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Siemens is currently trying to make the XT exchange file format into an international standard, perhaps they could overcome the objections to this by making Par
by rjsw 4y ago
Siemens is currently trying to make the XT exchange file format into an international standard, perhaps they could overcome the objections to this by making Parasolid open source.
- phkahler 4y agoParasolid is really good and that's probably because it's a licensed product used in many commercial programs, so it's well supported. Maybe going GPL plus commercial could work, but it might just kill it.
- rjsw 4y agoThey tried to standardize a previous version and were voted down, the reasons for negative votes have not changed, one of them is that the proposed specification isn't enough to implement a clean-room copy. I will follow up on the open-source idea when we start discussing the next vote.
- Ruthalas 4y agoPlease do. That seems viable, and potentially very beneficial!
- moepstar 4y agoX_T as in "Parasolid"? Interesting, whats in it for them doing that? Also, considering JT which, as far as i know, is already an ISO standard?
- rjsw 4y agoThe current ISO standard for JT just has an older version of XT as an informative annex, there is a proposal out for voting to make a newer version a normative (required) part of the standard. Maybe it is intended as a marketing feature "Our exchange file is an ISO standard but the CATIA one is not".