STEP Tools News for Monday June 4

[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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$0.75M SBIR Phase II AWARD

STEP Tools has been awarded a Phase II SBIR by the Navy for the Web 
Smart Modeling Environment.

The WSME will be a next generation environment for sharing ship design 
and manufacturing data. Today, most STEP appplications read or write 
complete data sets into data exchange files. In the WSME, applications 
will have the alternative of reading and writing to sections of a data 
exchange file or database.

The WSME will make it easier to build application programs using 
comprehensive data models such as those required by shipbuilding, 
because the programmer will only have to understand a section of the 
data model.

The WSME will use EXPRESS-X, SOAP and XML. EXPRESS-X will be used to 
formulate queries desribing the data needed by an application. XML 
will be used to format the arguments and results of the queries, and 
SOAP will be used to communicate the queries and results between the 
client and the WSME server.

The WSME will include data viewing and management "applets" for the 
shipbuilding industry including the AP-215 ship arrangement protocol, 
the AP-216 ship moulded forms protocol, the AP-218 ship structures 
protocol and the AP-227 piping protocol.

The WSME will be implemented using ST-Repository. By making STEP 
programming easier, the WSME will make it easier for shipbuilders to 
realize the productivity gains of STEP variously estimated at about 
$8M for a mid sized boat, or a 75% reduction in CAD to CAM 
communication costs, a 35% reduction in CAM programming costs and a 
50% decrease in CNC machining time.


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Two STEP-NC Demonstrations in San Francisco

The Korean and USA delegations will both be giving demonstrations 
of STEP-NC systems and software at the SC4 meeting to be held at 
the Cathedral Hill hotel in San Francisco on June 13.

The meeting is open to the public. Register at the following web site:
https://www.uspro.org/meetings/meeting.html 


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Translation Service 
Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun May 20 03:25:03 2001 -- Sun May 27 03:25:03 2001 
Total usage: 37 
Successful usage: 37 (100%) 
Errors: (0%)

Translator total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP: 20 0 100% 
STEP to ACIS: 10 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 3 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 27 03:25:49 2001 
Total usage: 13319 
Successful usage: 12030 (90%) 
Errors: 1289 (9%)

Translator total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP: 3049 66 97% 
STEP to ACIS: 4066 253 93% 
STEP to XML: 87 18 79% 
AP203 Checker: 1049 49 95% 
CEB XML Writer: 34 3 91% 
EXPRESS Checker: 11 1 90% 
OSEB XML Writer: 31 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 664 126 81% 
STEP to Parasolid: 632 158 75% 
STEP to XML: 483 36 92% 
Visualization tools: 648 159 75% 
Visualization Service: 208 24 88% 
XML to STEP: 106 21 80%


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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.

Data Management 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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