CATIA or Inventor | Which one is Better?

In the last few years, Computer-Aided Design has evolved in a very rapid way, so many pieces of software have been made to fulfill the market's needs. Today, we will try to give you a detailed comparison between two of the most known software in the field so you can decide which one suits you the best before purchasing it.

🔥 CATIA
CATIA (Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) is a multiplatform CAD, CAM, and CAE commercial software suite developed by French Dassault Systemes. This software was developed to use in different industries and to design all types of rich and complex designs.

🔥 Inventor
A computer-aided three-dimensional software that is provided by Autodesk. It is highly recommended by designers because the company tried to make it on a level where prototyping would be like a piece of cake, especially for beginners. It makes all products' life cycles easy to be generated in no time and with no cost or physical machining until everything is finally tested on the software and approved.

👉 0:00 Into
👉 0:22 CATIA
👉 0:43 Inventor
👉 1:28 Licencing and Pricing
👉 2:11 Modeling
👉 3:15 Animation
👉 3:53 Simulation
👉 4:22 Rendering
👉 5:00 Design/2D Drafting
👉 5:43 Industries that use them
👉 6:09 Ease/difficulty of learning
👉 6:57 platforms / System requirements for Inventor (pause the video to check them out)
👉 7:06 Final thoughts

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[sturmgesutz]

You cannot seriously compare Autodesk Inventor to Catia, massive differences in power and price. . A fairer comparison would be Catia and Siemens NX as both are top end applications . This comparison is Mid range (Inventor ) against high end ( CATIA ). Inventor v Solid Edge or Solid works would be a better and fairer match up.

[moonryder]

I use both solidworks and Inventor but for what I use it for doesn't justify me getting CATIA at all. I would love to learn it but I don't work at that level of massive assemblies or engineering, I just use these softwares as a tool to program CNC machines along with a CAM package. Maybe one day i'll get to play with CATIA just to see what all the hype is about.

[andrewscott]

CATIA was created in a time when it had barely any competition and because of that it was the software acquired by many companies.
Those companies began building their 3D databases throughout the years and even though CATIA still features the same, obsolete, hard to use, unattractive and LAME, user interface, those companies have to stick with CATIA because of their databases.
A way more enjoyable CAD software than Autodesk Inventor and of course CATIA, is SolidWorks, a software made, curiously, by the same DESSAULT SYSTEMES, which develops CATIA.
And then there are Pro ENGINEER/PTC Creo, Solid Edge, AutoCAD.
CATIA has tremendous potential not only for three dimensional design, but still, few are liking it and when you get to notice that even today it uses a user interface similar to Windows 98, you start to understand why. Once you get to use it, you understand even better and at the point where you have to use it on a daily basis, you wonder: _why, why do I have to use this crap_?
It's true that a professional user shouldn't choose a software based on it's looks, but CATIA is truly unappealing from the moment you see it and it's not the user who acquires such a software, but the company that user is working for.
CATIA is a CAD software that requires up to ~30% more user interactions (mouse clicks and keyboard presses) than other CAD software, and whether you, the CATIA brainless supporter, accept it or not, by the end of the day, there's a huge felt difference between 10000 mouse clicks or 13000.
Isn't it interesting how an individual that can make use of a software such as CATIA, can still be _brainless_?

Cheers.

[ivankonestabo]

I worked with various modeling softwere through my work, education and free time. Experience range from Aveva, Cadmatic type of CAD softwere to Invetor or Catia. If modeling is for hobby and learning purposes Freecad has a decent range of options very similar to his commercial brothers. Part, Assambly and Wireframe are common CAD language. Once you figure out the basic principles of 3D space ( planes, rotations, constraints on modeling in one softwere you will know all of them. Save the money where you can and implement the knowledge where it counts.

[crazyingenieur]

If you are going to do an apple-apple comparison, you should compare Inventor with SolidWorks, SolidEdge, or even with NX, even though most people think CATIA and NX are at the same High End level.

[serajeemdtoriqularman]

catia is like premium class software solution & inventor for everyone.

[lucmartz]

Sorry… 3:21 inventor has a real world simulation environment for study the kinematics of mechanical systems. It is called Dynamic Simulation and included at the profesional version with NO EXTRA COST

[marcoschagas]

French people created CATIA but still can't use it to design a good car haha

[gorangoran]

This comparison is like; Ferrari or Skoda, which one is better.

[Vellaitis]

one is PLM, the other is for mid-range companies. End of story.

[fcalin]

I have worked with CATIA 20 years now and recently i had to learn SolidWoks 2011(!), i was blown away by how good SolidWork . CATIA has not changed a thing in 20 years. I can do stuff in SolidWorks that i can only dream doing in CATIA.

[KTJ]

This seems like author didn't spend an hour in each program. I'm using CATIA V5 R22 in my job right now and everything is so much worse than SolidWorks or Invetor.
Also, these clips are from 3D Experience which seems to be SolidWorks/Catia hybrid.

[thomanushi]

any tutorial on full vehichle building.Exteroir interior mechanics engine basicly the whole car

[Atit-]

It´s not easy say it. American products are better than europeans. Inventor es better, final point. The Beurocracy, TAXES, ETC, has not produced good results un europeans dudes. I´M NOT FROM STATES