I'm writing this a week before my February 13th retirement date. As I clean out my desk and tidy up my files, it's a time of reflection and nostalgia. What a time it's been! In the early '80s, I visited a Canadian moldmaking operation and saw my first CAD stations. I was thrilled when they let me try my hand at making a simple rendering of a spoon on the computer screen. Nowadays, not only would that spoon be designed on a computer, the mold flow would be optimized and the cutting path sent to a CNC machine to make the mold. Or, the spoon could be manufactured on the spot with 3D printing.
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