News For The CADKEY User Summer 1992 3-D WORLD Volume 6, Number 3 Annual Subscription: $29,95
Alf[!ost too good to be true, but it is true! Joint Announcement of "', ' . American-Japanese Development Fanuc, Cadkey, Kubota, and Sun Microsystems Form Major Technology and Business Alliance
On May 19,1992, FANUC LTD., Cadkey, Inc., Kubota Corporation, and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation announced that they have signed a new OEM agreement to produce the F ANUC CAD DIE(') workstation system. FANUC LTD. ofOshino-mura, Upper left: CUTTING EDGE model of welding jig for manufacturing drive-shaft supports with Japan, the world's leading initial tool path. F?lght: Gilles Charron, Kerry Folkes and Brian Richards standing with the supplier of machine-tool finished welding jig stili mounted on ENSHU milling machine, Lower left: finished welding jig. controllers (See Editor's Note #1 ), will use exclusively CADKEY(') 5, Cutting Steel with CUTTING EDGE CADKEY(') SURFACES, and only 3 Hours after Installation CADKEY(') Dynamic Extension S'~ , (Continued on page 2) Total Brake Industries of programming experience, Dorval, Quebec, Canada, designs ordered CUTTING EDGE on IN THIS ISSUE: and manufactures automotive May 8. Peter Barnett of Kemeny brakes, thermostats and drive Automation, Inc., their CADKEY o MACHINE DESIGN and shaft supports. They have been and CUTTING EDGE dealer in APPLIANCE MANUFAC designing the components for Montreal, delivered the software TURER honor Cadkey...... 3, 18 their products in CADKEY(') on May 12. o Fan Maker Creates Agricul since 1990. They also use Total Brake had to make a tural Vacuum Cleaner...... 3 CADKEY to design the dies, welding jig for manufacturing o Fadal Designs Vertical molds, and welding fixtures in drive-shaft supports. Brian Machining Centers ...... 5 their manufacturing processes. Richards decided to use this o Small Shop Does Big Work ..... 9 Tuesday, May 12, 1992, marks production piece as the first o Cadkey Now on CompuServe the beginning of their use of project for CUTTING EDGE. CADD/CAM Forum ...... ll CUTTING EDGETM to machine "We had designed the drive-shaft o New Ink Technology and their dies, molds, and welding support earlier, by hand," Brian New Type ofPrinter ...... 12 jigs. Herein lies a remarkable said. "My assistant, Kerry o CADKEY User Designs story. Folkes, had already recreated the Furniture ...... 13 Gilles Charron, plant part in CADKEY in 3-D, and he o Third-Party News ..... l0, 14, 17, manager of Total Brake had designed the welding jig for 19 Industries' Stamping Division, it, too." Brian planned to cut the o Cadkey Training Centers ...... 15 and Brian Richards, a tool fixture on the company's o A Little Seed Money and a Big Garden of Ideas ...... 22 designer with 12 years of CNC (Continued on page 2) Cutting Steel Quick Move into Fanuc (Continued from page 1) Production (Continued from page 1) Mter minor modifications of ENSHU ACCU-MILLT" machine output code, Brian verified the with F ANUC's own CAM soft with a FANUC 6M'" controller. tool path on the screen. Based ware, in the FANUC CAD DIE. on his visual verification of the This system is FANUC's latest Quick Start-up Time tool path, Brian decided to generation, advanced CAD/CAM "Mter I received CUTTING eliminate the usual step of system, for the design and EDGE, I spent about a half hour proving-out the tool path by manufacture of dies and molds reading the Getting Started cutting a test part in wax. "We with sculpted surfaces. The manual," Brian said. "It took did not need to have a wax test," FANUC CAD DIE will run about 15 minutes to load the Brian said. "Perhaps it was not exclusively on Sun Microsystems' software. Then I followed the prudent, but I was not at all SPARC Station'" hardware with directions for the first two afraid to start cutting the UNIX-based Solaris(R) exercises of the tutorial in the immediately in steel." operating system. manual. It was marvelous. "I sent the post processor's This agreement follows four There were no problems. About output file to the FANUC 6M years of collaborative develop two hours had gone by. Now, I controller on our ENSHU milling ment by FANUC, Cadkey, and loaded the 3-D part file for the machine, using Crosstalk'" Kubota, Cadkey's Japanese welding jig to be cut in steel. communication software, and we distributor, with strong technical The fixture's overall dimensions were ready to cut steel." support from Sun Microsystems are: 11 .5 inches long, 5.8 inches Approximately three hours had Computer Corporation (SMCC), wide, and 5 inches high. It passed since Peter Barnett had a subsidiary of Sun Micro needed to have a pocket cut into delivered CUTTING EDGE systems, Inc. of Mountain View, this block: 7.565 inches long, earlier that day, May 12. California. Kubota Corporation 4.528 inches wide, and 3.536 "We began cutting steel the of Osaka, Japan, is a century-old inches deep. Cutting steel with a next morning," Brian said. "I manufacturing company with three-inch, three-flute, carbide find that CUTTING EDGE is the recognized expertise in custom insert mill, we can cut a way it should be. I got on the izing technology to new maximum 32 thousandths of an system and made a program applications. SMCC is a world inch with each pass." right away. You can see what leader in the development of "To program a part with you are doing. You see what the client-server, networked, CUTTING EDGE," Brian machine is going to do, and it workstation-based computing continued, "you do not need to does it." Cutting the pocket in systems for commercial and read the manual. You just have the welding jig took 20 hours. technical applications. to read the screen properly. Make sure that there are Editor's Note #1: Because CUTTING A First numbers where numbers are EDGE is a brand-new product, some This marks the first time supposed to be. If you are not readers may find it difficult to believe that that F ANUC has chosen sure, put the cursor at the Total Brake Industries got their new hardware and software location on the screen, and click. CUTTING EDGE system into technologies other than its own Something will happen. And, if manufacturing production so speedily. for integration into a product. what you select does not work, Any reader may contact Gilles Charron or F ANUC selected CADKEY 5 you can always go back and Brian Richards to verify the accuracy of and CADKEY SURFACES select again." this article. You can contact Gilles or because of their high-level 3-D "To do the pocket, I specified Brian at Total Brake Industries, 1949 modeling and surface the starting point and the chain 55th Avenue, Dorval, Quebec H9P 1G9, capabilities, award-winning of entities on the part's surface. Canada. Telephone: (51 4) 631-5758. interface, ease of use, and the When it requested the next Fax: (514) 631-9197. Or, you may contact CADKEY Dynamic Extensions entity, CUTTING EDGE showed Peter Barnett at Kemeny Automation, (CDE). FANUC chose the me that part of the jig's geometry 2453 Guenette Street, Montreal, Quebec was not complete. CUTTING H4R 2E9, Canada. Tel: (514) 745-0535. 3-D WORLD is published quarterly by Fax: (514) 745-0542. Cadkey, Inc., 4 Griffin Road North, Windsor, EDGE created the tool path CT 06095-1511. anyway, but I am fussy. I do not Editor's Note #2: ACCU-MILL is a Editor: Frank Simpson like to work with incomplete Contributing Editors: Maribeth Schneider trademark of EN SHU LTD, Hamamatsu, Mary Beth Staron geometry. So, I corrected the J apan. FANUC 6M is a trademark of For additional copies. changes in mailing geometry, and redid the tool FANUC LTD, Oshino-mura, J apan. address. information about 3-~ WORLD, path. CUTTING EDGE TELEPHONE: (203) 298-8888 Crosstalk is a registered trademark of FAX: (203) 298-6401 calculated the speeds and feeds Digital Communications Associates, Inc., © Copyright 1992 by Cadkey, Inc. All rights beautifully." Alpharetta, Georgia. reserved.
