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gkemner1-Visitor
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January 12, 2011
Question

Opening a Catia Drawing in Pro/E

  • January 12, 2011
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Can Pro/E WF 4 or WF 5 open a Catia drawing directly? The extension is
.CATDrawing



The drawing was made in CATIA V5 R18



I do have the CATIA ATB functionality on my Pro/E license but I don't
know if that works with drawings or not.



Any information or suggestions would be great.



Thanks!!


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BobSchwerdlin1-Visitor
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January 12, 2011
I believe you will need a CATIA license on the local machine to do that. We routinely open CATIA files using Autodesk's Inventor or SolidWorks and then convert them to either STEP files, .g files or IGES files. Inventor does the best job at translating both in and out.

Bob
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BobSchwerdlin1-Visitor
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January 13, 2011
Thanks for the info Bjarne.

The last time I checked... The CATIA ATB translator from PTC was over $5k USD. With that being the case, then why not just buy a seat of SW or Inventor and do the translations there. Not only that, but both programs will also read native NX files and you can translate them out to the Pro/E world as well. Makes more sense to me.

Side note... We have had the absolute best luck reading in a CATIA file on Inventor and saving the file as a native Inventor file then opening up the Inventor file directly in Pro/E WF 5.

Bob
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    bfrandsen10-Marble
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    January 14, 2011
    Hi Bob
    Always good to know there are alternative ways. Which solution to go for
    depends on each company's use case.

    With a non PTC solution you will:
    - loose the ATB functionality which allows you to update the CATIA model
    in ProE and still keep the ProE features you might have added to the
    design.
    - use two imports instead of one, which will make this process less
    efficient.
    - not be able to export a CATIA model

    The value of these points depends of course of the use cases: Are imported
    models modified in ProE? How often is this functionality needed? Must data
    be transfer between Pro/E and CATIA.

    /Bjarne





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    Thanks for the info Bjarne.

    The last time I checked... The CATIA ATB translator from PTC was over $5k
    USD. With that being the case, then why not just buy a seat of SW or
    Inventor and do the translations there. Not only that, but both programs
    will also read native NX files and you can translate them out to the Pro/E
    world as well. Makes more sense to me.

    Side note... We have had the absolute best luck reading in a CATIA file on
    Inventor and saving the file as a native Inventor file then opening up the
    Inventor file directly in Pro/E WF 5.

    Bob
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    BobSchwerdlin1-Visitor
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    January 14, 2011
    Yes that is true, however in our case, we get files from our customers and never, ever change their data. We design tooling around their part designs. To get the data into a format that Pro/E can handle, these are the steps we use successfully.

    Bob
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