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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...
The Product Data Exchange Specification (PDES) is an emerging standard for the exchange of product information among various manufacturing applications. PDES...
This document describes a plan to construct validation software tools which will be used to ensure the quality of STEP. The Validation Testing System is an...
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...
The NIST STEP physical file parser, and its associated STEP parser, STEPparser, are Public Domain tools for manipulating product models stored in the STEP...
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...
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...
The U.S. Army is conducting an extensive manufacturing modernization program at the Rock Island Arsenal (RIA) in Illinois. Tool management, as it applies to...
The NIST PDES Toolkit provides a set of software tools for manipulating Express information models and STEP product models. It is a research-oriented toolkit...
The paper describes the contents of the Product Data HyperStandard CD-ROM Prototype containing information related to product data standards. HyperStandard is a...
An Apparel Pattern Information Model (APIM) is introduced to demonstrate the feasibility of extending the emerging international Standard for the Exchange of...
This document describes the procedure used by the fedex sql software to translate an Express schema into the SQL statements which generate a relational database...
Fed-X, the NIST (Federal) Express Translator, and the associated Express Working Form, are Public Domain tools for manipulating information models written in...