[cad-linux] Re: SolidWorks interface

Hello:

I?m a professor of the Engineering  Faculty at the University of Granma 
in Cuba.
In this moment I?m working in one project related to write a Auto CAD 
viewer using Visual Basic Applications for Auto CAD.

If you are interesting in this idea please contact as at the email 
aalvarez@xxxxxxxxx 

Language to communicated English or Spanish. 

Sincerely

Ing. Alexis Alvarez Cabrales 

Professor of the Engineering  Faculty 
University of Granma
Cuba.
   
Ing. Alexis Alvarez Cabrales
Facultad de Ingeniería 
Departamento de Mecanización
Universidad de Granma


-----Original Message-----
From: Alvin Oga <alvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:43:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [cad-linux] Re: SolidWorks interface

> 
> hi ya
> 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, phrostie wrote:
> 
> > i have not seen Solidworks in a few years, but i'm currently neck
> deep in 
> > Catia V5.  it uses a single part format.
> > each part has it's own file.  to create an assy you combine the part
> files 
> > into an product file.  productrs can contain multipule parts and
> other 
> > products.
> > 
> > i think Solidworks is similar.  they called my house the otherday
> asking me if 
> > i wanted a 30 trial.  i asked if they had a linux version yet.
> > :-)
> 
> if we create a university to teach solidworks classes ( i presume ),
> than we qualify for academic discounts..
>       $ 16K solidworks 2003-2004 for $300 
> 
>       http://www.academicdistributing.com
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> 
> - and if we dont need to be accredited to qualify for *.edu, than we
>   can teach autocad/solidworks classes ??  - mixed w/ linux apps :-)
>       and the various flavors of autocad/solidworks/proE/...
> 
> - writing an api to read xx format and dump yy format should be done
>   in ones own (gpl'd?) database ...
> 
> > On Tue November 25 2003 18:37, you wrote:
> > > 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).
> > >

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