JT Open Program

Join the JT Open Program—membership is open to any corporation, software vendor or academic institution. Interested parties can join the program as an advocate for no charge or select a fee-based membership. Fee-based memberships include corporate, vendor or academic institutions. Fee-based memberships include access to the JT Open Toolkit. Vendor members can utilize the JT Open Toolkit to create resale applications.

The program comprises two boards, an executive-level Management Review Board (MRB) and the Technical Review Board (TRB). All members are eligible to participate in Technical Review Board activities. MRB participation is managed through a ballot process. The JT Open program does not require the commitment of resources for participation.

View the JT Open Program Members List

Benefit from your JT Open Program membership with access to the JT Open Toolkit. The JT Open Toolkit is a C++ application programming interface (API) that provides read/write access to all JT file format content including: product structure, metadata, attributes, LODs, PMI and precise XT B-Rep geometry.

The JT Open Toolkit reads and writes ISO compliant JT files and all production versions of JT currently supported by Siemens PLM products. Included with the toolkit is the PLM XMK SDK and a PLM XML JT adapter that reads and writes PLM XML schema compliant XML. In addition, the toolkit includes a Unity game engine plug-in for reading JT content dynamically into a Unity session and the JT Utilities. The JT Utilities provide a series of command line utilities that can be used to support application development and JT reuse scenarios.