In your CAD application, you can open neutral format CAD data such as STEP, IGES, JT, and PARASOLID stored in Windchill. This technique enables you to seamlessly integrate the imported data with your design and save it back to Windchill.

For example, if you create a neutral data file in NX and save it to Windchill, you can open it in SOLIDWORKS, or any other CAD applications connected to Windchill.

Support for a neutral data file is applicable only when you open it using the native File > Open command in the respective CAD application.

To open neutral format CAD data files from the workspace, click File > Open in the respective CAD application.

After you open a neutral format CAD data in a CAD session, you can save it to Windchill as a native CAD format.

For NX, SOLIDWORKS, and Autodesk Inventor, click File > Save to save the files to Windchill.

For Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and CATIA V5, click File > Save to Workspace to save the files to Windchill.

You can also insert the converted data into an assembly, but save the converted data to the workspace before inserting it into an assembly.

Here is the list of the supported neutral CAD data formats that CAD tools can open and save to Windchill as native CAD data using Windchill Workgroup Manager.

Here is a list of neutral CAD data formats that CAD tools can create and save to Windchill using Windchill Workgroup Manager.