Plug-ins to translate files from and to SW

Title says it all:

http://www.datakit.com/page_telechargements_plug.php?tele=18

Never tried any, don't know how good/ useful they are.
HIH
JM

 

Interview with CEO of Datakit here:

http://blog.novedge.com/2007/06/an-interview--1.html

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2007/10/how-goes-free-s.html#comment-87836608

 

IOW No clues.

AFAIK they work.
But I recall Octal's direct translators too ... There used to be
a LOT of CAD binary data formats.
And you cannot translate what there is no equivalent entity
or data structure for anyway (though you can sometimes
have options to come sort of close).

 

STEP.
You'd need the major & many minor vendors
on board & talking to each other in a friendly manner.

That there are now a few "standard" kernels
has no doubt helped in some respects though
it may to a small degree have limited some innovations
too. Uncertain. After all, what better math exists beyond
NURBS for such needs? It has to be computable ... and,
in the general case, I don't think the answer is polygon
meshes OR banquerbabble.

 

Someone is probably a bit confused.
NURBS uses rational polynomials which,
for low degree, are fairly fast to compute
& interpolate. Compute cost rises with higher degree
though.
So any analytic forms for curves or surfaces
which actually are polynomial in form (and not of
excessive degree) can be computed exactly, within
the precision of the computer's floating point math.

Other forms, such as exponentials or trig functions,
cannot be so computed but can only be approximated
by polynomials ... which is sort of how you'd evaluate them
anyway with a computer (for any specific point). But NURBS
does not use such forms/terms as SINE(X) AFAIK. Hence
such need to be approximated as a NURBS by other methods
and then the NURBS is evaluated.

Others may chime in <g>.
Except poor clueless. He has no clue what any of this would
be about.

He may have non-numeric methods to find buzzwords <VBG>.