CATIA
{{Short description|CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite}}
{{Infobox software
|name = CATIA
|logo = CATIA Logotype RGB Blue.png
|screenshot = CATIA_cre.jpg
|caption = Concept created with CATIA
|developer = Dassault Systèmes
|released = {{Start date and age|1982}}{{Cite web|title=CAD software history CAD CAM computer aided design 1980 to 1985|url=http://cadazz.com/cad-software-history-1980-1985.htm|access-date=2020-07-23|website=cadazz.com|archive-date=2020-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403023315/http://www.cadazz.com/cad-software-history-1980-1985.htm|url-status=dead}}
|genre = CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM, 3D
|license = Proprietary software
|website = {{URL|https://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/}}
|latest_release_version = P3 V5 6R-2020
|latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2020}}
|operating_system = Windows, Unix (server)
}}
CATIA ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|t|iː|ə}}, an acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application) is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D modeling and product lifecycle management (PLM), developed by the French company Dassault Systèmes.
Since it supports multiple stages of product development from conceptualization, design and engineering to manufacturing, it is considered a CAx-software and is sometimes referred to as a 3D product lifecycle management software suite. Like most of its competition, it facilitates collaborative engineering through an integrated cloud service and have support to be used across disciplines including surfacing & shape design, electrical, fluid and electronic systems design, mechanical engineering and systems engineering. CATIA is more popular, among the end users, for its better surface designing characteristics. That's why it is most widely used in automobile and aerospace industries.
Besides being used in a wide range of industries from aerospace and defence to packaging design, CATIA has been used by architect Frank Gehry to design some of his signature curvilinear buildings{{cite journal|title=Gehry, Dassault and IBM Too|journal=AEC Magazine|date=September–October 2003|first=Martin|last=Day|url=http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/aec/select/103103_day_gehry.htm|access-date=2007-03-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051201074232/http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/aec/select/103103_day_gehry.htm|archive-date=2005-12-01}} and his company Gehry Technologies was developing their Digital Project software based on CATIA.{{cite web|url=http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/products.html |title=Digital Project |access-date=2007-03-07 |work=Gehry Technologies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205194547/http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/products.html |archive-date=2007-02-05 |url-status=dead }}
The software has been merged with the company's other software suite 3D XML Player to form the combined Solidworks Composer Player.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}
History
CATIA started as an in-house development in 1977 by French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault to provide 3D surface modeling and numerical control functions for the CADAM software they used at that time[http://ridwan.staff.gunadarma.ac.id/Downloads/files/8426/history-catia.pdf A history of CATIA by former CEO of Dassault Systèmes Francis Bernard] to develop the Mirage fighter jet. Initially named CATI (conception assistée tridimensionnelle interactive – French for interactive aided three-dimensional design), it was renamed CATIA in 1981 when Dassault created the subsidiary Dassault Systèmes to develop and sell the software, under the management of its first CEO, Francis Bernard. Dassault Systèmes signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with IBM,{{cite web |url=http://isicad.net/articles.php?article_num=14120 |title=isicad :: The DASSAULT SYSTEMES Success Story |access-date=17 June 2015}} that was also selling CADAM for Lockheed since 1978. Version 1 was released in 1982 as an add-on for CADAM.
