Top CATIA Alternatives and Competitors
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8.2
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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
8.8
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Score
+94
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108
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Compared to CATIA, SOLIDWORKS is:
More Respectful
Less Caring
Worse at Integrating
Harder to Customize
Less Reliable
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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259
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Compared to CATIA, AutoCAD is:
Less Innovative
Less Caring
Less Efficient
Worse at Integrating
Less Inspiring
Harder to Implement
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
+87
Emotional
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69
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Compared to CATIA, Trimble SketchUp Pro is:
Less Transparent
Less Reliable
Less Inspiring
Less Innovative
Less Caring
Less Efficient
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.

PTC
Creo
7.8
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Score
+91
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50
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Compared to CATIA, Creo is:
Harder to Use
Less Efficient
Worse at Integrating
Harder to Implement
Worse at Support
Less Innovative
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.

AVEVA
AVEVA Engineering
7.8
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Score
+96
Emotional
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31
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Compared to CATIA, AVEVA Engineering is:
More Transparent
Easier to Customize
Worse at Training
Less Efficient
Harder to Use
Harder to Implement
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.

Autodesk
Autodesk Fusion
7.6
Composite
Score
+79
Emotional
Footprint
10
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Compared to CATIA, Autodesk Fusion is:
Less Innovative
Less Transparent
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Less Reliable
Less Inspiring
Autodesk Fusion is the end-to-end design and manufacturing solution for your business, enabling engineers, designers, and machinists to modernize their product development with tailored workflows and capabilities.

ANSYS
Ansys SpaceClaim
7.5
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
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32
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Compared to CATIA, Ansys SpaceClaim is:
More Transparent
Less Innovative
Less Reliable
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Worse at Integrating
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.

Hexagon PPM
CADWorx Structure
7.4
Composite
Score
+88
Emotional
Footprint
21
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Compared to CATIA, CADWorx Structure is:
Less Caring
Worse at Training
Worse at Integrating
Harder to Implement
Less Reliable
Worse at Support
CADWorx and analysis solutions work together to give you the power to tackle the most challenging and complex projects with greater ease and with superior results that were never before achievable. Our plant design and analysis offerings are easy to use, extremely flexible, totally scalable and are trusted by over 80% of the leading plant engineering companies and owner operators worldwide to deliver accurate, reliable results.

Bentley Systems
Bentley MicroStation
7.2
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
26
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Compared to CATIA, Bentley MicroStation is:
Less Innovative
Less Reliable
Less Inspiring
Less Respectful
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Mitigate the risk of building in a utility-congested underground environment with Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). The software’s 3D modeling capabilities allow you to automatically create 3D models from survey information, CAD artifacts, GIS, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and more. Bentley SUE maintains a relationship between CAD and GIS utility source and target civil features to help you ensure that data is always synced and up to date.

IMSI Design
TurboCAD
6.9
Composite
Score
+73
Emotional
Footprint
41
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Compared to CATIA, TurboCAD is:
Less Efficient
Less Caring
Less Inspiring
Less Transparent
Worse at Training
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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