CAD Exchanger Lab is a comprehensive software solution designed for professionals to view, convert, and analyze a wide array of CAD, BIM, and 3D data formats. It enables users to work with complex 3D models on Windows, Mac, and Linux without requiring expensive native CAD systems. The software addresses the challenge of data incompatibility by facilitating seamless exchange between different 3D and CAD applications, ensuring fast and accurate conversions while preserving all content, including structure, geometry, metadata, and appearances. Key functionalities include robust import and export capabilities for over 30 proprietary and standard formats like SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, NX, Creo, STEP, JT, IFC, glTF, and FBX. It offers a fully-featured and customizable 3D viewer for detailed design review, allowing users to explore part-assembly structures, properties, and Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) through sectioned and exploded views. For model inspection, the toolkit provides precise measurement tools for dimensions, mass properties, distances, and radii. Furthermore, it supports CAD data preparation by converting models to standard formats and generating fine-tuned meshes for downstream applications like 3D rendering or numerical analysis. Users can also perform basic edits such as splitting, merging, renaming, coloring, moving, and rotating parts and assemblies. The software leverages intelligent parallel processing for blazing fast conversions, enhancing productivity for 3D data workflows.

Features & Benefits

• Extensive Format Support
  • Exchanges data in over 30 supported 3D CAD and BIM formats, preserving structure, geometry, metadata, and appearances. It imports from proprietary formats like SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, NX, and Creo, and exports to standard formats such as STEP, JT, glTF, and FBX.
• Fast & Accurate Conversions
  • Provides a productivity boost with blazing fast and accurate conversions, leveraging intelligent parallel processing to streamline data exchange between incompatible 3D and CAD software.
• Comprehensive Design Review
  • Allows users to study designs made in any major CAD package, exploring structure and properties, and utilizing sectioned and exploded views for in-depth analysis.
• Precise Model Inspection
  • Enables inspection of models' dimensions and mass properties, performing measurements of vertices, edges, distances, and radii to compare against manufactured samples or design specifications.
• Advanced 3D Data Analysis
  • Offers the ability to look deeper into precise geometry, create sectioned views to study internal structures, and visualize the interplay of parts and subassemblies in exploded views.
• CAD Data Preparation
  • Facilitates the conversion of models to standard formats and the generation of fine-tuned meshes from CAD geometry, preparing data for downstream applications like 3D rendering or numerical analysis.
• Detailed Model Access & PMI
  • Provides full access to B-Rep and polygonal geometry within a customizable 3D viewer, allowing users to browse part-assembly structures, query component properties, and explore PMI through saved views or individual annotations.
• Model Editing & Manipulation
  • Allows users to split and merge models, rename and color objects, and move or rotate parts and assemblies to rearrange models. It also supports generating high-quality meshes for various applications.