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Re: SolidWorks Name Change

Robert — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:29:59 -0000

I work in the Aerospace field with a certain reloacated "Chicago Airplane Company". I'm still trying to find a Translator that will read all the Annotations in a CATIA v5 file. Until that happens, I still have to have an Enovia Licence to view the annotations at the very least, but still need a converter so I can create Inspection files for my QA Department. Currently we use Solidworks to create our drawings so a CATIA to Solidworks Converter would be the ideal for us. Has anyone had good luck with any particular converters?

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

rickyjordan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:40:27 -0000

Tim,

I haven't looked at the third party stuff in a while. Most of them will convert without features. There were a few of them in the past that would do it with features but they do the conversion for you on a "pay per model" basis.

If you are interested, e-mail me and I'll try to dig up some of the translators I looked at in the past.

Ricky

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

tim — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:14 -0000

Ricky,
are the third party translators between CATIA and Solidworks capable of maintaining the part's feature tree? how do they map features which may not be present in one of them?

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

rickyjordan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:31:09 -0000

3dsman...

Interesting comments. There are third party vendor applications that can convert SolidWorks to CATIA and vice versa. If what you are saying is true then these companies would already be BUYING a translator whose cost doesn't even come close to the difference between buying SolidWorks and CATIA, and switch to SolidWorks. So in my opinion that negates your argument. CATIA is still for the most part intended for a different market. My position on this is that a translator between two products owned by the same company should BE INCLUDED with the software.

WHAT IS EVEN MORE INTERESTING IS...... Your IP address links you back to another CAD company who just so happens to compete directly with SolidWorks. I would appreciate it if you would leave the competitive trash talking OFF MY BLOG. Judging from the tactics of your company in the past...I can't say I'm surprised at the origin of this comment.

Ricky Jordan

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

3dsman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:52:23 -0000

There is one reason for preventing interoperability between and CATIA and SolidWorks and it comes down to money, meaning DS has no interest in enabling SolidWorks users to directly read CATIA files. Why...why spend $15-$25K on a CATIA license when you can do a majority of your work on a 4$ seat of SolidWorks... DS is living off of CATIA license revenue, a direct integration between SW and CATIA would kill that big revenue source for DS

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

rickyjordan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:44:57 -0000

LOL! Well...that's encouraging....I think? :-)

Re: SolidWorks Name Change

MatthewWest — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:24:26 -0000

Who knows what the future will hold. Ask, and you may receive. ..eventually. Maybe.