Common Solutions

• Converts entire scene files, including meshes with holes, trimmed NURBS, crack-free BREP solids CAD files, hierarchy, animation (format specific), pivot points, vertex normals, U/V tangent vectors, vertex colors, texture coordinates, textures, lights & cameras.
• Converts & optimizes all major CAD formats to Lightwave, 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage (XSI), OpenFlight and dozens more file formats and 3D programs (full list on WEB site).
• Cross-converts between all major animation packages and 3D file formats with true robustness & quality.
• Highly refined & popular bidirectional 3ds Max <-> Maya pipeline via native plug-ins, with well over a decade of development.
• The most refined conversion system for Lightwave users since 1994 - Okino knows Lightwave conversions inside out!
• Import and compose 3D scenes from a plethora of 2D/3D file formats then render out to high quality images for print media, WEB presentations, training manuals, or marketing brochures.
• Very popular solution for ProEngineer, SolidWorks, STEP, etc. to DCC conversions -- they just work flawlessly.
• Robust import & rendering of CAD and AEC models.
• Acts as a "stepping stone" to allow for massive CAD assemblies to be downsized in PolyTrans first before import into downstream D.C.C applications.
• Publish to WEB streaming file formats such as XAML-3D, DirectX, OpenHSF, Shockwave-3D, U3D, Viewpoint VET, XGL & VRML1+2+X3D. Embed U3D in PDF files. Others in development at all times.
• 20+ year development. Personal and dedicated hands on support direct from the Okino developers.
• Solid, robust solution used around the world by most major companies and professionals.
• Easily develop new plug-in modules such as
  import/export, renderers, modelers, etc.
• Mesh & scene processing toolset including robust polygon reduction system and "parts count optimizer" for top-heavy CAD assemblies.

Major Features

• Very stong support for all major CAD file formats.
• Bidirectional conversions between all D.C.C (animation and digital content creation) programs.
• Tolerance-based, error-free animation conversion and top notch smooth skinned mesh & skeleton conversion amongst 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, Softimage (XSI), Softimage-3D, Collada, FBX, DirectX, U3D, more.
• Photo-realistic rendering, material editing, texture parameter editing and scene composition (ray tracer in Okino's NuGraf only). Handles very large CAD datasets.
• ‘Document-centric’ architecture, extensive user
  interface plug-in API, and 2D/3D import/export API.
• Excellent, built-in polygon reduction system.
• Integrated multi-media editor & viewer (see 2D bitmap file format list below).
• NVIDIA & ATI real-time shader support, with
  third generation OpenGL support.
• “PolyTrans-for-3dsmax” and “PolyTrans-for-Maya”.
• Integration or converter modules from MAXON (Cinema-4D), Act-3D (Quest-3D), CATS (Pytha), NGRAIN (3KO), VirTools/Realicon (NMO), Visual Components (3DCreate) and others
• Optimized since its inception to handle very large datasets, such as 500,000 node scenes and millions of polygons (most animation programs can only handle 50,000 nodes).
• NuGraf only: Caustics, an amazing
  lens flare system & sunlight calculator.
• An industry standard for plug-in converter SDK development. Third party developers can create 3D import/export converters, system plug-ins, renderers and many more. Stable and completely refined. Used by dozens of leading 3D software companies.
• Complete list of features, file formats, brochures, user list and demos available on the Okino WEB site.
  

PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max, PolyTrans-for-Maya

These two special, native plug-in versions of PolyTrans run inside 3ds Max and Maya. For well over a decade they have provided the industry standard for add-on 3D CAD, DCC and VisSim converters inside of 3ds Max and Maya. This is one of the most popular aspects of PolyTrans in the D.C.C. community. PolyTrans-for-Maya is available via the "DCC/Pack" license. Note: Okino natively supports Lightwave (lws/lwo) and Softimage (dotXSI) file formats so no native plug-in modules are needed for those animation programs.

Popular uses include import of all CAD file formats into 3ds Max and Maya (SolidWorks, ProE native, STEP, IGES and dozens more), bidirectional conversion of complete scenes between 3ds Max and Maya, cross conversion of OpenFlight VizSim databases, cross conversion of DirectX files with skinning, excellent bidirectional Lightwave conversions, and many more long established problem-solving solutions for 3ds Max and Maya users.

Optional Add-On Modules

Several advanced but optional add-on modules are available (others may also be available):

• CAD/Pack - Includes Autodesk Inventor importer, DWF-3D importer/exporter, DWG importer/exporter, IGES 5.3 import and export (allows for native import/export of NURBS surfaces and curves), Solid Edge import and SolidWorks import.
  
• DCC/Pack - Includes PolyTrans-for-Maya native plug-in system, Collada import/export, Autodesk FBX import/export, OpenFlight import/export, PolyTrans-for-Softimage(XSI) native plug-in system, Softimage|3D .hrc and .dsc im
  
• Granite/Pack - Includes PTC Granite BREP solids-based (crack free) CAD importer licenses: ProE native parts & assemblies, ACIS SAT (up to v7), IGES (solids), Parasolid, Pro/DESKTOP®, STEP & VDA-FS. Also includes Okino surface-based IGES importer as a complement to the solids-based PTC IGES importer. Note: this is the main software available on the market which imports native, encrypted PTC ProE files using a real, licensed copy of ProE Granite from PTC. Rock solid!
  
• CATIA v4 - Import from native CATIA v4 .model files.
• CATIA v5 - Import from native CATIA v5 .catProduct and .catPart files. Utilizes the actual Dassault CATIA v5 runtime system ensuring 100% fidelity -- it doesn't get any better.
• Spatial ACIS SAT/SAB - The defacto standard method to import ACIS .sat and .sab files, all versions.
• JT Open - Import and eport native JT CAD files, using the offical JT Open implementation. Licensed as either the JT importer, or the JT importer+exporter.

Customer Testimonials

• "PolyTrans is a true 'workhorse' application. I've used it frequently on very large files and it has not choked, crashed, or needed to be reinstalled in three years, and this is on a Macintosh in VirtualPC. This software has become the indispensible hub of my daily work." Mark Banas, MAB3D.com



• " We purchased PolyTrans and used it for 3D data conversion and optimization of datasets created for the NASA MER space program (Mars Exploration Rover Mission). It is fantastic software. My colleagues at another NASA center spent days using three software packages on what took me 15 minutes using PolyTrans alone (polygon reduction in batch mode worked like a charm). I just wanted to thank you for creating such a great tool." Boris Rabin, Visualization Development Lead, NASA/Ames Research Center, FutreFlight Central.



• " I very rarely praise a piece of software but PolyTrans is nothing short of excellent and is the most used piece of software in our department. It is generally accepted within the modelling and graphics team that PolyTrans greatly improves our work flow and efficiency particularly with the seemless plugin to Maya and the accurate conversion from one format to another in either graphics or geometry. We would be lost without it." Lazaros Kastanis, immersive visualisation specialist, University of Queensland's Advanced Computational Modelling Centre.