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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

PDF Reader

The PDF Reader provides access to any PRC or U3D streams stored within a particular PDF file. This is done via the API A3DGet3DPDFStreams()which returns to the developer all the 3D streams that are contained within a particular PDF. Once you extract the U3D and/or PRC streams form the PDF document you can then pass them to the standard HOOPS Exchange File Read function. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extensions of PDF 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

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

B-rep

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

Visualization

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

Views

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

PMI

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

Miscellaneous

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

Import options specific to PDF

Please refer to the U3D or PRC reader section for further details.

Limitations

The PDF reader does not currently read the 3D streams from PDFs which are password protected.