CAD Geometry Data Exchange Using STEP
Subtitle: Realisation of Interface Processors
By: edited by Helmut J. Helpenstein
Series: Research Reports Esprit, Subseries PDT (Product Data Technology) Project 2195 · CADEX -- 1; Research Reports Esprit, Subseries PDT (Product Data Technology) Project 2195 · CADEX -- 1.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9783642783357
Description: With increasing demand for data exchange in computer integrated manufacturing, a neutral connection between dissimilar systems is needed. After a few national and European attempts, a worldwide standardization of product data has been developed. Standard ISO 10303 (STEP - STandard forExchange of Product data) produced in its first version those parts that arerelevant for CAD geometrical data. A European consortium of 14 CAD vendors and users was supported by the ESPRIT programme to influence the emerging standard and implement early applications for it. Over the years 1989-1992, project CADEX (CAD geometry data EXchange) worked out application protocols as a contribution to STEP; developed a software toolkit that reads, writes, and manipulates STEP data; and, based on this toolkit, implemented data exchange processors for ten different CAD and FEA systems. This book reports the work done in project CADEX and describes all its results in detail.