Hi Kevin,
> According to the help file in Solidworks, STEP AP203 does
> not handle colour information. Whereas STEP AP214 does
> handle colours.
It sure would be nice if STEP was not as confusing as government bureaucracy tax forms... :)
Just to make things a little more confusing there is apparently a "second edition" of AP203 that increases overlap with AP214: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
quote: AP214 and 203 in the area of 3D mechanical design. AP214 took over all of the functionality of the earlier AP203 edition and then extending the capabilities significantly. Now in 2007 the second edition of AP203 takes over bigger parts of AP214 by adding again new functionality.
I seem to remember that there was actually a bug fixed in the HarmonyWare STEP exporter for color information that was causing NX4 to crash when it read it in, so at least at one point colors were going into STEP files out of MoI but I'm not sure if this has possibly changed with an update of the HarmonyWare libraries.
- Michael |
