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CATIA Software

CATIA

CATIA (Computer Aided Three dimensional Interactive Application) (IPA pronunciation: [ka ti a]) is a PLM/CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite developed by Dassault Systemes and marketed world-wide by IBM.

Commonly referred to as a 3D PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software suite, CATIA supports multiple stages of product development. The stages range from conceptualization, through design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM), until analysis (CAE). CATIA provides an open development architecture through the use of interfaces, which can be used to customize or develop applications. The application programming interfaces supported are as follows:

• The Fortran and C programming languages for version 4 (V4).
• The Visual Basic and C programming languages for version 5 (V5).

These APIs are referred to as CAA2 (or CAA V5). The CAA2 are component object model (COM) based interfaces. They provide integration for products developed on the CATIA suite of software.

Although later versions of CATIA V4 implemented NURBS, version 4 principally used piecewise polynomial surfaces. CATIA V4 uses a non-manifold solid engine.

Catia V5 features a parametric solid/surface-based package which uses NURBS as the core surface representation.

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Sale And Support

The primary function of professional sales is to generate and close leads, educate prospects, fill needs and satisfy wants of consumers appropriately, and therefore turn prospective customers into actual ones.

From a marketing point of view, selling is one of the methods of promotion used by marketers. Other promotional techniques include advertising, sales promotion, publicity, and public relations.

Excerpt of "Sale." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 27 Jan 2006, 13:23 UTC. 21 Jan 2006, 16:30 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales