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Author Christopher Cavello
Source IEEE Spectrum, Feb 1999 v36 i2 p36(4).
Abstract Design Edge Inc., Austin, TX, uses solid freeform fabrication (SFF) to get across the gap from electrical engineering, where 2-D CAD is used, to mechanical engineering and industrial designing, where 3-D CAD is used. Different computer platforms are often involved and the design activities often are located at a distance from one another, even in one enterprise. Design Edge puts together 3-D computer files of component parts. The files are used by affiliated prototyping services to turn out a desired item with such technologies as stereolithography apparatus (SLA) or selective laser sintering (SLS). Companies discussed include Honeywell, Symbol Technologies, 3M Telecom Systems and Parametric Technology, which has an E-CAD software module called Pro/Engineer that will work with electrical layout programs. XX