multicad management

[Gabriello]

Good morning to all,
I wanted to ask you if any of you have experienced the experience of managing interior design supplies and models executed with cad different from that adopted by your company and how did you deal with it?

in my little one I was evaluating the options of:
a) let me buy the licenses of each single cad (for now it seems that inventor, and solidworks are enough) and upload the natives to windchill (I have to check if it is possible). in the company we have created

b) provide my suppliers with a creo license and give me the required format?


What proposal does it seem simpler and cheaper?
other solutions are welcome.

Thank you.

 

[cacciatorino]

I'm an "external" and customers generally behave like this:
1) for extemporaneous collaborations are provided interchange files (step, dxf, etc.).
2) if the professional relationship stabilizes, the supplier is kindly asked to buy the same system (cad and possibly bookcases and possibly pdm) in use at the customer company.

 

[Alan91]

I'm an "external" and customers generally behave like this:
1) for extemporaneous collaborations are provided interchange files (step, dxf, etc.).

I agree above all on this point. we for practically all customers, when they require it, send the step files together with a pdf with drawing and quotas. Sometimes the design sends it to dxf when they want to change their quotas without having to redesign the whole piece. but there is not always this "beautiful" collaboration. too many times we happen to need a design or model that we buy for a long time, and too many times they do not answer us. then we see ourselves forced to "pump" the piece and remodel it to pc taking the measurements by hand.

 

[marcok625]

hi, if I don't go into creo, like in other cads, there are modules that can open native files of other cad, "recognizing" the model. I didn't test myself, but I was interested in this a while ago. windchill safely manages the natives of the other cads you mentioned, (it does not have to date a solid edge integration).

 

[320i S]

I have experience with create and manage different formats (catia, nx, solidworks etc.).
Basically, the storage of finished libraries and projects remains with the original cad, so the external files are then converted.
in the course of the design, I faced several roads, from the use of the converted native file, to the system "bridge" that the cad can offer (for example create a file that allows to update the catia and nx files, without reconverting the maths).
However, these systems are based on the management of native files, so many additional files can typically be used (in catia if the multibody modeling has been used massively, there will be many files).
always remains the path of the universal file (step, iges, etc.), but there are still several limits in closing complex surfaces, so not always the resulting file, is solid.

more in general there are programs that allow to import and export 3d maths of various cads, in various formats (example tetra4d which is paid), with the possibility not negligible, to view the file of the customer/supplier, to remove unnecessary maths, or to save separately the parts that interest.