Abstract:
A brief discussion of the content and methodology of STEP is
given, and STEP based strategies for CAD/CAPP information
integration is pointed out. A STEP based feature technology in
which a threelayer feature definition is included is discussed,
the content of feature information is analyzed and a stratified
CAD feature library is shown. On these bases, a commonly shared
part information model is proposed. The architecture of the
integrated CAD/CAPP system is presented.
Key words: STEP CAD/CAPP Integration Feature
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This project
is supported by National 863/CIMS Foundation of China. Manuscript received on
May 17, 1997; revised manuscript August 8, 1997
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