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[STEP] A STEP Sampler

Version 1, Jan. 1996
Compiled by Russell S. Peak and Diego R. Tamburini

"The Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) is an ISO standards project to develop mechanisms for the representation and exchange of a computerized model of a product in a neutral form. The goal is to enable a product representation to be exchanged without any loss of completeness or integrity." - Bradford Smith, NIST

What is STEP? How can it help me and my company? The aim of this document is to point you in the right direction for answers to such questions. As the title implies, it is not a comprehensive guide, but hopefully it will help get you started.

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Acknowledgments

This Sampler owes much to the STEP community, especially to the people who maintain the various Internet Resources. Some material has been "cut and pasted" from those sites and worked into this document. Special thanks to those on the SC4 mailing lists who responded to my request for references. Finally, I am thankful for the cooperation of my colleagues at the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. in Tsuchiura, Japan where this Sampler was initiated.

Please send suggestions, corrections, and additions (preferably in HTML) to peak@cad.gatech.edu.

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