CAD Files

 

     ParaSolid Text File (*.x_t): The user can export a geometry in a RecurDyn model as a *.x_t file (text format), because RecurDyn uses the Parasolid graphics kernel.

     Parasolid Binary File (*.x_b): The user can export a geometry in a RecurDyn model as a *.x_b (binary file format), because RecurDyn uses the Parasolid graphics kernel.

     Step(AP203E1) File (*.step, *.stp): The user can export a Filename.step or a Filename.stp which is usually generated in CAD programs.

     IGES(5.3) File (*.igs): The user can export the model geometry to an IGES file.

     ACIS File (*.sat): The user can export the model geometry to an ACIS file.

     CATIA Part File (*.CATPart): The user can export the CATIA file. It does not export in the Non-ASCII folder name.

     CATIA Product File (*.CATProduct): The user can export the CATIA file. It does not export in the Non-ASCII folder name.

 

No Support

     File Names with Non-English Characters

    RecurDyn does not support reading or writing CATIA V5 files that are named using non-english characters.

    CATIA V5 is based on ISO 646 standard which do not support 8 bit character code.

     File Names with Non-ASCII Characters

    RecurDyn does not support writing CATIA V5 files that are named using non-ASCII characters

    CATIA V5 is based on the ISO 646 standard, which does not support multi-byte character code.

    The CATIA V5 file name cannot contain non-ASCII characters but the directory name can contain Unicode characters.