[step-manufacturing] Apologies for cancelled meeting and quick summary of progress

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

Many apologies for cancelling the meeting this week.  Unfortunately it 
coincides with the time of a flight I will be making on that day.

We are making steady progress on our system for Transparent Inspected 
Manufacturing (TIM) but not much of it is visible yet.

If you would like to see some further advances I recommend downloading 
the latest version of STEP-NC Machine (12.9).
http://www.steptools.com/products/stepncmachine/download/

It has support for a new robot (Universal Robot UR3) and it has much 
improved functionality for finding the geometric items associated with a 
semantic tolerance.

You can test this functionality with the NIST test files 1 thru 4, but 
not 5 which has a known issue with a common datum.
http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/infotest/mbe-pmi-validation.cfm

Martin Hardwick
Convener TC184/SC4 Advisory Group 1 (Digital Manufacturing)