STEP Tools Weekly News for Monday February 1

[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).


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ISO 14649 Part 21

The Application Interpreted Model for the STEP-NC Milling schema is on
our web site at http://www.steptools.com/library/stepnc

There are two versions of the document. One is organized to be easier to
print, the other is organized to easier to view using an on-line PDF viewer. 

The STEP-NC Milling schema is an information model for describing
manufacturing
working steps for milling machines. 14649-21 shows how this model can be
integrated with the rest of the STEP information models so that:

* A design can be defined using AP-203

* Manufacturing features are added to the design using AP-224

* NC Contoller working Steps are added to the features using
  14649-21.

The new document is very technical. It tells database implementors how
to implement a database that stores design, feature and working step data.
In future months we will be working on interfaces to the database that
make it easy for applications to read and write STEP-NC data.


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ST-Developer Evaluation and STEP Classes

Version 7.0 of ST-Developer has a new license key feature that makes
it easy for us to distribute limited term evaluation copies to
potential users. Therefore, in the future we will be able to present
class attendees with an evaluation copy of ST-Developer v7 for use on
a NT/95 or UNIX platform.

The upcoming classes are:

* Object-Oriented Information Modeling with EXPRESS
  Tuesday/Wednesday April 13-14, 1999

* Application Programming with STEP
  May 11-13, 1999

For more information http://www.steptools.com/training


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Translation Service 

Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Feb 21 03:25:03 1999 -- Sun Feb 28 03:25:03 1999
Total usage: 131
Successful usage: 127 (96%)
Errors: 4 (3%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	21	0	100%
ap203-acis	77	1	98%
ap203-stl	5	0	100%
ap203-vrml	8	1	87%
ap203check	7	0	100%
expfront2	4	0	100%
express2html	2	0	100%
gifviz		5	0	100%
step2xml	1	1	0%
xml2step	1	1	0%

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All-Time stats

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Summary:
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Feb 28 03:25:15 1999
Total usage: 3392
Successful usage: 2968 (87%)
Errors: 424 (12%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	670	17	97%
ap203-acis	1328	135	89%
ap203-stl	90	33	63%
ap203-vrml	339	93	72%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	117	15	87%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	75	0	100%
express2html	220	0	100%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		86	34	60%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step2xml	21	6	71%
steptoimage	189	49	74%
xml2step	12	4	66%


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Resellers

Resellers for STEP Tools products are available in the following
geographic areas.  Please contact us if you would like further
information.

--North America
	Integrated Engineering Solutions, Iowa City IA
--France
	Espri Concept, Sophia Antipolis Cedex
--Germany
	EuroSTEP GmbH, Bad Aibling
--Russia
	Applied Logistics, Moscow
--Sweden
	EuroSTEP AB, Stockholm
--United Kingdom
	CADDETC, Leeds
	EuroSTEP UK, Denbigh
--China
	C-STEP, Beijing
--Japan
	Open Systems, Inc., Tokyo
--Korea
	Mani Information Systems, Inc.
--Taiwan
	Exartech International Corp., Taipei
	Axxon Technology, Taipei
	INTEXS International,Virgina Beach Va.
--Australia
	Logistics Pty Ltd., Victoria



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