Autodesk and PTC releases CAD interoperability agreement in manufacturing industries
Autodesk, Inc. and PTC has released a technology exchange agreement to expand interoperability options for their customers and the manufacturing industry. The agreement brings together two software leaders with the common goal of facilitating software interoperability for organisations with multi-CAD environments.
The manufacturers are under increased pressure to get high quality products to market faster, with increased efficiencies and lower costs to the consumer. As part of this effort, many have adopted a multi-CAD strategy, either internally between departments or externally with partners and supply chains. The interoperability agreement aims to decrease the overall effort and costs that are commonly associated with supporting these environments. Autodesk and PTC plan to provide customers with out-of-the-box integrations between their solutions that will enable organisations to work more efficiently with the product development strategies currently in place and the flexibility to adopt future strategies.
According to Autodesk, interoperability continues to be a major challenge in manufacturing sectors including aerospace, automotive, high technology and industrial machinery. Autodesk understands that its customers use a mix of products in their workflow and providing them with the flexibility they need to get their jobs done is its priority.
According to PTC, it recognieses that manufacturers manage complex business processes which often include heterogeneous design environments. PTC has chosen to continue its focus on eliminating interoperability challenges, so that customers can place greater attention on the true value-added activities of product development.
This agreement enables PTC to leverage Autodesk’s RealDWG software development toolkit and deliver solutions using Autodesk’s DWG technology, so that PTC’s solutions will be interoperable with Autodesk Inventor 3D software for the manufacturing industry and AutoCAD software. Similarly, Autodesk can utilise PTC’s GRANITE 3D modeling and interoperability kernel to provide enhanced integration with Pro/ENGINEER, PTC’s integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software.
18-Jan-2007
