[step-manufacturing] Minutes of October 22 conference call - next call on Oct 29

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Julie Huang, Sandvik Sweden
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Mikael Tedborg, Sandvik, Sweden
Mangus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Laurent Lalliard, CETIM, France
Ian Stroud, EPFL, Switzerland
Robert Erickson, Pratt and Whitney, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Vincent Marchetti, Ameritech, USA
Bob Baldizzi, Okuma, USA
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo, USA
Zhigang Wang, Makino, USA

We reviewed the letter to Siemens requesting the development of a 
STEP-NC translator for NX. We agreed that the letter should request 
implementation of the common core of ISO 14649 and ISO 10303-238.

The common core being:
1. The STEP models for assemblies, geometry, topology, GD&T and facets.
2. The STEP-NC models for the tool path process data and program 
structure data.
3. The ISO 13399 model for tooling data.

We agreed that the letter should be a template with the message being 
more powerful if modified by each organization to suit its requirements 
and situation.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_5/NX_Letter_of_support.docx
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_5/NX_Letter_of_support.pdf

We reviewed the most recent executive summary of the white paper.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_5/Executive_summary_v2.pdf

A new version of the STEP-NC simulator was demonstrated with a feedback 
loop for updating the tool position from the CNC control.
The procedure for implementing the feedback loop is now documented on 
the STEP Tools web pages:
http://www.steptools.com/support/stepnc_docs/howto/plugin.html

The next conference call will be held at the non-regular times for 
Europe because of the time change on Wednesday October 29. A recording 
of this conference call is on the ftp site.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_5/stepmanuf_telecon_20141022.wmv

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader ISO STEP-Manufacturing