Re: CAD software?

From: Terry Wohlers (Wohlers Associates)
To: RP-ML
Date: Monday, January 30, 1995
Subject: Re: CAD software?
Doug Greenwood,
> The new release of Aries is based on the solid modeling kernel from 
> Spatial. Technologies, which I understand will (ultimately once translators 
> are written) allow seamless transfer of solid model databases between CAD 
> systems which are also based on the same kernel.
     To expand a bit on your message ...  Supposedly, CAD systems that use the ACIS
kernal can read and write SAT files, the file type developed by Spatial
Technologies.  SAT files are machine-independent geometry files that contain
topological and surface information on models created using ACIS-based solid
modelers.  AutoCAD Release 13, for example, offers the ACISIN and ACISOUT
commands which read and write SAT files, respectively. 
Terry Wohlers
Wohlers Associates