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2010-10 - Open CASCADE notes

Data model highlights – Parasolid, ACIS, Open CASCADE

19:39 / BY Roman Lygin
Working on the Parasolid importer of CAD Exchanger I had a new chance to observe specificities of another modeling kernel used to describe a B-Rep (Boundary Representation) model. This post highlights a few high-level differences between Parasolid, ACIS and Open CASCADE related to data models.Comparing to ACIS, Parasolid seems to use a smaller set of primitives. Of course, there are typical elementary curves...

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CAD Exchanger 2.0.2 Beta now available

20:00 / BY Roman Lygin
(Repost from www.cadexchanger.com)October 26, 2010. CAD Exchanger 2.0.2 Beta is available This version introduces Parasolid-XT importer. We decided to follow an effective approach used for ACIS-SAT by first proposing it to Beta customers and addressing their feedback. If you would like to join the Invitational Beta, drop us an email at info@cadexchanger.com. Public release should become available later this quarter or early 2011.GUI...

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