Customers need to be aware of the challenges, choices and tradeoffs available that can lead to success including:

• Quality of the Legacy CAD Data
• Choosing the Right Data Exchange Method
• Type of Data (drawings, wireframe, surfaces, solids, featured, ...)
• Source of the Data (has it been translated before?)
• Functional Differences Between CAD Systems
• Understanding of Data Usage Scenarios in the Target System
• Understanding of the Legacy CAD Data
• Multiple Data Representations
• Software Versions, Revisions, Hardware Platforms limitations
• Modeling Methodologies to be maintained in the new CAD system
• Many More Considerations...