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. :-) 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). > > 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 > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/