It's the first "new" version of this industry-leading software product for more than a decade. Dassault Systemes' Catia has been stuck on Version Five for so long that you'd be forgiven for thinking that V5 was its proper title.rnBut, said president and CEO Bernard Charles, launching the V6 platform, it was time to move on because design and product development are now about "amassing collective intelligence". That means involving people outside design and manufacturing in the systems. Dassault's view is that the traditional CAD, CAM, CAE designations for software have been overtaken by demand for information to be in digital formats and to be available to everyone.rnWhat Charles calls "virtualisation" is more than just product and process information in 3D: "There's a social aspect to this knowledge and a trading aspect too," he says. "And it uses the power of 3D as the medium."
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