STEP Tools News for Thursday March 7

[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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International STEP-NC Testing

As part of a new IMS project STEP Tools will be testing STEP-NC
with Siemens in Germany, Daewoo in Korea and others.

The IMS project for STEP-NC had its second meeting in Myrtle Beach
on February 27. There are four regions in the project- Europe,
Switzerland, Korea and the USA- with the USA being represented by
STEP Tools, Inc.

The project will be promoting and testing the STEP-NC standards.
The first testing will be on the milling model using AP-238 and
ISO 14649-11. STEP Tools and others will be making STEP-NC data,
Siemens, Daewoo and others will read the data and make parts. 


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Lots of new Manufacturing Standards

The STEP-Manufacturing meeting in Myrtle Beach was very successful.

* The Korean and German delegations announced that the STEP-NC turning
  model is ready for ballot.
* The Swiss delegation announced that the STEP-NC Wire and Sink EDM
  models are ready for ballot.
* The USA delegation announced that STEP-NC integrated model AP-238
  is ready for ballot.
* SC1 announced that it is going to start work on operations for
  measuring machines, machining centers and rapid prototyping.

Soon there will be an integrated infrastructure for manufacturing
that allows multiple machines at multiple sites to make parts using
many different processes.


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Translation Service 

Summary: 
Period Covered: Sun Feb 24 04:26:09 2002 -- Sun Mar 3 04:26:09 2002 
Total usage: 58 
Successful usage: 58 (100%) 
Errors: (0%)

Translator total errors success rate
ACIS to STEP: 13 0 100% 
STEP to ACIS: 7 0 100% 
AP203 Checker: 4 0 100% 
CEB XML Writer: 1 0 100% 
OSEB XML Writer: 1 0 100% 
Parasolid to STEP: 9 0 100% 
STEP to Parasolid: 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 Mar 3 04:26:35 2002 
Total usage: 15493 
Successful usage: 14096 (90%) 
Errors: 1397 (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.

Data Management Tools: 
* ST-Repository -- database programming services for sharing CAD 
  CAM and CNC information across the supply chain.

Programming Tools: 
* ST-Developer -- programming tools for writing STEP applications, 
  translators and databases. 
* ST-XML -- programming functions to convert STEP data to STEP XML and 
  business object data. 
* 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. 

Consulting Tools: 
* ST-Consulting -- consulting services to assist in the development of 
  CAD, PDM and NC applications, translators, viewers, checkers and 
  databases. 
* ST-Training training courses designed to get decision makers up to speed 
  on the business benefits of STEP, and programmers up to speed on STEP 
  applications and products.


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