One STEP closer: for digital manufacturing. By burying G-codes and post-processors within compilers, STEP-NC stands poised to streamline machine tool programming. (Machine Tools).

From: Design News | Date: October 21, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

With development of the much-publicized STEP standard for product data exchange predominantly CAD-centric, it's not surprising that many engineers think STEP is just another way to transfer drawing information between customers and suppliers. However, STEP is actually much more than an advanced part geometry data exchange format. Its extension into numerical control--the STEP-NC input standard for CNC machines--provides not only a full description of the part, but the manufacturing process as well--annotating CAD design data with manufacturing information about the stock, its ...

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