• Overview of CATIA and its applications across industries
• CATIA versions, licensing, and a full interface walkthrough
• Core concepts: sketch-based vs. assembly-based modeling, and file management

• Drawing and managing 2D sketches with constraints
• Understanding reference planes and reference elements

• Creating 3D models using extrusions, revolutions, fillets, chamfers, and patterns
• Boolean operations and material visualization

• Importing and constraining parts within assemblies
• Managing clashes and modifying assembly components

• Designing sheet metal parts with walls, bends, flanges, and hems
• Flattening operations and exporting flat patterns

• Generating 2D views and adding dimensions and annotations
• Exporting technical drawings in standard formats

• Creating and modifying basic surfaces
• Converting surface geometry into solid models

CATIA is learned properly only by building things with it, so this course is structured around a progression of real projects rather than isolated exercises.

• Mechanical Design Projects: Starting with basic geometric modeling — cubes, cylinders, and cones — before moving into assembly work such as designing and assembling nuts and bolts.
• Product Design Projects: Modeling consumer products like a water bottle or a phone case, which is where surface modeling skills genuinely come together.
• Automotive & Aerospace Projects: Designing and optimizing a car wheel rim’s pattern, and building an airplane wing section using advanced surfacing tools — the kind of work CATIA is best known for in industry.
• Real-World Application: Designing a functional, customizable product such as a pen stand, taken from concept through to a finished, documented model.