STEP Tools News for Tuesday March 14

[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 Testing by Honeywell 

Honeywell are going to test Part 51 of STEP-NC (the integrated
STEP model) using their FBMach software. FBMach is a leading
edge process planning system that recognises manufacturing features
and allows manufacturing working steps to be defined for those
features.

FBMach is written as an ACIS application and several CAD and
CAM vendors are planning to use it as a kernel in their future
systems.

Working with Honeywell will allow us to test Part 51 of STEP-NC
for "practicality" while we work with the AP-214 and AP-224 developers
to ensure harmonization.


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CIM Steel Workshop

Blair Downie of STEP Tools will be in London from April 4-7th to
give a tutorial for the CIM Steel workshop. The CIM Steel initiative
has developed a data exchange standard for steel structures using
EXPRESS.

The following customers are using ST-Developer to write translators
for the CIM Steel models.

    Company				Application

    Design Data			SDS/2 
    Bentley Systems			Structural for TriForma 3D 
    RAM International		RAM Steel  
    RAM International		RAM Frame
    Research Engineers, Inc.	STAAD

    http://www.cis2.org/


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STEP and EXPRESS Modeling Classes at Chrysler

STEP Tools will be giving a three day class at the Chrysler Technical
Center on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The goal of
the class will be to make Chrysler personnel familiar with the basic
organization of the STEP standard and its EXPRESS models and to show
them tools that can be used to manage STEP data.


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Translation Service

Summary:
Period Covered: Sun Feb 27 03:25:03 2000 -- Sun Mar  5 03:25:03 2000
Total usage: 80
Successful usage: 58 (72%)
Errors: 22 (27%)


Translator		total	errors	success rate

ACIS to STEP:		30	6	80%
STEP to ACIS:		22	9	59%
AP203 Checker:	12	1	91%
Parasolid to STEP:	1	1	0%
STEP to Parasolid:	9	1	88%
STEP to XML:		4	4	0%
Visualization Service:	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 Mar  5 03:25:31 2000
Total usage: 8179
Successful usage: 6930 (84%)
Errors: 1249 (15%)


Translator		total	errors	success rate

ACIS to STEP:		1793	70	96%
STEP to ACIS:		2645	290	89%
STEP to XML:		87	18	79%
AP203 Checker:	585	49	91%
EXPRESS Checker:	11	1	90%
Parasolid to STEP:	244	124	49%
STEP to Parasolid:	297	141	52%
STEP to XML:		269	45	83%
Visualization tools:	389	104	73%
Visualization Service:	38	8	78%
XML to STEP:		72	25	65%


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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 check and view STEP data.

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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