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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Status of PDES-Related Activities

Author(s)
Cita M. Furlani, Joan Wellington, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This report describes the standards and testing activities that relate to PDES (Product Data Exchange using STEP). PDES is the name given to the United States...

QDES User

Author(s)
Steve Clark
QDES, the Quick-and-Dirty Editor for STEP, is intended to provide a temporary facility for adding tolerancing and other data to a PDES geometric model. The...

NIST Express Working Form Programmer

Author(s)
Steve Clark
The Product Data Exchange Specification (PDES) is an emerging standard for the exchange of product information among various manufacturing applications. PDES...

QDES Administrative Guide

Author(s)
Steve Clark
The Quick-n-Dirty Editor for STEP (QDES) is prototype editor for STEP product models. QDES is distributed with the NIST PDES Toolkit. This document provides an...

NIST STEP Working Form Programmer

Author(s)
Steve Clark
The NIST STEP physical file parser, and its associated STEP parser, STEPparser, are Public Domain tools for manipulating product models stored in the STEP...

National PDES Testbed Strategic Plan 1990

Author(s)
Charles R. McLean
This document present a long range strategic plan for the National PDES Testbed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Testbed was...

Development Plan: Product Data Exchange Network

Author(s)
Simon P. Frechette, Kevin K. Jurrens
This document describes a plan to develop a product data exchange network to serve the needs of both international and national PDES/STEP efforts. The Product...
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