[step-manufacturing] Minutes of April 3 Conference Call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
Alain Brail Airbus (retired), France
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
David Madeley, Siemens, UK
Doron Cohen, ISCAR, Israel
Tom Teter, Dassault Systemes, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Leon Xu, Boeing, USA
Robert Erickson, Pratt and Whitney, USA

We saw a demonstration of a STEP-NC Conformance Class 1 interface for 
Siemens NX. The system was able to translate toolpaths, process data and 
workplan structure data into a STEP-NC file that was then viewed using 
the STEP-NC Explorer.

Siemens is making the new translator available for testing by NX customers.

We discussed the progress of the three translators and agreed that it 
would be best to delay the face to face meeting until all three are able 
to translate Conformance Class 2 data to STEP-NC because this will mean 
that product models for the workpiece and tools are incorporated into 
the data making them much easier to understand when the import 
translators are written.

A second benefit of delaying the meeting is that it will allow more time 
for CCAM to prepare to machine the three parts being prepared by 
Sandvik, Boeing and the Army. The proposed new meeting date is June 24 
and 25 at CCAM in Disputanta, Virginia.

We previously decided to machine the part using 7075-T73 Aluminum from a 
rawpiece with dimensions of 85 x 85x 87.5 [mm].

http://www.steptools.com/camxc/Boxy_Part_4-Axis_Machining_2_Setups1.238 
(1.7M Zipped P28 XML)
http://www.steptools.com/camxc/Boxy_Part_4-Axis_Machining_2_Setups.stpnc 
(8M P21 text)

The next conference call will be at the regular times on Wednesday April 
17th.

A recording of this conference call is available at the following ftp site:

ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_1/stepmanuf_telecon_20130403.wmv

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader ISO STEP-Manufacturing

Action items
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David Odendahl to deliver source code for the Boeing STEP-NC translator 
for Catia to Dassault Systemes
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