Historical Milestones
1979
| September | Air Force ICAM Program contracts NBS to chair committee to address CAD data exchange issue |
| October | Team from NBS, Boeing, & General Electric begin IGES development |
1980
| January | Team publishes IGES 1.0 as a NBS report [NBSIR 80-1978(R)] |
| February | IGES committee structure established |
| May | IGES submitted to ANSI Y14.26 subcommttee for approval as standard |
1981
| September | IGES 1.0 approved as ANSI standard Y14.26M |
1982
| June | First public demonstration of geometry among 7 vendor's systems |
| July | IGES 2.0 approved by IGES committee [NBSIR 82-2631(AF)] |
| October | IGES subcommittee initiates work on exchanging solids |
| December | Public demonstration among 6 vendor's systems using geometry, text, and dimensions |
1983
| February | IGES 2.0 published by NBS |
| July | Air Force PDDI Program analysis of 10 vendor's implementations of IGES |
| August | Finite element model exchanged (Westinghouse CAD to ANSYS) |
| November | Public demonstration among 12 vendor's systems using complex 3-dimensional part model |
1984
| April | IGES Experimental Solids Proposal completed; testing begun |
| May | Ad hoc group formed to define needs for full life cycle product data |
| July | Draft functional requirements for Product Data Exchange Specification (PDES) |
| December | First successful exchange using IGES constructive solids representation |
1985
| January | IGES Steering Committee approves PDES as new work item |
| June | NBS testing of vendor IGES exchange reaches 19 systems
McNeal Schwendler implements IGES FEM interface to GRASP |
1986
| March | IGES/PDES Long Range Plan approved |
| April | IGES 3.0 published as NBS report [NBSIR 86-3359] |
| May | PDES Initiation Activities draft report issued |
1987
| January | First Testing draft of PDES issued |
| September | IGES 3.0 approved as ASME/ANSI standard |
1988
| April | PDES Inc. established |
| June | IGES 4.0 published as NBS report [NBSIR 88-3813] |
| August | National PDES Testbed established at NIST (formerly NBS) |
| September | "HyperStandard" technology proposed for standards [NISTIR 88-3859] |
| November | PDES first working draft published as NIST report |
1989
| February | PDES mailed to participating countries as ISO Draft Proposal |
| November | IGES 4.0 approved by ASME/ANSI standard |
1990
| October | IGES 5.0 published as NIST report [NISTIR 4412] |
| November | National IGES Users Group established
"Product Data HyperStandard" CD-ROM containing IGES and PDES published by NIST |
1991
| May | IGES Recommended Practices Guide published as NIST report [NISTIR 4600] |
| September | IGES 5.1 published |
1992
| May | Recommended Practices Guide for IGES 5.1 published |
| June | IGES 5.2 approved by IGES committee |
1993
| November | IGES 5.2 approved as ANS US PRO/IPO-100-1993 |
1994
| January | Honeywell demonstrates IGES-based Electronic Products Database at IPO Meeting |
| November | 3D Piping IGES Application Protocol approved as ANS US PRO/IPO-110-1994 |
1996
| September | IGES 5.3 approved as ANS US PRO/IPO-100-1996 |
1997
| January | IGES registered as Internet media (MIME) type "model/iges" [RFC 2077] |
| February | IGES Layered Electrical Products Application Protocol approved as ANS US PRO/IPO-111-1997 |
| July | IGES 5.3 CD-ROM edition published by US Pro |
1999
| September | IGES Subsets revised, Y2K compliant as specified in IGES 5.3, approved as MIL-PRF-28000B |
| December | IGES Volume II - Application Protocols review draft published |
2003
| April | IGES Volume II - Application Protocols published as NIST Report [NISTIR 6972] |
Entries originally from notes of Joan Wellington, NIST
HTML; C. Parks 8/12/97. rev. 4/14/03.
