Competitors' IGES Tools

This is a snapshot of a NIST page as of 2001-02-14 ... it may have changed a lot since then. If the WiZ WORX IGES Utilities do not meet your needs, then perhaps one of these other vendors can. :-)

• Spatial Technology / InterDATA Access, Inc. offers provide enterprise viewing tools that can view IGES, STEP, CGM among the 300 formats supported, and a Software Developer's Kit for UNIX and MS-Windows systems. Filters are also available for importing IGES graphics into desktop publishing systems; see descriptions listed in the Spatial IntraVISION page. Send request to productsales@spatial.com.

• International TechneGroup, Inc. offers IGES file exchange/management tools for most UNIX platforms; see descriptions listed in the International TechneGroup, Inc. page. Send request to Dave Mattei at dtm@iti-oh.com.

• Rosetta Technologies offers a suite of IGES tools for a wide variety of platforms; see descriptions listed in the Rosetta Technologies page. Send request to Ken Vartanian at kenv@preview.com.

• Compunix, Inc. offer a range of CATIA and IGES data exchange software products; see descriptions at the Compunix-usa page. Note that new translation tools for the Rapid Prototyping industry will be available soon; contact Hans M. Fink at sales@compunix-usa.com for more information.

• STEP Tools, Inc. offers IGES-STEP conversion capability; see descriptions listed under ST Visualizer and ST Developer for UNIX at the STEP Tools Products Specification page. Contact Blair Downie at downie@steptools.com.

• Loye & Associates Data Exchange, systems, and software. CIM, CAE/CAD/CAM. We debug exchange problems, optimize exchange processes, migrate existing data, and recover legacy data. We provide Internet solutions expertise. Contact Bill Loye, protocom Webmaster, at bloye@protocom.com.

• Artwork Conversion Software, Inc. offers CAD/ECAD file exchange and file conversion translators. Services are also offered, including viewing, plotting and photoplotting. See discriptions on the MTOOLs page. Contact Steve DiBartolomeo at stevedb@artwork.com.

• FIRST CAD/CAM, Inc. (formerly Graftek) offers a full line of design, drafting, analysis, and N/C programs including IGES translators. See descriptions on the FIRST CAD/CAM, Inc. IGES page and the FIRST CAD/CAM, Inc. Welcome page. For e-mail inquiries, contact support@graftek.com.

• ITECS Engineering GmbH offers EXIGES, an easy to use solution for the interactive or batch editing of IGES files. It recognizes the user defined descriptions of the general drawing organization at the company site as well as the CAD program specific features. As a result the target drawing keeps its original correlation between the vector elements. The involved CAD systems need to support an IGES interface. EXIGES releases are available for DOS, windows and all major Unix operating systems. Send information requests to Holger Trüller at 040741170-0001@t-online.de.

• Router Solutions Inc. offers interface tools for CAE/CAD/CAM. The translators are specialized for electromechanical formats including netlist, schematic, printed circuit board (PCB), and 2-D graphic based programs. See description at the RSI-Inc page. Contact Wolfgang at wolfgang@rsi-inc.com.

• Actify, Inc. offers 3D View, an easy to use yet powerful CAD/CAM viewer for Windows. Actify's 3D View - a native 3D CAD Viewer for Pro/E, Catia, UG, IGES, DWG, SolidWorks, CATIA, Mechanical Desktop, SAT, Parasolid 3DStudio, ISO G-Code and VRML1.0/2.0. Try before buying by visiting Actify's 3DView page. Contact Mike Burton at mburton@actify.com.

• Okino Computer Graphics Inc. offers its NuGraf and PolyTrans products which view, render and convert IGES files amongst the top 2 dozen multimedia and CAD formats. Demos and detailed descriptions on the Okino WEB site. See also Okino's supported file format list page. Contact Robert C. Lansdale at lansd@okino.com.

• Solid Concepts, Inc. - offers SolidView, an easy to use high performance Windows application for viewing, measuring, and editing 3D designs. Reads IGES, VDA-FS, STL, DXF, OBJ, and VRML 3D designs and 2D drawings. Visit them at the SolidConcepts homepage. See software description at the Solid Concepts SolidView page. Please contact tom@solidconcepts.com for further information.

• Jamison Design Services offers an "Online Unigraphics File Translator" that allows users to perform .dxf and .igs translations online. In addition to IGES and DXF, we also offer STL output. Access our translator at http://www.jamisondesign.com. For more information, send e-mail to Jim Clark at help@jamisondesign.com.

• Datranet Ltd offers IGES translators and viewers, including CADfix (3D IGES fixing environment), IGES/Catia translator, CADDS/IGES translator, IntraVISION IGES Viewer, and SolidView IGES Viewer. See description at the http://www.datranet.u-net.com page. Contact Martyn Davies at sales@datranet.u-net.com.

• Imtech Design offers 3DView - a versatile Cad file viewer for IGES, STL, VDA, Catia, SolidWorks, Parasolids and Iso-g-code files. See information at or download from: http://www.3dview.co.uk, or contact Keith Hague at tel:- 0181 2850033, fax:- 0181 2850066. Applications include moldflow analysis service - mould filling, cooling and warpage analysis 3DView - CAD file viewer.

• CADlook, Inc. offers a low cost software package CADlook that allows users to view, translate, and measure 3D data from IGES and STEP files (both trimmed surfaces and solids). CADlook is also capable of generating VRML files for your CAD data. We are a small NASA spin-off company doing IGES and STEP translators/viewers. See description and download free evaluation copy from CADlook page. Contact Jin Chou at jchou@cadlook.com.

• MCS Corporation offers Anvil Express Viewer. Opens IGES files allowing 3D viewing and measuring, viewing of paper-space layouts, plot and print, visual layer separation (blank/unblank). Also reads DXF, VDA-FS, DXF, CADDS3/4, Anvil proprietary files. Please see MCS http://www.mcsaz.com page. Contact Scott at scotth@mcsaz.com for information.

• DATAKIT offers a home made suite of data translators such as VDA to IGES, SET to IGES, UNISURF to IGES, DXF to IGES, IGES to IGES Adapter, CATIA native to IGES, CADDS native to IGES, MEDUSA 2D native to IGES, MEDUSA 2D native to PRO/Engineer, DWG to MI. DATAKIT offers also read access or write access libraries as source or object code for these formats and also for STEP read and write and for any Unix or Windows machines. For further information, contact Mr. Cadin at fcadin@datakit.com or visit http://www.datakit.com Web site.

• DeskArtes offers software tools for viewing, communicating, manipulating and converting IGES and STL models. The products View Expert and 3Data Expert will allow you to view IGES & VDA files, apply dimensions, calculate size, area and volume, add comments and notes, as well as e-mail and print files & images. Other features include verification of STL, IGES & VDA files and a lot of features to handle STL files. Please see DeskArtes page. Contact DA@deskartes.fi for information.

• CADLINK provides CAD / CAM translator-converter and 3D CAD / CAM viewer for CATIA, CADDS, AUTOCAD, RHINO3D, PRO/E, SOLIDWORKS, SOLID EDGE, IDEAS, UNIGRAPHICS, IGES, DXF, STEP, and VRML. Share native CAD files with everyone with the "3Dview" software. The "Rhino 3D" software provides for CAD/CAM model healing & repair. Visit Webpage at CadLink for software and services for CAD/CAM data exchange. Alternate links are 3dview.com, or rhino3d-fr.com. Visit the French PTC's users group (Pro/E, Cadds5, Medusa, ...). For more information contact Philippe Pigeard philippe.pigeard@cadlink.fr.

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