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- 1. www.caddcentre.ws WHITE PAPER WHITE PAPPER Reduce Your Design Overhead, It’s CAD world out there. From Boeing Aircrafts to perfume bottles, all are designed using engineering software. For instance, in 2007, dentists the CAD Way alone spent a whooping $250 million in CAD to design tooth crowns and bridges! What's Design? Prior to 1982, when Professor David Before knowing what is “design C Gossard, a MIT professor,first overheads” and “computer aided created images of geometric design”, let's start understanding models on a computer, thus giving what is design. A business birth to the era of CAD, designing dictionary says design is used to be a manual process. “realization of an idea into a During World War II, an army of configuration, drawing, model, draftsmen were drawing on a mould, pattern, plan or drafting board each and every specification.” component of “B-17 Flying Fortress” aircraft, which was used for Broadly, you can group design into bombing; months went by before three categories: product design creating models of components in (things), environmental design wood for testing. (landscapes) and communication design (information). And the Fast forward to the CAD era, now “design overheads” are anything – the designs of Boeing aircrafts are time, tools, processes, etc – that digitally created, presented and stands between your visualization tested on computer monitors, of a design and making it into a resulting in huge reduction of “The “design “configuration, drawing, model, overheads in terms of time, cost mould, pattern, plan or and errors. overheads” are specification.” anything – time, tools, processes, etc – that stands between your visualization of a design and making it into a “configuration, drawing, model, plan, or specification.," Courtesy: Mr Paul Hamilton
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