STEP Tools News for Monday May 21

[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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Tools for STEP-NC

In San Francisco on Wednesday June 13 at the Cathedral Hill Hotel 
STEP Tools will give its first public demonstration of two new tools 
for STEP-NC. The first tool to be called ST-CAM™ converts STEP CAD 
models into STEP-NC manufacturing models using feature recognition. 
The second tool to be called ST-NC™ converts STEP-NC manufacturing 
models into control codes for CNC.

This will be the first chance for those who are not members of the 
STEP Tools Industrial Review board to see why STEP-NC can reduce the 
time required to transfer CAD data to CAM by 75%, the time required 
to create a CAM model by 35%, and the time required to machine parts 
by 50%.


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STEP-NC Meeting in San Francisco

The STEP-NC workshop in Frankfurt was very successful. All of the 
major ballot comments on the Draft Standard for milling were resolved. 
The new version of the milling standard will be reviewed at an SC4 
meeting to be held at the Cathedral Hill hotel in San Francisco from 
June 11 to 15.

Monday June 11 
STEP-NC Turning Model; STEP-NC Wire EDM Model, 
Professor Suk-Hwan Suh (POSTECH), Mr. Heusinger (ISW); 
Friedrich Glantschnig, AMT Consulting

Tuesday June 12 
STEP-CMM Inspection Planning; STEP-NC Milling Model 
Theodore Vorburger, NIST; David Loffredo, STEP Tools

Wednesday June 13 
STEP-NC Demonstration; STEP-NC Interoperability testing 
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools; Fred Proctor/Simon Frechette, NIST 
Adding gears to STEP-NC; A Survey of Manufacturing Related Standards 
Tony Fry, UK MoD; Olof Nyqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Thursday June 14 
Review of Frankfurt Workshop 
Friedrich Glantschnig, AMT Consulting


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Translation Service 
Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun May 13 03:25:03 2001 -- Sun May 20 03:25:03 2001 
Total usage: 57 
Successful usage: 57 (100%) 
Errors: (0%)

Translator total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP: 13 0 100% 
STEP to ACIS: 21 0 100% 
AP203 Checker: 2 0 100% 
OSEB XML Writer: 8 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 6 0 100% 
STEP to Parasolid: 5 0 100% 
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 May 20 03:25:49 2001 
Total usage: 13282 
Successful usage: 11993 (90%) 
Errors: 1289 (9%)


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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 -- STEP database with WSDL/SOAP services for sharing 
STEP-CAD, STEP-PDM and STEP-NC information 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. 
* ST-XML -- programming functions to convert STEP data to STEP XML and 
business object data.

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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