by Brad Strong | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog, CAD Performance, CAD Translation, Training, What's New |
Why would you want to remove all the fasteners from a large assembly? There are a few reasons: In order to make the assembly more ‘lightweight’ so that you can zoom, pan, regen and work on the assembly faster. In order to hide intellectual propery (IP) from customers and suppliers. In order to simplify the problem you have been tasked to work on, assuming that the issue has no need for the fasteners. It’s not unusual that you may be given a massive assembly with all kinds of extraneous geometry that simply does not pertain to your design task. What if you could quickly remove all components smaller than a certain size? That’s what...
by Brad Strong | Mar 14, 2025 | CAD Translation |
As of 2021, the License Key page is no longer being utilized Prototech Solutions is now taking care of licensing their plugins. Please contact Prototech https://prototechsolutions.com/ for assistance with your plugin translator license. – TransMagic Support...
by Brad Strong | Sep 10, 2024 | Blog, CAD Translation, What's New |
New Format Versions CATIA R34 Read & Write NX 2312 Read Solid Edge 2024 Read SOLIDWORKS 2024 Read & Write ACIS R34 Read & Write Creo 10 & 11 Read Inventor 2025 Read Get the PDF: What’s New in TransMagic R14 SP2 New Features in All Products Retain Texture on Polycam converted to JT Polycam is a free tool that lets you take pictures of manufacturing environments and production facilities, and then automatically generates 3d object files with textures. These textured Obj files can be used in CAD and other visualization tools to represent existing equipment in production work areas. TransMagic R14 SP2 will let you convert the textured...
by Brad Strong | Jul 1, 2024 | Blog, CAD Translation, What's New |
STEP AP242 allows for tessellated files to be saved to the STEP format. Tessellated files are polygonal files, or what are sometimes referred to as VisRep files. Most STEP files are true BRep CAD files, with ‘precise’ geometry (as opposed to ‘tesselated’ geometry. To open a tesselated STEP file with TransMagic, click on the TransMagic ‘star’ icon in the upper-left of the user interface, and choose Open QuickView. Then select the file you are interested in. At right you can see an example of a tessellated STEP file being opened with Open QuickView. In this case, the user wanted to convert the tesselated STEP file to a CAD...
by Brad Strong | Feb 21, 2024 | CAD Translation, What's New |
Jan. 6, 2024 Denver, Colorado – January 6, 2024 – TransMagic, a leading developer of CAD Interoperability solutions, proudly announces the release of R14 SP1, adding several new CAD format versions as well as new time-saving features to multiple products. R14 SP1 picks up where R14 left off – Release 14 had an impressive 13 new features, and SP1 does that one better with 14 new features. “This release has something for everybody” states Brad Strong, product manager. “The ‘Open Zip Files’ and ‘Open File After SaveAs’ tools make the little things like finding and opening files go faster, and...
by Brad Strong | Jan 12, 2024 | CAD Translation |
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