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garyh@sdsc.edu (Gary Hanyzewski) writes:

> 	I'm looking, somewhat desperately, for a CATIA to ALIAS, 
> 	WAVEFRONT, DXF, IGES, or just about anything else translator. 
> 	The basis for this need is that as part of a large scale 
> 	visualization attempt, I would like to bring a CATIA generated model 
> 	into either ALIAS or WAVEFRONT for rendering and fly-through 
> 	animation.  The model itself is much to large and complicated to 
> 	consider generation from scratch in WAVEFRONT or ALIAS.  I am
> 	aware of several, outrageously priced, commercial translators,
> 	but at $10,000 each these are not really options we can 
> 	afford to consider.  So if anyone has any information on
> 	reasonably priced or public domain CATIA translators I would
> 	love to hear the information.  Even some idea as to the
> 	CATIA EXPORT FILE format would be helpful since the makers
> 	of CATIA are conspiratorially tight-lipped with any sort of
> 	file format information.

Cambridge Automation offers Spartacus, a reversible-grammar parser, that
translates between various (CAD) formats.  The system is successfully
used for Calma DAL migration to various CAD systems.  Other CAD
formats were used as origination and destination, including CATIA.
The translator is incremental, i.e., on encountering a new command it
asks the user to define it once (in any of 12 other formats,
preferably the standard PDES Express).

For further information contact Cambridge Automation on (617)
484-1209, fax (617) 484-1299.

Cheers!

	-nayel shafei