Opening a Catia Drawing in Pro/E

[gkemner]

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!!

[BobSchwerdlin]

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

[bfrandsen]

The CATIA ATB functionality only supports import of parts and assemblies
from CATIA V5. No CATIA V5 licens is needed for this module.

More info:

12-01-2011 17:40
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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 conve...

[BobSchwerdlin]

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

[bfrandsen]

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

[BobSchwerdlin]

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