STEP Tools Weekly Newsletter for August 31

[Martin Hardwick]

This weekly newsletter is a brief update of what is going on in STEP
and at STEP Tools, Inc.  If you want to know more, try the STEP Tools
web site (http://www.steptools.com) or the contact for each article.

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MariSTEP Demonstrations

The DARPA sponsored MariSTEP program gave a demonstration last week
of data exchange using AP-215 (ship arrangements), AP-216 (ship molded
forms) and AP-217 (ship piping). 

In the first demonstration, ship molded form data was constructed in
a Tribon CAD system and transfered to an Intergraph CAD system. Ship
arrangement data was then added to the molded form data using the
Intergraph CAD system, and the new data was written to a Newport News
Vivid CAD system. The arrangements and molded forms were then modified
using the Vivid system and the result was sent back to the original
Tribon and Integraph systems.

The second demonstration transfered ship piping data from a Mainframe
computer at Electric Boat running CATIA to a ComputerVision system in
South Carolina. ST-Developer was used to construct STEP translators in
both of the demonstrations. More information MariSTEP can be found at:

    http://www.nsnet.com/NIDDESC/t23.html

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STEP-NC Meeting at NCMS

A meeting of the STEP-NC group (ISO TC184/SC1/WG7) will be held in the
United States next week. The group is working to define a standard
that will allow Numerically Controlled (NC) machine tools to create
parts directly from STEP product models. The meeting will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday at the headquarters of the NCMS organization in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. The EXPRESS-X mappings and SDAI Java bindings for
STEP-NC developed by STEP Tools, Inc. will be one of the topics for
discussion.

    http://www.steptools.com/projects/express-x/homepage.html

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Implementing STEP Translators

Our most intensive course on STEP will be held from September 15-18.
This four day course covers everything from EXPRESS, to STEP usage of
EXPRESS, to application programming with EXPRESS models, to writing
translators for Part 42 of STEP. The course will be held in Troy, New
York at the start of the Fall Foliage season.

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Translation Service Statistics

The following is a usage summary for our translation service.
For more information see http://www.steptools.com/translate

Summary:
	Total usage: 1155
	Successful usage: 780 (67%)
	Errors: 375 (32%)

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Our Products

If you are interested in classes, consulting or any of the products
listed please contact info at steptools.com

Programming Tools:
* ST-Developer -- programming tools for writing product data 
  applications.

* ST-ORACLE -- SQL programming tool for moving product data into
  and out of ORACLE databases. 

* ST-ObjectStore -- ObjectStore binding of ST-Developer for moving
  product data into and out of ObjectStore databases.

* ST-PowerModel -- moves product data into and out of PowerModel
  databases for Level IV (knowledge base) applications.

* ST-WebPublisher -- programming tools for managing product
  data on the Internet.

* ST-ACIS Library -- programming functions to convert product data
  files into ACIS (.sat) files and vice versa.

Desktop Tools:
* ST-EXPRESS -- desktop tool to visualize product data schemas.

* ST-ACIS Translator -- desktop tool for translating product
  data to ACIS and vice versa.

* ST-Visualizer -- desktop tool to view, analyze and check the
  accuracy of product databases.

Framework Tools:
* ST-WebExchange -- world wide web framework for sharing product
  data with internal and external customers and suppliers using
  translation, visualization, warehousing and programming services.


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