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Friday, April 10, 2015

Updated Versions of CCE's CAD Interoperability Libraries Released

CCE has released significant updates of its Open Data Exchange (ODX) libraries with specific enhancements for Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and JT file formats.

"Here at CCE, we work with some of the largest CAD/CAM/CAE ISVs, who in turn serve some of the biggest and most demanding corporations in the world today. CAD interoperability is a strategic technology for our ISV customers and our shared success depends on our ability to constantly keep our software updated with new enhancements. This latest update of the ODX libraries have some significant enhancements, some of which were specifically requested by our customers," said Vinay Wagle, CCE's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Some of the key enhancements include:

ODX/Inv (Inventor):

  • Meta-data support has been improved by providing assembly level body type and bounding box for work plane and work axis.

ODX/SW (SolidWorks):

  • The reader has been enhanced in order to support annotations for 2015 documents.
  • A new API has been added to provide the assembly path data using persistence identifiers.
  • Attribute support has been enhanced by allowing users to set visibility status and names for default reference planes.

ODX/JT (JT):

  • Version support has been extended to support read JT 10.0 files.

ODX/SE (Solid Edge):

  • Support has been added for part weldment (*.pwd) files.
  • Persistence support has been improved by giving document persistence identifier (UUID).
  • Attribute support has been improved by providing the following:
  • Curve Default Color
  • Line width for edges/curves
  • Body visualization properties (diffusive color, ambient color, transparency, shininess, and more)
  • Entity names in UTF-8 format

To view the original press release, please click here.

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