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CAD Interoperability
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GibbsCAM CAD Interoperability In order to ensure that GibbsCAM® can receive and machine part data, whatever the source, GibbsCAM supports a wide variety of popular computer-aided design (CAD) data formats for exchanging part data. All GibbsCAM packages support point lists, DXF/DWG, and IGES formats. These formats represent the most commonly used formats in use in industry today allowing part data to be read in from almost any source. Once read into GibbsCAM, problem geometry can be repaired using GibbsCAM’s powerful healing technology. Surface models can be automatically stitched into solids allowing GibbsCAM’s powerful solids-based technology to be applied. Solid modeling is the standard method to represent parts for most modern CAD applications. To ensure the highest level of data exchange fidelity, Gibbs licenses the Parasolid®, ACIS® and Granite® solid modeler kernels. These three systems are the most popular, mainstream solid modeling kernels used by numerous CAD applications. To ensure the ultimate level of interoperability, GibbsCAM supports reading the native formats of many popular CAD applications, such as Autodesk Inventor®, CATIA V4, CATIA V5, KeyCreator®, PTC® Creo, Rhinoceros®, Solid Edge®, and SolidWorks®. This allows GibbsCAM to directly open and machine part files from these CAD systems. To further enhance interoperability with GibbsCAM, data transfer add-ins have been developed specifically for Autodesk Inventor, CimatronE, Keycreator®, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks. These add-ins augment the CAD application allowing it to transfer part files from their current session directly into GibbsCAM. In recognition for achieving a high level of interoperability, GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program, is a Siemens Solution Partner Program-PLM for Solid Edge Product, and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Partner Product. GibbsCAM also supports STEP and VDA-FS, two international data exchange formats.

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REQUIRED OPTIONS Point Lists Solids Import Surfaces, Solids AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Mechanical Desktop, DXF-capable applications Geometry, Surfaces, Solids AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Mechanical Desktop, DXF-capable applications Geometry, Surfaces Commonly supported by most CAD systems VDA-FS Reader 3D Geometry, Surfaces, Solids STEP (GRANITE) Surfaces, Solids CAD applications that support STEP, such as Alibre Design STEP (GRANITE) Surfaces, Solids CAD applications that support STEP, such as Alibre Design Surfaces, Solids Rhinoceros, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, UGS NX® ACIS/SAT Reader...

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