ENGDAT

ENGDAT is a specification, for use primarily within the automotive industry, describing how CAD/CAM files and other engineering data can be transferred electronically between two parties.

Each ENGDAT transmission consists of a single EDI message and one or more CAD/CAM files.

The EDI message is used to describe the files within the exchange, their format, generating system and any drawings contained within each file.

This allows a group or ‘folder’ of information to be transmitted between trading partners. The folder may contain a number of different files, each containing technical engineering data such as CAD/CAM drawings. These files may be in any of a number of different formats, and may have been generated by a variety of applications.

An ENGDAT package is the set of data files to be sent using an ENGDAT message i.e. the EDI message itself and all engineering data files linked to the message.