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CAD/CAM PROBLEM

Plastic
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Jul 13, 2018
Small piece from a letter written in a Dutch technical magazine (with google translate translated)
The total story you can read on

‘Huidige CAD-software schiet tekort’ • Metaal Magazine


Times change quickly and if one wants to go completely digital, one should ensure that CAD and CAM runs one-to-one with the exchange of files.
This should be throughout the entire process of design, production and verification process.
Every intervention with CAD & CAM and follow-up process is a delay in the manufacturing process. Time costs money and money takes time. In other words, the total production process becomes more expensive.
It seems sensible to tackle the problem at the beginning of the chain and phase it out from production to stocking of the components.

1st stage is the designer as you describe.
2nd phase is the CAD software, this is not bad but can always be better.

Adjusting the software does not have to be drastic.
Could be that some old principles have to be thrown overboard and adjusted to the current time.
Young designers are also very creative and if the 1st phase gives a problem they can help with the software.
Either go out of the box and fill in the shortcomings with more effective software.
I would like to think out of the box with a CAD developer with my ideas on this and also with ideas from other people.
This to run one-to-one in a digital work environment and shorten throughput times.

Also the other production and control processes would like to work with one and the same file without modifications to the part.
Milling, turning, laser cutting, water jet cutting, measuring chamber etc. often require the same data from a CAD situation.

It is simply a waste of every person's time to design a part which in the follow-up process needs another adjustment to be able to create and / or check.
 








 
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