Advances in CAD/CAM Workstations : Case Studies

To understand what we know and be aware of what is to be known is a necessary approach to treating CAD/CAM issues. The challenge for all of us interested in CAD/CAM and engineering data handling is to underƯ stand what we know and what we need to know about today's and tomorrow's technology, to track the explosive development of our field and its broadening range of applications, to sort through the details which compete for our attention, and to perceive underlying trends. A key development in the past year was the rapid and widespread acceptance by all user segments of personal computer-based CAD/CAM workstations, coupled with widespread use of software packages, both those developed for PC-based workstations and others converted from mainƯ frame and mini systems for use on PC-based or 32-bit workstations. If this trend continues for a few more years, as much as 900/0 of all design work may be accomplished on advanced versions of PC-based workstations. Many software systems vendors unknown until recently to the PC-based CAD/CAM community have now come to dominate the market-companies such as Autodesk, Chessell-Robocom, Future Net, T & W Systems, P-CAD, Cascade, 4-D Graphics, CADAM, Wang & Hornbuckle, and more than 20 other companies who sell PC-based CAD/CAM software Front Matter....Pages i-ix FLOCHART: A Solution to the Problem of Block Diagrams....Pages 1-10 Drawing Conversion: What? When? How?....Pages 11-24 CAD Migration to the PC Environment — Tomorrow’s Low Cost Workstation....Pages 25-32 Advanced Systems Integration Management Via CAD Graphics....Pages 33-44 Developing A Cartographic Geo-Code System (CAGES)....Pages 45-57 CAD, CAM and GIS: Tools for Facilities Management and Planning....Pages 59-69 Managing a Distributed CAD/CAM System....Pages 71-78 The Impact of Geography and Distributed Data Collection on the Engineering of Army Telephone Systems World-Wide....Pages 79-82 CIMPLEX Bridging the Gap between “Computer Aided. . . . ” and Computer Integrated Manufacturing....Pages 83-94 The Impact of an Integrated Data Base on Automation in Mapping....Pages 95-106 Update of Mass Storage Systems from the User’s Point of View....Pages 107-116 Planning Precepts for CAD Instructional Design....Pages 117-125 A Structural Model of Creative Process for Improved Interface Design....Pages 127-143 Navy CAD/CAM....Pages 145-153 Personal Workstations for CAD/CAM Applications....Pages 155-163 Computer Graphics from the Graphic Design Perspective....Pages 165-171 The Digital Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey....Pages 173-184 Automatic Scanning and Data Processing for CAD and Archival Systems....Pages 185-198 The Role of Human Factors in Introducing Graphic Artists to Computer Graphics....Pages 199-207 Graphic Standards: Status & Impact....Pages 209-214 Graphic Related Standards....Pages 215-223 Considerations for Establishing a Distributed Computer Graphics Mapping System....Pages 225-228 The Marriage between CAD/CAM Systems and Robotics....Pages 229-247 A Look at Technical Documentation Automation and Its Place in Distributed Data Base Information Systems....Pages 249-263 Successful Business Computer Graphics....Pages 265-274 To understand what we know and be aware of what is to be known is a necessary approach to treating CAD/CAM issues. The challenge for all of us interested in CAD/CAM and engineering data handling is to under­ stand what we know and what we need to know about today's and tomorrow's technology, to track the explosive development of our field and its broadening range of applications, to sort through the details which compete for our attention, and to perceive underlying trends. A key development in the past year was the rapid and widespread acceptance by all user segments of personal computer-based CAD/CAM workstations, coupled with widespread use of software packages, both those developed for PC-based workstations and others converted from main­ frame and mini systems for use on PC-based or 32-bit workstations. If this trend continues for a few more years, as much as 900/0 of all design work may be accomplished on advanced versions of PC-based workstations. Many software systems vendors unknown until recently to the PC-based CAD/CAM community have now come to dominate the market-companies such as Autodesk, Chessell-Robocom, Future Net, TetW Systems, P-CAD, Cascade, 4-D Graphics, CADAM, Wang et Hornbuckle, and more than 20 other companies who sell PC-based CAD/CAM software