Most of the time we devlop our own products and our suppliers/customers mostly use solidworks as well, so we don't have an issue very often. If I am dealing with someone sending me pro-e or catia file I usally request to get them in the STEP format. Most of the CAD packages can import/export STEP files and it's supposed to be a universal format. It seems better that way then having to convert them when I go to open native files.
I think solidworks is one of the better packages for import/export options that I have dealt with, but as the saying goes...."Garbage in, garbage out!" |