FormatWorks gained its success because of the translation quality and the support behind the product.  It offers the most complete solution for managing the CAD data import process for SolidWorks users.

“We’ve tried all the products on the market for importing data to SolidWorks.  Many of these products convert the data to SolidWorks, but the results were unusable. Our customers found themselves with thousands of surfaces that would not form solids, missing geometry, deformed models, one-to-many conversion, and in many cases SolidWorks would run out of memory or crash. We ended up with unhappy customers we could not support” said Mark Hilty, Regional Sales Manager for 3DVision (US based SolidWorks Reseller)  “FormatWorks provides a great set of tools with repair and healing to solve these problems. It is the only translation product that we can confidently present to our customers that adheres to the high level of service we provide.”

CAD Converter  (many unconnected surfaces)	FormatWorks   (consistent and editable solid)

Forming valid SolidWorks models from imported CAD data can be very difficult with data “converters”. The imported model will often consist of thousands of surfaces that don’t knit, local deformations, missing geometry and other import errors that cannot be fixed in SolidWorks. The figure on the left shows the results of CATIA file “converted” into SolidWorks, the figure on the right shows this CATIA file “translated” with FormatWorks technology. 

FormatWorks VS CAD Converter

Repair and Healing versus Conversion

The key to Capvidia’s success is the repair and healing module in FormatWorks. It detects and repairs over 70 common conversion errors automatically. These repairs allow SolidWorks to form valid models and more importantly maintain the original model design. But FormatWorks offers much more. It contains tools and functions that allow SolidWorks users to develop an efficient workflow for using the imported CAD data in SolidWorks.

FormatWorks 2010 Product Family

The new FormatWorks 2010 product family (32- or 64-bit version) is offered in the following configurations: FormatWorks 2010 Standard, FormatWorks 2010 Professional, FormatWorks Server. The new product packaging provides an affordable solution range for small to large companies. Especially for those companies that need to work with CATIA data in SolidWorks.
FormatWorks 2010 Professional is tuned to deal with large native models and complex assemblies.

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