Saving time and effort: THOMAS GUBANC AND STEVE SACKETT FROM SWAGELOK ASSESS THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF DOWNLOADABLE CAD TEMPLATES

摘要

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) has been an important tool for designers and engineers since the technology's inception in the mid-1980s, However, the last two years have brought the technology to an ever larger number of engineers with ever increasing speed, with 2D and 3D templates downloaded from a manufacturer's web site or CD-ROM and directly inserted into any of the major CAD modelling programs, This technology makes CAD templates available to engineers directly and instantaneously, any time of the day.