STEP Tools News for Monday December 13

[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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Big Party this week

On Wednesday evening we will have a triple celebration
party:

  * The kick-off meeting for the Super Model project
  * The opening of our new headquarters
  * The start of the second phase of our business plan

The honored guests at the party will include the Super Model
Industrial Review Board (see last weeks letter), State Senator Joseph
Bruno, Congressman Michael McNulty, Lieutenant Governor Mary Donohue
and Mayor Mark Pattison.

Music will provided by Grammy winning bass saxophone player Nick
Brignola. A local bank has given $1,000 for the wine and food, and the
local police have promised to not give any parking tickets!


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Three days left for ST-Viewer Trial Version

A trial version of the ST-Viewer good until December 16th is available
on our web pages. The trial version is the regular version with a key
that will let you use the product until December 17th.

   http://www.steptools.com/products/stviewer/


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Database Performance Graph

A performance graph has been added to our home page showing data
access times for the ORACLE database planned for ST-Repository. The
graph shows the time needed to access 100 parts inside a growing STEP
database. The graph shows that this time remains constant as the
database grows while that of a similar database built using ST-ORACLE
grows linearly.

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


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Class Schedule

A master schedule has been added to the home page showing which
classes are scheduled for each month. 

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


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Translation Service

Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Dec  5 03:25:03 1999 -- Sun Dec 12 03:25:03 1999
Total usage: 118
Successful usage: 107 (90%)
Errors: 11 (9%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	33	1	96%
ap203-acis	28	2	92%
ap203-stl	1	0	100%
ap203-vrml	6	1	83%
ap203check	4	0	100%
expfront2	8	0	100%
express2html	1	0	100%
gifviz		2	0	100%
para-step	11	2	81%
step-para	14	5	64%
step2xml	4	0	100%
steptoimage	6	0	100%

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All-Time stats

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Summary:
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Dec 12 03:25:25 1999
Total usage: 7002
Successful usage: 5973 (85%)
Errors: 1029 (14%)


Translator	total	errors	success rate

acis-ap203	1323	57	95%
ap203-acis	2462	262	89%
ap203-stl	145	53	63%
ap203-vrml	698	207	70%
ap203-xml	87	18	79%
ap203check	425	38	91%
expfront	124	17	86%
expfront2	155	1	99%
express2html	289	2	99%
expxfront	11	1	90%
gifviz		234	62	73%
iges-ap202	10	0	100%
para-step	186	94	49%
sp203-xml	13	2	84%
step-para	213	114	46%
step2xml	224	19	91%
steptoimage	338	61	81%
xml2step	65	21	67%

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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 -- 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 such as MS Excel and MS Access.


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