AP-224 assemblies

[Dave Loffredo]

>>>>> "Lothar" == Lothar Klein <lothar.klein at lksoft.com> writes:

Lothar> My example:
Lothar> There is a keyboard and a mouse on your table.
Lothar> With shape_representation_relationship_with_transformation you
Lothar> can describe the geometric relation of the keyboard and the
Lothar> mouse. But the mouse is not an assembly of the keyboard and
Lothar> vice versa.

Of course, but it will be associated with a product definition
relationship that will describe the semantics of the relationship. 
In an assembly that PDR will be an NAUO.  In STEP-NC the PDR describes
the relationship between a workpiece and it's setup on the machine.

In any case, my point is that AP-224 is likely to be "downstream" from
the AP-203 and 214 data sources.  So it should allow assemblies that are
likely to be coming from the upstream data sources.

Given a simple AP-203 CDSR/SRRWT assembly with all adv brep parts.  
If I wanted to use that assembly as input to an AP-224 process, I
would need to convert that assembly to use the mapped item approach,
which is just silly.

						- Dave



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Dave Loffredo (loffredo at steptools.com)
Vice President, Product Development
STEP Tools, Inc.