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If you’ve ever flown on an airplane, driven a luxury car, or used a premium consumer electronic device, you’ve touched the work of CATIA. Yet, outside the circles of elite engineering and design, few people know its name.

If a design has a flowing, organic curve—like a sports car’s fender or a yacht’s hull—CATIA built it. Its surface modeling tools allow "Class-A Surfacing," which defines the exact curvature needed for a piece of metal to reflect light perfectly. catiav

Before CATIA, you built a clay model or a metal prototype to see if parts fit. Now, the DMU allows engineers to virtually assemble an entire jet engine (20,000+ parts) on a screen. You can check for collisions, measure gaps, and simulate opening a door—all in 0’s and 1’s. If you’ve ever flown on an airplane, driven