[cad-linux] SolidWorks interface

Hi all,

I am considering to write a SolidWorks viewer. So I looked at the
SolidWorks website for while, looking for API documentation or, better,
documentation of the file format used to store SolidWorks. I found out
that SolidWorks seems to use ParaSolid (how funny, they are owned by
Dassault who owns the ACIS kernel and Catia also). 

So there is my first option, ParaSolid x_t and x_b are documented
afaik. 

Now, I have never used SolidWorks, so my question to you experienced
folks here is, what is the standard format that SW stores it's models
in? And what am I going to miss when I use the ParaSolid format over
the sldprt format? 

Any other suggestions? Pointers to libraries that already implement all
of this?  ;-) 

Thanks for any input.

Roland


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