STEP Tools News for Tuesday July 10

[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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Harvest of AP-215, AP-216 and AP-218

STEP Tools has won a contract from the National Shipbuilding Research 
Program (http://www.nsrp.org/) to complete:

AP-218 (Ship Structures) 
AP 216 (Ship Moulded Forms) 
AP-215 (Ship Arrangements)

The project is called Harvest and the purpose is to provide the 
editing and leadership resources to make AP-218, AP-216 and AP-215 
full international standards. The benefit is that the shipbuilding 
industry can then "Harvest" all the effort put into these protocols 
over the last ten years and use them to improve the manufacturing 
efficiency of shipyards.

The Harvest team is lead by STEP Tools, and made up of three 
organizations. General Dynamics Electric Boat will be responsibile 
for AP-218, STEP tools will be responsible for AP-216, and Product 
Data Corp. will be responsible for AP-215.

The new contract is very synergistic with STEP Tools existing efforts 
to extend STEP for numerical control in the Super Model project and to 
build a web based data management framework for shipbuilding in the 
WSME project. For more information see the Newsletters of June 4, 2001 
and October 7, 1999 in the archive.

http://www.steptools.com/mail-archive/st-announce/maillist.html


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Slides from San Francisco

The presentations on STEP Manufacturing are available in 
a ZIP file at the following location.

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

The presentations made to the Implementors Forum are in a 
similar ZIP file at the following location.

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

Some of the presentations were given at a joint session of 
both groups and are therefore available in both locations.

Manufacturing and Implementors Forum 
        STEP-NC Implementation in USA (includes data) 
        STEP-NC Implementation in Europe 
        STEP-NC Implementation in Korea 
        STEP-NC Interoperability Testing 
Manufacturing Forum Only 
        Status report on AP-219 Inspection Planning (CMM) 
        STEP-NC Turning Model 
        STEP-NC EDM Model 
        Wg34 Tools Model 
        Manufacturing resource models 
        PWI for AP-224 on Gears
Implementors Forum only 
        Update on CAD and PDM Interoperability Testing 
        Update on Parametrics and Construction History

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Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun Jul 1 03:25:02 2001 -- Sun Jul 8 03:25:02 2001 
Total usage: 54 
Successful usage: 53 (98%) 
Errors: 1 (1%)

Translator total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP: 13 0 100% 
STEP to ACIS: 14 0 100% 
OSEB XML Writer: 2 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 10 0 100% 
Visualization Service: 1 0 100% 
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All-Time stats 
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Summary: 
Period Covered: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 -- Sun Jul 8 03:25:50 2001 
Total usage: 13792 
Successful usage: 12484 (90%) 
Errors: 1308 (9%)

Translator total errors success rate 
ACIS to STEP: 3207 66 97% 
STEP to ACIS: 4196 256 93% 
STEP to XML: 87 18 79% 
AP203 Checker: 1092 49 95% 
CEB XML Writer: 37 3 91% 
EXPRESS Checker: 11 1 90% 
OSEB XML Writer: 36 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 698 128 81% 
STEP to Parasolid: 659 168 74% 
STEP to XML: 483 36 92% 
Visualization tools: 678 162 76% 
Visualization Service: 219 24 89% 
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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