WHO WE ARE

The CAx Implementor Forum (CAx-IF) is a group of software developers and testors working on CAD translators based on the ISO 10303 -- STandard for the Exchange of Product model data, STEP (visit this ISO site for more information on the STEP standard). 

The CAx-IF is composed of CAD vendors and second or third party software developers. For a list of current CAx-IF participants go to the Participating Vendors page. 

This interoperability testing forum was started in February of 1995, and was initially called Plugfest. 

The participants in the original Plugfest were Dassault, Unigraphics, Intergraph, Hewlett-Packard, MacNeal-Schwendler, Computervision, SDRC, Northrop-Grumman Data Systems, Parametric Technology Corporation, STEP Tools Inc., and International TechneGroup Incorporated. Plugfest was initially supposed to be a single event. However, the value of this interoperability testing was immediately apparent and it was decided to continue the testing in a distributed manner over the Internet. The group decided to call this original testing forum STEPnet. From this forum a comprehensive infrastructure of testing procedures, tools, and techniques has been established. 

In 1999, PDES, Inc. and the ProSTEP iViP Association combined their interoperability testing forums and called it the CAx - Implementor Forum.

Participants at the First CAx Implementor Forum in Darmstadt, Germany

Participants at the Second CAx Implementor Forum in Charleston, S.C., U.S.A.

Participants at the Third CAx Implementor Forum in Myrtle Beach, S.C., U.S.A.

For more information on CAx Implementor Forum, send email to:
CAX-INFO-L@CAX-IF.ORG