New life for old Cadds data

Designers can make new use of legacy Cadds data using a novel Cadds to Catia 5 Cadverter.

In the world of collaborative design, the introduction of new CAD systems and PLM interoperability brings ever-increasing challenges to the lives of CAD users working between different CAD systems.

As new projects are started in the newer systems, the long-standing engineering practice of developing new products through the evolution of previous generations means "fast starts" can be achieved when legacy data are translated to be used in the new environments.

Product data exchange specialist Theorem Solutions provides the optimum solution in this translation process, particularly for the automotive and aerospace sectors, by getting projects off to a flying start in Catia V5 through the use of its Cadds to Catia V5 Cadverter.

Cadds became one of the design systems of choice for major automotive and engineering projects in the mid 1980s and it's surprising how much long-life-cycle CAD data are still maintained in Cadds format.

Although challenged by newer CAD systems over the past 20 years, large amounts of Cadds design data have accumulated and have been retained.

This results in much regular exchange of data between current generation CAD systems and Cadds.

Theorem's Cadds to Catia V5 Cadverter translator is the most comprehensive solution for those wishing to migrate between the two systems.

It enables the user to convert all forms of mechanical design geometry, as well as assembly and attribute information.

The translator reads and writes Cadds 5 files independently of Cadds, filters data by layer and entity type, and allows for filtering and selective processing of geometry.

By converting all forms of geometry no data are lost, eliminating the time that would be needed to recreate missing data.

Being a direct database convertor the translator eliminates all pre and post processing - and this means yet further savings in time.

The Catia V5 Cadverter comes with Theorem's Cadviewer, enabling users to view the Cadds and Catia V5 files before and after conversion.

In addition to offering the widest possible range of options for entity translation, this Cadverter can be run both interactively via a GUI or - to significantly reduce project time - in batch mode from a command line.

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