CATIA (Interactive Three-dimensional Assisted Design Applied) is a software of Conception computer-assisted (CAD) created at the beginning by the company Dassault Aviation for its own needs under the name of GLOSS (Acronyme of interactive three-dimensional assisted design). The company Dassault Systèmes was created in 1981 to ensure of it the development and maintenance under the name of CATIA, IBM by ensuring marketing.

For the anglophone public, the initials received in the handbooks interpretation Computer-Aided Threedimensional Interactive Application.

History

CATIA was born from a development carried out in-house in the Seventy by the airframe manufacturer Avion Marcel Dassault, then customer of the software CADAM.

The software was initially called GLOSS ( Interactive Three-dimensional Assisted Conception ), but it was famous CATIA in 1981. At this time there, Dassault created a subsidiary company responsible for the development and marketing of the tool, and signed with IBM a nonexclusive agreement of distribution.

In 1984, Boeing selected CATIA like its principal tool CAD, and became the principal user about it.

In 1988, at the time of the passage to version 3, CATIA is carried Mainframe at the platform UNIX.

In 1992 CADAM is repurchased with IBM and the following year CATIA CADAM v4 is published. In 1996 the number of UNIX platforms supported by CATIA V4 is carried from one to four, including/understanding from now on IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.

In 1998, a completely rewritten version of CATIA is published: CATIA V5 . While maintaining its compatibility UNIX, this version also supports Microsoft Windows; however the Mainframe world is abandoned.

Features

CATIA functioned only on the platforms Unix (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX and Solaris) in version 4. Version 5, available since 1999, functions on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX and Windows, and proposes moreover an architecture of development starting from interfaces VB and C++ making it possible to personalize and program its own modules starting from the basic core. To note that Linux is not supported.

Compete with

Its main competitors are
  • the parametric software of Conception Pro/Engineer of the company PTC.
  • the software NX developed by the company UGS

Scopes of application

The various products constituting CATIA V5 cover a very great number of fields, energy of the mechanical Conception, with the design of electric systems, the design or the Numerical control.

Customers

Several thousands of companies use CATIA V5 throughout the world, in various industrial sectors. Let us quote for example:

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