2 3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 SPARCStation for its open MACHINE DESIGN Honors Cadkey, Inc. architecture, speed, power and conformance with international with CAD/CAM Leader Award standards. FANUC, Cadkey and The May 21, 1992 issue of MACHINE Kubota engineers h ave MACHINE DESIGN awarded concentrated their efforts on its 1992 CAD/CAM LEADER developing customized tools and AWARD to Cadkey, Inc. "for extensions specific to the tool improving the vision of design and-die industry, especially engineers," with a system in manufacturing companies that which "design, analysis, and su pply the automotive and manufacturing software are aerospace industries. They u sed combined into one neat package, Cadkey's CDE technology producing a compact version of throughout their work to create concurren t engineering." DESIGN is published by Penton a modular integrated system. MACHIN E DESIGN Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of "The product and the honored Cadkey and 20 other Pittway Corporation, 1100 relationships that we are companies in the CAD and CAM Superior Avenue, Cleveland, announcing represent the best of indu stries. MACHINE Ohio 44114-2543. international cooperation," said Livingston Davies, President of Cadkey. "Besides allowing a Industrial Fan Manufacturer Creates group of engineers to work on a project simultaneously, it lets Agricultural Vacuum Cleaner with CAD KEY one engineer work on variou s aspects of a project - CAD, surfaces, and CAM - without getting out of his chair." The FANUC CAD DIE made its first public appearance in Osaka, Japan, in May 1992. The system will become available internationally during the third quarter of 1992.
E ditor's Note #1: The Investment Report published by Schroder Securities (J apan) Limited, dated November 5, 1991 , states that FANUC LTD. has a market share of approximately 70% in J apan and Two-fan Bug-Buster " '" 50% worldwide. What can you do, if you are a suction of fans, mounted on a E ditor's Note #2: F ANUC CAD DIE is a farmer who needs to control frame attached to a tractor, to registered trademark ofFANUC, LTD., insects in your food crops, but remove harmful insects from Oshino-mura, J apan . SPARCStation is a you don't want to use insecticides plants, so that they can do no registered trademark of SPARC Inter becau se of their potentially more harm to the plants. The national, Inc., Menlo Park, California, harmful effects on the people and idea of the Bug-Buster had licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, animals that consu me the food arrived. Inc., Mountain View, California. Solaris is you grow? One answer is the lAP's Bug-Buster operates on a registered trademark of SunSoft, Inc., Bug-Buster", designed and the principle of a vacu um Mountain View, California. UNIX is a manufactured by lAP, Inc. of cleaner. As the fan hoods pass registered trademark of UNIX Systems Phillips, Wisconsin. The letters over the plants, the insects in Laboratories, Inc., Summit, New J ersey. lAP stand for Industrial Air and arou nd the foliage are p ••••••••••• Products. lAP has manufactured sucked into the fan. The custom-designed industrial fans centrifugal force of the fans kills • "Great companies use • for 16 years, and they have been the insects instantly and • CADKEY." • u sing CADKEYcR) to design their discharges them into the • AI Cowen • fans ever since Version 1.5. In atmosphere. The Bug-Buster • President and CADKEY user • 1989, one of their customers, a provides an environmentally safe • Alton Boring Company • lettuce farmer, led lAP into an alternative to chemical • Livonia, Michigan • entirely new application of their insecticides for agricultural and •••••••••••• tech nology: using the intake (Continued on page 4) 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 3 Agricultural Vacuum the fans would overlap the frame President of lAP, sought to (Continued from page 3) anywhere. Shortly thereafter, increase the company's speed of we designed another model of generating engineering drawings horticultural applications. Since Bug-Buster, as a self-propelled in response to the needs of its the first Bug-Buster's success crop vacuum, with a wide wheel customers and its shop floor. with lettuce crops, lAP's base to support the weight and Ralph Mallwitz took up the agricultural customers from the vibration of its two fans." challenge and wrote a program California to England have "We like the ability to change in QUICK BASIO') that includes applied the Bug-Buster to colors in CADKEY, and to mask a data file containing all of the strawberries, potatoes, alfalfa, geometries by color," Ralph said. specifications for lAP's twenty, bell peppers, yellow squash, "We now have written standards most popular, design configu grapes, snap beans, carrots, at lAP so that different parts are rations for radial-tip (P) and asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage, designed in specific colors. For open-radial-blade (ORB) fans. celery, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, example, housings are green, The program asks the and flowers (particularly mums and bearing pedestals are blue. customer six essential questions: and azaleas). Dimensions are light purple, and (1) What size fan? (2) What type notes are light blue. That way, of fan: paddle blade or open Custom Design more than one engineer can radial blade? (3) Heavy duty or "Different plants have work on a design. Also, by extra heavy duty? (4) What is the different characteristics, and masking on color, we can copy an discharge of your fan: up blast, they also have different types of existing design for a particular top horizontal, bottom horizon insects that cause problems," part of a fan into a new file so tal, top angular up, or bottom said Ralph Mallwitz, that it can be customized into a angular up? (5) What is the rota Engineering Manager at lAP. new design rapidly. We also use tion of your fan: clockwise or "So, to an extent, we have to the snap and grid function a lot, counterclockwise? (6) Would you custom design fans and hoods for especially for placing dimensions like to input your own dimension different crop types. For a specified distance from the height for dimensions in the example, strawberries are geometry. It keeps the geometry drawing? The answers to these delicate and grow close to the clean and readable. lAP's six questions define one of 1 ,600 ground, and the problem insects drawings impress our customers possible design configurations of are lightly attached to outer very strongly. Weare one of the lAP's 20 most popular P and layers of foliage. We had to few fan manufacturers that give ORB fans. customize our hood design and customers customized drawings After these questions have the suction of the fan so that the instead of standard data sheets." been answered, the program farmer could pick off the bugs "Getting back to the Bug creates a CADL file in without picking the strawberries. Buster," Ralph said, "each fan on CADKEY's CDL subdirectory, On the other hand, potato plants a typical Bug-Buster can remove with the default name HOUSE, have an entirely different foliage the insects from two rows of which is a two-dimensional, fully canopy, with larger, more dense plants. Now, we make units dimensioned drawing, with all insects that require much great ranging from one to four fans entities in the colors and placed er suction capacity to capture." depending upon the customer's on the levels corresponding to "We designed our first Bug need. We make the Bug-Buster's lAP's written standards. To Buster on CADKEY from frame to fit, as a front-mounted display the CADL file, all anyone scratch, fans, frame, hoods, accessory unit to the customer's has to do is to enter CADKEY, everything," Ralph said. "The tractor, any type of tractor." perform the sequence FILES ability to model the frame and CDL-EXECUTE, and enter the fans in 3-D and to define our own Parametric Design with name HOUSE. The file is then 3-D views of the model was CAD KEY ready for printing or plotting. critical because the clearances Although the Bug-Buster has lAP uses this program now were critical. We had to look become a very successful to generate almost all of its down the frame from very product, industrial fans remain drawings. "This program has particular views to see whether lAP's primary business. lAP made engineering obsolete for manufactures a wide variety of custom fans with standard Technical Support Hours industrial exhausters: backward parameters," Ralph said. "It incline, airfoil, radial bladed, allows us to focus our engineer Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m.-8 p.m. high pressure, forward curve, ing efforts on designing complex, Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and vane axial fans, in heavy specialized custom fans. We use duty and extra-heavy-duty CADKEY for everything in Telephone: (203) 298-8888. models, with varying discharges. designing our products." In January 1991 , Robert Theis,
