1 Scope
This part of ISO 13584 specifies generic EXPRESS resource constructs that support the description of different kinds of information about supplier libraries. It also contains a set of integrated EXPRESS information models for representing supplier libraries for the purpose of exchange. These integrated information models integrate EXPRESS resource constructs from different parts of ISO 13584 and ISO 10303 into a single schema. Supplier libraries may consist of definitions or representations of families of parts. Supplier libraries may also define new representation categories. Supplier libraries may consist only of dictionary elements, or they may also contain specifications of permitted instances.
When used together with view exchange protocols, these integrated information models also permit the exchange of one or several representation categories for the parts defined in a partslibrary.
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View exchange protocols are defined in the view exchange protocol series of ISO 13584.
The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 13584:
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— Generic resource constructs for representing hierarchies of families of parts. The parts in the families may be components or assembled parts, and may be abstract parts or physical parts.
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— Generic resource constructs for representing implicitly the definitions of the different parts that belong to a family of parts.
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— Generic resource constructs for representing the different kinds of possible representations of the different parts that belong to a family of parts.
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— Generic resource constructs for representing families of materials, together with their definitions and possible
representations.
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Library integrated information models that gather generic resource constructs from different parts of ISO 13584 and ISO 10303 into one single schema for representing supplier libraries for the purpose of exchange. The supplier libraries may consist either of definitions of families of parts, or of representations of families of parts or of definitions of new representation categories that may be provided for any family of parts.
The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 13584:
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— Description of assembled parts that may contain an unlimited number of constituent components.
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— Specification of a software system able to manage supplier libraries represented according to the information models defined in this part of ISO 13584.
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— Description of the different representation categories that a supplier library may contain.
NOTE 2 The description of the different representation categories that a supplier library may contain are defined in the view exchange protocol series of parts of ISO 13584.