CAD Exchanger

View, explore and convert 3D CAD data on desktop, web and mobile

Applications for end-users. SDK's and tools for software developers. Custom development services for businesses.

Import/export 3D files

Read and write Solidworks, STEP, JT, STL and 30+ other 3D formats.

Explore

Access assemblies and parts, precise B-Reps and polygonal meshes, meta-data and PMI.

Visualize

Use sectioning, explode views and multiple display modes.

Trusted by industry leaders

Manufacturing Toolkit
All-in-one SDK to create digital manufacturing solutions
Custom Development
Bespoke engineering software and customization of existing applications
CAD Exchanger Lab
Desktop app to view, explore and convert 3D CAD data across 30+ file formats.
CAD Exchanger SDK
Desktop app to view, explore and convert 3D CAD data across 30+ file formats.

Manufacturing

All-in-one SDK geared towards DFM and manufacturing cost estimation

  • CNC machining
  • Sheet metal
  • Molding

Manufacturing Toolkit

Key features
Feature recognition
DFM analysis
Unfolding
2D nesting
3D measurements
3D web visualization
Processes
CNC machining
Sheet metal
Molding
SDK components
API
Libraries
Code samples
Documentation

Your software solution

Use case examples
DFM reports
Quotation for manufacturing
Simplification (defeaturing)
NC code generation
3D model analysis
CAD validation

Use Manufacturing Toolkit to develop

CNC machining

  • Recognize bosses, pockets, holes, faces, and countersinks.
  • Identify over 25 design flaws for milling, drilling, and turning.

Sheet metal

  • Recognize bends, bridges, louvers, cutouts, holes, and notches.
  • Analyze DFM within almost 30 checks, such as insufficient hole spacing, inconsistent bend radii, etc.

CNC machining

  • Recognize ribs, bosses, and screw bosses.
  • Reveal DFM issues, including high ribs, high screw boss, irregular wall thickness, etc.

Custom Development Services

We build bespoke engineering software, and customize existing applications.

Overview

Need brand-new software but do not have a software engineering team ? Want to add 3D and greater user experience into your existing app but short on skills? Use CAD Exchanger but need some extra functionality?

We can help. From short-term projects to multi-year contracts we can help you build your software.

Complex CAD/CAM/CAE

From 3D geometrical modeling, mesh generations to highly-interactive visualization. We support 30+ CAD formats and work with various modeling kernels, so we know 3D. If you are completely new to CAD and 3D modeling,

On-demand manufacturing

We built multiple algorithms – from volume computations to machining feature recognition – to build custom apps for instant manufacturing quotations. Machining, laser cutting, sheet metal, additive manufacturing and other manufacturing processes.

Cloud and mobile

Our products run on any devices, from smartphones to cloud, as installed copies and SaaS. Deployable on-premise or in public clouds, in Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. We can make your software support all those too.

Performance tuning and parallel computations

We love performance and parallelism. We hold two patents in parallel computations and use them in our products. We help our customers to scale their apps to work with larger 3D models and faster on those fancy multi-core CPU’s.

Great UX design

Too many modern apps are too complex. We strive for simplicity and clarity in UI’s. If you like CAD Exchanger Lab and Cloud we can probably help you.

How this works

We don’t promise what we cannot deliver. We discuss requirements and make transparent detailed cost estimates and SOW’s (Statement of Work). We deliver the solution and can maintain it, or let the customer maintain it.

We use the SCRUM process, with regular customer communication and interim deliveries. We can work on fixed-price or time-and-material basis.

View, Convert and Analyze CAD, BIM and 3D data

Load and convert models on Windows, Mac and Linux without having to deal with expensive CAD systems.

Work with CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, STEP, JT, IFC and many more formats.

How this works

Connect different software

Exchange data between incompatible 3D and CAD software. Get a productivity boost with fast and accurate conversions.

Design review

Study designs made in any major CAD package: explore structure and properties, sectioned and exploded views.

Model inspection

Inspect models' dimensions and mass properties, perform measurements to compare against manufactured samples.