4 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 Fadal Designs Vertical Machining Centers Using CADKEY !
"The reports of my death are all of the major machine-tool years in business, we had an greatly exaggerated," Mark manufacturers in the United enormous number of drawings to Twain cabled from London to the States were clustered east of the update. The system's Associated Press in 1897. Some Mississippi River and north of dimensioning capabilities and 10,023 machine-tool manufac the Ohio River. True, there was ease of use were two critical turers in the United States another family-run machine-tool factors. It finally came down to a (small, medium-sized and large) company in Gardena, California, choice between AutoCADn, and are echoing Twain's sentiment in ten miles south of Los Angeles: CAD KEY. We bought CADKEY, 1992. If they have their way, the Burgmaster Corporation, and we're glad we did. It makes 1980's gloom and doom over the founded by Fred Burg, in 1944. a wonderful replacement for impending demise of the Amer But, that was just about it. Fred drafting by hand. CADKEY and ican machine-tool industry, due Burg pioneered the building of our draftsmen seem to think the to foreign competition, will have machine tools in Southern same way. There was a very been exaggerated, too. One of California, and he inspired Fadal short learning curve." these optimistic machine-tool to enter the field. "Weare doing Of its seven CADKEY manufacturers is Fadal our best to avoid the mistakes systems, Fadal has dedicated one Engineering Company, Inc. of that brought Burgmaster to an specifically for 3-D design - to North Hollywood, California. untimely end," said Adrian de see how a finished part will look And, CADKEYCR) is part of Fadal's Caussin. and fit into a machine. optimism. All of Fadal's vertical "CADKEY gives you confidence machining centers are now Fadal and CADKEY that what you design will work," designed and maintained using In 1989, Fadal Engineering Dean said, "you can assemble the CAD KEY. Company bought its first machine on the screen." Another CADKEY system. Now the CADKEY system is devoted Entrepreneurial Spi rit company has seven CADKEY totally to dimensioning part files. Francis de Caussin began a systems, all on stand-alone, A third system serves for machine shop/job shop in his 80386, IBM-compatible personal creating prototype part files and garage, in 1953, after he had transplanted himself and his I-~ "':::~",------+"~'~ I family from Detroit, Michigan, @ to Southern California. The 1950's and the 1960's were the heyday of American manufac I turing of machine tools. Fadal Engineering Company began building machine tools in the late 1960's. Francis de Caussin's three sons all participated actively in their father's business. Now, almost 40 years later, the founder has retired. His sons, Adrian, David and Larry, are President, Vice President and General Manager
~7>~O • ..-..0 l' respectively. Indeed, the .i:ffi 11'l~ • \ 81 ~ 'J()oI "ij ~('I(.t(r ~-tlS I TAm'l , ., M( ~tolL( FI'" r~~. founder's grandchildren have i'f"2Of. also taken on significant roles in the family business. The name Fadal is an acromym that Exploded assembly drawing of rotary table. represents the initials of the first names of Francis, Adrian, David, computers. "Settling on hardcopy prints for use in and Larry de Caussin. CADKEY was not easy for us," Fadal's machine shop. Fadal When Francis de Caussin said Dean de Caussin, a uses the fourth system for started Fadal Engineering Mechanical Engineer at Fadal. remanufacturing replacement Company, Southern California "We had tried other PC-based parts for existing machines, to was not a place famous for CAD software, and we had not upgrade very old equipment into building machine tools. Almost been satisfied. Mter so many (Continued on page 7)
3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 5 "Designer's TOOLKIT for CADKEY I. "Designer's TOOLKIT has many of the is easy to use and very fast. I paid performance features of similar twice as much for another Drafting systems costing much more. Package and DTK is much faster." I would wholeheartedly recommend Ted Lewis/Desco, Inc. .1. to anyone doing drafting on CADKEY" Dick Bottos/CADKEY Dealer
6 3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 Fadal Language) format. The operator appropriate word to use here.) (Continued from page 5) then reads the CADL file for the For example, Dean Alt of Alt's appropriate safety symbol into Tool and Machine, Inc., Santee, CNC machines. "We use these the original part file so that it California, and Philip Durand of refurbished machines only for will automatically appear in the Connecticut Tool Company, Inc., our own internal use," Dean hardcopy plot or blueprint of the Putnam, Connecticut, are both said. A fifth system serves the part. CADKEY users and Fadal users. Engineering Department for Fadal Engineering deliber Both extol Fadal's vertical developing new designs and ately chooses to use American machining centers. special projects. The last two are made parts, as much as possible, "I have owned Fadals for six systems that David de Caussin, in building its vertical machining years," Dean Alt said, "they are Fadal's Chief Engineer, uses centers. "We want to be loyal to very good machine tools. Dollar himself, one at work and one at our fellow manufacturers," Dean for dollar, they are the best you home. said, "and we want to help in can get. I have done things with keeping a base of machine-tool my Fadal machines that I could Safety Symbols Included technology in the United States." not do on other machines. They in the Design According to articles published in fit the job-shop market very Even the safety symbols that California Business (February well." appear on Fadal vertical ma 1990), in Business Week In a totally separate and chining centers are incorporated (October 22,1990), and in unrelated conversation, Philip into the original part files using American Machinist (August Durand agreed with Dean Alt. a combination of CorelDRAWi n, 1991) magazines, Fadal "When we got our Fadal, we and CAD KEY. The safety sym Engineering Company appears were surprised," Philip Durand bols are scanned into digital files to be succeeding in its effort. said. "The first time that I saw in PCX format. An operator the name Fadal, I thought that it loads the PCX files into Corel Customer Enthusiasm was a foreign product. I wanted DRAW!, traces over the symbols Fadal's customers also to buy an American-made ma free hand, and creates output appear to appreciate what Fadal chine if possible. Later, I looked files in DXF format. Using is doing. Fadal users speak at Fadal again and found that it CADKEY's DXF translator, the passionately about the h ad features that I had not symbol files are converted from equipment that the company expected for the money. I would DXF format into CADL'" produces. (Editor's Note: buy another Fadal in a minute if (CADKEY Advanced Design "Passionately" is the most I had the work for it. In fact, I may buy another one anyway."
