There are many. For instance, ProEngineer from Parametric Technologies,
or Unigraphics from McDonell-Douglas, or CADDAM, and IBM has one also.
Then there is one I like called Accucarv from a small company in Traverse
City Michigan. These are full featured CAD/CAE/CAM systems used by major
corporations like FORD, Chrysler, GM, KODAK, The aircraft industry etc.
There are of course others in this market. Forinstance, there are add-ons
for Autocad and CADKEY for tool path generation. Then the ouput files
from the CAM software musdt be scupted by a post-processor to match the
requirements of the taget CNC machine. The dedicated software from the
giants runs 15 to 30 thousand dollars per seat and runs on very high end
computer systems. Ten years ago, most ran on UNIX boxes, but NT has taken
a big chunk of those seats over the last few years. And, these computers
used big, fast hard drives,m and video cards that cost twice as much as
the entire desktop system we have at home for out normal email,
word-processing and gaming.
.........bc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Williamsburg, VA 23185
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, David J. Schat wrote:
> I was wondering what CAD software is used to create the drawing that would
> be used to CNC a mold.
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