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== STEP-NC Toolpath Viewer
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The view238 application is a simple tool for graphically displaying the 
STEP-NC toolpath data (AP-238 conformance class one files).  This tool
is completely open-source and has been released under the GNU Public License.

To run the program, double click on view.jar, or from the command line run 
  > java -jar view.jar

The tool is a Java application that uses the built-on DOM inferface to
read the STEP-NC XML data, and find and display the toolpaths contained 
within it.  At present, only polylines, and circular arcs are processed. 

The source code is in the src/com/steptools/view238 directory.  The main
GUI interface is in View238.java.  In addition, you may want to look at 
StepNcModel.java for the code that traverses the STEP data, and extracts 
the toolpaths.