Editor's Notes: The 10,023 indicated in c I LIGHTC: the first paragraph as the number of ~ - > machine-tool manufacturers currently in 0 <5 ERAS LIGHT CARTA 0 2 AJ the United States comes from the Thomas ..... Register of American Manufacturers, m ~ TYPEWRITER Z ~ 0 :$
3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 7 ~- - -- ~- .--...: ==:===------... - - . ~M ----~ ~- ~~~- :~ ==-=- .. ~_- TM -~--.-- --~--~----....-.. -...... -.. - ~ -....-..- We wrote RELEASE 5 2D AND 3D PARAM ETRIC GEOMETRY FEATURES Drilled, tapped, counterbored , countersunk, counterdrilled, slots, the book on pockets; FASTENERS (Over 60 types) cap screws , machine screws, set screws, bolts, nuts , washers, rivets, dowels; MECHANICAL ELEMENTS Gears , racks, springs, sprockets , chains , bushings, bearings, structural mechanical beams , shafts DIMENSIONING AND DETAILING FUNCTIONS CAD DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING rule-based geometric dimensioning and tolerancing; WELD SYMBOLS; AUTOMATIC DRAWING datums, datum targets , point targets, symbols - general dimensioning and surface finish , productivity; lines - section /center /bas ic dimension /offset dimension , balloon notes; COORDINATE DIMENSIONING dimensions x,y,z, locations, factors scaling New DRAFT-PAK 5 for CADKEY 5™ and shrinkage ; DUAL DIMENSIONING; DIMENSION CHECKING scans entire drawing , identifies dimensioning conflicts; FEATURE LABELING user expands the definition of CAD definable manufacturing labels for all parametric features power, beyond drafting tasks, with DRAWING LAYOUT ENHANCEMENT integrated modules that work for 30-20 COMPRESSION removes duplicate entities, trims overlapping entities , you in every phase of the design projects arcs-on-edge to lines; AUTOMATIC HORIZON LINE AND CENTER process. New modules that use LINE enables edits to drawings in layout mode, expedites the creation of lay outs from a 3D wireframe; ARCHIVE/FREEZE REVISIONS maintains com CADKEY CDE™ technology have pact 2D form , transfers fully-compressed 2D drawings to other CAD systems; been created to instantly build and BORDER/CHART SCRIPT FILES re cords script files for standardized formats retrieve icon libraries, execute dy USER-PROGRAMMABLE LIBRARIES namic external file referencing, tag ICON LOADER automates building and retrieving libraries for symbols, text attribute data to geometry, and pattern files, CADL®files , and macros; FLUID POWER hydraulic and pneu much more. With DRAFT-PAK 5 matic power diagrams; ELECTRICAL electrical and electronic schematic diagrams; LOGIC lad der logi c, flowcharting ; PIPING pipe fittings, valves; you can continue to respond to the SHEET METAL technical drawings for structura l meta l work; ever-changing marketplace with PRODUCTIVITY ROUTINES accuracy, consistency and speed. DYNAMIC EXTERNAL FILE REFERENCING pattern files placed in assem DRAFT-PAK 5 - simply the most blies by references, pattern-to-part-file associativity triggers automatic up complete and effective set of me- dates to all geometry when pattern files are changed; ATTRIBUTE TAGGING chanical design tools available. Bui lds user-definable script fil es to tag text data to geometry, exports to database or ASCII files, adapts data to complex database tasks; FILE MAN AGER icon-based, CDE-windows interface provides file management from inside CADKEY5 , browse part file descriptor data for drawing file organiza tion and tracking ; TRANSFORM OFFSET FUNCTION creates draft angles or ... don't miss offset geometry for entities selected with MOVE, COPY, and JOIN options in CADKEY®; POP-UP CALCULATOR provi des a list box for variables definition the sequel. and editing, stores and retrieves part file variables, eva luates expressions ; WORK-SMART UTILITIES Available exclusively from your SET ATTRIBUTE; SET DEPTH; LEVEL MANAGER; PICTURE MANAGER; DRAWING STATISTICS; GENERATE ANSI HOLE CHARTS; FORMAT TABLES CADKEY / DRAFT-PAK dealer. THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT User-friendly, CADKEY-like interface with CDE tech nology; CADKEY 9A~)iAii: ii:Ct-lnOLOGIi:) SOLlDS®compatible ; Adapted from ANS I/ISO standards; User-definable defaults/configuration; Pop-up Help; Proportional "DPHELVSOL" font; 170 Goddard Memorial Drive, Worcester, MA 01603 Comprehensive manuals and tutorials Phone: (508) 755-1172 , FAX: (508) 795-1301
CADKEY"', CADKEY 5'" ,CADL"', CADKEY SOUoS" al'd CADKEY DYNAMIC EXTENSIONS'" are regi~eroo/Uf'/egisleroo Ira 8 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 Small Job Shop Does Big Work After verifying a part's design data in CADKEY, Dean In 1986, Dean Alt of Alt's third-party CAM software and Jef save the part as a Tool and Machine, Inc., in package, and linked them to the CAD V ' ) (CADKEY Advanced Santee, California, saw the need Fadal three-axis mills. Design Language) file or as an to invest in computer-aided Recently, Alt's Tool and IGES file, to serve as input to the design and manufacturing Machine added more equipment, CAM software for manufacturing equipment for his 17-person including a four-axis, wire the tool. company. Alt's Tool and electric-discharge machine Machine manufactures dies, (EDM). Dean also decided to Accuracy = Productivity + molds, and tooling - products divide the programming tasks. Humor (Sometimes) much in demand in the San Alt's Tool and Machine does two Upon delivery of the finished Diego area. However, Dean Alt's axis machine and four-axis EDM tool, the prime contractor company could not seriously programming in house. The inspects the die or mold using a compete for the specialty die company obtains three-axis coordinate measurement ma making work generated by machine programming through a chine (CMM). In every case, the aerospace companies in the area, contract programming firm, Jef CMM has verified that Alt's Tool without computerization. Falk Consulting, also a CADKEY and Machine has produced a Drafting boards and knee-milling user. finished tool that conforms machines no longer gave his exactly to the database that the company the production strength Dramatically Increased prime contractor had furnished. that it needed. Productivity "Sometimes it's funny," Dean Dean bought two Fadaln " Dean's customers now said. "When the CMM operator three-axis, computer-numerical furnish most of their design data discovers what looks like an controlled (CNC), vertical mills, in digital form, as IGES files. error, that same error also exists manufactured by Fadal Dean uses the CADKEY(') IGES in the database that the prime Corporation of North Hollywood, Translator to