Datakit - The Leader in Cad data exchange

Created in 1994 by Francis Cadin, former GOSET's consultant and STEP expert from ISO. Datakit is the leader in the CAD data exchange market. Datakit is based in Lyon, France.

Data exchange impacts an increasing range of disciplines. This makes it natural and imperative to work with vendors to enable as many end-users as possible to exchange their CAD data. Datakit  collaborates as an OEM with software vendors.  Datakit's independence, along with the skills it has on board, and its ability to listen to customers and propose solutions definitively explain the company’s success. On the technical level it is able to support metadata, in addition to purely geometric information. Datakit is increasingly dealing with issues such as the management of assemblies, annotations and tolerancing data. Basically all the data that comes under the headings FD&T and PDM.

Datakit offers embeddable technologies for interoperability in two forms:

CrossCad/Ware is an API based SDK access for 2D, 3D and PMI data providing fully integrated transfers into your software solution: conversion of all entities one by one including data attribute processing This solution meets the needs of most of   customers (Software companies) that seek to go beyond mere file-to-file transfer with sophisticated capability for processing data attributes.

Cross Manager is a Stand Alone software that converts files from most CAD formats on a file to file transfer basis. With Cross Manager, You just have to select a CAD file in the software for convert it automatically in the format you need.