Vendors Reference Guide

Data Translation Roundup: Vendors Reference Guide

April 2006

Welcome to our 2006 Data Translation Roundup for the Pro/E Community.

The desire for a solution to data translation escalates as the need to move models from one CAD system to another continues. This Roundup provides insight into currently unresolved issues as well serving as a source of vendors offering translation solutions and services.

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The data herein was compiled using submissions from listed companies. Note that it is not an exhaustive list of companies, nor does it include all the products of each. However, we have attempted to include all major software solutions. ConnectPress cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data; we suggest you contact the specific company for further information, particularly to confirm technical details regarding their products. All prices are in US dollars.

Autoweb CADCAM-e CADlook What Product(s) Do You Sell? Fusion-DX, Fusion-DMZ, Multiple, specific translators CADlook Viewer/Translator Intellectual Property Exchange, Workwise, DataVault, Extensible Security What Service(s) Do You Sell? Hosted IP exchange services with Feature or Manual data N/A desktop integration for all major translations2D to 2D / 2D to 3D, systems, hosted team Shrink-wrap models, OEM collaboration tools, hosted PDM Conformance, Bulk Data solutions, CAD translation Migration, Software Services What CAD System and File AutoCAD, AutoTrol, CADDS5, Bi-directional: CATIA V5 to UGS, Import: IGES, STEP, VDA, Format(s) Do You Support? CATIA v4, CATIA v5, IGES, .JT, SolidWorks, Parasolid, CATIA V4 Parasolid x_t, ACIS PDGS, Pro/E, I-deas, SolidWorks, to UGS, Pro/E, IGES, SW, Export: Same as above + STL, STEP, STL, NX, Inventor, Parasolid; VRML; JPEG, BMP image Mechanical Desktop, Parasolid, One-way: CATIA V5 to IGES files, encapsulated postscript ACIS, SolidEdge Mastercam, STEP, Solid Edge; Pro/E to IGES, Parasolid; UGS to IGES, Mastercam Does Product Translate Yes Yes; translations with modifiable No Features? Are Features features as a service option Modifiable? Does It Translate History & Yes Yes No Parameters? Does It Provide Repair Yes Repair algorithm embedded within Import: automatic geometry Functions? product. Manual healing, where cleaning and repair, offers necessary, as a service option interactive stitching of geometry pieces into solids, limited geometry editing Runs On What Operating All of Autoweb’s hosted products Windows 2000, XP Windows System(s)? are compatible with every operating system including Mac’s. Is Software Support Available? Yes Yes, to all customers on Active Yes. In the purchased version Maintenance. Yearly renewal are free. Upgrades to higher versions are free with maintenance contracts. What is the Cost of The Contact company Contact company Basic Viewer: $299 (some Product(s)? formats) Advanced: $799 (all supported formats) Free evaluation copy on website Service: Average Cost Per Cost depends on their needs and Contact company N/A Translation? whether the company buys a bundled translation package or does translations on a “one-off” basis How is Service Pricing Cost depends on file type, size, Contact company N/A Determined? and speed Web Address www.autoweb.net www.cadcam-e.com www.cadlook.com

Contact Nina DiMeglio-Zaleski Debankan Chattopadhyay or Fan Chiang Jenelle Neuhalfen Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone US: 248.601.7160 248.932.5295 650.269.6531 Europe: 44.113.242.5151

