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{{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}}<ref>{{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}}</ref>
|genre = [[Computer-aided drafting|CAD]], [[Computer-aided manufacturing|CAM]], [[Computer-aided engineering|CAE]], [[Product lifecycle|PLM]], [[3D modeling|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 = [[Microsoft Windows|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 [[CAx]]-software and is sometimes referred to as a [[dimension|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<ref name="CADDIGEST">{{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}}</ref> and his company [[Gehry Technologies]] was developing their [[Digital Project]] software based on CATIA.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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 [[Dassault Aviation|Avions Marcel Dassault]] to provide 3D surface modeling and [[numerical control]] functions for the [[CADAM]] software they used at that time<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ridwan.staff.gunadarma.ac.id/Downloads/files/8426/history-catia.pdf |title=A history of CATIA by former CEO of Dassault Systèmes Francis Bernard |access-date=2014-06-16 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215240/http://ridwan.staff.gunadarma.ac.id/Downloads/files/8426/history-catia.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> to develop the [[Mirage (aircraft)|Mirage]] fighter jet. Initially named CATI (''conception assistée tridimensionnelle interactive''&nbsp;– 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 (engineer)|Francis Bernard]]. Dassault Systèmes signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with [[IBM]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://isicad.net/articles.php?article_num=14120 |title=isicad :: The DASSAULT SYSTEMES Success Story |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617194715/http://isicad.net/articles.php?article_num=14120 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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|General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp.]]<ref name="RandCorp">{{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 }}</ref><ref name="USW W99">{{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 }}</ref><ref name="submarinesuppliers1">{{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}}</ref>

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]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |url=http://www.freecad.sk/en/cad-history |title=FreeCAD – FreeCAD / CAD History |access-date=2017-03-15 |language=en-gb}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="calleam.com">{{cite web |url=http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 |title=Airbus – A380 |date=11 April 2013 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518105959/http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 |url-status=live }}</ref>

With the launch of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in 2014,<ref>{{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}}</ref> CATIA became available as a cloud version.<ref name="engineering.com">{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617192835/http://www.yankodesign.com/2014/06/13/social-design-with-catia-3dexperience-on-the-cloud/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Release history ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name/version
! Version history value
! Release date
|-
| Catia v1
|
| 1981<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Catia v2
|
| 1984<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Catia v3
|
| 1988<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Catia v4
|
| 1993<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Catia v5
|
| 1998<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Catia v5
| R7
| 26/6/2001<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/ibm-and-dassault-systemes-launch-catia-version-5-release-7/ |title=IBM and Dassault Systemes launch CATIA Version 5 Release 7 |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref>
|- catia v4 1993
| Catia v5
| R17
| 5/9/2006<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-and-ibm-announce-version-5-release-17-of-their-product-lifecycle-management-plm/ |title=Dassault Systèmes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 17 of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Portfolio |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15 |archive-date=2017-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316113352/https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-and-ibm-announce-version-5-release-17-of-their-product-lifecycle-management-plm/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Catia v5
| R18
| 10/2/2007
|-
| Catia v5
| R19
| 23/8/2008<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-announces-version-5-release-19-of-its-product-lifecycle-management-plm-portfolio/ |title=Dassault Systemes Announces Version 5 Release 19 of its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Portfolio |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref>
|-
| Catia v6
| R2010
| 23/6/2009<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-launches-v6r2010/ |title=Dassault Systemes Launches V6R2010 |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15 |archive-date=2017-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316113205/https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-launches-v6r2010/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Catia v5
| R20
| 16/2/2010<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-launches-release-20-of-v5-plm-platform/ |title=Dassault Systèmes Launches Release 20 of V5 PLM Platform |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref>
|-
| Catia v5
| R21
| 5/7/2011<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-introduces-v5r21/ |title=Dassault Systèmes Introduces V5R21 |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref>
|-
| Catia v6
| R___
| _/_/2011
|-
| Catia v5-6
| R2012 (R22)
| 18/4/2012<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.3ds.com/press-releases/single/dassault-systemes-launches-industrys-best-multi-version-compatibility-with-new-v5-release/ |title=Dassault Systèmes Launches Industry's Best Multi-version Compatibility with New V5 Release |website=www.3ds.com |language=en |access-date=2019-05-08}}</ref>
|-
| Catia v6
| R20
| 20/5/2013
|-
| Catia v5-6
| R2013 (R23)
| 2013<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=https://www.technia.co.uk/catia-v5-last-save-version-release/ |title=CATIA V5: Last Save Version & Release |date=2018-05-03 |website=TECHNIA |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-05-08 |archive-date=2019-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508083417/https://www.technia.co.uk/catia-v5-last-save-version-release/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 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 ==
<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
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Comparison of computer-aided design editors]]
* [[List of 3D computer graphics software]]
* [[List of 3D rendering software]]
* [[List of 3D modeling software]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== 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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