The topic known as computer-aided design and manufacture has
developed rapidly over the last 20 years. The range of hardware
configurations and supporting software on offer to the potential
user is bewildering. This extends from the inexpensive single-user
micro-based system, through to the vast industrial networks which
are supported by many remote mainframe machines and have been
reported to service up to a thousand workstations. This advance in
technology has been driven by, and in its turn has fuelled, the
development of ever greater computing power and graphics
capability. It is these features that all working in the field
would now recognize as essential to any CADCAM system. Effort has
thus been put into developing a range of structural and solid
modellers which, in conjunction with the appropriate terminal
configuration and ray tracing graphics technology, can construct
pictures of uncanny realism. Complicated analysis programs have
been developed that can calculate the stresses in complex
structures and display the results as colour shaded maps upon the
surface of a pictorial view of the object. If the time to process
and the system cost are ignored, then the apparent ease with which
these systems perform such analysis and generate such high quality
images, leaves the observer awe struck.
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