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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

I-deas Reader

The I-deas Reader provides full access to the Assembly, B-rep and View & PMI Data stored within a particular I-deas file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extensions of I-deas files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange are:

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 I-deas Reader provides full access to the Assembly, B-rep and View & PMI Data stored within a particular I-deas file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extensions of I-deas files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange are:Incremental load is supported by our I-deas reader. Datum planes and construction geometry are also supported and accessed through the assembly tree. Our I-deas reader provides access to the whole tree of containers (or bins) of the file. In a container we can find some other containers, configurations, and/or parts.

B-rep

The list of supported surface types is:

The list of supported curve types is:

Visualization

This visualization data for this format is generated by the HOOPS Exchange tessellation engine.

Views

Full support for views including the visibilities of objects associated to views is supported.

PMI

HOOPS Exchange provides full support for I-deas PMI. The types supported include:

Import options specific to I-deas

Note texts with symbol.