Every engineer would love to fire up his favorite application, import a file from his co-worker or client, and get to work. Rarely does this happen smoothly for models with any complexity. There’s almost always something wrong with the exchanged data, and engineers can spend hours or days repairing the file or rebuilding it from scratch.

And there’s a good reason that this is so, and will remain so.

Every MCAD platform reflects a constantly evolving theoretical foundation and product improvement roadmap that its developer believes holds the greatest benefits for its users and business strategy. Radiating off this foundation is a mind-boggling array of formulae and algorithms to execute the commands that you use. The user interface is a shell that invokes these calculations and lets you be an engineer and not an expert programmer versed in the latest algorithmic generation and surface manipulation theories.

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