best manufacturing tool opportunity,it enables us to design complex parts. CATIA provides the fantastic space for user.It has unique fuctions for designing products. Moreover one can simulate the production.

Nachteile:

Learning curve of CATIA software is quite higher and it is indeed most intuitive software.In the beginning it's layout seems to be quite difficult but when we have good command on basic functions then CATIA becomes easier for us within a few days and it can be done quite efficiently. Sometimes CATIA software takes a lot of time in downloading files but it is a minor issue.

Awesome solution fitted for your part and assembly design needs

Kommentare: CATIA works well for modeling complex designs and dealing with assemblies, and also helping with analysis for production line assembly and manufacturing through stamping, molding, injection, and others. CATIA also integrates very well with Teamcenter, the PLM software which we use in our company, making it easy to upload files and dealing with approval processes for new designs - although the time it takes for loading parts and saving could be reduced to improve productivity.

Vorteile:

Easy modeling with production steps in mind; Surface modeling is pretty intuitive and makes possible to design complex geometries faster; Model edit is practical, making possible to edit a geometry parameter and rerun the program to have the new parameters ready; CATIA works very well for assemblies too, it makes possible to easily attach parts and bind specific parameters, also to hide parts that are not desirable for the analysis.

Nachteile:

The software is pretty heavy, even with computers designed for heavy-duty loads, resulting in long wait times to load files and make changes, reducing productivity; User Interface is not that friendly, too many features which can get confusing.

Fundamantal CAD program for designers

Kommentare: It's a functional design tool, but users are not happy for the interface.

Vorteile:

You can work on any design on Catia. It has several modules which you can customize for your needs, such as mechanical, electrical, manufacturing tools. You can also work with parametric for any dimentions that can be connected with a formula and variables. It is well integrated with PLMs.

Nachteile:

User interface has not been changed for years which feels it's old. You should be trained well to use all functions. It may take some time to open/import data from different types.

CATIA for ingeneering student

Kommentare: Very easy, and very usefull to my project. The multiplicity of tools allows me to be very efficient.

Vorteile:

The facility to master tools was very impressive. I have already mastered Solidworks, so I learned very quick how to use CATIA

Nachteile:

the difficulty to pass files to another version, or another software. Indeed, I needed to convert my CAD files done thanks to CATIA to use them under ANSYS.

Every engineer's choice!!!

Vorteile:

Simple to use, reliable, easy to install

Nachteile:

Requires additional memory processor, heating issues when using continuously

Catia user review

Kommentare: Overall experience has been good and currently trying different softwares to compare and choose the best

Vorteile:

In colleges, we used catia for learning the design of 3d materials.We used different processes, parameters to get the results and it worked perfectly well.Now again, i am using it to go more deep diving towards the design and it really helped

Nachteile:

Not much to go against it.Simple and effective tool.. Just a little slow and needs a fast process computer to worl on a effective note.

3D Experience Solution for Product Design

Vorteile:

Concept of 3 dimensional modelling was introduced by CATIA which is amazing. Approach of designer becomes easy and putting thoughts on paper can easily model into 3D. Saved a lot cost of prototyping and time to market. History managed easily and reused. 2D to 3D and vice versa is easy.

Nachteile:

Honestly i dont see any limitations of this software other than Cost which make sense for larger organization but smaller organization cant afford.

I love CATIA

Kommentare: I love CATIA. I have worked with it for several years.

Vorteile:

Sketching and drawings are amazing I have used CATIA for almost ten years. Its functionality is really great. You can model any 2D or 3D part using CATIA. Drawings are among the most important features of a company. Using CATIA, high-quality drawings can be modeled.

Nachteile:

At the beginning of working with CATIA, it seems that it is really hard to work with. Information about some of the features is lacking in the CATIA website. So whenever we want to know how to model a specific 3D part, we should search a lot and talk to many people to understand.

CATIA review by Quality Assurance Manager

Kommentare: Designing the mechanical parts, Tools, meshing the tools, FEA analysis. Stress and Bending moment and shear force. It also helped me to stimulate how the product works in reality. The tool also has its limitations. Such as cloud integration, integrating with other software packages.

Vorteile:

CATIA was one of the best tools that were available in the market for designing mechanical products. This application was a lifesaver. Compared to Auto CAD this application was very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The tool also has its limitations. Such as cloud integration, integrating with other software packages.

Nachteile:

CATIA despite its best user interface and user-friendliness, the application can take a long time to load the content. The application also isn't very compatible with the other tools that are available in the market.

