STEP IS UNPROVEN TECHNOLOGY WITH A LOT OF PROMISE. THE MDI SYSTEM DEMONSTRATES AN ARCHITECTURE FOR INTEGRATING DATA ENCODED IN DIVERSE STANDARDS INTO A STEP DATABASE. IT IS BASED ON DEVELOPING AND PROCESSING LOGICAL DATA MODELS DEFINED IN EXPRESS. IT CAN TRANSLATE DATA ENCODED IN IGES AND EDIF INTO STEP, LOAD THE DATA INTO MEMORY OR AN OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, OR OUTPUT THE DATA AS RELATIONAL TABLES. IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: CROSS-DISCIPLINE DATA TRANSLATION, AND DATA SHARING VIA A CENTRAL DATABASE.
| Number of Pages : | 10 |
| Published : | 06/01/1993 |
