Actify CAD Importers

Importers open and read major CAD system files allowing SpinFire Pro to publish all major CAD files into Actify's compact and secure .3D file format. Use an Actify CAD importer from the chart below to access native CAD files without the use of a CAD system.

The .3D file format makes sharing designs much faster and safer than exchanging CAD files. The .3D files can be less than 10% of original CAD file sizes, allowing for secure distribution of files that cannot be input into CAD or CAM packages.

In its latest release, Actify has added several newly supported CAD formats, and has leveraged technology that radically improves the speed and quality of CAD file conversion to .3D for most of its CAD file importers. Testing has shown increased speed improvements of 5X to 10X. If you are a current customer with maintenance, please download your free importer updates to access this improved technology.

Standard and optional importers for CAD formats may be purchased separately or in special bundles.


Actify's software can read the following file formats with no CAD system or connection to a CAD server required.
Format Description Extension Versions PMI Support
ACIS® SAT SAT files generated by Spatial Technologies® ACIS as exported by Autodesk AutoCAD, CADKEY®, IRONCAD®, Vellum Solids™, and several others CAD systems. *.sat Up to ACIS v13 N/A
Autodesk® DWF format DWF (Drawing Web Format) drawing files from AutoCAD and Inventor. *.dwf Up to DWF 7.0 N/A
Autodesk® DWG format DWG drawing and models from Autodesk products and compatible CAD systems. *.dwg AutoCAD® compliant DWG. Up to AutoCAD 2008 N/A
Autodesk® DXF format DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) drawing files from virtually any CAD system. *.dxf Autodesk compliant DXF. Up to AutoCAD 2008 N/A
Autodesk® Inventor® Native Autodesk Inventor parts, assemblies and drawings. *.ipt, *.iam, *.idw Inventor R11, R10, R9, R8 N/A
Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® Native Autodesk Mechanical Desktop files from Autodesk Mechanical Desktop. *.dwg Up to v6 N/A
CADDS CADDS file *._pd v4 and v5 N/A
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) CGM drawing files from many CAD systems. *.cgm Any N/A
Dassault Systemes® CATIA® V4 Native CATIA 3D and 2D entities from all CATIA platforms. *.model, *.exp, user-def., *.session Export: from v3.2.5 to v4.X.X
Model: from v4.1.1 to v4.X.X
Session: v4.X.X		 N/A
Dassault Systemes CATIA V5 3D & 2D Native CATIA V5 R18 part files and assemblies and Native CATIA V5 R10 to R18 Drawings *.catpart, *.catproduct, *.cgr 2D:V5 R10 to R18
3D: V5 up to R18 		YES
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks® Native SolidWorks parts, assemblies, drawings and sheet metal models. *.sldprt, *.sldasm, *.sldlfp, *.slddrw From v97+ to v 2008 N/A
UGS Direct Model® (.JT) .JT files from EDS PLM Solutions, including parts and assemblies. *.jt Up to v8.1 N/A
UGS I-DEAS Native I-DEAS native part, assembly and package files. Note: Assembly files only supported as part of package files. Files with extension .XPK are NOT supported. *.arc,*.unv, *.mfl, *.prt, *.pkg NX12 M3 and M4 YES
UGS® I-DEAS® WEB I-DEAS Web Access files including assemblies. Crushed ASCII (*.MCA) files can also be exported from I-DEAS ™. *.idi, *.idz, *.mca, *.arc MCA: up to v7
IDI, IDZ: up to v9		 N/A
UGS Parasolid ® Parasolid X_T files as exported by Unigraphics, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, PTC Pro/DESKTOP™, and several other CAD/CAM systems. *.x_t, *.xmt_txt, *.x_b Up to v17.1 N/A
UGS Solid Edge® Native Solid Edge parts, sheet metal, assemblies and drawings. *.par, *.asm, *.psm, *.dft Up to v20 N/A
UGS Unigraphics 2D & 3D ® Native Unigraphics parts and assemblies and Unigraphics 2D drawing. *.prt Unigraphics 2D: NX 1 to NX5
Uigraphics 3D: From v13 to NX4		 N/A
HPGL All HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) and HPGL/2 files. *.plt, *.hpgl Any N/A
IGES 2D & 3D (Initial Graphics Exchange Specifications) All IGES 2D & 3D entities. *.igs, *.iges Up to 6.0 N/A
ISO G-Code ISO standard for NC machining code; G0 and G1 codes. user-def. Any N/A
MICRO CADAM MICRO CADAM 2D files *.mcd MICRO CADAM Helix V4R1-R3, V5R1-R2 2D data only, Style 1 line types only N/A
PRC® TTF *.prc Any N/A
PTC® Pro/ENGINEER™ Native PTC Pro/ENGINEER parts and assembly files. *.prt, *.asm Parts and assemblies from rel.18 through Wildfire 4 N/A
STEP STEP files compliant with AP203 and AP214. *.stp, *.step AP203, AP214 N/A
STL STL files both binary and ASCII. *.stl Any N/A
TIFF Tag(ged) Image File Format files from any graphics program. Optional raster-to-vector conversion of non-photographic .tif files *.tif Any N/A
VRML All VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) 1.0 and 2.0 files. *.wrl, *.wrml v1.0 and v2.0 N/A
VDA-FS VDA-FS (Verband Der Automobilindustrie Flachen Schnittstelle). *.vda v2.0 N/A
XVL® Lattice XVL *.xv3 Any N/A
Discreet® 3D Studio™ 3D Studio files. Note that 3DStudioMax files are not currently supported. *.3ds Any N/A

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