Feeling Philosophical about CAD...

Edward T Eaton · 2003-06-30T08:11:01+00:00

Where is CAD going? I know that when I'm in the retirement home, the kidsout of college are going to be fitted with Matrix-like jacks in the back oftheir necks that allow them to directly create virtual designs simply bythinking about them. What I'm curious about is what you all think we mightsee in the next twenty years.What will modeling be like? I suspect that we won't be working withvirtual lumps of clay, because I.D. folks don't do their concepts andprototypes in clay in the real world - so will we all be shaping virtualblocks of foam, or will we be using some other paradigm?How will we be creating drawings? After all, we will still need them forlegal purposes, even if all of our vendors get online.What sort of input device will we use (until Microsoft develops that directshunt into the brain)?What am I too tired (or dim) to ask that would be relevant?I ask this after spending 30 Hrs over a beautiful weekend slugging it outwith a model that I've already got a hundred+ hours in. There are a lot ofreally smart, connected folks on this forum - I am hoping that some of youwill chime in with an open-ended preview of what's to come, to give me alittle hope that, in the next decade, I won't be pissing away gorgeousweekends struggling with softwareThanks for your thoughts/insights-Ed

Jun 30, 2003 24 Replies

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bob zee 23 years ago

nothing more gratifying than spending some time in holographic goggles while good ol' bob z. performs...

bob z. was there in spirit! :~)>

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bob zee 23 years ago

Anup, that was the best part of bob z.'s day. really gives a fella something to look forward to in 10 to 20 years. :~)>

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bob zee 23 years ago

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than what we may realize.

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Mike J. Wilson 23 years ago

I'm hoping we'll see something like this...

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in the CAD dept.

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Markus Wankus 23 years ago

You can tell you are an engineer when you still manage to read all of the tool specs.

I did watch it a second time however to get the "parts" I missed...

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