- CATIA is intended to be used for Architectural, Design, Electrical, and Mechanical streams.
- Used only in the Aircraft Industry.
- Collaboration features include 2D to 3D CAD Conversion, 3D Printing, and 3D Viewing Tools.
- CATIA do not have Advanced Surfacing features.
- CATIA lacks Sheet Metal Design Features such as Forming Tools, Bend Lines, Toggle Flat Display, and Hole Tables.
- ASCII, DXF, and IGES writable files are supported in CATIA.
- Readable files supported are ASCII, DXF, and IGES only.
- Licensing stars from $25,000.
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- SolidWorks is also intended to be used for Design, Electrical, and Mechanical streams except for the Architectural designs.
- Used across industries such as Aerospace, Consumer Products, Education, Energy, Government, Medical, and Technology.
- Collaboration features include only Multiple User Reviews and 3D Viewing Tools.
- SolidWorks is rich in Advanced Surfacing features that can create mid surfaces, planar surfaces, extend, freeform-radiated surface, Min Radius Analysis, Surface Fill, Swept, Symmetry Check Analysis, Trim, Undercut Analysis, and much more.
- All the Sheet Metal Design Features are present.
- Solidworks supports multiple writable files such as ACIS, ACIS SAT, DWG, HOOPS META FILE, HPGL/PLT, PDF, JPEG, PROE, SAT, STEP, and much more.
- Readable files supported ACIS, ASM, BMP, DRW, DWG, and much more except ASCII.
- Licensing starts from $6000.
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