Cad and Cam - keep them together

摘要

The only thing that will never change is change itself. This has never been so true than in the manufacturing industry. The technology of manufacture has become so advanced that process's that used to take weeks can now be done in hours and components that used to need 2, 3 or sometimes more machine tools to complete them are now fully machined from start to finish on a single machine with only one setup required. Cad/Cam software has also had a significant effect on the casting and foundry industries although not all of it has been positive. Thanks to complex modelers, design engineers can now present ever more complex shapes to the tool and patternmakers to produce. However the very same software can be used to solve these problems almost as easily.