This is just awesome. I am doing my design in DesignSpark Mechanical which is free but had a hard time hacking the native .rsdoc format to extract the solid geometry data as the free version only exports in mesh formats. One solution is described on
FreeCad forum but you only get halfway through with free tools.
So as I was stuck with a .SAT file no other free tool would convert into .STEP or .IGES, this came as an unexpected surprise:
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https://www.onshape.com/faqs
Q: What CAD formats does Onshape support?
A: Onshape can read native CAD (SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, NX, DWG, etc) and neutral CAD formats (IGES, SAT, STEP, ACIS, JT, Parasolid, DXF etc). Furthermore, Onshape’s unique multi-CAD capabilities store the original native CAD data as well as the Onshape translation. It all gets versioned, shared, and is available for download.
This really sounds like the future for CAD.
Thanks for sharing.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2015 08:35PM by realthor.
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