PRT

Title(s): Unigraphics Part

Version ID: NX version 6

Date released: June 30, 2008

Date: October, 1973

Creator(s): United Computing, founded by John Wright and a couple of other people. The original offices were two rooms above a hairdressing salon in Torrance, CA (about 15 miles south of Los Angeles).

Contributor(s): Siemens

Relationships:

• Previous Version(s): UNIAPT

• Contains: N/A

• Syntax Format(s): N/A

• Family Format(s): N/A

Description: NX is the commercial CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite developed by Siemens PLM Software. NX is widely used in the engineering industry, especially in the automotive and aerospace sectors. NX is a parametric solid / surface feature-based modeler. It uses the Parasolid geometric modeling kernel. NX is a direct competitor to CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER.

History: http://www.plmworld.org/museum/lobby.htm

Example(s): Unigraphics part Example

Identifier: http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/nx/index.shtml

Documentation: N/A.

File Extensions: .prt

Applications:

• Native application(s): Unigraphics part Engineering Format Application-naive

• Interoperable applications: CADKEY

Magic numbers: 02 50(hex), .P(ASCII)

Format(s): application/prt, application/x-prt, image/x-prt

Rights: Proprietary license

Sustainability Factors:

• Standardization: None

• Adoption: None

• • Licensing and patent claims: Proprietary license

• Self-documentation: None

• External dependencies: None

• Technical protection considerations: N/A

Typical use: CAD, CAM, CAE, Sheet metal applications, knowledge bases, Quality control and Rapid prototyping

File classification:

• Type {Binary, Text}: Binary
• Raster data:
  • Raster data 2D:
    • Is Supported: true
    • Description: None
  • Raster data 3D: - Can the format support 3D raster data? Example: A format that can contain 2D pixelated data of a 3D model supports 3D raster data.
    • Is Supported: true
    • Description: None
• Geometric representation:
  • Implicit representation:
    • Implicit surfaces:
      • Is Supported: false
      • Description: None
    • Implicit curves:
      • Is Supported: false - Is the feature supported in the engineering format?
      • Description: None
    • Point set:
      • Is Supported: true
      • Description: ArtCAM imports digitized/scanned data
  • Mesh:
    • Manifold surface meshes:
      • Is Supported: false
      • Description: The software can export file format stl with triangle meshes.
    • Manifold volume meshes:
      • Is Supported: false
      • Description: None
    • Non-manifold meshes:
      • Is Supported: false
      • Description: None
  • Parametric representation: - Section describes whether or not the engineering format supports parametric representations.
    • Parametric surfaces:
      • Is Supported: true - Is the feature supported in the engineering format?
      • Description: None
    • Parametric curves:
      • Is Supported: true
      • Description: None
  • Contour sets:
    • Is Supported: true
    • Description: None
  • NURBS:
    • Is Supported: true
    • Description: None
• Multi-resolution models:
  • Is Supported: false
  • Description: None
• Dynamics:
  • Kinematics:
    • Is Supported: false
    • Description: Parts are not allowed to rotate.
  • Assembly:
    • Is Supported: true
    • Description: Complicated model can be assembled by component pieces.
  • Force(s):
    • Is Supported: false
    • Description: None
• Boundary representation
  • Manifold surface boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: false
    • Description: None
  • Manifold volume boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: false
    • Description: None
  • Non-manifold boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: false
    • Description: None
• Material transparency:
  • Is Supported: false
  • Description: None

References: http://www.plmworld.org/museum/lobby.htm