CADzation, Inc. Capvidia Datakit What Product(s) Do AcroPlot Pro, AcroPlot, AcroPlot FormatWorks, 3DTransVidia, DETK, PLUG-INS, Data Exchange, You Sell? Jr., AcroPlot Auto, AcroPlot Matrix PDQWorks LIBRARIES dedicated to software editors and TRANS-XPERT to back up, analyze, heal and export models. What Service(s) Do CADzation software works with Data Repair and Translation, Development, Data Bases You Sell? ALL MS Windows based CAD and Reverse Engineering, CAE Migration, Healing Support software applications for creating Simulations, FEM static, dynamic, and outputting PDF, DWF, TIFF linear, non-linear analysis, CDF files. analysis, Multi-physics analysis, Manufacturing simulations, Mold/Die Design, What CAD System Native File Formats: Pro/E, CATIA V4, CATIA V5, ProE, ACIS, Standard Formats: ACIS, DXF, and File Format(s) Do SolidWorks, CATIA, MicroStation, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, VDA/FS IGES, JT, SAT, STEP, STL, You Support? Solid Edge, AutoCAD 2007 VDA, XMT, [ADT,MDT, LDDT, MAP], Auto Native Formats:CATIA V4, V5 CAD 2006, [ADT, MDT, LDDT, I-deas, Inventor, Medusa, MAP], AutoCAD 2005 [ADT, MDT, MicroStation, Pro-E, Rhino, LDDT, MAP], Auto CAD 2004 Solid Edge, SolidWorks, [ADT, MDT, LDDT, MAP], Thinkdesign, TopSolid, AutoCAD 2002, 2000i, 2000 [ADT, Unigraphics MDT, LDDT, MAP], Auto CAD R14, AutoCAD LT Neutral: DWG, DWF, DWF-6,DXF, DOC (MS WORD), XLS (MS EXCEL), HPGL, HPGL/2 HPG,HP- RTL, PDF, TXT, RTF, TIFF, CALS, GP4, JPEG, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG Does It Translate Yes Yes Yes Features? Are Features Modifiable? Does It Translate Yes No Yes History & Parameters? Does It Provide No Yes – automatic and manual Yes Repair Functions? Runs On What XP 64-bit, XP Professional, XP Windows XP/NT Windows, Linux Operating Home, Win 2000, Windows NT, System(s)? Win98 Is Software Support Yes Yes Yes Available? What is the Cost of $99-$249 per license $2500-$9500 Contact company The Product(s)? Service: Average N/A $75 3 hours around 500 euros HT Cost Per Translation? How is Service N/A Objectives, Part Size, Urgency 1 hour 300 euros, 1 hour 200 euros Pricing Determined? Web Address www.cadzation.com www.capvidia.be www.datakit.com Contact Will Munson Lyle Fischer Olivier Rigollet Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone 866.845.6881 OR 847.973.9460 507.794.5447 33.468.790.767

Delcam Elysium, Inc. ITI TranscenData What Product(s) Do PS-Exchange CAD•porter, CAD•doctor, CADfix, CADIQ, DEXcenter, You Sell? CAD•server, CAD•feature, IGESworks CAD•pdm What Service(s) Do On-line Data Translation Web-based translation using Legacy data migration, CAD model You Sell? CAD•porter, CAD•server, repair, CAD to CAD, CAM, CAE CAD•doctor Translation/Migration, CAD model compare, verify Process automation What CAD System CATIA,, Pro/Engineer, Feature: Autodesk Inventor, CADfix DX: Bi-Directional, All and File Format(s) Do Unigraphics, SDRC, SolidWorks, CATIA V4, V5,I-deas, JT, neutral formats, ANSYS, CADDS, You Support? Solid Edge, AutoCAD, Rhino, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, CATIA V4 & V5, Pro/E import only, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, ACIS. PS- UGS NX UGS/NX, SolidWorks, Inventor, Exchange output options include: Neutral: ACIS, IGES, JT, DXF/DWG CATIA V5, AutoCAD, Rhino, Parasolid, STEP AP203, CADIQ: CATIA V4 & V5, I-deas, IGES, STEP and STL, as well as STEP AP214, STL Pro/E, UGS, SolidWorks, IGES, Delcam's DGK and DMT formats STEP, Parasolid, DEXcenter: AutoCAD, CATIA V4 & V5, CADDS, I-deas Does It Translate Features are translated as Yes, with CAD•feature product CADfix: No, N/A Features? Are geometry. All geometry including only CADIQ: Verification of feature Features Modifiable? features can be modified in the based translation. N/A associated PowerSHAPE CAD DEXcenter: Automation of feature- program based exchange. N/A

