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Adelaide, drift capital
Registered:
May 2004
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Re: CAD (newby info)?
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Fri, 18 June 2004 01:01
 
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Needless to say AutoCAD is a good drafting tool, but it has very limited engineering capabilities. Many smaller companies use it because it does what they need it to do, and its cheap. In Australia, companies that deal with Automotive design, use CATIA (mitsubishi), IDEAS (ford), and Unigraphics (GM holden). Other industries such as defence, and large scale manufacturing industries use these high end programs also.
Good CAD programs have parametric 3D modelling, rendering, animations, 3d part assemblies, and drafting as standard features, and have FEA (stress analysis), sheet metal design, Free form sheet design (used for designing curved objects such as car panels and stylised kettles etc.), CAM (manufacturing capabilities), and some may also include things like electrical routing design, and specifically automotive design capabilities as extra puchasable 'add-ons.'
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