Hello Everyone,
I work at a large manufacturing plant that is ~100 years old and has gone through a lot of changes in that time. Throughout the 80s and 90s, the plant used Catia only and did not have a CAD data management program. Around 2000 we switched to Inventor and are now heavily invested in it. However, we still have about 24,000 Catia files. I would say only about 10% of these are still relevant but sifting through these to delete the other 90% would be a massive undertaking. Myself and a few other engineers still have Catia V5 only so we can open legacy files and convert them to what we need. This is becoming increasingly expensive to support these licenses. We also have some foreign sister plants that simply cannot have Catia for licensing reasons in their countries. About twice a week, an engineer from those plants has to request a file conversion from us.
Is there an alternative software that can convert Catia files without having Catia installed. I know there are plenty of third party websites that do this but there is no way this would be allowed in our company and the downloads would be blocked by our firewalls anyway. We are fine with purchasing and downloading a different program as long as it is cheaper than a Catia license. This would be a huge cost savings for us if we could drop our licenses.
Thank you
I work at a large manufacturing plant that is ~100 years old and has gone through a lot of changes in that time. Throughout the 80s and 90s, the plant used Catia only and did not have a CAD data management program. Around 2000 we switched to Inventor and are now heavily invested in it. However, we still have about 24,000 Catia files. I would say only about 10% of these are still relevant but sifting through these to delete the other 90% would be a massive undertaking. Myself and a few other engineers still have Catia V5 only so we can open legacy files and convert them to what we need. This is becoming increasingly expensive to support these licenses. We also have some foreign sister plants that simply cannot have Catia for licensing reasons in their countries. About twice a week, an engineer from those plants has to request a file conversion from us.
Is there an alternative software that can convert Catia files without having Catia installed. I know there are plenty of third party websites that do this but there is no way this would be allowed in our company and the downloads would be blocked by our firewalls anyway. We are fine with purchasing and downloading a different program as long as it is cheaper than a Catia license. This would be a huge cost savings for us if we could drop our licenses.
Thank you