(Lattice Technology Inc.: San Francisco) -- Lattice Technology, developers of digital manufacturing applications using the extensible virtual world description language (XVL) format, today announced Version 6.0 of its XVL Converter applications, delivering the tools to convert 3-D CAD data into the industry’s most lightweight, most accurate 3-D XVL format, plus new converters for 64-bit CAD applications.

The XVL Converter applications are available as both plug-ins to 3-D CAD seats or as stand-alone processors (known as converter servers). They seamlessly and accurately convert 3-D CAD data into the XVL format, which enables the 3-D data to become immediately usable and flexible for downstream uses, and compact enough to be rapidly distributed around a dispersed or global manufacturing operation.

Version 6.0 of the XVL Converter applications supports the new XVL v10 format, which delivers the industry’s most compressed 3-D format with no loss of accuracy. XVL v10 can compress 3-D CAD data to 0.5 percent of its original size, allowing anyone in the manufacturing supply chain to quickly view and understand even the most complex 3-D CAD data, even on a low-specification PC.

These new converters also support the most recent versions of the major 3-D CAD applications including:

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