Collaborate between different CAD Platforms
The following CAD platforms are supported:
CATIA V4, CATIA V5, NX, SolidWorks, CADDS 5, Creo Elements/Direct and Autodesk Inventor.
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Creo offers five extensions that each enables collaboration for the specific CAD platform:
- Creo Collaboration Extension for CATIA V4
- Creo Collaboration Extension for CATIA V5
- Creo Collaboration Extension for Siemens NX
- Creo Collaboration Extension for SolidWorks
- Creo Collaboration Extension for Autodesk Inventor
File Format | Import/Open | Update | Save As |
CATIA V4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
CATIA V5 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Siemens NX | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
SolidWorks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Inventor | ✔ | ✔ |
Key Benefits
Enable higher levels of concurrent engineering
- Easily incorporate non-Creo data throughout the design process
- Effortlessly manage changes to non-Creo data
- Protect design intent established between Creo and non-Creo data
- Reduce the number and impact of late stage design changes
Promote data re-use and sharing
Support on-time product delivery
- Ensure consistency and integrity is maintained through the design process
Reduce the need to create and manage neutral formats
- Exchange information in the most common 3D CAD formats
- Quickly and easily exchange Creo models with partners using CATIA V4/V5, Siemens NX, or SolidWorks
- No requirement for extra CAD software or customized integrations
Enable seamless updates
- Quickly and easily incorporate new revisions of non-Creo parts and assemblies into your designs
- Maintain design intent across models regardless of where they come from
Capabilities and Specifications
The Creo Collaboration Extensions make working -in a multi-CAD environment easier. These modules enable you to create and maintain seamless relationships between models from different CAD platforms. Changes to non-Creo data can be
understood and handled as easily as updates to Creo data:
- Supports bidirectional exchange of both parts and assemblies
- Associative updates allow concurrent design and production work to proceed with confidence
- Native data import and export without requiring a CATIA V4/V5, Siemens NX, or SolidWorks license
Language Support
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
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