bring the design contractor supplied. We have California, and went after new into CADKEY, particularly to become so accurate that we even business. He soon found that to verify the accuracy of data and reproduce their errors generate the code for the type of dimensions. The IGES files faithfully." dies that he wanted to make coming from prime contractors Alt's Tool and Machine has required significantly complex frequently contain lines and become involved with more com programming. Dean surface data that need to be plex jobs. "Around San Diego," experimented with getting the prepared for machine operations. Dean said, "there are aerospace programming generated by "We use CADKEY to clean up contractors who have had to look independent contract the file and prepare it for elsewhere for die manufacturers. programmers. Later, he decided machining," Dean said. Data We are proving that we can do to try doing the work in house. supplied in the form of hard-copy the work. We haven't yet found Dean bought a Delln , 386 25MHz drawings are digitized directly as a part, within th e capacity of our computer, with CADKEY(R) and a 3-D models into CADKEY. equipment, that we can't make." Neu in deutscher Sprache: CADKE¥ CADKEY5 - CAD KEY Solids - CAD KEY Surfaces - CAD KEY Light - CAD KEY Unix - EuroBOM, Zeichnungs- und Stuck listen management - EuroTAB, Tablettoberflache - Mechanic Tools 1-3, DIN-Bibliotheken Maschinenbau - PROFOLD, Blech abwicklung - CAD KISS, Kinematik - HASCO Normalien - VDAFS - Profilworker, Profile - Typoworker, Fonts & Logos - Pipeworker, Rohre - zylindrisch, konisch. 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AGS Advanced Graphics Software GmbH Software Distribution und Service, MolienbachstraBe 37 D-7250 Leonberg, Germany - Tel. 49-7152-42081 Fax 49-7152-74166 - Modem 49-7152-728 27 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 9 THIRD-PARTY NEWS New CADKEY User's Group InterFlux interfaces with Forming in San Joaquin Valley CUTTING EDGE for Machining CADKEY u sers in the San Joaquin Valley area of California will hold the second meeting of their new Free-form Artwork CADKEY User's Group at Pacific West Microsource, Th 7555 North Del Mar, Suite 106, Fresno, California InterFlux ' , an interactive, graphical software product of Northwood Designs, Antwerp, New York, 93706, on Wednesday, July 22, 1992, at 6:30 p.m. allows users to machine free-form artwork, such as All CADKEY lettering and company logos, through CUTTING EDGE. users, especially "InterFlux fills a hole that has existed between the those in the San artistic world and the manufacturing world," said Bill Joaquin Valley Machine Surfaces Elliot, President of Northwood Design. "In the past, it are welcome to of Unlimited Size was nearly impossible or, at the very least, extremely attend. The agenda inclu des V SuperMesh creates a G·code file or CL file from a time consuming, to incorporate artwork into the polygon mesh drawn in CADKEY 3.5 or higher. machining process. InterFlux makes machining artwork discussion of CADKEY 5 and v SuperMesh can handle any size mesh. Create as quick, easy and nearly trouble free." dense asurface as you like using a2 or 4curve polygon InterFlux currently integrates with CUTTING third-party mesh. products. EDGE through CADVR) (CADKEY Advanced Design v You have complete control over tool radius , feed Language). However, Bill Elliott plans to use the Any CADKEY rates, clearance values, and much more. technology of CADKEyCR) Dynamic Extension'" to user in the area v SuperMesh is fast. Written in C, and optimized for integrate future versions of InterFlux into CUTTING of the San speed, SuperMesh can crunch anywhere from 2000 faces a minute, to 6000 a minute, depending on your EDGE. Joaquin Valley hardware configuration . InterFlux can accept computer-generated artwork who would like files, as well as files created by scanning hardcopy to participate in o YES, rush me more info today!!! this new users' drawings into a computer. These files are typically Name ------composed of many short line segments or bezier curves. group, but who Each of these files presents problems which make them cannot attend Company ------this meeting, can difficult and time consuming to machine with computer Address ------aided manufacturing software. Currently InterFlux can obtain information accept these files in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) from Mark Arnett City ______format, in AI88 (Adobe Illustrator 88) format, or in at Pacific West State ______Zip ______HPGL (Hewlett Packard Graphical Language) format. Microsource. Within minutes, InterFlux converts the geometric data Telephone: JOSEPH & ASSOCIATES 7809A River Resort I L Tampa FL 33617-8059 Ph: 813·985·3587 in an EPS, AI88 or HPGL file into an easily machinable (209) 432-8099. file containing contiguous lines and arcs. An added ------~ benefit is a substantial reduction in the total number of entities contained in the file . The converted file usually STRESS ANALYSIS ... contains more than 90% fewer entities than the original file. InterFlux also includes many other functions to WITHOUT STRESS help with specific problems which are encountered in Do you have projects that require analysis for these free-form files. heat transfer, stress/strain, or thermal elasticity? After creating the machinable file, InterFlux exports Do you have time for testing prototypes or for Finite the file into CUTTING EDGE in CADL format. The Element Analysis? InterFlux user can select to export the machinable file in CADL, DXF, or NCI formats, as well directly into CADKEV(,) ANALYSIS machine code with the appropriate post processor. CAD KEY ANALYSIS is based on an analysis Interflux does not perform any cutter compensation, methodology called the Boundary Element Method but it produces a toolpath that follows the lines. Users (BEM). BEM is a revolutionary improvement in ease of use over traditional methods. It offers design, can specify up to eight different depths and feedrates, analytical and manufacturing engineers a quick, and they can view a 3-D animation of the tool and its easy-to-use, easy-to-Iearn, accurate analysis tool path prior to export. that aids in compressing the design cycle. For additional information about InterFlux, contact Northwood Designs, RD #1, Box 87E, Antwerp, New See for yourself! Give us a call ! York. Telephone and Fax: (315) 287-2877. For more information about CAD KEY ANALYSIS and Editor's Note: EPS and Al88 are file formats of Adobe Systems, your local CADKEY dealer, call Inc. , Mountain