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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

STEP Writer

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

Assembly

The full assembly tree is exported with all the instancing information maintained.

B-rep

When we export to STEP we look at the source data and map each surface to one of the following:

...and curves to one of the following:

Visualization

This format does not support the embedding of tessellation data in the format.

Views

We do not currently support Views in the export of this format

PMI

PMI is not currently supported in the Export of this format.