NOT MEASUREMENT
                                                           SENSITIVE

                                                               MIL-D-28000A
                                                                AMENDMENT 1
                                                           14 DECEMBER 1992

                                MILITARY SPECIFICATION

              DIGITAL REPRESENTATION FOR COMMUNICATION OF PRODUCT DATA:
               IGES APPLICATION SUBSETS AND IGES APPLICATION PROTOCOLS

          AMSC N/A                                                AREA IPSC
          DISTRIBUTION  STATEMENT   A.     Approved  for   public  release;
          distribution is unlimited.

          TO ALL HOLDERS OF MIL-D-28000A

          1.   Make the following pen and ink changes:

                                        PAGE 3

          Section 2.1.2  Other government documents.

               "IGES V5.0 Initial Graphics Exchange Specification,  Version
               5.0, September 1990" 
          change to:

               "IGES V5.1 Initial  Graphics Exchange Specification, Version
               5.1, September 1991"

                                        PAGE 4

          Section 3.1.3  Physical file structure.

               "The binary form shall not be used."
          change to:

               "The binary and compressed ASCII forms shall not be used."

          add:

          "Section 3.1.3.1  IGES data file header records.  As specified in
          MIL-STD-1840, files of IGES data for interchange shall begin with
          a data block containing header records that characterize the IGES
          information.   The header record  data block shall be  present in
          all  data  interchanges  regardless  of  the  physical  media  or
          transfer mechanism used. 

          The  MIL-STD-1840 "dtype" data  header record specifies  the IGES
          subset  or protocol and shall have permissible values of 1, 2, 3,
          4, or  5.   This  value shall  be 1  to  indicate Class  I, 2  to
          indicate Class II,  3 to indicate Class III, 4  to indicate Class
          IV, or 5 to indicate Class V.

                                        PAGE 8

          Section 3.2.1.3.2  Global section.

               "23       4-6       Y
                24       0-7       N Default to zero"

          change to:

               "23       6-7       Y*
                24       0-7       N Default to zero

          *If the data  file includes  entities from  Appendix J,  Untested
          entities, (indicated by  an * by the listing of the entity in the
          table) then Global Field 23 must be 6."

                                       PAGE 10

          Section 3.2.2.2  ASME Y14.26M entity subset specification.

          after"120          Surface of Revolution     1    2"
          (end of page 10)

          add:

               "122      Tabulated Cylinder            1    2
                124 0    Transformation Matrix         1     "


                                       PAGE 11

          Section 3.2.2.2  ASME Y14.26M entity subset specification.

          Remove the following line from Table II:

               "406 5    Line Widening                 1    14"

                                       PAGE 12

          Section 3.2.2.2  ASME Y14.26M entity subset specification.

               "14.  Only  allowed use of the line  widening property shall
               be when physical model space width is important."

          change to:

               "14.  Reserved"

                                       PAGE 15

          Section 3.2.2.4.2  Global section.

               "23       4-6       Y
                24       0-7       N Default to zero"

          change to:

               "23       6-7       Y*
                24       0-7       N Default to zero

          *If the data  file includes  entities from  Appendix J,  Untested
          entities, (indicated by  an * by the listing of the entity in the
          table) then Global Field 23 must be 6."

                                       PAGE 19

          TABLE III   ASME Y14.26M entity content  of electrical/electronic
          application subset.
          
               "108      Plane - Unbounded"

          change to:

               "108 0    Plane - Unbounded"


                                       PAGE 24

          Section 3.2.3.5.2  Global section.

               "23       4-6       Y
                24       0-7       N Default to zero"

          change to:

               "23       6-7       Y*
                24       0-7       N Default to zero

          *If the  data file includes  entities from  Appendix J,  Untested
          entities, (indicated by an * by the listing of the entity  in the
          table) then Global Field 23 must be 6."

                                       PAGE 27

          TABLE  IV    ASME  Y14.26M  entity content  of  geometry  for  NC
          manufacturing subset.

               "108      Plane                         1"

          change to:

               "108 0    Plane - Unbounded             16
                108 -1,1 Plane - Bounded               1 "

          after"144      Trimmed Parametric Surface    1    12"

          add: "202      Angular Dimension             1
                206      Diameter Dimension            1
                210      General Label                 1    7
                212      General Note                  1    8
                214 1    Leader Arrow, Wedge           1,9  10"


                                       PAGE 28

          TABLE  IV.   ASME  Y14.26M  entity  content  of geometry  for  NC
          manufacturing subset.

          delete:

               "402  9   Associativity, Single Parent  1    11"


          NOTES for TABLE IV

               "1.  DE Field 4, Line Font Pattern, shall be 1, 2, 3,  4, or
                    5 DE Field 9c, Entity Use, shall be 00, 01, 02, 03, or 05
                    DE Field 9d, Hierarchy, shall be 01."

          change to:

               "1.  DE Field 4, Line Font Pattern, shall  be 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5
                    DE Field 9c, Entity Use, shall be 00, 01, 02, 03, or 05."

                                       PAGE 29

          NOTES for TABLE IV:

               "11.   PD  indices 3  through 2+NC,  pointers to  parent and
          children, shall be pointers to planes (Type 108)."
          
          change to:
               "11.  Reserved."

          NOTES for TABLE IV:

          add: "16.  DE Field 9c, Entity  Use, shall be 00, 01, 02,  03, or
               05."


                                       PAGE 31

          Section 3.2.4.4.2  Global section.

               "23       4-6       Y
                24       0-7       N Default to zero"

          change to:

               "23       6-7       Y*
                24       0-7       N Default to zero

          *If the  data file  includes entities from  Appendix J,  Untested
          entities, (indicated by an * by the  listing of the entity in the
          table) then Global Field 23 must be 6."


                                       PAGE 37

          Section 6.2d  Acquisition requirements.

               Delete item 6.2d and reletter subsequent items.

                                       PAGE 38

          Section 6.4  Survey of start section requirements.

               "This IFES file conforms to the MIL-D-2800 with      S  3"

          Change to:

               "This IGES file conforms to the MIL-D-28000 with     S  3"

                                 CONCLUDING MATERIAL

          Custodians:                                   Preparing Acitvity:
          Army - CR
          Navy - SH                                         OASD (P&L) - DO
          Air Force - 16
          DLA - DH                                                   Agent:

          Review Activities:                                 Air Force - 16
          Army - AM                                   (Project IPSC - 0268)
          Air Force - 01, 02
          NSA - NS
          DISA - DC
          NASA - NA
          Others - NIST, DOE, GPO, NCS

          User Activities:
          OASD - IR
          Army - AL, AT, AV, EA, ER, GL, ME, MI, MR, SM, TE, TM
          Navy - AS, EC, OS, SA, YD
          Air Force - 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 68, 79, 99

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