View, CA. HPGL is a file format of Hewlett Cad key Telesales: (800) 654-3413. Packard, Palo Alto, CA. DXF is a file format of Autodesk, Inc. , Sausalito, CA. NCI is a file format ofCNC Software, Tolland, CT. 10 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 Cadkey Now Present on CompuServe CAD/CAM Vendor Forum CADKEY users, DataCAD users application and database-manage Compuserve is available and anyone seeking information ment software, and packet-data, internationally, 24 hours a day, 7 about Cadkey's products have a new network services to more than 1,600 days a week, in most of the resource available: the CADD/CAM major U.S. corporations and countries of the world. It is not VENDOR FORUM on the government agencies. necessary for Cadkey customers CompuServe(R) Information Service. CompuServe's services also include outside of the United States to Cadkey's section in this electronic information and communications contact the United States to access mall allows users of all of Cadkey's services, including bulletin boards, CompuServe's CAD/CAM VENDOR products (CADKEY(R) , DataCAD(R) news, weather, sports, travel, money FORUM. Users can receive infor CADDInspectorn " CADKEY(R) matters, markets, computers, mation about Cadkey at their ANALYSIS, CUTTING EDGE''', technology, home, health, education convenience. In order to access the etc.) to converse electronically with and electronic shopping to more CADD/CAM VENDOR FORUM Cadkey, Inc. and with one another: than 400,000 owners of personal inside CompuServe, type: asking questions, finding answers, computers. GO CADDVEN. and exchanging free-of-charge software, especially utility files. EXPRESS YOURSELF with PARAPATHtm 2.0 3-D WORLD is also available now, in • M ost powerful extrude command ever offered CADKEY® Users. ASCII format, on CompuServe. • Instantly extrude your "PATH", composed of lines at any Booklets explaining angle and tangent arcs, in CADKEY Views 1-6. Compuserve's services, including an • Add draft, f illets, rounds, wall thickness. -6"'='~_ • For Complex molded/cast part designs. introductory subscription to • New dialog box type user interface. CompuServe, are included in every • Extensive tutorial in all new manual. product shipped to a new Cadkey • Call for f ree demo disk and brochure. customer. CompuServe Information Paradesign Service provides a variety of 14235 Classique Way San Diego, CA 92129 services, such as electronic mail, FAXNOICE (6191484-8386 internal corporate information, 3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 11 Tektronix and CADKEY New Ink Technology Requires New Type of Printer The Phaser"'III PXi Color Printer, manufactured by Tektronix, Inc. of Wilsonville, Oregon, implements a new technology in printing with ink. Based on a phase-change technology, users can print on any media, including plain paper, vellum, or cover stock, on sizes up to 12x18 inches. With a printing resolution of 300 dots per inch, powered by a 24MHz RISC based controller, and featuring Adobe PostScript Level 2, the Phaser III is well suited for printing CAD designs. To use this new ink technology required the development of a new type of printhead based on three dimensional modeling in CADKEY. "This printer is a mechancially intensive product that required designing at least 300 individual parts," said Ace Van Horne, design engineer. "Some of the parts were simple; some were complex. We started with two design engineers working together with CADKEY. By the time we reached the Isometric views of the Phaser III '" PXi Color Printer manufacturing stage, we had 15 engineers working as a team with can create a fuzzy image while chance to bleed into the paper. CADKEY, plus people in the diluting the colors so that they are After the complete image is on the manufacturing-support no longer brilliant. page, the printer rolls the paper organizations." Hot-melt or phase-change ink through two rollers to flatten the "We have used CADKEY for solves the problems associated with drops of plastic ink onto the paper four years," Ace added. "We water-based ink. "It looks like a by pressure fusing." designed every part in the Phaser crayon when you insert it into the III in 3-D with CADKEY. The printhead," Ace Van Horne said. Database Management advantage of 3-D modeling is that "As soon as it is dropped into the As the number of people in one engineer can make sure that the machine, 140-degree heat liquefies engineering and manufacturing part which he/she is designing the ink. The now liquid ink shoots involved in the Phaser III project mates properly with a corresponding through a line of nozzles in the increased, there was a serious need part that someone else is designing." printhead onto the paper. The holes to control the database of CADKEY in these nozzles are 2-to-3 files shared among so many Critical Element thousandths of an inch in diameter. individuals. The CADKEY part files The critical element in the However, because liquefied phase had rapidly grown to 10 megabytes. Phaser III project was the new type change ink does not evaporate, as All of the personal computers of the of printhead needed to take water-based ink does, it does not dry project-team members were linked advantage of the advance in ink and clog the holes in the printhead's in a network with a VAX'" 8650 as a technology: hot-melt or phase-change nozzles. The temperature of the file server, running both DOS-based ink. Tektronix' previous printer paper going through the printer is and UNIX-based versions of Sun models had used water-based ink. much less than 140 degrees Microsystems' Network File However, water-based ink can centigrade. The paper sucks the System"'. "We did not share original evaporate while it is in the printer's heat out of the ink so that the ink CADKEY part files," Ace said. "We reservoir and in the printhead, very rapidly goes below its melting shared CADKEY pattern files over plugging the holes. Water-based ink point. The ink resolidifies on the the network." also absorbs into the paper, and this paper as plastic, before it has a Ace purchased a CAD KEY- 12 3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 related, third-party database CADKEY Users Design Workstation Furniture management software, ACTVIEWT", produced by ALLAN CAD TOOLS of and Start New Company Portland, Oregon. ACTVIEW integrates with CADKEY through CADL'R) (CADKEY Advanced Design Language). "You can access ACTVIEW while you are working in CADKEY, and it displays an indented parts list," Ace said. ''You use the ARROW keys to navigate through