Parasolid

Parasolid is a geometric modeling kernel originally developed by ShapeData, now owned by "Siemens PLM Software" former UGS Corp., that can be licensed by other companies for use in their 3D computer graphics software products. It is used in many Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), Computer-aided engineering (CAE), Product visualization, and CAD data exchange packages, for example: NX (Unigraphics), Solid Edge , SolidWorks, Vectorworks, Powershape, T-FLEX CAD, MasterCAM, OneCNC, Virtual Gibbs, DesignFlow, DesignSpace, [http://www.renishaw.com/productivityplus Renishaw Productivity+] , STAR-Design, and Moldflow.

When exported from the parent software package, a Parasolid commonly has the file extension .x_t. Most Parasolid files can communicate and migrate only 3D solids and/or surface data - Parasolid files currently cannot communicate and migrate 2D data such as lines and arcs.

External links

* [http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/open/parasolid/index.shtml Official Parasolid web page]
* [http://www.cctech.co.in/training/dacad/intro-parasolid.htm Brief Introduction to Parasolid Presentation]
*cite journal
title = Healing the wounds of data conversion
journal = AEC Magazine
volume = 13
issue = 03
publisher = CAD User
month = March | year = 2000
url = http://www.caduser.com/reviews/reviews.asp?a_id=66
*cite paper
title = Parasolid XT Format Reference
publisher = UGS
date = October 2006
url = http://www.jtopen.com/docs/xt_format_Oct06.pdf
format = pdf