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From page 18... ... Small computers have also spread to other areas of the factory, controlling manufacturing processes, operating robots that move pieces from one machine to another, and guiding automatic carts that move materials, parts, and finished products around the plant. Modern CAD and CAM systems began appearing on the market around 1970, I following the marriage of CAD and CAM computer programs to minicomputers in the $100,000 range. Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... CAD is applied to nearly every large or complex engineering project undertaken today, from designing modern jumbo jets to planning energy-efficient buildings. It was, for example, extensively used in designing Stars ~ Stripes, the racing yacht that won the America's Cup competition held in Australia in 1987. Read the entire page →
From page 20... ... In the electronics industry, the great problem facing engineers in the late 1960s was the design of increasingly smaller and more complex integrated circuits on tiny silicon chips. NC machines had been developed for cutting the stencil-like masks used in etching circuit patterns onto chips. Read the entire page →
From page 21... ... CAD programs of the late 1970s also began linking to CAM systems on the manufacturing side of factories, eliminating the need for many paper design drawings and reducing the time manufacturing engineers need to write instruction programs for the NC machines that make the parts. Previously, engineers had to study the paper drawings in order to calculate tool movements. Read the entire page →

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... Small computers have also spread to other areas of the factory, controlling manufacturing processes, operating robots that move pieces from one machine to another, and guiding automatic carts that move materials, parts, and finished products around the plant. Modern CAD and CAM systems began appearing on the market around 1970, I following the marriage of CAD and CAM computer programs to minicomputers in the $100,000 range.

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... CAD is applied to nearly every large or complex engineering project undertaken today, from designing modern jumbo jets to planning energy-efficient buildings. It was, for example, extensively used in designing Stars ~ Stripes, the racing yacht that won the America's Cup competition held in Australia in 1987.

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From page 20...

... In the electronics industry, the great problem facing engineers in the late 1960s was the design of increasingly smaller and more complex integrated circuits on tiny silicon chips. NC machines had been developed for cutting the stencil-like masks used in etching circuit patterns onto chips.

Read the entire page →

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... CAD programs of the late 1970s also began linking to CAM systems on the manufacturing side of factories, eliminating the need for many paper design drawings and reducing the time manufacturing engineers need to write instruction programs for the NC machines that make the parts. Previously, engineers had to study the paper drawings in order to calculate tool movements.

Read the entire page →

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Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Pages 18-21

Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
Pages 18-21