Parasolid
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Parasolid is a geometric modeling kernel originally developed by ShapeData, now owned by 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), SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Powershape, MasterCAM, OneCNC, Virtual Gibbs, DesignFlow, DesignSpace, Renishaw Productivity+, STAR-Design and Moldflow.
When exported out from the parent software package, a parasolid commonly has the file extension .x_t. Most parasolid files can only communicate & migrate 3D solids and/or surface data - parasolid files currently cannot communicate & migrate 2D data such as lines & arcs.
[edit] External links
- Official Parasolid web page
- (March 2000) "Healing the wounds of data conversion". AEC Magazine 13 (03).
- (October 2006). "Parasolid XT Format Reference" (pdf). UGS.
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