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FILE FORMATS

Contents

Introduction

Overview

Exchange Supported File Formats

Publish Supported File Formats

File Readers

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

CATIA V6 [3DXML] Reader

The CATIA V6 Reader provides full access to the assembly, visualization, view, and PMI data stored within a particular CATIA V6 file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extension of CATIA V6 files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange is:

Our readers are updated to the latest released version within 90 days of the release of the authoring software. You can see the exact version supported in the current release here.

Assembly

The full definition of the assembly tree is supported. However, we don't currently support incremental load for our CATIA V6 reader.

B-rep

We don't currently support B-rep data for our CATIA V6 reader.

Visualization

The CATIA V6 reader accesses and interprets the tessellation data in the file. CATIA V6 can contain tessellation in a few different forms. Our reader can read XML and static tessellation, but dynamic tessellation is not supported.

Views

There are two types of views supported in CATIA V6:

Both types of views are fully supported by HOOPS Exchange.

PMI

The CATIA V6 reader provides access to the PMI information within a 3DXML file. The PMI data is only presented in a visual form and so a semantic definition is not available. The different PMI types available in 3DXML are:

The list of specific PMI types supported is listed below:

Miscellaneous

Construction geometries are handled by the reader.

Import options specific to CATIA V6

None

Limitations

No support for multiple sections views.