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CAD/CAM Contents and Tools
History of CAD/CAM
Definitions of CAD/CAM Tools
Commercial CAD systems
CAD/CAM Market Trends
CAD/CAM Contents and Tools
2 main process: Design + Manufacturing
2 sub-process of design: Synthesis + Analysis
The end goal of the synthesis is a conceptual
design of the prospective product
The analysis evaluate the performance of the
expected product
Computer prototypes: Cheaper and faster to
generate
History of CAD/CAM
1950s: Start of interactive computer graphics,
CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), NC (Numerical Control)
History of CAD/CAM
Containing only two POINT, two CIRCULAR ARC, and two LINE
entities. It represents a slot, with the points at the centers of the two
half-circles that form the ends of the slot, and the two lines that form
the sides.
History of CAD/CAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad sketchpad
http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 Ivan
Sutherland's movie
http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAD-History.htm CAD
history
http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAM-Intro.htm CAM
introduce
MAE474 CAD/CAM 강의자료