What is ProSTEP iViP? .IDX?
The ProSTEP iViP Association is an industry consortium which focuses on the creation and usage of open standards for data exchange. This organization’s ECAD/MCAD collaboration project group recently approved the “EDMDSchema,” a standard means to communicate incremental design changes across mechanical and electrical domains. The schema conveys this information via an “.idx” file format; IDX denoting “InterDomain Exchange.” PTC was instrumental in development of this standard, working with the ProSTEP committee members, including Mentor Graphics. PTC is the first vendor of Mechanical CAD solutions to support this standard.
