CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 May 2007
Product News
SpaceClaim Adds Precise Editing of JT Open Format for Effective Manufacturing Collaboration
SpaceClaim Corp. announced immediate support for the 3D JT Open format with SpaceClaim Professional 2007. SpaceClaim enables JT import, precise modification, and JT export for customers in automotive, aerospace, and other industries that utilize this format for data exchange. SpaceClaim's JT Open support broadens our customer's data exchange choices, which also include native-CAD and industry standard file formats. The result is greater collaboration across product development and throughout the supply chain. SpaceClaim has also joined the JT Open Program as a vendor member.
JT has been widely adopted as a viewable format for 3D data and as a lightweight means to exchange product information across global manufacturing organizations. In some industries JT is used for downstream applications and across the supply chain. With the expanding use of JT comes an increased need to precisely modify the geometry in support of change requests and product revisions and to drive improved design collaboration throughout the value chain.
JT Open, and the ability to make modifications directly to JT data, is important in furthering OEMs ability to communicate and collaborate with their supply chain. The use of JT enables manufacturing to quickly and accurately communicate issues with their suppliers without having to provide native CAD file formats.
"Our customers work with multiple OEMs and partners with different CAD systems. It is too costly for them to maintain resources for every system. SpaceClaim enables these customers to import JT Open files or native CAD files, and then make any necessary design modifications," said Howie Markson, Sr. Director, Marketing, of SpaceClaim Corp. "SpaceClaim frees the user to make changes without needing to know what system originated the design or how the design model was created. This enables everyone within the extended design team to rapidly view, modify, and communicate design changes to the rest of the team."
Web Event
SpaceClaim will host a product demonstration of SpaceClaim Professional 2007 and its support of JT Data Modification and Exchange on Wednesday, 6 June, 2007 at 11:00 am EDT. To register for the online presentation, please go to: http://www.spaceclaim.com/Company/Events/JT-Open-Webinar.aspx .
See how SpaceClaim Professional 2007 fits into the existing workflow of product development, and includes a flexible modeling environment, geometric inferencing for real-time design hints, integrated parts and assembly workspace for top-down design, and an open XML data model that ensures long-term protection of customer data.
SpaceClaim Professional 2007 and JT Data Exchange is available world-wide for purchase and for download directly from the company web site, http://www.spaceclaim.com/ .
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