CATIA is the world's leading CAD/CAM/CAE software. This software gives you a broad range of integrated solutions that cover all aspects of:

• Product design and manufacture
• Driving enterprise competitiveness
• Task productivity
• Process improvement

CATIA provides easy to use solutions tailored to the needs of small and medium sized enterprises as well as large industrial corporations in all industries: Consumer Goods, Fabrication & Assembly, Electrical & Electronics goods, automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and process plants. More than 80,000 customers around the world have already chosen and proven CATIA in supporting them in gaining competitive advantage.

Its leading edge solutions and technologies for Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering including data management let you achieve your digital product definition and simulation goals. You can easily implement all necessary changes on the digital model for a concurrent optimisation of design and manufacturing. Therefore, you minimise the risk of late expensive modifications and reduce the number of iterations by designing right the first time.

Desktop Engineering Advantage

Desktop Engineering is a leading business partner of Dassault Systemes, supplying and supporting CATIA throughout the UK. By drawing on the resource of this extended enterprise Desktop Engineering can offer unparalleled experience and resource to ensure that your investment is CATIA is rewarded by rapid return on that investment.

CATIA Version 4

CATIA Version 4 is the leading CAD/CAM/CAE system in the marketplace. It supports digital design processes from concept to reality in most of the manufacturing industries, as evidenced by numerous Digital Mock-Up realisations. It offers unique design flexibility, which can accommodate even the most sophisticated product designs, involving hybrid-modelling techniques, while preserving the ability to make late engineering changes.

CATIA Version 4 delivers the largest process-oriented application portfolio supporting best concurrent engineering practices to optimise design productivity, shorten design cycles while improving product quality and reducing design cost.
 
For more information see the Dassault Systemes web site www.3ds.com

CATIA Version 5

CATIA Version 5 (V5) is a completely re-engineered, next-generation family of CAD/CAM/CAE software solutions for product lifecycle management from IBM. It helps companies of all sizes, leverage the benefits of e-business to increase your competitiveness and responsiveness to your customers, and to improve time to market.

Through its exceptionally easy-to-use state of the art user interface, CATIA Version 5 delivers innovative technologies, for maximum productivity and creativity from product definition through to product in service.

PLM Version 5 Release 18 Brochure (PDF)

For more information see the Dassault Systemes web site www.3ds.com