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Cad translator now handles SDRC, too. (Keeping up with CAD).


PS-Exchange, a web-accessible CAD data-translation service from Delcam International Inc., Windsor, Ont., can now translate CAD files to or from SDRC (company) SDRC - The company behind VGX.

http://sdrc.com/.
 format without requiring the user to have SDRC software. Delcam says this is the world's first standalone SDRC translator. The service also translates CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company. , Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics, Solidworks, Solid Edge, Cimatron, Parasolid XT, IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) An ANSI file format that is system independent and also intended for human interpretation. Evolving out of the U.S. , VDA VDA Vendor Driven Architecture
VDA Verband Der Automobilindustrie E.V. (German Automobile Industry Association)
VDA Virginia Department for the Aging
VDA Ovda, Israel (Airport Code)
VDA Visual Data Analysis
, and STEP files. PS-Exchange enables toolmakers and other subcontractors with one CAD format to read files supplied by their clients in many different formats. Users download the software from Delcam's web site, and then obtain on-line authorization for each translation. Tel: (519) 974-8088, www.delcam.com
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Publication:Plastics Technology
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Aug 1, 2002
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