STEP Tools Weekly News for Monday April 26

[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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STEP-NC Mini-Demonstration

A mini-demonstration of the new STEP-NC standard is now on our web
site. The demonstration contains an interactive visualization of the
STEP-NC test part. The URL below will start the demonstration with a
three pane viewer. 


http://www.steptools.com/cgi-bin/demo/nc-feature-viewer?start_server=yes&com
mand=init

Or go to the STEP-NC home page and start the "Feature Viewer".

   http://www.steptools.com/library/stepnc/

The top pane is a control pane. The left pane is the master and the
right pane is the slave. In the initial configuration the left pane
will contain a bill of material and the right pane will contain an
image of the model. If you pick an item in the BOM the corresponding
feature will be highlighted in the image, and if you pick a feature in
the image the corresponding item will be highlighted in the bill of
material.

To explore more you can configure the slave pane using a range of
options that will rotate, zoom and set the color/visibility for picked
and un-picked items.

Also you can use the control pane to change the gadgets in the Master
(left) and Slave (right) panes. The Master Pane can contain the Bill
of Material or the Image gadget. The Slave Pane can contain a Bill of
Material, Image or Feature Description gadget. The Feature Description
Gadget will give you a textual description of the currently
highlighted features.

Have fun with it. The STEP-NC Mini-Demonstration was built using a
preview of the Visualization Service of ST-Repository.


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Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Apr 18 03:25:03 1999 -- Sun Apr 25 03:25:03 1999
Total usage: 51
Successful usage: 46 (90%)
Errors: 5 (9%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	14	0	100%
ap203-acis	10	0	100%
ap203-stl	2	1	50%
ap203-vrml	7	2	71%
ap203check	13	1	92%
gifviz		1	0	100%
step2xml	2	0	100%
steptoimage	1	0	100%
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 Apr 25 03:25:17 1999
Total usage: 3941
Successful usage: 3456 (87%)
Errors: 485 (12%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	815	32	96%
ap203-acis	1467	149	89%
ap203-stl	104	39	62%
ap203-vrml	364	99	72%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	193	17	91%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	84	0	100%
express2html	259	2	99%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		142	44	69%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step2xml	49	7	85%
steptoimage	203	51	74%
xml2step	16	7	56%

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Our Tools

Programming:
* ST-Developer -- programming tools for writing STEP applications,
  translators and databases.

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

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

* ST-ACIS Library -- programming functions to convert STEP data to 
  and from ACIS models and SAT files.

* ST-Parasolid Library -- programming functions to convert STEP data to 
  and from Parasolid models.

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

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

* ST-Parasolid Translator -- desktop tool for translating STEP data to
  Parasolid and vice versa.

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

Database:
* ST-Repository -- STEP database with services for translation
  visualization, integration, and archiving.

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