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FILE FORMATS

Contents

Introduction

Overview

Exchange Supported File Formats

Publish Supported File Formats

File Readers

Introduction

ACIS

Autodesk Inventor

CATIA V4

CATIA V5

CATIA V6 [3DXML]

Creo

I-deas

IGES

IFC

JT

Parasolid

PDF

PRC

Pro/E

Siemens PLM-NX

Rhino3D

Solid Edge

SolidWorks

STEP

STL

U3D

VDA-FS

VRML

File Writers

ACIS

IGES

JT

Parasolid

PRC

STEP

STL

VRML

Parasolid Writer

The Parasolid writer allows developers to export B-rep data from Exchange to Parasolid. The file extensions that you can create when you export the data are:

Assembly

The assembly structure will be exported into the exported Parasolid file. This will include support for instancing and any coloring and transformations that may be present.

B-rep

When we export the B-rep to Parasolid if the source format was Parasolid based then all the surface and curve definitions are maintained. This includes the blends and intersection curves. However, the B-rep is not exactly the same as the original Parasolid data as we occasionally need to do additional operations like trimming surfaces and recomputing vertices.

If the format was not a Parasolid-based format then all surfaces get mapped to one of the following:

...and curves to one of the following:

Visualization

This format does not support a tessellation representation.

Views

Views are a concept not supported by this format

PMI

PMI is a concept not supported by this format