IGES là gì?

Với phát suất từ dự án ICAM của Không quân Hoa Kỳ, IGES được Bộ Quốc Phòng Hoa Kỳ
chọn là dạng file chuẩn để trình bày các hệ thống vũ khí.
IGES được sử dụng rộng rải trong công nghiệp chế tạo oto, hàng không và đóng tàu.

 IGES stands for “Initial Graphics Exchange
Specification”.
This CAD format was first published in January
1980 by the National Bureau of Standards with
the beautiful name of NBSIR 80-1978. It
originated from the ICAM project of the Unites
States Air Force from 1976-1984. 
 


 This ICAM (Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing) Project was created to develop
procedures and processes that would help to integrate all the operations in the
Aerospace manufacturing industry.
In short, they wanted to create CAD software that would generate automatically all the
procedure required to control machine tools that would manufacture the mechanical
parts in the aerospace industry (and they succeed by the way ;-) )
A big problem at the time was the incompatibility of data exported from various CAD
systems (that’s not a new problem as you can see…)
Since 1988, The United States Department of Defence has required that all digital
products and manufacturing information for weapon systems contracts be delivered in
electronic form such as IGES format (that’s why CAE software all support this format)
The IGES format has been an ANSI format since 1980 and thus widely used in
automotive, aerospace and shipbuilding industries.