Top CATIA Alternatives and Competitors
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8.3
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to CATIA
Compare how CATIA stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Dassault Systems
SOLIDWORKS
8.9
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Score
+94
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94
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Compared to CATIA, SOLIDWORKS is:
More Respectful
Less Caring
Harder to Customize
Less Reliable
Worse at Support
Less Inspiring
SOLIDWORKS® and the 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio unite your entire ecosystem, allowing you to connect the people, applications, and real-time data from every aspect of your business for improved productivity, increased collaboration, and accelerated innovation. Adding DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP provides added visibility specifically for your factory’s environment.

Autodesk
AutoCAD
8.7
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Score
+91
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240
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Compared to CATIA, AutoCAD is:
Less Caring
Less Innovative
Less Efficient
Worse at Support
Harder to Use
Less Inspiring
AutoCAD is computer-aided design (CAD) software that is used for precise 2D and 3D drafting, design, and modeling with solids, surfaces, mesh objects, documentation features, and more. It includes features to automate tasks and increase productivity such as comparing drawings, counting, adding objects, and creating tables. It also comes with seven industry-specific toolsets for electrical design, plant design, architecture layout drawings, mechanical design, 3D mapping, adding scanned images, and converting raster images. AutoCAD enables users to create, edit, and annotate drawings via desktop, web, and mobile devices.

Trimble Navigation Limited
Trimble SketchUp Pro
8.0
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Score
+89
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66
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Compared to CATIA, Trimble SketchUp Pro is:
Easier to Implement
Less Reliable
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Less Innovative
Harder to Use
SketchUp is a premier 3D design software that truly makes 3D modeling for everyone, with a simple to learn yet robust toolset that empowers you to create whatever you can imagine. SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp Pro.

AVEVA
AVEVA Engineering
7.8
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Score
+96
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31
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Compared to CATIA, AVEVA Engineering is:
More Transparent
Easier to Customize
Worse at Training
Harder to Use
Less Efficient
Less Innovative
AVEVA is a leader in engineering design and information management software solutions for the plant, power and marine industries. AVEVA Engineering enables multi-discipline teams of engineers to work effectively together to develop and maintain the detailed definition of all the key engineering items involved in plant or marine projects. AVEVA Engineering is highly versatile and configurable. It is typically used as an authoring tool for the process and mechanical disciplines, but is equally well suited for pipe stress, safety or other specialist disciplines.

PTC
Creo
7.8
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
46
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Compared to CATIA, Creo is:
Harder to Use
Worse at Support
Worse at Integrating
Less Innovative
Less Efficient
Harder to Implement
Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality.

Robert McNeel & Associates
Rhino 8
7.7
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
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29
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Compared to CATIA, Rhino 8 is:
More Transparent
Better at Support
Less Reliable
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Harder to Use
Rhinoceros is a 3-D modeling software with thousands of modeling and editing tools including support for both large files and large teams. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware.

ANSYS
Ansys SpaceClaim
7.5
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
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31
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Compared to CATIA, Ansys SpaceClaim is:
More Transparent
Less Innovative
Less Reliable
Harder to Use
Less Efficient
Less Caring
SpaceClaim Engineer is a 3D Direct Modeling software which allows engineers to work with CAD data from any source, regardless of origin. SpaceClaim is used in a number of applications including concept modeling, bid modeling, 2D to 3D transition, manufacturing, reverse engineering, sheet metal manufacturing and model prep.

IMSI Design
TurboCAD
6.9
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Score
+73
Emotional
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41
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Compared to CATIA, TurboCAD is:
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Less Inspiring
Worse at Training
Less Transparent
Less Innovative
TurboCAD Pro Platinum is a professional 2D/3D CAD application that offers a great collection of 2D/3D design tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. An optional AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor helps professionals already familiar with AutoCAD easily get up to speed.
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