Structured part model
Deliverable: A component modelled with a clean specification tree, driven by named parameters, demonstrated updating correctly when three of those parameters are changed.
Course
CATIA
The modelling standard in automotive and aerospace, taught through part design and surfacing — including the curvature continuity that decides whether a body panel is acceptable.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Model parts with a structured, editable specification tree
- Build surfaces and judge their quality with curvature analysis
- Assemble components with constraints and check clashes
- Produce drawings from a model to automotive drawing standards
- Work with sheet metal and structural components
- Manage large assemblies and file references without losing links
Who this course is for
- Mechanical and automobile engineering students and graduates
- Designers working in or targeting automotive and aerospace suppliers
- Users of other 3D packages moving to CATIA
- Engineering drawing knowledge is expected
Syllabus
6 modules · 4 months
Module 1. Interface and sketching
- Workbenches, the specification tree and navigation
- Sketcher constraints and full definition
- Sketch analysis and diagnosing an unclean profile
- Planning a model before building it
Module 2. Part design
- Pad, pocket, shaft and groove
- Dress-up features — fillets, drafts, shells
- Patterns, transformations and boolean bodies
- Parameters, formulas and driving a model from a table
Module 3. Generative surfacing
- Wireframe geometry and construction elements
- Extrude, sweep, fill, blend and multi-section surfaces
- Trimming, joining and healing a surface
- Curvature continuity and why G2 matters on a visible panel
Module 4. Hybrid modelling
- Combining solid and surface workflows
- Closing a surface into a solid
- Thickening and offsetting
- Repairing imported geometry
Module 5. Assembly and DMU
- Constraints, degrees of freedom and product structure
- Clash and clearance analysis
- Sectioning a digital mock-up
- Managing large product trees
Module 6. Drafting
- Generative views from the model
- Sections, details and auxiliary views
- Dimensioning and automotive annotation standards
- Associativity and updating drawings after a model change
Tools and technologies you will use
- CATIA V5
- Part Design and Generative Shape Design
- Assembly Design and DMU
- Drafting workbench
Projects you will build
Class A style surface
Deliverable: A curved panel built from multi-section surfaces, checked with curvature analysis and demonstrated to hold tangent and curvature continuity across every boundary.
Assembly with clash report
Deliverable: An assembly of at least eight parts constrained correctly, with a DMU clash analysis run and any interference either resolved or documented as intentional.
Associative drawing set
Deliverable: A drawing generated from the model, then shown updating correctly after a design change, with sections and dimensions surviving the update.
Where this course can take you
- CATIA Design Engineer
- Automotive Design Engineer
- Aerospace CAD Engineer
- Product Design Engineer
- Body in White Engineer
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Lab licences are provided for practice sessions.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Learn it because of where it is used
CATIA is not the friendliest package and we are not going to claim it is.
It is what automotive OEMs, their tier-one suppliers and most aerospace work run on, and design centres in Pune, Chennai and the NCR name it in job advertisements. That is the reason to take it. If your target is general manufacturing, SolidWorks will make you employable faster and we will say so.
Surfacing is the real content
Solid modelling in CATIA is comparable to any other parametric package.
Generative Shape Design is not, and it is where the sector-specific value sits. Multi-section surfaces, trimming and joining, healing imported geometry, and above all judging whether a surface is actually good — that is what an automotive surfacing role is paid for.
Tangent is not good enough on a visible panel
Two surfaces can meet at a point, meet smoothly, or meet with matching curvature.
Only the third produces a reflection along a car body that does not visibly kink, and the difference is invisible in a shaded view and obvious under a zebra analysis. The Class A project is graded on curvature continuity across every boundary, checked with the analysis tools rather than by eye, because eyes are not reliable here and clients are.
Associativity, proved rather than assumed
The last project changes the model after the drawing is finished.
Everything downstream should update — views, sections, dimensions. When it does not, the reason is usually a reference that was picked casually, and finding that is a genuinely useful diagnostic skill in a package this deep.
Questions
CATIA — frequently asked questions
Why learn CATIA rather than SolidWorks?
Sector. Automotive OEMs and their tier-one suppliers, and most aerospace work, run on CATIA — if you want to work at those companies or their Indian design centres, it is the tool named in the advertisement. SolidWorks dominates general small and medium manufacturing. Neither is better in the abstract.
What is curvature continuity and why does it matter?
Surfaces can meet at a point, meet smoothly in direction, or meet with matching curvature. Only the third produces a reflection across a car body panel that does not visibly kink. On a visible exterior panel, tangent continuity is not good enough, and being able to check and achieve curvature continuity is exactly the skill automotive surfacing pays for.
Is CATIA harder than SolidWorks?
The interface is less forgiving and the surfacing workbench is genuinely deeper, so yes, initially. If you already model in SolidWorks or Creo the concepts transfer and it is mostly relearning where things live. Starting from nothing, expect the first month to be slower than a SolidWorks course would be.
Do I need this for a job at an automotive supplier?
Frequently yes, and it is often stated explicitly. Design centres in Pune, Chennai and the NCR list CATIA by name. If you are aiming at that sector it is worth the extra difficulty; if you are aiming at general manufacturing, SolidWorks will serve you better and faster.
Enquire about CATIA
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- SolidWorks
Parametric 3D modelling taught around design intent, so a model survives the change request — assemblies, sheet metal and drawings that update themselves.
- Creo Parametric (Pro/ENGINEER)
Creo taught around parent-child relationships and robust feature order, because in a strongly parametric package a careless reference is what breaks a model three weeks later.
- Ansys (Finite Element Analysis)
Finite element analysis taught around validation, because a colourful stress plot is easy to produce and only useful once you can show it is not nonsense.
- AutoCAD for Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical drafting judged the way a machine shop judges it — correct projection, tolerances that reflect function, and a drawing a machinist can work from without ringing you.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.