You’ll usually need CAD migration when your company switches to a different CAD system. That might happen because a client requires it, your company got bought out, or you’re just moving on from an old, outdated system. Sometimes, it’s because you’ve received a bunch of engineering files in a format your current software can’t handle.
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CAD migration means rebuilding your engineering data — models, drawings, and all — directly inside the new CAD system. This isn't just converting files. It’s recreating them from scratch so they work properly in the new software. Neutral file formats (like STEP or IGES) can’t hold on to all the details — they’ll give you a “dumb” solid model with no editable features. That makes future edits a real pain.
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But we can also handle exotic and legacy formats nobody has heard of.
First things first, we’ll need a sample of your source files — and your target files, if you’ve got any. That helps us understand what features are must-haves and what can be left out. The more info you give us upfront, the more accurate our quote will be.
We spend a lot of time doing quality checks and focusing on the details of your 3D CAD models during any migration. The result? Higher-quality models that will lead to fewer problems in the future.
With our massive team, we can commit to tight turnarounds, expediting your project and getting you results even sooner. Plus, our projects are typically based on an hourly rate, which will keep your costs low.
Allow your engineers to focus on other tasks while our team at CAD/CAM Services handles your full 3D CAD migration project.
If you want to use a newer CAD program with more functionality, it starts with a 3D CAD migration. Allowing our experts to help out is the best way to start using your new platform.
If you want results that match your in-house quality, we’ll need to know your internal standards. The clearer your guidelines, the smoother the whole process goes. When everything’s laid out from the start, your team won’t have to waste time back-and-forthing over each file.
Using outsourced CAD translation services is the industry-preferred way to swap over to a new CAD platform. The migration process would ideally happen in whatever your native PLM system is. That’s precisely what we do at CAD/CAM Services. We’ll use whatever PLM system you’re set up with in order to help with the transition.
Plus, our team will also verify, update, and fix files before converting anything. This is one way to ensure errors don’t make their way to the final 3D CAD file in your new CAD program.
Whatever your reason is for transferring to a new 3D CAD platform, make sure you have a high-quality outsourced engineering team helping with the migration tasks. Since we’ve done this project countless times, we can offer our assistance with fewer mistakes, headaches, and issues.
Reach out to us anytime for a free quote. If needed, we’ll send you a secure link so you can upload your files safely.
We need to know source CAD and target CAD software. Since large quantity orders can be discounted by us you can provide us with the number of parts you need to be converted.
If you tell us the desired purpose of the conversion we can offer you some conversion options. We can also convert your files into vendor-neutral file types (.STEP, .STL, etc,).
Please email us even cell phone photos, and the rough size of what you wish scanned and converted sales@cadcam.org.
You get native Cad Perfect™ files with the full-featured model tree (where applicable, since some file types have no trees), and features can be fully parametric. It all depends on your goals. We prefer to not translate any files. Our goal is to deliver to you a file that you do not have to touch. Our work is exactly as if you had reproduced that work in-house.
All the CAD file formats are listed on this page but bear in mind that we also work with exotic and legacy CAD systems. After 31 years of providing CAD Services, we have run into almost any CAD file format.
We support all the modern CAD systems including SolidWorks, Catia, Siemens NX, PTC Creo, Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, and many others.
Yes, absolutely. We can perform legacy CAD conversions. Just send us some example files, and what CAD system we need to wind up in, and let us design the best solution for you.We have worked with old Computer Vision tapes, Anvil, and many other 1980’s systems.
Fill out our quote form, attach your files, or simply send us an email. Tell everything about your project, like the model purpose.
For smaller files < 15 MB you can simply email them to us. For something larger, just drop them in any number of drop boxes like Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and others. Or if you would like, just contact us for a private, hardened link.
It is fine to use most any time of compression such as *.zip, *.rar, *.tar, *.7z, *.arc, *.LBR, and even *.iso images.
A direct email is sales@cadcam.org
We also use a hardened OwnCloud web file sharing platform for unlimited file transfers. We provide unique and very private Web Storage Portals, this also supports file syncing for extreme convenience for you. Because so much of our work is DOD or weapons design work, Security – and confidentiality is very important to us.
Yes. NDAs are a common part of our business. All data is yours – not ours, and treated as proprietary data and not for public consumption or use. Probably 70% of our work is under NDA agreements. We can generally get these signed within the day.
It depends on the scope of work:
Simple jobs have a lead time of 48 hours. Larger projects are delivered and invoiced weekly.
Yes, we did back in 2008. We started using Cad Perfect™ back in the early 1990s because all of our customers wanted only real Cad Perfect™ work. Back then the buzz words were terms like machine ready, or DXF Traceover and others.
The problem is, nobody wanted that. They all wanted drawings and models that they did not have to touch. Everybody wanted drawings just as if they hand redrew the work themselves.
Thus, Cad / Cam Services™ was the first company to start offering ONLY Cad Perfect™ work.
Yes we do, and have now for several years. In addition, we also support the industry specific plans as well.
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