I-deas Reader

The I-deas Reader provides full access to the Assembly, B-rep and View & PMI Data stored within a particular I-deas file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange; however, the file extensions of I-deas files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange are:

  • .ARC

  • .MF1

  • .UNV

  • .PKG

Our readers are updated to the latest released version within 90 days of the release of the authoring software. You can see the exact version supported in the current release here.

Assembly

The I-deas Reader provides full access to the Assembly, B-rep and View and PMI Data stored within a particular I-deas file.

Datum planes and construction geometry are supported and accessed through the assembly tree. Our I-deas reader provides access to the whole tree of containers (or bins) of the file. In a container we can access other containers, configurations, and/or parts.

Incremental load is supported by our I-deas reader.

B-rep

The list of supported surface types is:

  • B-spline surface

  • Cone

  • Cylinder

  • Extruded surfaces

  • General quadric surfaces

  • Plane

  • Revolution surface

  • Ruled surfaces

  • Sphere

  • Torus

The list of supported curve types is:

  • B-splines

  • Composite curve

  • Hyperbolic curve

  • Parabolic arcs

Visualization

This visualization data for this format is generated by the HOOPS Exchange tessellation engine.

Views

Full support for views including the visibilities of objects associated to views is supported.

PMI

HOOPS Exchange provides full support for I-deas PMI. The types supported include:

  • Circle center

  • Datum feature symbol

  • Datum target

  • Dimensions

  • Feature control frame

  • Measurement point/locator

  • Note

  • Surface finish

  • Weld (spot and line)

Import Options Specific to I-deas

Note texts with symbol.