Is GRANITE designed to enable collaboration?
In today’s engineering world, the ability to share design data is as important as the ability to create it. CAD data should be easily moved from application to application without being stripped of intelligence. GRANITE provides the power to share design data in highly diverse heterogeneous Product Development environments. Simply, applications built on GRANITE are empowered to share native CAD data with each other. Yes, GRANITE applications read each others native file formats directly. Aside from GRANITE’s inherent ability to natively understand Pro/ENGINEER’s (.prt, .asm and .neu) formats any licensee may also leverage GRANITE’s gPlug architecture. The gPlug is a simple plug-in (.dll) supplied by the GRANITE licensed vendor of an application that authors data. The gPlug communicates with the GRANITE applications, resident in any environment, to recognize specific file formats. It directs the target application within a given file to the location of the relevant data. GRANITE itself
