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== Build Sample Part With Geometry 
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The GEOMETRY sample program demonstrates how to construct a product
structure with an empty shape representation to hold some geometry.
This program builds all of the STEP backbone entities that go into
creating a product with geometry.

This structure is common to all of the STEP application protocols.
Depending on the AP, the product may also need some configuration
management information, like a design owner, approvals, category, etc.
For simplicity, we do not create any of that in this sample, but a
real application would.  

This program creates the data set and saves it as a STEP Part 21
file called "output_file.stp".  This is a text file, so you can
look at it with a text editor or the STEP Part 21 file browser to
see how the information is represented.



BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

We provide Visual Studio project for the program, as well as separate
makefiles for UNIX and Windows.  On UNIX platforms, make sure that the
ROSE/ROSE_INCLUDE/ROSE_LIB environment variables are set as described
in the installation notes.

With the Visual Studio project, compile and run the program using the
normal build mechanism.  To use the makefiles, just run make/nmake as
shown below.

        % make 		# UNIX Machines
        > nmake		# Windows Machines

When building with nmake on Windows, you must run the vcvars32 batch
file (found in the Visual Studio bin directory) to make sure that the
C++ compiler is in the command line search path.