Enventive

Optional Add-on Products

Additional links for MA Users

The MA Converter is an optional add-on tool to the Enventive software.

You can use the MA Converter to automatically convert MA components to Enventive components, easing your transition from MA to Enventive. Most MA components can be converted in just a few minutes. MA geometry, constraints and dimensions are converted to corresponding Enventive objects, resulting in a usable Enventive part without hours of manual conversion work.

In some cases, additional work may be needed to fully replicate an MA component in Enventive. For example, MA's gridded dimensions can lead to erroneous tolerance analysis results, so MA-style gridded dimensions have not been implemented in Enventive. Users would need to replace these dimensions with Enventive's point-to-line dimensions after conversion. Enventive also does not support scaled dimension constraints and dimensions to the tangency point of circles and arcs. Users would replace these MA dimensions and constraints with appropriate Enventive alternatives.

Enventive uses a data structure in which each component resides in its own file, and is referenced from external assemblies rather than residing within the assembly file. For this reason, MA assemblies cannot be converted directly to Enventive, and must be manually rebuilt from imported components. Generally, the bulk of the work in building an assembly lies in creating the components, and the cost of manually rebuilding the assembly is minor compared to the benefits of having the model in Enventive.

Enventive also provides conversion services for a fee. Contact us to find out more about the MA Converter.