the parts list to find individual files. To select a particular fil e, you press the space bar. You can select more than one file at a time. Pressing the ENTER key causes ACTVIEW to transfer all Th e work area, chair and leg clearance of EMW's CAD workstation furniture. the tagged pattern files into your The dashed lines represent the clearances in competing products. CADKEY worksession. The system Ronald Ernst, George Moore, furniture," said Arlyn Wiesman, one displays all of the geometry in your and Arlyn Wiesman experienced the of the principals of EMW. "This is part file in its correct location and restructuring taking place in the one place where we find CADKEY orientation, and you resume your American furniture-manufacturing especially useful." work exactly where you had been." industry first hand. Their initial "CADKEY allows us to "ACTVIEW has many useful dismay turned into a resolute incorporate user-specific needs for features," Ace added. "One of the decision to put their experience to work-surface space and, very most useful is the ability to archive work in producing high-quality, importantly, for foot space," Arlyn all previous revisions of a part, CAD-workstation furniture that can said. "We can include specific needs along with a log file describing the be adapted easily to meet the real for the user's line of sight, optimal changes, into a single compressed needs of its users. They founded keyboard height, and angle of file. ACTVIEW allows you to extract EMW, Inc. in Two Rivers, viewing the monitor. CADKEY also anyone of the old revisions and to Wisconsin, in August 1991 , during gives us flexibility in customizing bring it back into CADKEY." the depths of a recession. EMW the legs and panels of tables to Manufacturing the Phaser III uses CADKEY(R) to design their wood make them convenient for the Color Printer required a and laminate furniture. customer to use." considerable amount of tooling, Ease of assembly and "So far," Arlyn added, "the most molds for plastic parts. "Our disassembly at the customer's site is popular colors for our furniture are suppliers made a number of the a major feature of EMW's furniture. natural wood grains, almond, and molds by taking IGES files from us Ease of assembly, requiring only a gray with black trim. However, we and transferring them into their screwdriver (HONESTLY!), is a by can customize our furniture and our CAM systems," Ace said. "They product of tight design and colors to match any office decor." were able to machine the molds manufacturing control. EMW even directly from our design data. The includes a flat-head and Phillips Note from Technical largest and most complex molds head right-angle screwdriver in the were done without paper drawings." assembly kit for their furniture. Support: CADUTIL and EMW manufactures its Editor's Note: Phaser is a trademark of CADKEY 5 furniture from structural panels of Tektronix, Inc., Wi lsonville, Oregon. VAX is a wood and high-pressure laminate If you have experienced trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation, cut to specific size. The laminate difficulty using CADUTIL with Maynard, Massachusetts. etwork File System serves particularly well for making CADKEY 5, there is an updated is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., resilient top surfaces. A computer version of CADUTIL on the Cadkey Mountain View, California. ACTVIEW is a numerical-control manufacturing Bulletin Board Service. Dial (203) trademark of ALLAN CAD, Portland, Oregon. system does routing, grooving, and 298-6405 through your computer. For additional information about the Phaser III point-to-point boring for holes into After you reach the Cadkey Bulletin PXi , contact Tektronix, Inc. , 2660 S.W. which metal-to-metal joinery is Board, enter the command: Parkway, P.O. Box 1000, Wilsonville, Oregon inserted and fastened. "The DOWNLOAD CADUTIL.ZIP. You 97070-1000. Telephone: (800) 835-6100. insertion of the steel-to-steel will need PKUNZIP to unzip the For additional information about ACTVIEW, fasteners into the wood and program. If you do not have contact ALLAN CAD TOOLS, 6450 SE laminate pieces requires extreme PKUNZIP, download Aldercrest Court, Portland, OR 97267. accuracy so that the components fit PKUNZIP.EXE from the Cadkey Telephone and fax: (503) 659-9935. into a useful and ergonomic piece of Bulletin Board. 3-0 WORLD , Summer 1992 13 THIRD-PARTY NEWS Intel's RapidCAD Chip Supports CADKEY and DataCAD The Intel RapidCAD'" Engineering CoProcessor improves (4) Phong shading: the performance of mathematically intensive applications such Time in second s with InteI386+InteI387: 85.00 as computer-aided design, three-dimensional modeling, Time in seconds with Intel Rap id CAD: 59.86 rendering, and analysis up to 70% according to tests reported by Ti me difference in seconds: 25.14 Intel Corporation. The RapidCAD Engineering CoProcessor is Percentage Perform ance Improvement: 29.57% really a combination of two chips. RapidCAD-1 combines the (5) Smooth shading display: functionalities of the Intel386 OX microprocessor (CPU) and the Time in seconds wi th InteI386+InteI387: 64.00 Intel387 OX Math CoProcessor (MCP) into a single device. T ime in seconds with Intel RapidCAD: 39.87 RapidCAD-2 contains the interface logic to manage Time difference in seconds : 24. 13 mathematical exceptions, such as dividing by zero on PC Percentage Performance Improvement: 37.70% compatible systems. RapidCAD-2 fits into the socket formerly occupied by the mathematical coprocessor. Cadkey's Tests Both Intel Corporation and Cadkey, Inc. performed Test performed using a Compaq DESKPRO 386, 20 MHz benchmark tests comparing the perfonnance speed of the system. RapidCAD Engineering CoProcessor with that of the Intel386 ( 1) Creating one line; perfonning X-FORM: (a) to rotate OX CPU and Intel387 OX MCP. Intel perfOlmed five tests copy that line 1,200 times; (b) join/copy these 1,201 using CADKEY(R) 386 Version 4. Cadkey performed four tests lines, and (c) join all of these lines by creating 1,201 using CADKEY Version 4 and one test usi ng DataCAD(R) 4.0. additional lines, pdoucing a total of 3,603 lines. create CAD KEY 386 Version 4 may use the Intel387 Math and joining all these lines: CoProcessor as an option. However, DataCAD 4.0 and Time in seconds with InteI386+InteI387: 65. 