- Author
- Palmer, M. E.
- Title
- Strategies for Implementing IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) for the Operations of NAVFAC (Naval Facilities Engineering Command). Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Alexandria, VA
- Report
- NBSIR 88-3693, January 1988,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- drafting (drawing); digital data; information management; computer graphics; translators; construction; civil engineering; specifications | computer graphics
- Identifiers
- computer aided design; IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification); NAVFAC (Naval Facilities Engineering Command)
- Abstract
- As part of the transition from the current paper-intensive processes to a highly automated and integrated mode of operation, the Navy is adopting the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) for certain digital data exchanges among elements of the Navy and Navy contractors. The report provides strategies and recommendations for implementing IGES for exchanging and archiving digital representations of Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) projects. NAVFAC plans to benefit from the use of computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) by encouraging outside architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms to acquire CADD capabilities and by requiring the delivery of certain project documentation in digital form. The ability to transmit drawings and specifications between different CADD systems is expected to reduce the time (and resources) that NAVFAC and outside personnel spend reviewing, changing, and managing projects and also to improve the quality of the projects.