Re: FW: Translation from CALS profile to WebCGM

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

Hello,

I'll give a brief answer, and I'm copying the list of the WebCGM Technical 
Committee.  Many implementors are there, and they might help to answer your 
questions more fully.

Firstly, you have probably already found these resources, but:

1.) http://www.cgmopen.org/ -- "WebCGM", "References", and "Papers & 
Presentations" contain lots of useful materials;

2.) http://www.cgmopen.org/webcgm/products.html -- a directory of viewers, 
converters, etc, and the contact information for the vendors who make them.

Secondly, a brief answer to, "what effort has to be put into converting the 
CALS profile to meet the requirements of the WebCGM 
profile".  Historically, the CALS profile was the basis for the ATA 
profile, and that in turn was the basis for the WebCGM profile.  (Now, 
coming full circle, ATA is using the newer WebCGM profile as the basis for 
future revisions of the ATA profile.)

There is a substantial overlap between the CALS and WebCGM profiles, and 
there are also some differences.  From a practical perspective, I would 
guess that the subset of the CALS profile that results from your GDF-to-CGM 
converter would map fairly easily into the WebCGM profile.  I.e., it is my 
guess (without actually looking at your output profile) the GDF-to-CGM 
output would be a subset of WebCGM, or nearly so.

Regards,
-Lofton.

At 12:07 PM 10/4/2006 -0400, Carol Geyer wrote:
>  Lofton,
>Can you help?
>Thanks,
>Carol
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jari.pihlajamaki@sandvik.com [mailto:jari.pihlajamaki@sandvik.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:48 AM
>To: translation-admin@oasis-open.org
>Subject: Translation from CALS profile to WebCGM
>
>
>
>Hi!
>
>Not sure if this is the correct adress for this question, but if not then I
>would apprichiate if you could forward it to the right place.
>
>Im currently working with my Master Thesis in which im doing a reasearch for
>possible file formats to use when converting from the IBM maninframs GDF
>format.
>I have looked into TIFF, PDF (PDF/E), and XPS, but now i have noticed you
>WebCGM format which you are continiously developing and which looks to be a
>quite stable format for engineering drawings.
>
>In the mainframe there is a possibility to convert the GDF to CGM which uses
>the CALS profile. So what im now woundering about is what effort has to be put
>into converting the CALS profile to meet the requirements of the WebCGM
>profile.
>
>Is there converters available for this?
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you!
>