Does It Translate No Yes, with CAD•feature product CADIQ: Verification of History & only history/parametric exchanges Parameters? DEXcenter: Automation of history/parametric exchanges Does It Provide In the associated PowerSHAPE Yes, with CAD•doctor Yes Repair Functions? program. All common errors such as missing, duplicate and overlapping surfaces, poor quality trimming and gaps in the data. Runs On What Windows XP Windows NT, 2000, XP, IBM/AIX, Windows NT, 2000 & XP, HP Operating System(s)? HP-RISC/HP-UX, SGI/IRIX, UNIX, Sun Solaris, SGI Irix, Linux Sun/Solaris Red Hat & SuSE Is Software Support Yes N/A Yes Available? What is the Cost of N/A Start at $3,000 Contact company The Product(s)? Service: Average Cost $60 $100, up to 25MB Contact company Per Translation? How is Service All Translations are $60 Based on file size By file size and condition Pricing Determined? Web Address www.ps-exchange.com www.elysiuminc.com www.transcendata.com

Contact Peter Dickin Leanne Olsgaard Margo Mohler

Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Phone 44.121.683.1000 248.799.9800 513.576.3858

MSC Software Okino Computer Proficiency Graphics What Product(s) Do MSC Software,-Elysium, Data PolyTrans v4.3, NuGraf v4.3 Proficiency Gateway You Sell? Interoperability Solutions include CAD Doctor, CAD Porter, CAD Feature, CAD Command, CAD Portal What Service(s) Do Interactive and fully automated N/A Software Assisted Migration You Sell? translation solutions and services ranging from single user to large enterprise, I-deas & UGNX CAD Integrations for the PDM SmarTeam. What CAD System and CATIA V4, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Import: Autodesk Inventor; Bi-directional: CATIA V4, V5 File Format(s) Do You SolidEdge, All Autodesk, Unigraphics, CATIA V4, V5; JT, Pro/E; (R10 up), Pro/E and Pro/E Support? Pro Engineer, I-deas, JT, IGES, SolidWorks; Solid Edge; ACIS, Wildfire, UGS NX, Ideas NX STEP, ACIS, SAT, Parasolid DGN, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, Series, STEP, IGES STL; + dozens of non-CAD DCC Export: JT formats. Export: Pro/E SLP; DWG, IGES, JT, STL, VRML, XGL, U3D,DCC Does It Translate Yes No Yes Features? Are Features Modifiable? Does It Translate Yes No Yes History & Parameters? Does It Provide Repair Yes, also offers alternate feature Mesh fixing, Hierarchy/Part Yes; can repair target product Functions? creation methods and work-arounds Optimization, Geometry, and reference source data Processing Runs On What Windows 2000, XP, SUN Solaris, HP- Windows from 98 onwards All CAD: Windows XP, CATIA Operating System(s)? UX, AIX V4: Solaris, AIX Is Software Support Yes Yes Yes Available? What is the Cost of Prices start at $2,000 NuGraf: $495, PolyTrans: $395 Starts at $50 per MB (with The Product? volume discount). Service: Average Cost Price Per Upload N/A $50-$200 per model. Per Translation? 0MB – 25MB $100 26MB – 50MB $250 51MB – 100MB $350 101MB – 200MB $500 201MB – 300MB $650 301MB – 400MB $800 401MB – 500MB $950 Up to 1 GB $1750 Up to 2 GB $3500 Up to 3 GB $5000 How is Service Pricing By file size in MB's N/A Based on the mix of part Determined? complexity. Web Address www.mscsoftware.com www.okino.com www.proficiency.com

Contact John Irvin Robert Lansdale Sales or Marketing Department Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Phone 734.560.1031 905.672.9328 781.314.0500