CAD data preparation

Convert models to standard formats, generate fine-tuned meshes from CAD geometry for downstream applications.

Software Libraries to Read, Write and Visualize 3D CAD files

Quickly and easily enrich your web, server or desktop app with access to CAD and BIM data.
Work with CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, STEP, JT, IFC and many more formats from C++, Python, C#, Java and JavaScript.

Suitable for any 3D powered application

3D web applications

Ingest, convert and process CAD/BIM data on the backend. Use lightweight and interactive visualization on the frontend.

AR, VR and Unity applications

Set up 3D data conversion pipelines with tunable mesh generation and optimization to deliver immersive experiences.

Manufacturing as a Service platforms

Enable seamless part import, accurate cost estimations and instant DFM feedback for sheet metal, CNC machining, etc.

Engineering applications

Get full access to the structure, geometry and metadata in CAD and BIM models. Save time by using robust advanced processing functions.

All your CAD and 3D data needs, covered

Import and Export

Exchange data in 30+ supported 3D/2D CAD and BIM formats, preserving every possible bit of content, including structure, geometry, metadata and appearances. Import data from proprietary formats such as SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, NX and Creo without expensive CAD software. Export data to STEP, JT, glTF, FBX and other 3D and CAD formats for further processing in your software of choice. Enjoy blazing fast conversions thanks to intelligent parallel processing.

Visualization of CAD, BIM & 3D data

The all-in-one 3D viewer components for various UI technologies provide a multitude of features – customizable and controllable viewport, programmatic and user selection, exploded and section views, measurements and manipulator. The modular scene graph architecture enables fine control over the look of 3D objects and allows to mix them with 3D data created on-the-fly. Aside from the 3D viewers, the SDK can also be used with popular visualization platforms: Unity, Three.js, UNIGINE.

Full access to 3D and drawing data

Unified format-neutral data model provides access to all aspects of the 3D and drawing data regardless of where it came from. Traverse arbitrarily nested part-assembly trees with ease via visitors. Explore structure of drawings by accessing all sheets, views and layers. Inspect B-Rep and mesh geometry down to the last vertex. Retrieve contents of drawings: 2D curves, dimensions, hatches, notes and more.

Analysis and Measurement

Analyze face and edge geometry by querying surface and curve types and type-specific properties. Calculate curve lengths, as well as curve and surface local features: tangents, normals and curvatures. Utilize powerful correspondence between 3D curves and parametric curves to write complex B-Rep processing algorithms. Compute bounding boxes, centroids, volumes and surface areas for models for integrity assessment or domain-level processing.

Full access to PMI and insights from 3D data

Easily extract from and attach to the model conceptual information stored as names, IDs and metadata assigned to parts, assemblies or geometry. Access PMI annotations such as dimensions, tolerances, feature control frames and others in graphical or machine-readable forms. Build intelligent manufacturing-related algorithms by accessing faces and edges that PMI annotations are assigned to. Create machine-readable PMI annotations and export to STEP and JT for further usage.

Mesh Generation and Model Modification

Quickly generate high quality triangular meshes from precise B-Rep geometry. Control mesh granularity with convenient presets or fine-tune the result with a rich set of parameters. Use the model editing capabilities to combine existing models or create models from scratch. Create primitive shapes, extrusions and rotations or even arbitrarily complex B-Rep bodies via bottom-up modeling (from vertex to solid).

Customizable to fit your needs

  • Pick components to deliver the most value to your users
  • Get started with everything you need for a fully‑featured 3D application
  • Top it off with optional components for maximum productivity
Converters

Proprietary and open standards

Visualization

Desktop and web 3D viewers &
tools

Advanced processing

Meshing, simplification, NURBS recognition

Integrations

Game engines, CAD kernels

Core

Data model, shape healing, basic modeling

Why CAD Exchanger

Import/export 3D files

Read and write Solidworks, STEP, JT, STL and 30+ other 3D formats.

Explore

Access assemblies and parts, precise B-Reps and polygonal meshes, meta-data and PMI.

Visualize

Use sectioning, explode views and multiple display modes.