{"id":2149,"date":"2014-05-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/Data-Exchange-with-NX\/ba-p\/31064"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:25:31","slug":"data-exchange-with-nx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/data-exchange-with-nx\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Exchange with NX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX<\/A> offers you a broad selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-design\/productivity-tools\/data-exchange.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">data exchange tools<\/A>.&nbsp;We support vendor-neutral standard exchange formats and popular CAD\/CAM systems, the data translators and CAD file conversion tools accurately move data into and out of NX.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>NX file conversion tools support standard and neutral file exchange formats, including:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Display graphics images, such as BMP, CGM and JPEG<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IGES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)<\/A><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_10303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ISO 10303 &#8211; STEP AP203\/AP214<\/A><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STL_(file_format)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rapid prototyping STL<\/A><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/open\/jtopen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">JT lightweight exchange format<\/A><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Autocad, Pro\/Engineer, SolidWorks and CATIA files.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>and much more<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>The neutral format translators are included in most NX software packages, and can be simply invoked through File Import and File Export commands.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Once you import models from other systems,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/synchronous-technology.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Synchronous Technology<\/A> in NX enables you to easily recognize features and design intent, and directly modify geometry with unparalleled speed and simplicity.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>NX Migration Advantage<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>But, do you need more than that?&nbsp; Do you need to migrate from your current product data files and intellectual property (IP) to NX?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>More than a data translation solution, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-design\/productivity-tools\/content-migration.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Migration Advantage<\/A> is a complete and proven process that will enable you to migrate CAD datasets into native NX data sets within a managed Teamcenter environment.&nbsp; The process includes the capability to convert explicit boundary representation (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boundary_representation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BREP<\/A>) models, feature-based models, assemblies and associative drawings. In addition, utilities are provided for model and drawing analysis and validation of the resultant NX data sets.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5408iC2EDFB834FCD3D65\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sample CATIA File\" title=\"Sample CATIA File\" align=\"center\" \/>&nbsp;<FONT face=\"wingdings,zapf dingbats\" size=\"4\">\u00e0<\/FONT>&nbsp;<IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5410i7911EEAE444A401B\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CATIA file in NX\" title=\"CATIA file in NX\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Content Migration Manager for CATIA V5<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5412i87B515CF1FC31E4A\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ProEngineer sample file\" title=\"ProEngineer sample file\" align=\"center\" \/>&nbsp;<FONT face=\"wingdings,zapf dingbats\" size=\"4\">\u00e0<\/FONT>&nbsp;<IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5414iDE56F32387D30C57\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ProEngineer file in NX\" title=\"ProEngineer file in NX\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><br \/>\n<P>3D Content Migration for Pro\/Engineer<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>With NX Migration Advantage, you can:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 1.2;\">Protect your investment in intellectual property<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Preserve and leveragelegacy CAD data<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN style=\"line-height: 1.2;\">Minimize migration effort, cost and risk<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;To find out more, see our <a title=\"NX migration advantage fact sheet\" href=\"https:\/\/sales.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/ext\/incoming\/Siemens-PLM-NX-Migration-Advantage-fs-Y5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Migration Fact sheet<\/A>, or contact your local sales representative.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NX offers you a broad selection of data exchange tools.&nbsp;We support vendor-neutral standard exchange formats and popular CAD\/CAM systems, the data translators and CAD file conversion tools&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}