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CATIA v5

Main screen of CATIA v5

CATIA v5 is produced by IBM: [1]

CATIA V5 is the leading product development solution for all manufacturing organizations, from OEMs through their supply chains to small independent producers. The range of its capabilities allows CATIA V5 to be applied in a wide variety of industries, such as aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, electrical, electronics, shipbuilding, plant design, and consumer goods, including design for such diverse products as jewelry and clothing.

CATIA V5 is the only solution capable of addressing the complete product development process, from product concept specifications through product-in-service, in a fully integrated and associative manner. It facilitates true collaborative engineering across the multi-disciplinary extended enterprise, including style and form design, mechanical design and equipment and systems engineering, managing digital mock-up, machining, analysis, and simulation. Extract from IBM website linked above

Widgets

Measuring Angles	CATIA's angle measurement widget two lines, a line and a curve, two curves, a curve and a surface, a line and a surface, a line and a plane, or two surfaces. It even permits the measurement of the complimentary angle between two curves.
Measuring Distances	Distances can be measured between points, lines, curves, surfaces, planes, edges and arc centres. The tool also permits the measurement of minimum and maximum distances, to chain together a series of measurements or a fan of measurements.
	Different possible measurements include: distance, angle, complimentary angle, radius, diameter, centre point, centre of gravity, perimeter and area.
Manipulators
Rotation
Dimension Manipulators
Reference Elements	Create points, lines and planes.
Boolean Operators	Tools for assembling, adding, removing, intersecting, and trimming bodies, also for keeping and removing object faces.
Transformation Features	Permits transformations of an object such as rotations, symmetry, mirror, patterns and scales.
Draft Analysis	Performs an analysis of a draft angle on an object to see whether the piece may be easily removed.
Structural Analysis	Performs first-order structural analyses: Generative Part Structural Analysis simple interface, permits user to obtain mechanical behavior information. ELFINI Structural Analysis extensive mechanical analysis. Generative Assembly Structural Analysis mechanical analysis of an entire body. Generative Dynamic Analysis dynamic response analysis.