The power to make rapid, wholesale modifications in 3-D rested mostly with big architectural firms or companies the size of Boeing, which designed its entire 777 digitally using Dassault's Catia software.

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The power to make rapid, wholesale modifications in 3-D rested mostly with big architecture firms or companies the size of Boeing, which designed its entire 777 digitally using Dassault's Catia software.

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Boeing is again using Catia software for much of the structural design of its new 7E7 jet, but it is using Thinkid for the plane's cabin plans because of the software's flexibility in making changes.

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Computing has revolutionized manufacturing since the nineties when solid modelling came of age and Unigraphics and Catia, began developing manufacturing software that worked from these solid models.

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Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineering software system called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.

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