STEP Tools News for Tuesday February 6th

[Martin Hardwick]

This 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 
at http://www.steptools.com

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ISO STEP Meeting in Funchal

The next meeting of the STEP committees will take place before the 
next Newsletter is sent. At the meeting STEP Tools will contribute the 
following:

1. An AIM model will be presented for STEP-NC (ISO 14649). The new 
   model will have all the functional capabilities of ISO 14649 plus 
   the ability to share data with the other STEP Application 
   Protocols such as AP-203 (geometry and assembly), AP-224 
   (manufacturing features) and AP-214 (geometry, assembly and 
   features).

2. An XML Schema for the Containment Early Binding will be presented. 
   The XML Schema captures more of the semantics of a CEB message and 
   EXPRESS data response than is possible using XML DTD's.

3. We will be working with a large team to resolve the ballot comments 
   for EXPRESS-X so that it can move forward to DIS as soon as 
   possible.

In addition Martin Hardwick will be running the SC4 Implementors Forum 
with presentations and feedback from testing groups in CAD, PDM, 
Shipbuilding, Parametrics and Printed Circuit Boards.

Funchal is an industrial city in the far south of Portugal. The 
industry is tourism. Far south means an island of the coast of Africa! 
Oh, how we suffer to make standards for you.


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Phase 1 Option for WSME

The Web Smart Modeling Environment will be a browser based environment 
for viewing and manipulating shipbuilding and process plant data. The 
environment will contain a plug-in 3D viewer and customizable XML 
driven components for browsing the various aspects of a shipbuilding 
or process plant product.

By enabling web based access to product data, the WSME will 
substantially improve the quality of the shipbuilding and process 
plant data sent to the supply chain.

In January of 1999 STEP Tools was awarded a project by the US Navy to 
research the technologies necessary to enable a WSME. The Phase 1 
option will allow us to implement a system prototype in anticipation 
of an award to implement the full environment.


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Translation Service 

This service is free because we want to show you that our translators 
are reliable and easy to use.

Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun Jan 28 03:25:02 2001 -- Sun Feb 4 03:25:02 2001 
Total usage: 97 
Successful usage: 96 (98%) 
Errors: 1 (1%)

Translator              total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP:   35      0       100% 
STEP to ACIS:   17      0       100% 
AP203 Checker:  15      0       100% 
OSEB XML Writer:        2       0       100% 
Parasolid to STEP:      6       0       100% 
STEP to Parasolid:      5       1       80% 
Visualization Service:  4       0       100% 
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All-Time stats 
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Feb 4 03:25:43 2001 
Total usage: 11937 
Successful usage: 10683 (89%) 
Errors: 1254 (10%)


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Tools From STEP Tools, Inc.

The world's foremost firms use the STEP Tools product line to help 
them share engineering product information. Over one million people 
use product data applications built with ST-Developer, the company's 
flagship product.

Manufacturing Tools: 
* ST-Repository -- a database for sub-contracting manufacturing 
tasks over the Internet.

Programming Tools: 
* ST-Developer -- programming tools for writing STEP 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.

Desktop Tools: 
* 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 check the accuracy 
of STEP data. 






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