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Accelerating the Development and Implementation of STEP

STEP Toolkits  

 

EPM DeveloperSeat

LKSoft JSDAI

Eurostep EXPRESS Parser Eurostep GraphicalEXPRESS ITI Transcendata PDElib

PDTec ECCO

STEP Tools ST-Developer

URL  http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/  www.jsdai.net  http://www.eurostep.com  http://www.eurostep.com  http://www.transcendata.com
 
http://www.pdtec.de  http://www.steptools.com/ 

EXPRESS Compiler

Yes, Editions 1 and 2

Yes, Editions 1 and 2, batch and Eclipse GUI

Yes, Editions 1 and 2 Yes, Editions 1 and 2 Yes, Editions 1 and 2

Yes, Editions 1 and 2

Yes, Editions 1 and 2

EXPRESS-G Tools

Yes

Yes, Eclipse

No Yes No

-

Yes

EXPRESS-X

Yes

no, under development

No   No

Yes

Yes

STEP XML Bindings

Yes and custom by query

Yes, edition 1 and 2

No STEPmod No

P28 Late binding, OSEB, ETEB, PDTnet, OMG PLM Services, P28 2nd edition, Custom

CEB, OSEB released P28e2 in beta.

Express Object Data Base

Multi-user DB Server Systems

Yes, Oracle and MySQL

No No No

Yes

Yes

Development API

C,C++, Java, VB, C#

Java

Yes No C,C++

Yes, plus C++, tcl, C#

C++ and C  Also in COM environments by using the STIXCom library

Instance Editing/Viewing

Yes

Yes, SdaiEdit GUI

No No No

Yes, in addition PDTec Instance Explorer available – graphical layout/creation of data

Yes

Hardware/

Software Platforms

Windows and most UNIX platforms incl. Linux

All MS-Windows, Linux, HP, SUN, Mac, and others

Windows, Linux (i386) and other Unix by negotiation Windows + VISIO 2002 Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX plus 64-bit

Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX

Windows 9x/2k/XP, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Mac OSX 10.4

Geometry Viewing

By partner

Yes, using Java2D and Java3D

No No No

By SAM tool

Yes

Geometry Translation

By Partner

Custom, using JSDAI

No No Yes

By partner

ACIS, Parasolid

AP Conformance Testing

All AP’s and any Express Schema on the fly

IDA-STEP (AP 203, 210, 212, 214)
ALIS (NPDM - NATO Product Data Model)

No   No

Yes

Specific checking for AP 203, AP 214, and AP-238 and a general checker for other APs, AP-209 in beta.

License Terms

Personal, Server and Runtime.

Single user, server, site and re-distribution

Free Free Runtime or Re-distribution
 

No royalty fees, Personal, Professional

No runtime required for applications

  
last updated: 03/06/06