-
Your CAD Models Are Busted
Bad CAD models and neutral-format geometry cost the automobile industry alone $1 billion per year. Here's how to spot and stamp out the problems. The best place to solve geometry problems is in the designer's computer. A Pro/E user, for example, has just run Prescient's DesignQA software
-
Selecting the Best CAD System
others. A decision matrix helps find that one. Making a buying decision based only on demonstrations is risky business, especially when trying to find the best CAD program to shape particular products. Most CAD demos are impressive displays of computer technology and operator skill. Demo jocks often make
-
A search engine for CAD geometry
is a representative part for a group of similar parts. Background circles indicate a relative number of similar parts. The software searches through candidates by comparing tessellated (made of tiny triangles) versions of CAD geometry. (All CAD programs produce tessellated representations.) The geometry
-
A smarter CAD alternative
Designer Elements name. Cobalt has the same interface as the original 2D Vellum CAD package (now called Graphite). This simple, elegant, and intuitive interface lets users focus on design, not the software. A smarter CAD alternative | Machine Design. Skip to Content. Home. Subscribe. Advertise
-
CAD unlocks spiral manufacturing
Design firm Kairos Autonomi in Sandy, Utah, uses CAD/CAM software to speed up development of retrofit kits for making autonomous military vehicles. To satisfy the U.S. government's time frame, the firm practices what it calls "spiral manufacturing," an approach that avoids discrete research
-
Virtual Reality and CAD
The hierarchy used in CAD/CAM networks today typically is one of a client/server nature. Each workstation, or client, has its own central processing unit (CPU) and local disk storage. The network may also have a file server that contains CPU and hard disk storage, as well as magnetic tape storage
-
Molecular modeling in CAD
a host of useful gadgets to computers, motors, and even entire factories. MOLECULAR MODELING. An example of CAD molecular modeling software is the NanoEngineer-1 package from Nanorex Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The software combines features of high-end solid-modeling packages with the chemistry
-
The future of CAD: driving revolution in 3D
We've witnessed dramatic advances in CAD usability, speed, graphics, “intelligence,” and automation over the past few years. We've witnessed dramatic advances in CAD usability, speed, graphics, "intelligence," and automation over the past few years. But even the best 3D