Neutral File Format - *.JT

bob z. has been assigned the task of converting a customer supplied
model from .jt format to something a bit more friendly.

obviously (or maybe not so), swx doesn't read this file directly. bob
z. has never heard of this file format before, but if you read this,
they make it seem like you can't live without it:
http://www.autofieldguide.com/articles/030408.html

more infoz:
http://www.jtopen.com/

bob z. needs to open this file and if any of you fine people out there
have any ideas, please share with good ol' bob z.!

bob z.
p.s. it takes intelligence to find intelligence

 

It is incredible that UGS thinks they can charge such fees to create
their own

The viewer for jt files IS free......see http://www.jt2go.ugs.com/

The crappy bit is that you have to pay if you want to be able to measure the
model.

I used to use it with I-Deas and the files are reasonably compact.
The nice thing is that UGS's 3 CAD products (NX, I-Deas, Edge) allow you to
add jt files into an assembly directly, without conversion. It can
therefore be used as a tool for making "super-lightweight" assemblies on
very large projects. The Solidworks equivalent would be being able to add
an e-drawing or into an assembly.