{"id":1646,"date":"2011-02-28T20:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-Mailbag-Data-Exchange-Formats\/ba-p\/334589"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:10:41","slug":"nx-mailbag-data-exchange-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-mailbag-data-exchange-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Mailbag: Data Exchange Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Today&#8217;s NX mailbag topics are focused in the area of Data Exchange:<BR \/><\/P><H2><STRONG>Q: What data exchange formats does NX support?<\/STRONG><\/H2><BR \/>A: NX supports a wide variety of data formats for import and\/or export.&nbsp; Some formats include:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>IGES<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>STEP 203\/214<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>JT (an ISO format&nbsp;       <A href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hGT5WO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/hGT5WO<\/A> )<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>AutoCAD<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>CATIA V4 and V5<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Pro Engineer<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Solid Works<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>STL<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Popular display formats       such as: BMP, CGM, PNG, PDF, TIFF, etc\u2026<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>And of course;       Parasolid,Imageware, I-deas, etc\u2026<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>More information can be found in the Data Translators section of this document: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/5515_tcm1023-4323.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/5515_tcm1023-4323.pdf<\/A><BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-4691 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/nx-mailbag-data-exchange-formats\/exchange\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4691\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/02\/exchange.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"88\" \/><\/A><BR \/><H2><STRONG>Q: Does NX have integration with electromechanical design tools such as Mentor, Zuken, etc\u2026?<\/STRONG><\/H2><BR \/>A: NX has bi-directional data exchange with EDA design systems.NX PCB Exchange has complete support for:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>IDF v2.0, v3.0, and v4.0,&nbsp; (IDF v3.0 is the most widely supported version in the industry)<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Mentor\u2019s Autotherm (IDF v2.5)<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Zuken\u2019s CR-5000 Protocol<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>Additional information can be found here: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/Siemens-PLM-NX-PCBxchange-ECAD-MCAD-Design-Interface-fs_tcm1023-4296.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/Images\/Siemens-PLM-NX-PCBxchange-ECAD-MCAD-Design-Interface-fs_tcm1023-4296.pdf<\/A><BR \/><H2><STRONG>Q: Can I synchronize between mechanical and electrical data?<\/STRONG><\/H2><BR \/>A: Yes, NX PCB.xchange features a unique \u201cCompare &amp; Update\u201d collaboration capability that allow you to identify and select changes you want to update from ECAD to NX and auto-creates an HTML report of the ECAD\/NX BOM between versions.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-4692 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/nx-mailbag-data-exchange-formats\/pcb\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4692\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/02\/pcb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"176\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><STRONG>Q:Do NX and Teamcenter support data from multiple CAD systems?<\/STRONG><BR \/><BR \/>A: NX has the ability to work with and modify data from nearly every major CAD system directly, as well as standard based formats.&nbsp; NX Synchronous Technology allows the user to add intelligence to Multi-CAD data with 3D driving dimensions, constraints and manufacturing feature recognition.<BR \/><BR \/>Teamcenter\u2019s multi-CAD support enables design teams to create and modify component designs on any major CAD system, and assemble their innovations into a multi-CAD product design. Teamcenter synchronizes product information to make certain that everyone is working from the latest designs while automatically managing both native and neutral CAD representations.<BR \/><BR \/>Additional information can be found here: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/teamcenter\/solutions_by_product\/engineering_process_mgmt.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/teamcenter\/solutions_by_product\/engineering_process_mgmt.shtml<\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s NX mailbag topics are focused in the area of Data Exchange:    Q: What data exchange formats does NX support?   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