News from Techmate - EPM Technology's Korean partner

Techmate has recently expanded its interests to include test system integration. It has also recruited additional software staff to support the Koreanisation and custom-isation of diagnostic system applications to meet customers requirements. This enlarged team includes specialists in STEP, SGML, IETM and CALS as well as in document management systems and databases.

Success for EDM

The meeting addressed two issues:

• the exchange of modeling data between different CAD systems using STEP.
• the ability of CAD systems and STEP tools to handle Korean characters

Techmate focused on validating the STEP file written by each CAD systems using AP203 and exporting Korean characters into EDM. The validation was successful except for some PERSON entity instances in the STEP file from IDEAS-6.0 master series. The reason for this is now being investigated.

Not all of the CAD systems tested supported the export of Korean characters into a STEP file. Of the STEP tools tested, only EDM can import & export Korean without losing charac- ters using 'no string encoding' option. EDM provides the option of 'no string encoding' in the import and export of STEP files for transporting oriental characters (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.).

The schema and STEP files used in the test are shown below, together with the successful result.