During the eighties CATIA saw wider adoption in the aviation and military industries with users such as Boeing and General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp.{{cite journal |title=RAND Corporation-Virginia Case Study |journal=Learning from Experience |pages=61–92 |date=2011 |jstor=10.7249/j.ctt3fh0zm.13 |last1=Schank |first1=John F. |last2=Ip |first2=Cesse |last3=Lacroix |first3=Frank W. |last4=Murphy |first4=Robert E. |last5=Arena |first5=Mark V. |last6=Kamarck |first6=Kristy N. |last7=Lee |first7=Gordon T. |isbn=9780833058966 }}{{cite journal |last1=Graves |first1=Barbara |first2=Edward |last2=Whitman |url=http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_02/virginia_class.htm |title=Virginia-class: America's Next Submarine |journal=Undersea Warfare |publisher=US Navy |date=Winter 1999 |volume=1 |number=2 |access-date=26 April 2015 |archive-date=31 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150831001014/http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_02/virginia_class.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.submarinesuppliers.org/programs/index.php |title=Submarine Industrial Base Council |publisher=Submarinesuppliers.org |date=22 December 2008 |access-date =6 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119163338/http://www.submarinesuppliers.org/programs/index.php |archive-date=2012-01-19}}
Dassault Systèmes purchased CADAM from IBM in 1992, and the next year CATIA CADAM was released. During the nineties CATIA was ported first in 1996 from one to four Unix operating systems, and was entirely rewritten for version 5 in 1998 to support Windows NT.{{Cite news |url=http://www.freecad.sk/en/cad-history |title=FreeCAD – FreeCAD / CAD History |access-date=2017-03-15 |language=en-gb}} In the years prior to 2000, this caused problems of incompatibility between versions that led to $6.1B in additional costs due to delays in production of the Airbus A380.{{cite web |url=http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 |title=Airbus – A380 |date=11 April 2013 |access-date=17 June 2015}}
With the launch of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in 2014,{{cite web |url=http://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/portfolio/catia-3dexperience/latest-release/ |title=Latest release of CATIA |website=3ds.com |access-date=23 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619003247/http://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/portfolio/catia-3dexperience/latest-release/ |archive-date=2014-06-19 |url-status=dead}} CATIA became available as a cloud version.{{cite web |url=http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/7791/CATIA-3DEXPERIENCE-on-the-Cloud-brings-High-Power-Design-Tools-to-Small-Design-Teams.aspx |title=CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE-on-the-Cloud brings High Power Design Tools to Small Design Teams > ENGINEERING.com |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617211036/http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/7791/CATIA-3DEXPERIENCE-on-the-Cloud-brings-High-Power-Design-Tools-to-Small-Design-Teams.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.yankodesign.com/2014/06/13/social-design-with-catia-3dexperience-on-the-cloud/ |title=Social Design on the Cloud with CATIA – Dassault Systèmes " Yanko Design |date=13 June 2014 |access-date=17 June 2015}}
= Release history =
| class="wikitable" |
| Name/version
! Version history value ! Release date |
|---|
| Catia v1
| |
| Catia v2
| |
| Catia v3
| |
| Catia v4
| |
| Catia v5
| |
| Catia v5
| R7 |
| catia v4 1993
| Catia v5 | R17 |
| Catia v5
| R18 | 10/2/2007 |
| Catia v5
| R19 |
| Catia v6
| R2010 |
| Catia v5
| R20 |
| Catia v5
| R21 |
| Catia v6
| R___ | _/_/2011 |
| Catia v5-6
| R2012 (R22) |
| Catia v6
| R20 | 20/5/2013 |
| Catia v5-6
| R2013 (R23) |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2015 (R24) | 2014 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2015 (R25) | 2015 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2016 (R26) | 2017 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2017 (R27) | 2017 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2018 (R28) | 2018 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2019 (R29) | 2019 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2020 (R30) | 2020 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2021 (R31) | 2021 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2022 (R32) | 2022 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2023 (R33) | 2023 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2024 (R34) | 2024 |
| Catia v6-3DX (3D Experience)
| R2025 (R35) | 2025 |
Gallery
File:EiffelCATIALeg.jpg|North leg of the Eiffel Tower
File:Piston2.14.jpg|Example of modeling in CATIA
File:CATIA Rendering.jpg|CATIA rendering
File:CATIA Diamond rendering.jpg|CATIA rendering of a diamond
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|CATIA}}
- {{official website}}
- [http://ridwan.staff.gunadarma.ac.id/Downloads/files/8426/history-catia.pdf History of CATIA]
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