CrossCad/Ware

CrossCad/Ware allows software vendors to integrate Datakit technology into their own application.

Datakit libraries provide you a full-documented Application Programming Interface (API) to enable interoperability among CAD systems.

Why use Datakit libraries ?

Libraries are an efficient solution for software companies that currently integrate Datakit solutions for CAD data exchange as components to their own software.
These libraries allow access to the information stored in native data files such as 3D & 2D geometrical and topological data and all the concepts of dimensions, tolerances, features, and annotations…

Datakit proposes 2 different ways to cooperate with software companies :

Both methods are transparent to the end user.

Fully integrated transfers into the vendor’s software solution: conversion of all entities one by one including data attributes processing. This gives a powerful grasp on the transferred data. This solution meets the needs of most of Datakit customers (Software companies) that seek to go beyond mere file-to-file transfer with sophisticated capability for processing data attributes.

CAD import

• 3DVIA / CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Composer
• 3Shape DCM
• ACIS
• CADDS
• CATIA V4 3D
• CATIA V5 2D
• CATIA V5 3D
• CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 2D
• CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 3D
• Cercon
• CEREC - Sirona Dental
• CGM 2D
• CGR
• Creo View
• DWG / DXF 2D
• DWG / DXF 3D
• FBX
• Fusion 360
• glTF
• IFC
• IGES
• Inventor
• JT
• LAVA 3M
• Navisworks
• OBJ
• Parasolid
• PLMXML
• Procera
• ProE / Creo Parametric 2D
• ProE / Creo Parametric 3D
• Revit
• Rhino
• SMG 3D
• Solid Edge 2D
• Solid Edge 3D
• SOLIDWORKS 2D
• SOLIDWORKS 3D
• STEP
• STL
• UG NX 2D
• UG NX 3D
• VDA

CAD export

• 3DXML
• 3MF
• ACIS
• CATIA V5 3D
• CGR
• COLLADA
• FBX
• glTF
• IFC
• IGES
• JT
• OBJ
• Parasolid
• PDF 3D
• PRC
• SOLIDWORKS 3D
• STEP
• STL
• UG NX 3D

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CrossCad/Ware products list :

3DVIA / CATIA / SOLIDWORKS Composer Read | 3DXML 3D Write | 3MF 3D Write | 3Shape DCM 3D Read | ACIS 3D Read | ACIS 3D Write | CADDS 3D Read | CATIA V4 3D Read | CATIA V5 2D Read | CATIA V5 3D Read | CATIA V5 3D Write | CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 2D Read | CATIA V6 / 3DEXPERIENCE 3D Read | Cercon 3D Read | CEREC - Sirona dental 3D Read | CGM 2D Read | CGR 3D Read | CGR 3D Write | COLLADA 3D Write | Creo View 3D Read | DWG / DXF 2D Read | DWG / DXF 3D Read | FBX 3D Read | FBX 3D Write | Fusion 360 3D Read | glTF 3D Read | glTF 3D Write | IFC 3D Read | IFC 3D Write | IGES 3D Read | IGES 3D Write | Inventor 3D Read | JT 3D Read | JT 3D Write | LAVA 3M 3D Read | Navisworks 3D Read | OBJ 3D Read | OBJ 3D Write | Parasolid 3D Read | Parasolid 3D Write | PDF 3D Write | PLMXML 3D Read | PRC 3D Write | Procera 3D Read | ProE / Creo Parametric 2D Read | ProE / Creo Parametric 3D Read | Revit 3D Read | Rhino 3D Read | SMG 3D Read | Solid Edge 2D Read | Solid Edge 3D Read | SOLIDWORKS 2D Read | SOLIDWORKS 3D Read | SOLIDWORKS 3D Write | STEP 3D Read | STEP 3D Write | STL 3D Read | Tesselation | UG NX 2D Read | UG NX 3D Read | UG NX 3D Write | VDA 3D Read

File-to-file transfers using intermediary files – an easy solution to test the robustness and the capabilities of the components. Then, if software companies need functionalities that are specific to their software, they realise the full advantage of using CrossCad/Ware SDK libraries.

CrossCad/Ware : a recognized, complete and robust product

Datakit collaborates as an OEM with more than 100 vendors. The company is now starting to operate on a market where customers are upgrading existing solutions.

Historically Datakit moved from offering standalone application targeting end-users to components embedded inside CAD systems. This tendency, started in 2000, was clearly confirmed these past years. Supplying components accounts for 70% of Datakit revenues.

New customers work in the fields of design, reverse engineering, creation of interactive documentation, viewing, rendering and QC.

Data exchange impacts an increasing range of disciplines. This makes it natural and imperative to work with vendors to enable as many end-users as possible to exchange their CAD data.

Satisfaction requires deep and close relationship between supplier and customers. Datakit has the ability to listen and propose solution and will make sure its solutions will meet your needs now as well as tomorrow.

Its success in making a software module compared to developing an independent application relies on its ability to focus on breaking down the entities into the finest grained detail possible and its building structures that enable data to be stored thoroughly and then used as needed by different applications.

Its independence, the skills it has on board, and its ability to listen to customers and propose solutions definitively explain the company’s success. On the technical level it is able to support metadata, in addition to purely geometric information. Actually, it is increasingly dealing with issues such as the management of assemblies, annotations and tolerancing data. Basically all the data that comes under the headings FD&T and PDM.

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