What is CAD/CAM?
Computer-Aided Design and ComputerAided Manufacture is used, for example, by architects, the metal cutting and components industries, the car industry, the electronics Industry, sports equipment designers and shoe, clothes and furniture designers.
Traditional draughtsmen use specially created turnkey packages; a combination of hardware, software and graphics displays. With a plotter, they build up the plan or elevation of the object they are developing. This is a highly skilled operation and will take much longer
than the traditional method of pen and paper. • Once the drawing is stored in the computer, it can be called up at any time and amendments made rapidly. • Computers can produce three-dimen-sional views of objects (from any angle) from a combination of the plan and elevation. Producing these perspectives can be a laborious business if done by hand. • The main disadvantage of the currently available systems is that they are difficult and time-consuming to learn to use.
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Press, 4 February 1986, Page 29
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154What is CAD/CAM? Press, 4 February 1986, Page 29
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