CATIA AND AEROSPACE COMPANY
Initially Catia was developpeb by mcdonnel douglus a aircraft company-later it was taken over by boeing. Meantime dassualt -french aircraft (mirage and many other famous fighter aircarft builder)company extensively developped and modified the catia. now catia is dassault system catia . solidworks also generated now , with the many features as in catia- thats the beauty. solidworks is famous in lower level industries while catia in giants like boeing ,airbus and many other . now the question is y only catia. catia is ace in surface design ,as aircraft design is based on quality of surface, industry has to adopt to catia rt !!! :D aerospace sheet metal is required ??? i feel its very very costly. small companies has dont have enough resources to opt sheetmetal they are doing the sheetmetal models in part design itself,using shell and surface surface based commands .and development can be done manually using extract and other commands with numerical calculation. in addition to this extrac