The Parasolid Communicator package is a subset of Parasolid Designer package and enables development, distribution and support of Parasolid-powered translation, interoperability, viewing, mark-up and data interrogation applications. The functionality available includes:

• Reading and writing of Parasolid XT files
• Topology and geometry inquiries using the PK_*_ask functions
• Graphical data output for wire-frame, silhouettes, hidden line
• Facetted and STL output
• Geometric intersections
• Sectioning
• Mass Properties
• Minimum distance calculation
• Clash detection
• Sewing faces
• Symmetric multi-processing support

Parasolid Communicator includes the same tools as Parasolid Designer to facilitate easy intergation into new and existing applications:

• Parasolid Workshop rapid prototyping development environment for Windows NT
• Resource library - sample, annotated code for all the integration tasks
• Extremely thorough, on-line documentation in HTML format
• Attributes and groups functionality to attach data to solid models and their entities
• Bulletin board to track details of model changes
• Session rollback for permit unlimited undo and redo operations in a session
• Feature history management using partitioned rollback
• Frustrum for file handling and memory management
• Part storage in text and machine-independent binary format

The diagram below shows how Parasolid (green) interacts with an application (black):