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Special Edition Using AutoCAD® 2000
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Special Edition Using AutoCAD® 2000

by Ron House, Paul W. Richardson, John Brooks, Dylan Vance
March 2000
Beginner to intermediate
832 pages
23h 33m
English
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Manufacturing Concurrent Engineering

The 3D files created in Mechanical Desktop are not just used for prototyping. In fact, a growing number of manufacturers such as tool shops, sheet metal companies, and machine part manufacturers are capable, with the use of CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software, to take your 3D files exported into their specific CAM format. A definite advantage of this is that these manufacturers can use the parameters already saved in your 3D model files to manufacture the parts using CNC (Computer Numerical Control)-related machinery. This process is described in the next section, and is basically the beginning of what is known as concurrent engineering.

Computer Numerical Control (CNC)

A very simple explanation ...

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