<div dir="ltr">When it comes to 3D CAD, CAM, CAE data, government agencies, a few universities, and private industry have been working on these issues for decades. Here are a few resources that might interest members of this list.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://pdesinc.org/" target="_blank">PDES, Inc.</a> is an international industry, government, and university consortium committed to accelerating the development and implementation of standards for product data exchange in the Digital Enterprise.</div><div><br></div><div>LOng Term Archiving and Retrieval -<a href="http://ftjuudyzbchpyin.lotar-international.org/home.html" target="_blank"> LOTAR</a> The objective of LOTAR International is to develop, test, publish and maintain standards for long-term archiving (LTA) of digital data, such as 3D CAD and PDM data.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2018/04/model-based-enterprise-summit-2018" target="_blank">NIST Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2018 </a></div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="https://www.cax-if.org/index.html" target="_blank">CAx (CAD, CAM, CAE) Implementor Forum </a>is a joint testing effort between AFNeT, PDES, Inc. and prostep ivip. The objective of the forum is to accelerate CAx translator development and ensure that users' requirements are satisfied. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://www.action-engineering.com/3dcic">3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress</a> OCTOBER 15 - OCTOBER 18, 2018 in Golden, CO</div><div><br></div></div><div>The Innovative Software and Design Analysis (ISDA) group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign has done research and developed a number of open source tools for working with 3D files in many formats - not just CAx. See for example:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/3d-utilities/">https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/3d-utilities/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/polyglot/">https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/polyglot/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/archived/conversion-software-registry-csr/">https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/archived/conversion-software-registry-csr/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/clowder/">https://ssa.ncsa.illinois.edu/isda/software/clowder/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/">http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this information will be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_5775769918214965033gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Conrad<br>NARA Information Services</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Vitale, Cynthia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cuv185@psu.edu" target="_blank">cuv185@psu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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