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CATIA is also developed by Dassault Systèmes, yes. But I have never seen it used outside of highly niche markets.
My original comment is based on my experience in mass-scale manufacturing and inudstrial design, which is a market absolutelty dominated by Solidworks.
For an individual user $100k might be much, but that is not a situation where Solidworks makes financial sense unless you run a really successful small business.
If you're a design team working on anything made out of plastic for the consumer market, you're probably going to want something like the following:
$100k is definitely not a huge stretch if you're using Solidworks in a business environment.