Most Common File types

[CPAERO]

Alright so I have been tasked with finding out the most universal ways to save our solid model for future students/companies to use.

The idea is that we need to save it in a filetype (or filetypes) that can be read into many CAD packages, as well as many CFD programs. I will need at most three filetypes to save this thing as.

I am thinking .stp, .igs and ???.

Anyone know of any other common filetypes i could save this model as? What do your Industry/Company use?

Thanks for the input

Eric

 

[Kevin De Smet]

That sounds about right.

What you could also try to do, is save in different versions of .STEP
.STEP is a great format but also a right-mess in terms of logistics.

.STEP has like, a million different configurations and all are different from each other
.STEP 203 and .STEP 214 are the two most common formats to my knowledge.

 

[bobb]

We sometimes have better luck with parasolid (.x_t) when using SolidEdge.


Bob

 

[CPAERO]

Thanks for the responses guys. I know a lot of people use step in its various formats, however im not very familiar with parasolid. I see that ProE can export the format,


but which programs read it in?


is there an advantage to using parasolid over step?



Thanks for the information. If anyone has any other suggestions please chime in.


Thanks

Eric



Edited by: CPAERO