And the more complex the file, the more vexing this problem becomes. For a large number of shops, the IGES format is the medium of data exchange. To read his comments, click here . But that doesn't mean no remedies exist for model transfer problems. In fact, a great many resources can help shops reduce the amount of time they must spend on manually reconstructing customer files.
Different resources address the problem from different directions.
By improving the way it translates into this format, one aerospace shop solved most of its translation problems. For details, click here . Another contract shop turned to a more general translator. This shop doesn't have any one clearly dominant customer. Instead, it serves a large base of customers using a variety of CAD systems, and all of these systems translate models into IGES in subtly different ways.