JT FORMAT

Submitted by Emanuele Marino on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 03:40
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.NET programming

Hi all!
I am looking at a procedure to convert a JT file to another standard format. But when I open a JT file exported from NX, then it is not clear and it seems to be encrypted.

Does anybody have an idea about this? Thank you very much.

NXJournaling - Mon, 10/12/2020 - 10:06

I rarely use the JT format. When I needed to convert them, I imported the JT file into NX and use the export functionality to convert to the format that I needed.

However, I suspect that you want to write your own software to convert the files. The file that you opened is likely a binary JT file. The good news is that the JT format is a published specification; the specification will describe the file contents and how to interpret it.

The wikipedia page has some info about the JT format and has links to the specification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_(visualization_format)

The JT file spec was also posted on the Siemens forum as a knowledge base article:
https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/article/jt-file-format-reference

I'm not sure of the specifics, but I think that Siemens sells an API to work with JT files.
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/media/global/en/Siemens-PLM-Compo...