[pmayrgundter]

Agreed. I'm also newish

I think for standard formats you start with STEP encoding and then there are various ISO semantic specs that encode to this, eg IFC for buildings (a standard BIM data format)

So i don't think STEP handles this explicitly, and while IFC does via URL-comptible file imports, it's rarely used in the wild.

Proprietary vendors use the standard formats for import/export but typically have poor support/wrong incentives for good interop.

There is interest in it tho, and I've talked with the OSARCH folks about it for BIM, and we're planning to work on it this year for bldrs.ai (open-source, links there to our discord and a #cad channel).

Ideally you import parts at the file level and have a compile step, like with code, where you load on lots of automatic integration tests

Stop by and chat!

[monday_]

Thanks, I will.