CAD Workstation

Design Powerful computation speeds up activities in enterprises. For example, design activities are improved because of powerful CAD workstations. 

In the colon CAD workstation shown in Fig. 11.1, for example, the left and right images show the 2D... 

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) A tool used to provide three-dimensional, on-screen design for everything from buildings to automobiles to clothing. It generally runs on workstations. 

One of the six conventional mammography units in the center was replaced by one Lorad Selenia FFDM (Hologic, Danbury, CT, USA). Six radiologists were involved in the image interpretation. The readers used a dedicated mammography workstation, and all the mammograms were double read. Computer-aided detection (CAD) was used for all FFDM examinations, but not for the SFM images. 

PHIGS, that supports high function workstations and their related CAD/CAM applications... 

The CAD drawing geometry information is transferred to the CAM workstation, the tool... 

In the PDF document, a 3D representation plus a list with the metadata for each hole is included. The content types in the document are interlinked, so the receiving steel designer can click on the metadata of a specific hole which directly links to the 3D representation of this hole in the context of the steel stmcture in highlighted mode. By directly showing the active 3D geometry of a ship s section with all of the holes to be included, the steel designer gets appropriate information for his task to approve the requested holes in a very eflScient way. He can work on a plain workstation with Adobe Reader and does not need any CAD or PLM access at all. 

The latest prototype CAD systems yield a clinically acceptable high sensitivity and a low false-positive rate (see Sect. 11.4), and they are becoming integrated into the 3D workstation for CTC examinations and thus into clinical workflow. However, some technical and clinical challenges still remain as open problems for CAD to become a clinical reality. 

State-of-the-art pattern production uses computer-aided design (CAD) with a video workstation that generates the pattern fully automatically. With this interactive image processing, production can be optimized further. This process reaches fabric utilization factors of more than 90%. 

Entities of the classes specified in the schema may have a user-defined name associated. This user-defined name may be used to identify the entities whenever an interactive identification (by picking on the workstation monitor) is not possible. In particular, when sequences of commands to the CAD system are input on the keyboard or read from a text file, user-defined names serve for identifying entities. 

The reliability of the CAD/CAM system is very important. After installation, the system can be used at once. The selected workstations must be supported by different software systems, and CAD/CAM software must be established on a unified engineering database. The graphics from the CAD system can be transferred to the CAM system conveniently and perfectly. 

The selected CAD system must be compatible with old type workstations sold by this company and also compatible with the new versions of the software. 

The selection of the CAD/CAM system must be in accord with the point of view of "development" and "up-to-date". In the research institute, it is more advantageous to take a CAD/CAM system in network with different types of workstations because it can transfer the graphics of any version easily. 

The CAPP system will be driven by input from the CAD system. CAPP features will include the determination of material, process, machine and tooling requirements and the development of process plans which detail how the house will be made. Process plans will include material routings and operations sheets detailing operations at each workstation. 

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