3DEXPERIENCE CATIA 2025: Key Updates for Designers, Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Construction Professionals

n the 2025 release, NSV highlights the most notable new features for several key user groups, helping them optimize workflows and enhance productivity. Let’s explore the standout updates and how they can support you in your daily work!

1. For Designers

1.1 Creative Designer

The Creative Designer role revolutionizes the design process with advanced, intuitive, and immersive tools. CATIA R2025x delivers greater efficiency and innovation, enabling designers to fully focus on creativity without interruption.

Imagine creating virtual showrooms with the Product Perception Experience application, where customers can directly interact with your designs—enhancing engagement and accelerating decision-making.

1.2 Visual Script Designer

Discover the power of the Visual Scripting application to automate design processes, explore parametric 3D models, and protect creative assets with a robust licensing system.

Automation plays a critical role in industries such as manufacturing, where reducing time to market is essential. This application boosts productivity by streamlining workflows, allowing designers to focus on innovation and breakthrough ideas.

1.3 Class A Expert and Reverse Engineer Enhancer

Enhance design accuracy with advanced surface modeling and reverse engineering tools. CATIA R2025x supports smarter feature reconstruction and optimized workflows, enabling seamless model development and refinement.

This is especially valuable in the automotive industry, where rapidly converting physical prototypes into digital models can significantly shorten development cycles.

1.4 Visual Experience Designer and Perceived Quality Engineer

Achieve realistic design validation with the Validation Rendering application, equipped with powerful rendering tools that ensure highly accurate visual presentations.

Engineers and designers can simulate lighting conditions with unprecedented precision, supporting the creation of products that meet the highest aesthetic standards in the consumer electronics industry.

2. For Engineers

2.1 Airframe Fastener Engineer

The Airframe Fastener Engineer role introduces an intuitive user interface that enhances symmetry management for fastener assemblies.

This interface simplifies alignment processes, ensuring structural integrity and visual consistency across assemblies. Automated symmetry checks allow engineers to focus on critical design aspects, improving efficiency and reducing the risk of structural failures—resulting in more durable and reliable assemblies.

2.2 Structural Generative Designer

The Structural Generative Designer role combines parametric and non-parametric optimization technologies, pushing beyond the limitations of traditional design processes.

Parametric models are optimized to deliver superior structural performance with fewer iterations. New parametric shape optimization capabilities unlock virtually unlimited design possibilities, significantly shortening iteration cycles and enabling optimal design solutions to be achieved faster—saving both time and resources.

These enhancements ensure a robust product development process with high durability and outstanding structural performance.

2.3 Composites Designer for Transportation and Mobility

The new Composites Designer role for transportation and mobility design helps reduce weight and improve fuel efficiency—key factors in developing next-generation vehicles that meet stringent emissions standards.

In the transportation industry, speed and accuracy are top priorities. CATIA R2025x accelerates vehicle design processes, ensuring material accuracy and reliability while enabling close collaboration with other design teams. This shortens the transition from concept to production, optimizing overall manufacturing workflows.

2.4 Eco Design Engineer

Integrate sustainability into the design process with advanced product lifecycle assessment studies.

This proactive approach empowers eco design engineers to lead sustainable product development, helping organizations minimize environmental impact and embed sustainability as a core element of their engineering workflows.

3. For Systems Engineers

3.1 Collaborative Circuit Board Designer

The Collaborative Circuit Board Designer role integrates electronic and mechanical design workflows, improving accuracy and minimizing errors.

This is especially critical in industries such as telecommunications and consumer electronics, where optimizing design integrity and ensuring seamless component interaction are essential.

3.2 System Traceability Analyst and System Traceability Engineer

The System Traceability Analyst and System Traceability Engineer roles in CATIA R2025x deliver significant advancements in project management and data processing.

With new connectors for the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud platform, these roles greatly enhance scalability and traceability analysis performance, enabling efficient management of large datasets. This is particularly beneficial for complex projects, where comprehensive and flexible traceability processes are essential to maintain alignment with design objectives and regulatory requirements.

3.3 System Software Production Engineer

The System Software Production Engineer role simplifies the transition from system design to real-world implementation.

CATIA R2025x supports the generation of executable files directly from UML system architecture models, significantly reducing the time and effort required to move from conceptual design to practical applications. Automating this process allows engineers to focus on design optimization rather than manual coding tasks, accelerating project timelines and enhancing overall productivity.

3.4 Magic Cyber Security Engineer

The Magic Cyber Security Engineer role strengthens system security analysis through integration with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

This integration equips engineers with powerful tools to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, enabling the development of robust and secure systems in today’s digital landscape. The use of advanced security analysis capabilities ensures that systems meet and exceed current security requirements, providing confidence for critical sectors such as finance and healthcare.

3.5 Collaborative Designer for CATIA Magic

The Collaborative Designer for CATIA Magic role enables highly accurate management of the multi-disciplinary impacts of system design decisions.

By sharing system models with all team members, this role ensures that every discipline and contributor is informed of upcoming design changes. It is essential for the certification of complex products, supporting change management at the level of individual system model elements to effectively coordinate multi-disciplinary development.

3.6 Magic Systems Electrical Engineer and Software Architect

The Magic Systems Electrical Engineer and Software Architect roles enhance hardware architecture design through specialized configurations and menus.

These improvements enable engineers to define complex relationships between hardware components, driving the development of reliable, high-quality systems. Efficient hardware configuration management ensures smoother workflows, leading to more effective and accurate design outcomes.

4. For Construction Professionals

Civil Designer and Civil Engineer

CATIA R2025x revolutionizes civil infrastructure projects with enhanced corridor segmentation capabilities, enabling professionals to manage costly roadway elements more efficiently.

These improvements allow for precise segmentation, helping designers focus on specific areas without overloading computational resources. By reducing computational load, this feature optimizes workflows and enables complex designs to be executed faster and with greater accuracy.

These advancements set new industry benchmarks and support superior outcomes by ensuring civil infrastructure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

In summary, CATIA R2025x is not just a tool—it is an innovation partner that empowers you to break through traditional limitations and achieve truly breakthrough results.

Embrace a new era of design and engineering, where creativity meets cutting-edge innovation. Are you ready to redefine the future?

Discover CATIA R2025x today and join the wave of innovation shaping tomorrow’s world.

Connect with NSV now to explore the benefits that CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform can bring to you!