STEP Tools News for Monday November 1

[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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Kick-Off Meeting for Industrial Review Board

After some negotiations, the Kick-Off meeting for the Industrial
Review Board has been set for our recently awarded $2M ATP grant.
It will be held on December 15th and 16th at our new building in Troy. 

Highlights of the meeting include an introduction to the  STEP
and STEP-NC standards. A major league party on December 16th
(a local bank is sponsoring the catering), and an opportunity to
tour the manufacturing facilities of RPI.

The meeting is by invitation only so please contact is if you would
like to attend. (If you have already contacted us thank you).
A new directory has been set up one our web site as a resource
for the Industrial Review Board. At present it contains a Schedule
for the upcoming meeting, a copy of the Executive Summary from the
original proposal and a draft Mission Statement for the Board.

http://www.steptools.com/irb

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Upcoming Dates

November 8 - Party in New Orleans from 6PM to 8PM.

We will be holding a party on Monday night during the ISO STEP
meeting. Food and drink will be free to anyone willing to listen to a
30 minute presentation on ST-Repository and the "Super Model" (MDICM)
project. There will be a brief demonstration showing how we link STEP
with desktop applications and there will also be a useful, Y2K
compliant free gift.


November 15, 1999 -- Introduction to STEP

A one day hands-on workshop for professionals that need to know what
STEP is and how it can be a key element in solving your product data
exchange problems.

	http://www.steptools.com/training/introstep.html



November 16-18, 1999 -- Programming STEP Applications 

Learn how our most popular programming tool, ST-Developer, can help
you to reduce development time of in-house STEP applications by 75%.
Taught by a STEP Tools developer with over eight years experience.
Dr. Dave Loffredo will show you how to use and implement the wide
variety of case tools during this intensive hands-on class.
Opportunities will be available to discuss all aspects of how to
program with the ISO 10303 STEP standard and to gain experience with
ST-Developer.

	http://www.steptools.com/training/apstep.html



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Translation Service

Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Oct 24 04:25:03 1999 -- Sun Oct 31 03:25:03 1999
Total usage: 105
Successful usage: 92 (87%)
Errors: 13 (12%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	30	2	93%
ap203-acis	38	7	81%
ap203-stl	4	3	25%
ap203-vrml	3	1	66%
ap203check	15	0	100%
expfront2	4	0	100%
step2xml	9	0	100%
steptoimage	2	0	100%

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All-Time stats

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Summary:
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Oct 31 03:25:24 1999
Total usage: 6458
Successful usage: 5511 (85%)
Errors: 947 (14%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	1213	54	95%
ap203-acis	2293	246	89%
ap203-stl	141	51	63%
ap203-vrml	651	193	70%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	401	35	91%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	145	1	99%
express2html	285	2	99%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		221	60	72%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
para-step	146	80	45%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step-para	159	92	42%
step2xml	194	18	90%
steptoimage	316	59	81%
xml2step	48	18	62%

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Our Tools

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

* ST-Visualizer Library -- programming functions to visualize STEP
  data.

Desktop:
* 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-Viewer -- inexpensive desktop tool to view, analyze and annotate
  STEP data.

Database:
* ST-Repository -- Parts library database for the supply chain with
  services for translating, viewing and editing product data using
  web browsers and desktop applications.

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