Dear Pavlov,
Many people use SOFA and Paraview, but, to my best knowledge, few things have been done to make them work together. That would be very interesting to create a SOFA plugin for Paraview. In this task, do not hesitate to share your problems and issues!
I did not know Paraview Catalyst, looks very fine for what you intend to do (simulation in Paraview). Maybe some people from Kitware (VTK, Paraview..) could help on this. I’ll contact them for you.
Best wishes,
Hugo