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[nitin]

hello,
what do IGES and PDES stands in CAD??

[asmant]

hello nitin ,
Nowadays,every R&D based company use the CAD software for designing and manufacturing.so with this widespread use of CAD proper communication and exchange of data has become a problem.To overcome this problem ,IGES and PDES format are designed for exchange of data on common platform.
IGES stands for Initial Graphics Exchange Specification which is widely used for 3-d line and suface data.And PDES stands for Product Data Exchange Specification which is based on IGES.

[asmant]

IGES is used for translation of 3-Dline and surface data.