cross cad con catia

[ansyolitico]

Hi.
I needed to know if there are valid alternatives to read other cad files with solidworks, specifically with catia files, without going to buy premium license

I saw cross cad https://www.solidworks.com/it/partner-product/crosscadplg-catia-v5-3d-solidworksCan you help me? Thank you.

 

[Vittorio]

Hi.
I needed to know if there are valid alternatives to read other cad files with solidworks, specifically with catia files, without going to buy premium license

I saw cross cad https://www.solidworks.com/it/partner-product/crosscadplg-catia-v5-3d-solidworksCan you help me? Thank you.

Hi.
Don't be optimistic.
all promise full compatibility, then eventually you get a result that could also give you a simple step
forget the association between 2d and 3d.
I had a problem like yours but on the contrary.
I had to read solidworks files with catia.
despite being of the same family.. in the end I preferred to pass the step because there were no advantages that justified the purchase of the translator.
if you don't have the chance to pass the step.. Then you have no escape.
you can always make a demo and draw conclusions for the purchase.

 

[ansyolitico]

But not even with the premium license? because sincerely, if you don't have specific plug-ins, you wanted to go buy the premium license exclusively for that, I don't know how much it is worth it. for what I asked if there was a valid alternative


also because it is not so much a problem for us to work in step, but I think it is more for them, in converting all the asses into step(on casket I do not know how it works, if it converts piece to piece or all in a block) and then having the file back in step

 

[Vittorio]

But not even with the premium license? because sincerely, if you don't have specific plug-ins, you wanted to go buy the premium license exclusively for that, I don't know how much it is worth it. for what I asked if there was a valid alternative


also because it is not so much a problem for us to work in step, but I think it is more for them, in converting all the asses into step(on casket I do not know how it works, if it converts piece to piece or all in a block) and then having the file back in step

if one works correctly. .
catia has the possibility to pass all the assembling in step and you will find your set for solidworks with its opening parts separately.

Unfortunately there are designers working with a multibody file, in that case it is a disaster, both with the step and with the converter

 

[ansyolitico]

only that with the steps, you go to lose all references to the tables. Maybe I'm having a problem where there's no

in a similar case you require the quoted drawings and you hold good ones and remake the table only of the additional or modified pieces? then will the customer go to add them to their archive?

How does it work?

 

[Vittorio]

Let's make it clear because your problem doesn't understand.
to you give the catia springs (catproduct, catpart and catdrawing table)
and would you like to open them with solidworks without losing history in the tree and the association with the drawings?
And then maybe you want to do the opposite? pass to your customer the new or modified 3ds and 2ds with solidworks and readable with catia? ? ?

If so, it's science fiction.

However with the step you lose synchronism between 3d and 2d.. you also lose threaded holes that are not recognized as such.
must be completely remade the table to make it associative.

Maybe spend less on buying you a licenza minimal of catia to be at 100% compatible with your client.
there is the possibility to rent it for 3 months or for a year.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

if one works correctly. .
catia has the possibility to pass all the assembling in step and you will find your set for solidworks with its opening parts separately.

Unfortunately there are designers working with a multibody file, in that case it is a disaster, both with the step and with the converter

multibody mode is one of the peculiarities of solidworks. has its merits and its limitations/defects, like any feature of a software, but to imply, as I understand, that who uses this mode does not work properly is wrong.

solidworks opens up several file extensions from several versions (2013), but it can't certainly reconstruct the original tree of other software that have features that work differently, manage the features differently, call the features differently; even claim that the changes made are in turn readable by the source software. why do different software with proprietary extensions then, better a super software that implements all modeling modes, all features, all options and with a simple switch passes from one method to another without losing anything of the historian.
in the latest solidworks versions allows you to open native files of other software with mode 3dinterconnect, this makes it possible to work on other files in the design phase always updated without having to import each time the files and lose all the work done; I always remain read-only files and changes that can be made on them are very small and not perpetrable to native files. in practice you open a caty file, make it a hole, but that hole you see only in solidworks and it is not transmitted to the caty file.

 

[ansyolitico]

That's a mess. basically you must always pass the files in step or take the rental licenses and get to know a thousand software

 

[Vittorio]

multibody mode is one of the peculiarities of solidworks. has its merits and its limitations/defects, like any feature of a software, but to imply, as I understand, that who uses this mode does not work properly is wrong.

you have understood badly because correctly/pure it was referred to catia.
with a multibody file in catia you can not even make distinct materials and if you make a step from a multibody.. you find a unique file difficult to manage.
I don't know solidworks. Maybe he can make distinct materials with a multibody? ?

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

you have understood badly because correctly/pure it was referred to catia.

ok.

I don't know solidworks. Maybe he can make distinct materials with a multibody?

solidworks allows you to make a separate cut that is specific for the multibody environment, but you can also use the distinct materials even if in an unspoilt manner.

 

[Dum]

It's different than the multibody concept in the cat.
from what I seem to remember, the multibody in catia is managed as a set on solidworks.
so you don't have one particular inside with all the parts, you have a set with all the single pieces as parts. .

Yes, the alternative is not elegant but is to resort to distinct materials. .
even if this means rename all components in a decent way.. I mean, it's a huge waste of time.

despite "often" works with cat mathematicians, coming from the automotive world, so I would be very comfortable to read the natives, the price of the premium upgrade for me small flea is not justified (despite the biblical temples of conversion and the result depressed).
because it is not so much the cost of upgrade is that it also raises, of course, the cost of annual maintenance.

the only one would have a knowledge with the premium that makes you the favor of opening it and saving the file.
At that point even with the professional you can work on it.
Once you create the solidworks file you no longer need the premium license to manage it.

 

[ansyolitico]

Maybe I misunderstood, but the switch to premium, gives a package for analysis and reading of other sw files are only reading, at that point does not make sense the step?

 

[Dum]

the transition to premium at 3d interconnect level, from the ability to open native catia files, the other formats are also available with the professional.
then clearly in the premium there are a series of packages in addition to analysis.

I don't understand.
You can open it, edit as you like and then save it.
to change at will I intend to add holes and machining.
to move jobs, change the maximum size or position holes, in short all that has already been created in the native file, you have to resort to "direct modification" useful tools but that you have to know how to use and that have some limits.
clear that then to send it back to your client you have to convert it back to step, but at that point your client would also lose to the parametric part of what he modeled.
He'd have a "stupid" volume.
a possible cat's table would no longer be connected. .
I mean, it's a good tool, but you have to figure out whether it makes sense.

if your client demands the cat's table and the connection with modeling 3d there is nothing that can save you, if not the purchase of the cat's license.

the convenience of the 3dinterconnect is, besides not having a file for each component, but a single file connected to the imported 3d model, in the fact that a possible development of the imported file sent in a second time you can "reload" on the possible file already converted without losing the associations of possible processing that you have already done, net that, clearly, in the new revision does not disappear the portion on which you have worked.
to give you an example, if you have been turned a step by a supplier/client on which you have made a hole on a flange, if the flange changes in size the hole, once reloaded the new step, the hole remains, in case the flange had been eliminated the shaft will bring you the error of the lack of references.

I never used it if not at first out of curiosity;
99% of the steps that amount are commercial of which I then virtualize the internal components and at that point if I have the possibility to use the parasolid, but I must admit that if will continue the development one day could become a convenient tool. .