STEP in a Nutshell

Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-22

  Kramer, Thomas ^a   Xu, Xun ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Application Protocol; Computerize Numerical Controller; Conformance Class; Express Schema; Step Part

Indexed keywords

EID: 85151567179     PISSN: 18605168     EISSN: 21961735     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-739-4_1     Document Type: Chapter

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