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[Martin Hardwick]

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).


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187,000 Part Lists using STEP

Boeing has been an important customer for many years. They kindly
agreed to send us the following press announcement. It describes a
project they implemented with the help of ST-Developer.

"On March 1, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group implemented the
eighth of eleven phases of its new standardized business processes
and system called Define and Control Airplane Configuration/
Manufacturing Resource Management. In the first 21 hours of
startup processing, more than 900,000 part numbers were successfully
converted to the Metaphase Product Data Manager. Of those part numbers,
187,000 were then translated to parts lists using STEP. The parts
lists were sent for initialization to eight suppliers at eleven
sites. Between March and April, 850 STEP parts lists were sent from
the new DCAC/MRM production system to suppliers."
 

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Two EXPRESS-X Demonstrations on Web site

Two EXPRESS-X demonstrations are on our web site. The first is an
interactive tutorial using the Somerset House data described in
the EXPRESS-X tutorials also on our web site. You can use this
demonstration to test the full range of features in EXPRESS-X
(mail us if something is missing).

The second demonstration maps AP-203 assemblies into trees.
You can test this demonstration using an AP-203 file that we
supply or by loading your own AP-203 file into the translation
service.

http://www.steptools.com/library/express-x


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Translation Service

Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Jul  4 03:25:02 1999 -- Sun Jul 11 03:25:02 1999
Total usage: 75
Successful usage: 58 (77%)
Errors: 17 (22%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	5	0	100%
ap203-acis	29	5	82%
ap203-vrml	12	7	41%
ap203check	2	0	100%
expfront2	5	0	100%
gifviz		3	0	100%
para-step	4	3	25%
step-para	6	2	66%
step2xml	1	0	100%
steptoimage	8	0	100%

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All-Time stats

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Summary:
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Jul 11 03:25:18 1999
Total usage: 4845
Successful usage: 4200 (86%)
Errors: 645 (13%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	984	48	95%
ap203-acis	1751	181	89%
ap203-stl	114	41	64%
ap203-vrml	505	156	69%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	231	23	90%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	103	0	100%
express2html	268	2	99%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		180	47	73%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
para-step	31	20	35%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step-para	40	13	67%
step2xml	104	14	86%
steptoimage	262	53	79%
xml2step	27	9	66%


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Our Tools

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

* ST-Developer Plus -- ST-Developer with the addition of OLE/COM
  visualization tools for STEP geometry and assembly data.
   
* ST-Developer-J -- ST-Developer with SDAI 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 translation, visualization and enterprise 
  integration.


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