Okino Ships Autodesk Inventor 2012 CAD Conversion System and v5.6.1 PLM 3D File Conversion Pipeline

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Okino Computer Graphics has announced that its software products have been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2012 software. Certified applications must meet certain implementation guidelines and demonstrate the highest levels of robustness, quality, and interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software.

Inventor engine imported into Okino’s NuGraf for viewing, manipulation and rendering.

Okino’s PolyTrans|CAD allows cross conversion between many MCAD, DCC/Animation and VisSim 3D file formats and programs. Okino’s Inventor importer solution allows crack-free geometry, hierarchy (assembly data) and materials to be transferred from native disk-based Autodesk Inventor files or from a running copy of the Autodesk Inventor directly into any Okino data-conversion-compliant program.

When importing part or assembly data from a live running copy of Autodesk Inventor, the data is transferred from Autodesk Inventor to the Okino side of the pipeline using the Autodesk Inventor Automation Server Interface. This is an exposed set of functions that Autodesk Inventor publishes to the outside world. Okino’s Autodesk Inventor importer queries all the part, assembly and material data from the running copy of Autodesk Inventor using this COM interface.

For more information, visit Okino’s Autodesk Inventor solutions page.

In related news, Okino has released its newest v5.6.1 set of JT PLM/MCAD bidirectional import and export converter modules. The ‘JT’ converter modules allow geometry, hierarchy, materials and texture mapping data (assembly data) to be imported and exported to native JT disk-based MCAD files (otherwise called DirectModel files). The JT importer module also allows PMI graphical data to be imported and then re-exported to such compatible Okino export file formats as SketchUp and U3D (for further import into Adobe Acrobat-3D), among others. The modules are built upon the official JT Open Toolkit, which has been licensed from Siemens AG.

NX Turbo-Charger” JT Model with PMI Data, imported from the JT-Open Showcase imported via Okino’s PolyTrans|CAD conversion software and JT CAD importer.

JT is a 3D visualization file format for PLM. JT data can be very lightweight, holding little more than facet data, or it can be richer and hold associations to the original CAD information, assemblies, product structure, geometry, attributes, meta data and PMI. It supports multiple tessellations and level-of-detail generation.

For more information, visit Okino’s JT import and export module overview pages.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.