STEP Tools News for Tuesday March 27

[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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STEP Manufacturing in Funchal

The manufacturing presentations made in Funchal have been put into a ZIP
file and put onto a new web site that will be used to store the minutes 
and history of the STEP manufacturing team. The URL for the site is:

    http://www.steptools.com/manforum/meetings.html

Inside the ZIP file you will find:

* The first public presentations on the STEP-NC models for Turning,
  Wire EDM and Sink EDM.
* A presentation describing STEP-NC in Korea.
* A list of issues regarding harmonization with AP-224
* Information on a new ISO model for cutting tools and machine
  resources.
* A preliminary description of the AIM for STEP-NC (AP-238).


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Product Plans for 2001

A set of slides describing our product plans for 2001 can be found at
the following URL:

    http://www.steptools.com/products/plans_2001.pdf


If you look at these slides you will find:

* ST-Repository is our solution for sharing and exchanging STEP and
  STEP-NC data with the supply chain using XML.

* ST-Developer is enhanced with new support for Unicode characters,
  better support for Part 21 Edition 2, better EXPRESS to HTML
  generation and more features in many of the tools.

* ST-Viewer is enhanced to include automatic dimension measuring.

* STEP Commerce projects are now available to (i) measure the manufacturing
  cost and process time benefits of STEP-NC for an enterprise and (ii) develop
  an action plan for the implementation of STEP-NC across the internal and
external
  supply chains of an enterprise so that machining tasks can be sub-contracted
  using XML and STEP-NC.


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STEP Tools to open North American STEP-NC Center

The North American STEP-NC center will be a resource that can be used
by STEP-NC Commerce projects to run demonstrations and test cases of
STEP-NC manufacturing for an enterprises vendors and suppliers.

A press release is on our home page: http://www.steptools.com


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Mike Kutcher Remembered

One of the founding members of STEP Tools died last week. Mike was an
old-time IBM'er who refused to retire. His passion was manufacturing.
He is the reason why STEP Tools focus has always been on bringing the
benefits of standard data to manufacturing.

We will miss him badly. There are some tributes to Mike on our home
page. If you want to add your own tribute please send us e-mail.


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Translation Service 

Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun Mar 18 03:25:03 2001 -- Sun Mar 25 03:25:03 2001 
Total usage: 73 
Successful usage: 69 (94%) 
Errors: 4 (5%)


Translator total errors success rate
ACIS to STEP: 19 0 100% 
STEP to ACIS: 33 0 100% 
AP203 Checker: 3 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 6 2 66% 
STEP to Parasolid: 1 0 100% 
Visualization tools: 3 2 33%
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All-Time stats
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Summary: 
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Mar 25 03:25:45 2001 
Total usage: 12614 
Successful usage: 11339 (89%) 
Errors: 1275 (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 -- XML/SOAP services for sharing STEP-CAD, and STEP-NC
  data with the supply chain.


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 dimension STEP data.

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