3D InterOp

logical agenda() { logical success = TRUE; char *InterOp; success &= Year_in_Review(InterOp); char *R15; success &= Product_Review (R15); char *Platforms, Formats, Features; success &= RoadMap(Platforms, Formats, Features); return(success); }

Year_in_Review( Market ); A Banner Year for InterOperability Problems Market Growth PLM Grew more that 11% in 2004 Design Centric Grew more than 15% in 2004 Growing List of 3D File Formats 3D XML JT Open PLM XML National Institute of Standards and Technology estimated in 1999 that interoperability problems cost the automotive supply chain alone over $1 billion per year Imagine what that cost is today?

Year_in_Review( InterOp ); PLM Market Growth CATIA 33,000 new CATIA seats added in 2004 Unigraphics Minimal seat data available Claims over 35% of 3D digital product data authored in UGS software Aggressively moving I-DEAS customer base to Unigraphics Pro/Engineer 12% growth in total seat count 25% growth in small and medium sized businesses

Year_in_Review( InterOp ); Design Centric Market Growth Solidworks Over 130,000 commercial seats 29,882 new Solidworks seats added in % growth in new seat count in % growth in new seat count in Q (vs. Q1 2004) Autodesk Inventor Over 140,000 commercial seats 37,423 new Inventor seats added in % growth in new license revenue in 2004 All numbers include Mechanical Desktop and AutoCAD Mechanical seats as well as Inventor

Year_in_Review( InterOp ); Emerging Formats JT Format of choice for TeamCenter product Over 2 million installed seats 3D XML DWF PLM XML

Year_in_Review( InterOp );

Product_Review( InterOp ); Translates product structure (assembly) and part geometry Reliable geometry based translation of points, curves, surfaces and solids (B-rep) Automatic data healing for geometric problems such as: Tolerance differences 2D and 3D Curves Surfaces Reduces or eliminates need for model clean-up Important non-geometric data such as layers, filters, coordinate systems, work planes, color and names also translated

Product_Review( R15 ); Standards Data Components Generic version not available Format ReadWrite VersionsExtensionsVersionsExtensions IGES* Up to 5.3.igs,.iges5.3.igs,.iges STEP* AP203, AP214 (Geometry Only).stp,.step AP203, AP214 (Geometry Only).stp,.step VDA-FS* 1.0 & 2.0.vda2.0.vda

Product_Review( R15 ); CAD Data Components Generic version not available Format ReadWrite VersionsExtensionsVersionsExtensions CATIA V – model,.exp,.session – model CATIA V5 R2 – R15.CATPart,.CATProduct R6 – R15.CATPart,.CATProduct Inventor* 6 to 9.iptN/A Parasolid* 10.0 – 16.1.x_t,.xmt_txt,.x_b,.xmt_bin 16.0.x_t Pro/E 16 – Wildfire 2.prt,.prt.*,.asm,.asm.* N/A Solidworks* 98 – 2005.sldprt,.prtN/A Unigraphics 11 to 18, NX, NX2, NX3.prtN/A New

Product_Review( R15 ); Supported Platforms *Only 32 bit platforms supported SGI platform eliminated from R15 PlatformHardwareOperating SystemCompiler WIndows Intel® Pentium® III/IV, and AMD® Athlon™ Windows 2000 SP4 Windows XP Professional SP1a Windows Server 2003 Visual C SP5 Visual C++.NET 2003 HP PA-RISC Workstations HP-UX 11.0 HP aC++ Version A IBM RS/6000 WorkstationsAIX Version 5.1VisualAge C Linux Intel® Pentium® III/IV Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, Version 3 GNU C++ gcc Sun UltraSPARC™ Workstations Solaris 8 and 9Sun ONE Studio 8 Apple Power Mac®OS X (Native BSD) GNU C++ gcc 3.3 and XCode 1.5

Product_Review( R15 ); Model Preview Rapidly generates HOOPS Stream Format (HSF) representation of CATIA V5 models Very fast and compact - does not require full geometry/topology translation Lightweight HSF models to move smoothly through concept, design, analysis, manufacturing, marketing, e-commerce, maintenance and end-of-life phases that make up the full product life-cycle. The specification to HSF is public A free version of the HSF read/write SDK is also available to OpenHSF members for use in their applications. The OpenHSF Initiative is an industry-wide effort to establish (HSF) as a common, open and rich streaming format for sharing visualization data Membership in the OpenHSF Initiative is free and open to all interested parties.

Product_Review( R15 ); Connect Interface Easy to use Consistent interface for all data formats Object oriented interface Data translation controlled through simple options Plug in architecture Simply add new data component to support data format

Product_Review( R15 ); R14 (legacy) Interface Legacy interface will be preserved for R15 No requirement to rewrite an InterOp application Will be replaced by Connect interface in a future release New features/functionality will only be available through Connect.

Goals Performance Primary goal of InterOp product line has always been to produce high fidelity, manufacturable models. We have succeeded Primary goal of InterOp product line for all future releases will be to produce high performance, manufacturable models Performance tuning Configurable healing Memory tuning

InterOp in 2004 Quality Exceeding 94% success rate for reading all native CAD formats Improved handling of colors, units, progress monitoring. Functionality Focused on your #1 priority – updated version support Updated version support for CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Inventor, Parasolid, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, and Unigraphics formats Added support for native Pro/Engineer files Performance New option for improved CATIA V5 read performance Turning off EDGE attribute processing greatly improves translation performance Reduced file size when writing CATIA V4 files New B-spline approximations greatly reduce file sizes

3D Interoperability Strategy Provide 3D InterOp Components that: Enable accurate data exchange between native and neutral 3D formats Allow transparent direct and indirect exchange of solid, surface, and wireframe data Eliminate the need for intermediate files Develop partnerships to enable data exchange solutions between proprietary solutions Screen captures provided courtesy of CADKEY Corp., created by Montalvo Corp. in ACIS-enabled CADKEY

Benefits of 3D InterOp Translators Quality—Assuring accurate data exchange through regular updates and quality control Translators subject to more than 73,000 tests daily to identify areas for improvement Most Spatial translators use manufacturer’s native libraries, no intermediate files Functionality Works with geometry, topology, and attribute data

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