What is the difference between X_T and X_B?
They hold the same Parasolid data. X_T is plain text and X_B is binary, which is smaller. The converter reads both.
X_T to STEP
Convert a Parasolid file, text (.x_t) or binary (.x_b), to STEP, free and with no account. The solid is read exactly and written as STEP AP214 in your browser, so the file never leaves your computer, and the STEP is checked against the original before you can download it.
Your file never leaves your computer: the conversion runs in your browser.
Parasolid is the geometry kernel inside SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, NX, Onshape and a good many other CAD systems, and .x_t is its own file format: the solid exactly as the kernel holds it. X_T files turn up from customers and on suppliers' download pages, but not every program in a shop can open one, while nearly every program reads STEP.
An .x_t file is the text form and an .x_b file the binary form of the same data. Both are read, both give the same solid, and both convert to STEP, IGES or STL.
The STEP is read back by a STEP reader, a different reader from the one that read your X_T, and the two solids must agree: volume and surface area to one part in a million, size to 0.001 mm, the same number of solids. So the check tests the conversion, not one reader agreeing with itself.
Credits and licences for the projects the converter is built on are on the converter page.
They hold the same Parasolid data. X_T is plain text and X_B is binary, which is smaller. The converter reads both.
No. The converter has its own Parasolid reader and runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
No. The converter writes STEP, IGES and STL. STEP is the safer file to send, since nearly every program that reads X_T also reads STEP.
Lasertally is Windows software for fabrication shops. It opens STEP, IGES, DXF and NC1 files, measures the pierces, cut length and bends off the geometry, and prices the part on your own rate card.