![]() USAF accepted this offer and contracted NIST to bring together a group of users and vendors, including Boeing, General Electric, Xerox, Computervision, Applicon and others to further develop and test this software. Boeing offered to sell its CAD translation software to USAF for one United States dollar. USAF/ICAM called a meeting at the National Bureau of Standards (now known as National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST) in 1978 to address this issue. ![]() A serious issue was the incompatibility of data produced by the many CAD systems in use at the time. ![]() To close the data gap between parts design and manufacturing, one of the ICAM goals was to develop CAD software that would automatically generate numerical control programs for the very complex Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machine tools used throughout the Aerospace industry. Earlier the USAF Manufacturing Technology Program had funded the Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) language for programming Numerically Controlled (NC) machine tools. ![]() ICAM sought to develop procedures ( IDEF) processes ( Group Technology) and software ( CAD/CAM) that would integrate all operations in Aerospace manufacturing and thus greatly reduce costs. IGES was an initiative of the United States Air Force (USAF) Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) project (1976-1984).
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