VWS CADM User Interface of the Vertical Workstation of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility at the National Bureau of Standards

摘要

The paper discusses the vws cadm user interface for the Vertical Workstation (VWS) of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National Bureau of Standards. The descriptions pertain to the system in use during the summer of 1987. The vws cadm user interface provides a user-friendly means of using three of the major VWS modules and a variety of input and output capabilities of the VWS. There are two appendices to the paper. The first is a user manual for vws cadm and the second is a users manual for the VWS Part Design Editor. The paper is intended to be useful to people interested in concepts and technical details of the VWS, particularly AMRF personnel who are running the VWS or maintaining or improving the software for the VWS. The paper is intended to be useful also to other researchers in automated manufacturing. A knowledge of the computer language LISP is useful but not essential to reading the paper. Detailed documentation of the LISP functions that are involved with the systems described here is being prepared separately.