OK! Now you know that both are from the same company, refer to their quotes.

CATIA states: Virtual Product.

SolidWorks states: 3D Design.
And they mean it!
In CATIA, you can not only create a car, but a factory in which it will be produ
ced, the machining processes required, and even you can simulate ergonomics stud
ies as well, like weather the current layout of a plant will be comfortable for
workers to work or not. So you can simulate the whole thing within a virtual rea
lity, including, and of course, rendering.
SolidWorks: well, it is purely a product to design machines. But, of course, the
re are other applications, like aerospace, automobile, consumer products, etc. M
uch user friendly than the former one, in terms of modeling, editing designs, cr
eating mechanisms, etc.
I look at the two by this way: Create an aircraft in CATIA, but create the engin
e in SolidWorks!
Hope this helps.
hi
Some of the differences between Username and Salydvrk
catia: possible clip the shadows, but there are not immediately available .
solidworks: possible clip with quick shade
catia: Ability to rename a tough tree members
solidworks: the members renamed the tree very fast and easy
catia: Sketches robust analysis
solidworks: analysis of simple sketches
catia: Link with no gear trax
solidworks: the gear trax link is
catia: Sheet Metal strong
solidworks: Sheet Metal Medium
catia: Pattern outer circle (3 -D )
solidworks: no
catia: general patterns exist and must be created by rotating and moving pattern
s ( two -dimensional )
solidworks: Pattern with special Amkant
catia: Ability to write and highlight text or unload hard
solidworks: Ability to write or highlight text with ease even with unload option
s, there are certain
catia: Explosive off the posing quick
solidworks: the ability to blast posing with a relatively low rate
catia: fast access to the display various pieces Thumb Down
solidworks: Front view various pieces of very high -speed access
catia: unsafe working environment pleasant ( almost unlike other software )
solidworks: environment, easy to do and like to work with the environment and tr
ansmagic geomagic and nx
catia: Sketches view filtering is to live Svra
solidworks: no
catia: having a particular problem studied in Sketches
solidworks: no
catia: a punctuation types 2 , 3 Next
solidworks: the medium . And very difficult ( in certain places )
3d print: catia not
solidworks: Yes
catia: quick view of the cut there, but not available
solidworks: quick cut scene and is available
Catia is PLM(product lifecycle management) software which have all required Tool
like,CAD ,CAM ,CAE ,ergonomics analysis, more advance CFD, etc

Solidworks Is 3D design Software which doesn't have CAM, you have to Install 3rd
party software(like-SolidCAM) to perform CAM.
now Again Solidworks doesn't have ergonomics study it require 3rd party Software
(like-Jackhammer, CATIA-HUman module, 3Dhuman, NX-Humanmodeling, etc to perform
ergonomics study