Great CAD application

Kommentare: Despite being an experience CAD user, I faced some difficulties while using CATIA initially, but then after discovering its features and capabilities, I understood why it is considered one of the best out there. I definitely recommend it for CAD applications.

Vorteile:

CATIA is without a doubt one of the most reliable and powerful CAD software available. Its features are countless and give the user maximum flexibility when designing a part, assembly, or a whole plant. CATIA is not only CAD software, but also helps with manufacturing tasks and creating processes for a given job.

Nachteile:

The only downside of using CATIA is its very old user-interface. It is strange that Dassault has worked so hard to improve UI on SolidWorks yet barely did on CATIA. Experienced user might not find this an issues, but for someone switching from SolidWorks to CATIA, I definitely had a hard time adjusting.

Global Engineering CAD Tool

Kommentare: We are using this tool to create new products as a leader of automotive sector. The most important feature in automotive companies.

Vorteile:

You can do it what do you want. Most companies use this program and you need to add this program to your abilities as a mechanical engineer.

Nachteile:

It is the most powerful 3D modeling program in the world and you need to deeply investigate every tools.

Best designing softwear in my opinion

Kommentare: I had the chance to learn how to use Catia during my training in Mechanical and Production Engineering in Nantes, France. First on the v5 version then on the v6 (3D experience). I had the opportunity to test different modules for CAD, CAM, etc...
I had the opportunity to work in depth on a digital twins project that I think could be a very important technique in the future and it works well with Catia v6.

Vorteile:

One of the points that I find most interesting about Catia is the variety of these modules (Part design, Assembly design, etc.). Indeed, Catia’s strong point, in my opinion, is the link that can be made between modules; we will be able to create parts, assemblies, test them in a virtual model, do computer-assisted manufacturing, etc. Moreover, he was able to test the new 3D Experience software which works thanks to a database and thus allows collaborative work. The future of CAD software in my opinion, all simply.

Nachteile:

The handling is a bit complex at the beginning, especially compared to what is done in the competition, however this can be relativized by the fact that the modules offered are very consistent between them.

Good Designing Software for Beginners

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

best for automotive use!

Kommentare: great!

Vorteile:

I use this software for designing various automotive components and altogether visualization of vehicle environment

Nachteile:

It sometimes takes a lot of time if you decide to load too many components at a time

A bit of a learning curve, but full of features.

Kommentare: I loved the challenge of learning this software. It was different than most other services, but still very capable. I would recommend this to people who are very familiar with CAD software already as I don't think this is for beginners. Especially if you plan on using other software later on.

Vorteile:

This software can do most anything you need it to. From solid body modeling and drawings, to surface modeling and more.

Nachteile:

The terminology is different than most other CAD services. This takes a while to get used to. Although, if you get used to the pictures or short cut keys, this won't be too much of a problem.

The best ever Designing Software used by most of the Mechanical engineers

Kommentare: Being a Mechanical engineer and a Design engineer at a Company we use Catia daily to provide solutions to the client by providing Designs and also drawings. I have been using catia from more than 2 years and now I can work in all the catia workbenches. Mostly Harness has become a boom now a days

Vorteile:

Catia provides different work benches where we can work on different activities like 2D modelling, 3D creation, Drafting, Sheet Metal, Surface Modeling, Assembling and lot more.

Nachteile:

For new user the Catia is not user friendly and they require some trainings to understand the tool quickly and also to get some hands on experience.

Best for Engineering and Design

Vorteile:

I've heard of the program before, but when I first started work I started to use it. I was using Solidworks and AutoCAD. At first, I noticed that mouse clicks are more ergonomic over time, though they are reversed by these programs. In addition, a very advanced level with parametric design can be easily intervened design. 3D to 2D image transfer feature is great.

Nachteile:

I had no negative experience with the program. Although I started with other programs, I started to adapt to catia program very quickly and started to use it actively.

A Good Choice for 3D modeling

Kommentare: Overall the CATIA is good choice for 3D modeling. It is more user-friendly and even a biginner can use it with free mind

Vorteile:

I n my view the most usefulness of Dessault Systems CATIA is it's ease of use. Even with a mouse you can do a lot of things. Rendering is neat and fast. The hardware and system requirements are quiet comparable. Another most important is it's low cost among the rivels. Even with low cost it provides decent features and it makes the CATIA a good choice for 3D modeling

Nachteile:

In my user experience the most annoying thing is it's interface. It is outdated. But I think that outdated design makes the software easy to use even in low hardware configuration.