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.