Translation Technologies - CAD File Translations

You may be a potential customer if...

...You need to migrate from one CAD system to another.
...You have more than 1 CAD system in house.
...You have suppliers using different CAD systems than you.
...You have a vendor using a different CAD system than you

...You want a B-Rep translation.
...You need a neutral file / B-Rep translation, but don't have the source CAD system.
...You want to verify that an existing B-Rep translation was accomplished accurately.

...You find neutral file / B-Rep translations unsuitable.
...You want a fully modifiable, completely accurate, fully feature based, native CAD file translated from one CAD system to another.

...You have sensitive files that must stay in-house to be re-mastered.
...You provide a translation service, which is currently manual re-mastering. We can increase your efficiency and accuracy with our Customer Site Installation of Acc-u-Trans.

A true feature based translation...

...Is when the parameters of each feature and model history tree are translated from the source to the target system. For example: An extrusion has a modifiable section and depths in the source CAD system. Therefore, with Acc-U-trans, there would be an identical extrusion with a modifiable section and depths in the target. The location in the history tree and design intent are also maintained.

Lights-Out Automated, One-to-One mappings are impossible...

...Each CAD system has its own limitations, feature types, history tree representations, and modeling quirks. These limitations and differences make it impossible for a fully accurate, native-to-native translation to be completely automated in the real world.

Accuracy...

...Is very important to our customers, who want as accurate a model as possible. Our patented process of guaranteeing accuracy is unmatched. We check each feature, surface-by-surface and edge-by-edge during creation and again after the file translation is complete.

Why not just rely on mass property analysis? Mass analysis is good, but doesn't tell the user where the potential errors are occurring. Mass property analysis can only tell you that your file is X % accurate. Does it help you to know that your translation was 99% accurate?

Accuracy doesn't just include the geometry however. This also includes the parameters, history tree, and design intent. We map each feature from the source to target as accurately as possible. Our goal is to get your target model to behave with the same design intent as the source model did. Automatically inserting a "dumb" feature (un-modifiable) in place of the smart feature is catastrophic to any translation where design intent is desired and usually requires re-mastering most of the model.