cadwork integrates CAD Exchanger SDK into its Lexocad application to seamlessly convert customer 3D datacadwork is the market leader for CAD / CAM solutions in the timber building industry serving nearly 3000 customers
worldwide and offering a complete solution from drafting to manufacturing.
The ChallengePrevious
generation product offering by cadwork used the ACIS modeling kernel as an underlying technology. A few years ago the company
started a new project Lexocad (
www.lexocad.com), based on the Open CASCADE Technology kernel, to provide more streamlined and intuitive solution. The company faced a challenge
to support significant volume of legacy data in the ACIS-SAT format and to convert to and from a new BRep format.
The Solution
cadwork has decided to integrate CAD Exchanger SDK into Lexocad to transparently perform
data conversions using SDK API. This allows its customers to choose among supported formats and selects one that best fits
their needs.
SDK integration was very straightforward and just worked ‘out-of-the-box'.
The Value
cadwork benefits from the high quality of translation provided by CAD Exchanger, its support
of a broad range of SAT format versions (up to recent R20). Due to regular CAD Exchanger release cadence cadwork receives
on-going improvements along with fast and high quality support.
This strengthens cadwork confidence and opens multiple
opportunities for further cooperation and adoption of solutions provided by CAD Exchanger.
"CAD
Exchanger SDK is now becoming an integral part of our software and of our strategy for the future as we work in a company
environment where multiple modeling technologies are heavily used. All in all we are very pleased with buying the CAD Exchanger
SDK"
Hans Knoll, Team Leader Lexocad Project