Author: Tony Zilles
Understanding CAD Standards
One of the best ways to ensure the productivity of your CAD department is to create and work to a set of CAD standards. Doing so will bring new employees up to speed faster, speed projects to completion with greater accuracy, and facilitate more effective data exchange with clients and collaborating firms.
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Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M50 – Review
A Professional Workstation ‘To Go’
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CAD & TrueType Fonts
Now that AutoCAD is Windows-only and drawing text can be rendered with TrueType fonts, there is a strong case to abandon the old SHX-based font system. It never delivered good quality text quality and is really just a legacy of DOS-based CAD and now-ancient pen plotter technology.
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3D Printing Gets Into Top Gear
The concept of producing material objects from 3D CAD is commonly known as Rapid Proto-Typing, or ‘RPT’. It has had quite a short history, but has seen many new technologies introduced in that short time. The first process, called stereolithography, used a vat of liquid polymer plastic which was hardened in layers by a laser to create a solid plastic object. The liquid material was a very expensive item, the process very slow, and it needed a controlled environment room. The cost of both machine and material kept the process to a few bureaux and research institutions.
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