Submitted by Lothar Klein on February 25, 2020 - 11:16
In 2019 LKSoftWare GmbH sold IDA-STEP to DCT Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, China. From 2020 on IDA-STEP will only be available from DCT. The free version of IDA-STEP will continue to exist.
Submitted by Lothar Klein on August 5, 2012 - 12:00
Main focus for the 4.6. release are many small improvements around 3D model handling and GD&T editing such as antialising, free text annotations, sections, For the full list of improvements see IDA-STEP v4.6.
Submitted by Lothar Klein on December 2, 2011 - 00:00
With the new version 4.5 IDA-STEP is now supporting the new STEP Application Protocol AP242 Managed Model Based 3D Engineering. AP242 is an upward compatible merger of AP203 and AP214. Once AP242 is finally approved the intention is to withdraw its ancestors AP203 and AP214. Currently AP242 is in the Committee Draft (CD) stage. Testing of data exchange between various CAD-Systems has already started within the CAX-IF.
Submitted by Lothar Klein on August 29, 2011 - 13:00
The release of
IDA-STEP v4.4.2 contains many enhancements for editing of
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) directly on a given 3D model.
Submitted by Lothar Klein on April 28, 2011 - 02:00
The GD&T Editor allows users to create and edit annotated 3D solid models, eliminating the need for 2D drawings. This is a huge leap forward, increasing quality and reducing the time needed to encode GD&T requirements. GD&T created by the IDA-STEP™ GD&T Editor is fully-associative; the specifications are visually and logically related to the features they control.
Submitted by Lothar Klein on March 29, 2010 - 22:00
The new maintenance
release v 4.3.4 of IDA-STEP includes a new, considerably faster 3D
visualization engine for all components. Instead of the formerly used Java3D API the
new version uses a direct low level OpenGL interface (LWJGL), which
results in much less memory consumption. For complex designs memory
use decreased up to one tenth (1/10). In addition styling capabilities and
others were further improved.
Changelog v 4.3.x
Submitted by Lothar Klein on October 28, 2009 - 14:04
With this release IDA-STEP is making
another big step towards ASME Y14.41 & ISO 16792 on "Technical
product documentation - Digital product definition data practices".
First converters for major mechanical CAD-systems are becoming
Submitted by Lothar Klein on June 18, 2009 - 15:46
With the release of version 4.3 IDA-STEP is entering the area of
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) on the basis of
ASME Y14.41 & ISO 16792 "Technical product documentation -
Digital product definition data practices". Several vendors of
Submitted by admin on June 13, 2004 - 13:00
The final report of the IDA-STEP project is available. More information
here.
