CCE, a leading provider in advanced interoperability technology and engineering services, has released updates of its Open Data Exchange (ODX) libraries.
Parallel processing support has been extended for CATIA and NX; this feature enables applications to import and export documents in multiple threads.
To elaborate, CCE’s ODX libraries are thread-safe; this allows applications to process multiple documents, simultaneously. This increases user productivity in many ways, such as:
- Users can process multiple components of an assembly in parallel to enable faster loading of large assemblies.
- Users can process multiple part/assembly files in batch mode for quicker translations.
- Users can process different representations, such as lightweight (tessellated data) and geometry (B-rep) of a part, simultaneously.
“We want to empower application developers with the proper tools so that they can take advantage of today’s powerful hardware, which contain multiple cores/processors. Enhancing our CATIA and NX ODX libraries to support parallel processing is a step in this direction,” stated Vinay Wagle, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Currently, parallel processing, within ODX, is supported in the following formats:
- CATIA V5 (read and write)
- NX (read and write)
- SOLIDWORKS (read and write)
- Creo (read)
