STEP Tools Newsletter for Wednesday June 30

Wed Jun 30 11:11:51 EDT 1999

Since 1991 STEP Tools has been developing tools and databases for
product data. 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).

This letter is two days late because of the SHIIP demonstration
(see below). There will be no newsletter next week because of
July 4.

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Model Driven Intelligent Control of Manufacturing

STEP Tools has been invited to the oral reviews for this years
ATP program. Therefore we have made it to the second round of
the selection process and if we make a good case there is a high
chance our proposal will be funded. 

If we are funded then we will be able to demonstrate the
advantages of STEP-NC by showing how an NC Controller can read
information from an integrated design and manufacturing database 
(instead of from an RS274 file) and use that information to more
intelligently manufacture parts.

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Cycle 3 Demonstration for the SHIIP Program

The third and final demonstration of the SHIIP program was a big
success. The demonstration showed a set of Enterprise Java Beans
being used by various ship building applications. 

The STEP portion of the demonstration showed a planning change
management (PCM) application. The demonstration showed the 
Enterprise JavaBeans for this application executing first against
a CATIA Data Manager (CDM) database and then against a STEP database.
There was no visible difference to the end-user between the two
databases except the CDM version contained all the data in the master
database of the contractor, and the STEP version contained just the
data that had been made available to a supplier. The STEP file
sent to the supplier was a MARISTEP file containing AP-217 data.

The EJB's used an object model convenient for the PCM application.
We used ST-Repository to map STEP information into the EJB's. EXPRESS-X
was used to map from the STEP data model to the EJB Object model. 
The SDAI Java was used to format the mapped data so that it could be
processed by the EJB's.

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Object Oriented Information Modeling with EXPRESS

Tuesday/Wednesday July 13-14, 1999 

All classes are held at STEP Tools, Inc. in Troy, New York.
This course introduces the student to information modeling, the
EXPRESS language and its companion EXPRESS-G and EXPRESS-X
languages. Demonstrations and class exercises are included in the
course.

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Translation Service

Period Covered: Sun Jun 20 03:25:03 1999 -- Sun Jun 27 03:25:03 1999
Total usage: 143
Successful usage: 111 (77%)
Errors: 32 (22%)

Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	22	2	90%
ap203-acis	51	3	94%
ap203-vrml	44	21	52%
ap203check	4	4	0%
expfront2	1	0	100%
express2html	2	0	100%
gifviz		3	0	100%
para-step	1	1	0%
step-para	3	1	66%
step2xml	6	0	100%
steptoimage	3	0	100%
xml2step	3	0	100%

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All-Time stats

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Summary:
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Jun 27 03:25:19 1999
Total usage: 4656
Successful usage: 4067 (87%)
Errors: 589 (12%)

Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	975	48	95%
ap203-acis	1697	172	89%
ap203-stl	114	41	64%
ap203-vrml	438	124	71%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	229	23	89%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	98	0	100%
express2html	268	2	99%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		176	47	73%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
para-step	19	12	36%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step-para	29	6	79%
step2xml	103	14	86%
steptoimage	238	53	77%
xml2step	27	9	66%

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Summer Offers

This is our slow time of year so we are making the
following offers to those who buy before the Fall
(September 21).

1. Customers who purchase a copy of ST-Developer for
   Windows NT or Windows 95 may purchase a copy of
   ST-Visualizer for the same platform for $3,200 -
   a discount of more than 50%!

2. Customers who purchase ST-Developer for any UNIX
   platform will receive an 8 month extended evaluation
   version of ST-Developer for Windows NT or Windows 95
   so that they can give demonstrations on their portable
   computers.

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Our Tools

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

* ST-J Adaptor -- Java programming tools.

* ST-ORACLE -- SQL programming tools. 

* ST-ObjectStore -- ObjectStore programming tools.

* 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 -- Global teaming database for design and manufacturing
  projects with services for Internet Translation, Universal Visualization
  and Enterprise Integration.

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