Enable Seamless Data Import and Export With Spatial’s CAD Translator SDKs
CAD translation software and 3D interoperability solutions are crucial for seamlessly import and export of 3D data across platforms, applications with the industry. Experience the benefits of smooth conversion between different CAD formats with Spatial’s leading CAD translation component and enhance performance capabilities with Data Prep.
Our Data Translation
and Interoperability SDKs
3D InterOp
Translate and maintain the integrity of 3D CAD data across systems, offering high-fidelity data exchange with multi-CAD support and incremental updates.
Data Prep
Prepare CAD data for simulation, manufacturing, and visualization with model simplification, defeaturing, geometry optimization, and assembly management.
Unlock Comprehensive CAD Data Conversion Capabilities
Our leading 3D interoperability SDKs enable customers and stakeholders to interact with imported 3D data as though it was created natively in your application. 3D InterOp supports the translation of all major CAD formats without requiring additional licenses and enables the seamless import and export of 3D data across various engineering applications.
Data Prep, our newest add-on product for 3D InterOp, prepares your imported CAD data for downstream workflows. With Data Prep, you’ll benefit from an extended version of 3D InterOp, enabling you to generate optimal 3D data automatically from CAD, BIM, plant and digital contents in your application during 3D import.
With our SDKs, you can maintain your design intent, eliminate costly conversion errors and increase your application performance by leveraging powerful architecture. Slash your software development costs and win the race to deliver new features with Spatial components.
Realize the Benefits of
Our CAD Translator SDKs
High-Quality Data Translation
Precise and high-fidelity data translation capabilities preserve the integrity and accuracy of original CAD models. Ensure the geometry, features and metadata of your original designs are maintained.
Flexible and Performant
Our SDKs offer extensive customization options so you can tailor functionality to meet your application’s requirements. No matter your industry, our SDKs are flexible to meet your needs.
Enhanced Format Support
Our SDKs support various 3D file formats, facilitating seamless translation and interoperability between CAD systems. You can minimize compatibility issues and streamline your workflow by eliminating the need for multiple translation tools.
Additional Geometry Kernels
Benefit from powerful geometry kernels like ACIS and CGM, providing advanced modeling capabilities and complex geometric operations. Develop sophisticated 3D applications with precision and performance at their core.
Efficient Development
We provide pre-built modules and comprehensive APIs to accelerate development, allowing you to focus on application-specific features rather than handling 3D data.
Industry-Leading Features
for Advanced CAD Translation
Translation of All Major CAD Formats
Our SDK can translate all major formats, ensuring high-quality geometry preservation for downstream applications. The seamless import and export of 3D data across various applications and industries helps maintain your design intent and eliminate conversion errors.
Robust Geometry Optimization
Our 3D InterOp and Data Prep solutions offer advanced geometry repair and optimization features like automated healing, stitching and resurfacing. Ensure topological models are optimized for specific application needs and improved system performance.
Efficient Data Management
Facilitate flexible data management with selective import APIs, concurrent import capabilities and instancing features. Import CAD data, filter by location, properties and sub-assemblies, and remove hidden information. Optimize your models for unique application requirements.
PMI Support
With full support for product manufacturing information (PMI), 3D InterOp enables accurate engineering reviews and process automation for manufacturing and measurement. Facilitate comprehensive data integration throughout your entire product lifecycle.
Future-Proof Architecture
Enhance performance with modern hardware and parallel processing capabilities. Future-proof architectures produce efficient workflows and reduced development costs, and our ongoing commitment to updating and developing features ensures our tools remain cutting-edge for 3D interoperability.
Revolutionize Your CAD Workflow
Eliminate
Additional Costs
Our SDKs support every major CAD format out of the box, allowing you to read and write any CAD format without additional costs. We simplify the development process and handle ongoing feature development and data library updates, reducing software support costs.
Prevent
Costly Errors
Our SDKs have successfully converted CAD files millions of times more than any competing software. Due to this extra market use, you can be sure that you’re tapping into a robust solution that makes you more likely to catch — and automatically heal — virtually any common geometry errors.
Deliver
Greater Quality
By using the industry’s highest quality solution for 3D data reuse, you’ll automatically reduce development risk in your application and downstream applications. Deliver 3D data that preserves original design intent and significantly improves your application performance as a result.
Error-free CAD file conversions.
Corporate customers worldwide.
Years of CAD and 3D modeler development experience.
Get Started With Spatial
Do we have the technology to take your 3D application workflows to the next level? Find out by speaking with a Spatial expert.
We are excited to be working with Spatial. We feel its InterOp translators have been a great asset to our product development and we look forward to using its translators to improve the future of PolyWorks.
Marc Soucy, President, InnovMetric
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