Computer Aided Enamelling
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- Category: Technical Articles 2000
Tony Stephens
In recent years, Computer Aided Design (CAD) has been almost universally adopted throughout all fields of industrial engineering, whether the objects being designed are cars, aeroplanes, bridges or chemical plants.
The reason for the widespread adoption of the technique is that the initial time consuming process of having to transfer the design into a format which is recognisable by the computer is more than repaid by the ease with which the design may later be changed and displayed and output taken for downstream manufacture. CAD does not merely speed up the overall design process but actually enables complex interactive design processes which would otherwise not be possible. The purpose of this paper is to describe two applications of CAD to enamelling which produce results which would be difficult to achieve using more traditional methods.