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| Name | Blender | CATIA Product | 
| File extension | .blend | .CATProduct | 
| Original software | Blender | CATIA | 
| Binary | ■ | ■ | 
| ASCII | ||
| Polygonal | ■ | ■ | 
| NURBS | ■ | ■ | 
| Solids | ■ | |
| Smoothing groups | ■ | ■ | 
| Textures, materials | ■ | ■ | 
| Developer/Owner | Blender | Dassault Systemes | 
| Description | ||
| Specification | ||
| Format features | Open source project with a lot of features and plugins | Makefile CAD system CATIA. By itself does not contain any geometric information - it contains only rules for joining parts. See the format CATPart | 
| Viewing software | Blender (free) | Delcam Exchange 2012 (free) |