The Nist Pdes Toolkit
Clark, Stephen Nowland Excerpt from The Nist Pdes Toolkit: Technical FundamentalsThe pdes (product Data Exchange using step) activity is the United States' effort in support of the Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (step), an emerging international standard for the interchange of product data between various vendors' cad/cam systems and other manufacturing-related software [smith88]. A National pdes Testbed has been established at the National Institut...