Overview
CATIA V5 is the leading product development solution for manufacturing organisations of all sizes.
Apply its capabilities to a variety of industries such as aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, electrical, electronics, shipbuilding, plant design, and consumer goods.
- Provides an integrated suite of Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) applications for digital product definition and simulation
- Addresses the complete product development process, from product concept specifications through product-in-service, in a fully integrated and associative manner
- Facilitates true collaborative engineering across the multidisciplinary extended enterprise, including style and form design, mechanical design, equipment and systems engineering, digital mock-up, machining, analysis, and simulation
- Enables enterprises to reuse product design knowledge and accelerate development cycles
- Helps companies speed their responses to market needs and frees users to focus on creativity and innovation
- Based on the open, scalable V5 architecture
Product framework
Product line overview
| Product Lifecycle Management | Learn about other PLM products that help you design, analyse, and manage your company's products from conception to retirement |
Included components
| Mechanical Design | Provides specification-driven modeling for part design, assembly design and integrated drafting |
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| Shape Design and Styling |
Enables creation and modification of complex engineered and free-form surfaces |
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| Product Synthesis | Provides automation and validation of design and manufacturing data |
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| Equipment and Systems Engineering | Enables design and integration of electrical, fluid and mechanical systems within a 3D digital mock-up |
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| Analysis | Enables easy and fast structural analysis of any type of assembly |
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| Machining | Offers a 3D knowledge-based product portfolio built on an integrated infrastructure and covering all specialised CAM applications |
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| Infrastructure | Provides a scalable platform for collaborative product creation and product data management |
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Additional component(s)
| Education (Web-based Learning) | Provides learning, anytime from anywhere, with everyday companion |
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| Application Development (CAA RADE) | Enables developers and customers to extend the PLM application portfolio |
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| 3D Live | Delivers a breakthrough lightweight 3D paradigm for online collaborative intelligence |
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