Digital Prismatics uses the potent Alibre design software, expert version 10. Alibre, is a powerful but low cost parametric solid modeling software similar to SoildWorks, but at a fraction of the cost. Digital Prismatics can receive files directly in the following formats:

-SolidWorks (.sldprt .sldasm)
-Catia V5
-Rhino (.3DM)
-ALibre
-AutoCAD (.DWG) (2D files only)
-AutoCAD (.DXF) (2D files only)
-ACIS (.sat)
-IGES (.igs)
-STEP (.ste .stp .step)
-PDF
-image files

Files are returned in:
-Alibre
-STEP(.ste .stp .step)
-IGES(.igs)
-ACIS (.sat)
-AutoCAD 14, 2000, 2004 (2D files only)
-STL (.stl)
-PDF
-image files