At that time it was named CATI.Īfter the creation of the Dassault Systèmes by Dassault and acquisition of CADCAM, that is when it was renamed CATIA. What is CATIA used for?ĬATIA was first used by AVIONS MARCEL DASSAULT, French aircraft manufacture, as a 3D modeling software and also for providing NC functions for the CADCAM software they were using. In 2014, the company also released the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform providing a cloud version of CATIA. In 1998 the first version that could be supported on Windows NT operating system was released. At that time, it was built to only run on the UNIX operating system.
The first version of CATIA, which was referred to as CATIA CADCAM, was released in 1982, a year after Dassault Systèmes acquired CADAM from IBM. Supported OS: Windows and UNIX History of CATIAĬATIA is one of the leading CAD software products of Dassault Systèmes, a French company headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay that mainly focuses on developing CAD software for use in industries.