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    BUILDING PRODUCT MODELS Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction Charles M. Eastman Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA. USA Copyright 1999 CRC Press Boca Raton FL CHAPTER FIVE ISO-STEP ..the opportunity to develop EXPRESS was a chance to improve upon what seemed 10 be an inadequate way of thinking about and documenting what we know about information, which influences our lives so greatly. We are pushed into either of two corners: one that dealt with data and relationships only and another that entangled information with every conceivable computer application development detail. From my point of view, information is certainly more than the former and definitely should be kept apart from the later. Douglas Schenck and Peter Wilson Preface formation Modeling the EXPRESS Was 1994 5.1 INTRODUCTION By 1984, the issues of CAD data translation, as summarized at the end of Chapter Three, suggested to a number of industry-based research groups in Europe and the US that the time was appropriate for a new generation of standards efforts. In the US, the new effort was centered around the Product Data Exchange Standard (PDES). About the same time, the International Standards Organization (ISO) in Geneva, Switzerland, initiated a Technical Committee, TC184, to initiate a subcommittee, SC4, to develop a standard called STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product Model Data). The full ttle ofthe standard is 1501303 - Industrial Automation Systems ~ Product Data Representation and Exchange. The STEP effort was initiated in part because different European countries were embarking on development of their own standards. Beside IGES and PDES, there was SET by the French, CAD by the Germans, and other efforts such as VDA-FS and EDIF. After initially operating as parallel but separate activities, the PDES and STEP efforts merged in 1991. Today, the international committees working on STEP meet quarterly, twice a year in the USA, once a year in Europe, and once a year in Asia. ‘This chapter reviews the overall structure of ISO-STEP and its approach to data exchange. It surveys the various languages—specifically NIAM, EXPRESS and EXPRESS-G—

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