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CCE has released an updated version of its CAT5Works product that supports the latest version of SolidWorks.
CAT5Works is a bi-directional SolidWorks/CATIA data translator, which enables CATIA file translation from within SolidWorks. The latest version of CAT5Works is compatible with SolidWorks 2009 through 2012 on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems. CAT5Works enables design collaboration between CATIA V5/CATIA V4 and SolidWorks systems.
CAT5Works imports CATIA V5 Release 6 to 21 part (*.CATPart) /assembly (*.CATProduct) files to SolidWorks, and exports SolidWorks files to CATIA V5 part (*.CATPart) / assembly (*.CATProduct) files.
It supports batch translations for convenient handling of bulk data and transfer of CATIA V5 FT&A entities (Flag note, Text, Geometric Tolerance, Simple Datum, Datum Target and Roughness) into SolidWorks. CATIA data can be filtered by entities and layers before conversion into SolidWorks. CAT5Works also exports SolidWorks assemblies based on the Component Configurations.
For more information, visit CCE.
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