Do I really need to buy CATIA?

Hyper-Operability Can Save Time, Money, and Headaches for your Engineering/Production Teams

Taming Costly CAD Data-Exchange Pitfalls

Today, more and more automotive-centric supply chain vendors are being squeezed by their customers mandates and quite often unreasonable demands. From the CEO to Engineering managers to production personal, everyone feels the burdens of these demands. More often than not these demands are extremely costly and ironically even counter-productive.
Are you forced to implement specific high end products such as CATIA, Pro/E, or UGNX to name a few simply so you can accept customers native data files? Is your companys budget feeling the pinch in regards to implementing and maintaining such costly applications? Does having to constantly learn these new applications starting to wear down your staffs morale? Ever find that you have to edit the customers data only to find its not an easy task or even impossible? Ever wish you could simply implement single product that would save you from all these pitfalls and more? Ever wish you could a quick change on-the-fly and keep moving? Ever wish you could inspect and reuse 3D in your 2D design process?

Benefits of IronCADs XG Design Collaboration Suite:

Facilitate an open exchange of ideas and refine projects Repair and Modify imported data as if created natively, thus reducing file transition and human resource costs. Inspect and Verify customers data accurately to correct specifications. Communicate more efficiently with your customers and supply chain. Reduce your costly overhead of maintaining several unnecessary applications to achieve your file transition goals. Increase your sales proficiency and even potentially close more business

We understand the challenges you face every day and that is why we have developed a solution to address all your needs in a single, low-cost product entitled IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite (IC-DCS). From major automotive part manufacturers and their vendors, to small automotive customization shops, IronCADs solution helps engineers communicate effortlessly with these large automotive manufacturers data. Dual ACIS and Parasolid kernels allow precise, error-free import and export of native SAT and X_T files as well as common file formats like IGES, CATIA V4, and STEP. Add the low-cost TRANS bundle and even access native formats such as CATIA V5, Pro/E Granite, UG/NX, SolidWorks, and Inventor. Use IronCADs Design Collaboration Suite to facilitate an open exchange of ideas and refine projects. Share work between designers in the office or customers in the field regardless of what CAD program they use. Edit almost any imported files without recreating geometry by using direct face modeling or adding new intelligent 3D parts from standard component catalogs a perfect fit for suppliers who work around other engineers designs. IC-DCS provides advanced technology that combines 3D Direct modeling, 3D Parametric modeling and a fully functional 2D mechanical drafting tool, all within the same application and using the same geometry thus allowing you to edit your customers data in any shape of form you desire and reuse and communicate your 2D Design in standard formats. Imagine replacing all your high-end applications that are wearing a hole in your wallet with IC-DCS and reduce your capital costs, expensive training costs, and most importantly your high cost of ownership!
Native File Format Support File Type CATIA ProENGINEER SOLIDWORKS INVENTOR Part INVENTOR Assembly UGNX File Extension .CATPart, .CATProduct .prt, .prt.*, .asm, .asm.* .sldprt, .sldasm .ipt .iam .prt File Version Support Read: R2-R20 Write: R6-R20 Up to Wildfire 5.0 Version 98 to 2010 R6-R11 and 2008-2010 R11 and 2008-2010 R11-R18 and NX-NX7

opportunities.

Do you really expect all of this from a single product?

Yes you should and you can with IronCAD XG Design Collaboration Suite.
3D CAD FILE FORMATS 3D Studio (.3ds) ACIS R2.0 thru Current (*.sat) AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf) CATIA V4 (*.model) Hoops Stream File (*.hsf) IGS (*.igs, iges) IronCAD (*.ics, *.icc) Parasolid 8.0 - Current (*.x_t, *.xmt, *.txt) POV-Ray 2.x (*.pov) Pro/Engineer pre- V2000 (*.prt, *.asm, *.neu, *.g) Raw (*.raw) Romulus(*.xmt) STEP AP203 / AP214 (*.stp, step) Stereolithography (*.stl, *.sla) TrueSpace(*.scn, *.cob) Visual Basic (*.bas) VRML (*.wrl Wavefront (*.obj) 3DPDF (.pdf) Universal 3D File (.u3d) 2D CAD FILE FORMATS AutoCAD R13- current (.dwg) AutoCAD R13- current (.dxf) IRONCAD (.icd) IRONCAD-Draft (.exb)

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