RadialSoft Corp. STEP Tools, Inc. Theorem Solutions What Product(s) Do CATIA V4 and V5 From/To ST-Developer, ST-ACIS, CADverter, CADviewer, You Sell? SolidWorks (Translation) ST-Parasolid, ST-Viewer CADhealer, Data eXchange, CATIA V4 and V5 From/To Navigator SolidEdge (Translation) What Service(s) Do Support and assistance to licensed N/A Web-based translation; large- You Sell? users. Support may include scale migrations Translation services. What CAD System and CAD Systems: SolidWorks, Neutral only: STEP, ACIS (V13 to Bi-directional: CATIA V3, V4, V5; File Format(s) Do You SolidEdge, File Format: CATIA V4, V10), Parasolid (V15 to V14) I-deas, JT, Pro/E Wildfire, Granite; Support? CATIA V5, CATIA V4 to Support STEP AP-203, AP-214 SolidWorks, Solid Edge, UGS; SolidWorks, SolidWorks to CATIA ACIS, IGES, Parasolid, STEP; V4, CATIA V5 to SolidWorks, CADDS, Mechanical Desktop CATIA V4 to SolidEdge, Solid One-way: Autodesk Inventor Edge to CATIA V4, CATIA V5 to (read); ProductView (write), STL Solid Edge (write) Does It Translate No-N/A No No, Features? Are Some products support feature Features Modifiable? exchange Does It Translate No No No, History & Parameters? Some products support history, parameter exchange Does It Provide Repair Yes No Yes, automatic geometry repair in Functions? products, CADhealer has interactive solid geometry healing/repair Runs On What Windows 2000, XP Windows Windows 2000, XP; Sun, Solaris, Operating System(s)? HPUX, IBM AIX, SGI, IRIX Is Software Support Yes Yes Yes, including updates where Available? maintenance agreement is in place. What is the Cost of Translator License Translators: $495 $750 - $20,000 The Product(s)? 1 Seat, 1 Way $ 2350 Viewer: $290 1 Seat, 2 Ways $ 3950 Tool kit: call for price 1 Seat, 3 Ways $ 4450 1 Seat, 4 Ways $ 4990 Translator Maintenance 1 Seat, 1 Way, 1 Year $470 1 Seat, 1 Way, 3 Years $ 1175 If a Service, What is We don't charge per translation Free online translation but 5MB $50 Average Cost Per limit Translation? How is Service Pricing Free if you download our N/A Per data size and complexity Determined? evaluation version, or included with assistance. Web Address www.radialsoft.com www.steptools.com www.theoremsolutions.com Contact Bruno Winck Martin Hardwick Keith Jeacock, UK Ellen Allaire, USA Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone 415.749.5850 518.687.2848 44 (0)1543.444455 UK 513.576.1100 USA

Translation TransMagic, Inc. Technologies What Product(s) Do You Accu-Trans, 3D Evolution, Mirror TransMagic STANDARD PLUS,I- Sell? Model Comparator, The STEP, BASIC, BATCH, CATIA V5 Translation Center, CADMole Add-on, Inventor Plug-in What Service(s) Do You Feature/neutral based CAD File Translation Sell? Translations, Trouble shooting services, Text search services, Custom software development What CAD System and File Feature based: CATIA V4, CATIA CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Format(s) Do You Support? V5, Unigraphics, Pro/E, SolidWorks, UGS, Pro/E, SolidWorks, I-deas ACIS, Parasolid, STEP, Neutral or B-Rep: STEP, IGES, IGES, NGRAIN, HSF, Parasolid, JT Open, ACIS, CATIA STL V4, CATIA V5, I-deas, Pro/E, Unigraphics, CADDS, Euclid, Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, MicroStation, Robcad, Rhino Does It Translate Features? Accu-Trans – yes No Are Features Modifiable? 3D Evolution- with feature recognition. Yes in both instances Does It Translate History & Yes No Parameters? Does It Provide Repair 3D Evolution – yes Yes, Complete Solid-to-Solid Functions? technology for parts and assemblies. Semi-automated geometry repair tools to stitch surfaces, close gaps, improve model tolerances. Manual repair tools to find holes and add new surfaces. Runs On What Operating Acc-u-Trans: Windows XP, 2000, Windows 2000, XP System(s)? Unix AIX ,CATIA V4,3D Evolution: Windows XP and 2000, Unix, Linux Is Software Support Yes Yes Available? What is the Cost of The $2,500.00 to $60,000.00 $895 - $9,995 Product(s)? If a Service, What is Average $75 $50 Cost Per Translation? How is Service Pricing Customer uploads model through File size Determined? TTI encrypted website, TTI provides a firm price quote. Web Address www.translationtech.com www.transmagic.com Contact Tim Boden Sales Department Email [email protected] [email protected]

Phone 509-358-2039 303.460.1406