16 CAD KEY 5 require the Intel 387 MCP. Although the tests were Time in seconds with Intel RapidCAD: 59.5 8 limited in scope, RapidCAD demonstrated an overall Time difference in seconds: 5.58 improvement in performance in speed of processing and Percentage Performance Improvement: 8.56% graphical di splay. (2) Loading a 1.4MB CAD KEY part file, and performing The method used to calcul ate the results presented in this four redraws: article is: (a) Measure in seconds the time it takes the Time in seconds with InteI386+lnteI387: 83.39 Inte1 386+Inte13 87 and the RapidCAD chip sets to perform each Time in second s with Intel RapidCAD: 63 .61 test. (b) Subtract RapidCAD's time from the Time difference in second s: 19.78 Intel386+Intel38T s time. (c) Di vide the difference by the Percentage PerfOnllanCe Improvement: 23 .7 1% Intel386+Intel38Ts performance time to determine the percentage of performance improvement of RapidCAD in (3) Loading 1.4MB CADKEY part fi le, and perfOlming comparison to the InteI386+lnteI387. AUTOSCALE, HALF SCALE, AUTOSCALE, DOUBLE SCALE, AUTOSCALE: Intel 's Tests Time in seconds with InteI386+InteI387: 103.20 Tests performed using a Compaq DESK PRO 386, 33 MHz Time in seconds with Intel RapidCAD: 70.84 system. Time difference in seconds: 32.36 Percentage Perform ance Improvement: 31.35% (1) Drawing ellipses: Time in seconds with InteI386+InteI387: 19.16 Test performed using a Toshiba(R) 5200, 20 MHz system. Time in seconds with Intel RapidCAD: 13.79 Time di fference in seconds: 5.37 (4) Redrawing a 262306-byte CADKEY part file fo ur Percentage Performance Improvement: 28.02% times: Time in seconds with InteI386+InteI387: 15.00 (2) Deleting ALL entities: Time in seconds with Intel Rapid CAD: 11 .50 Time in seconds wi th InteI386+InteI387: 14.84 Time difference in seconds: 3.50 Time in seconds wi th Intel RapidCAD: 11 .33 Percentage Pelformance Improvement: 23.33% Time difference in seconds: 3.5 1 Percentage Performance Improvement: 23.65% (5) Performing hidden-line removal on perspective view of DataCAD architectural file : (3) Solid boolean operations (solid subtraction and plane Time in seconds with InteI386+InteI387: 159.00 sectioning) with mass properties: Time in seconds with Intel Rap idCAD: 138.00 Time in seconds with InteI386+lnteI387: 88.00 Time difference in seconds: 21.00 Time in seconds with Intel RapidCAD: 58.09 Percentage Performance Improvement: 13.20% Time difference in seconds: 29.91 Percentage Performance Improvement: 33.98% For additional information about the RapidCAD Engineering CoProcessor, contact Intel Corporati on, End User Components Division, FM2-01 , 1900 P rairie City Road, Folsom, CA 95630. 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Fax: (508) 795-1301 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 17 CAD/CAM Developer's Kit tool path computations for milling, Third year in a row! (Continued from page 17) turning, punching, wire EDM, and other machining operations. Cadkey, Inc. Voted 1992 have just about written the program For additional information Supplier of the Year using the CCDK." about the CAD/CAM Developer's John Pentecost mentioned a Kit, or about the NC Programming Cadkey customers who are section of DRAFT-PAK's code which Engine, contact Building Block readers of APPLIANCE he was upgrading to run in CDE. Software, 371 Moody Street, MANUFACTURER have again "This was an uncommented function Waltham, MA 02154. Telephone voted Cadkey, Inc. 1992 that was written a long time ago," and Fax: (617) 899-4350. Supplier of the Year in the John said. "Although it still worked For additional information category of CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM well, it needed some minor about the Phar Lap 386 DOS software. This is the third year enhancements. 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CUTTING EDGE users and third-party microprocessors. 3861 DOS-Extender For additional information about software developers can take advantage supports the DPMI, VCPI and XMS this special offer, contact: Sales of this same 32-Bit Power Package to industry standards. Therefore, Department, Phar Lap Software, Inc., build their own CDE programs, for a Extended-DOS programs can operate in 60 Aberdeen Avenue, Cambridge, special bundle price. DESQview'" and Windows"', as well as Massachusetts 02138. Telephone: (617) Phar Lap's 386 1DO S-Extender in DOS. In addition, 3861 DOS 661-1510. Fax: (617) 876-2972. SDK and MetaWare's High C compiler Extender is fully compatible with Or, contact Jeff Hall at Cadkey, provide everything that CADKEY and Building Block Software's CAD/CAM Inc., 4 Griffin Road North, Windsor, CT CUTTING EDGE users and developers Developer's Kit. 06095-1511. Telephone: (203) 298-6494. need to build multi-megabyte 32-bit According to Phar Lap, CAD Fax: (203) 298-6401. 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The students had to submit finished Some 500 students from 35 Eli Moyle, a Senior at Elizabeth drawings of floor plans, elevations schools gathered at Regis University High School, won the second prize and sections. Cory Jackson, a in Denver for the two-day program. with his invention of an adaptive freshman at Elizabeth High School, The competition involved finished device to make it possible for a won first prize. Travis Chillemi, design projects that the students mechanic, whose hand has been also a freshman at Eliza-beth High had developed, on their own, both amputated, to use a wrench. Mike School, won second place. Both of during school time and at home. Cogswell, another Junior at them used DataCAD 4.06. Elizabeth High School, won third Jeremiah Shaw, an eighth Mechanical Design place. Mike designed an adaptive grader at the Elizabeth Middle The competition in Mechanical device for a quadriplegic fellow School, submitted an architectural Design required that the students student at the high school who project on which he had worked at invent a product or improve the enjoys using computers, but who home with an old version of design of an already existing cannot operate a three-button CADKEY (Version 1.41). His product. Using CADKEY Version 4, mouse. The device that Mike parents use CADKEY in their Shane Chevalier, Eli Moyle, and designed will allow this student to business. Jeremiah won first place Mike Cogswell took first, second and use a mouse with his chin. in the Architectural Design third prizes respectively. Shane competition among Middle School Chevalier, a Junior at Elizabeth students. 20 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 The 1992 Ohio Intercollegiate CADD Shootout! Dave Marion, a student at with a mouse-based user interface. 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Dublin, OH 43017 Call Software Ventures, Inc. and phone: (614)-793-3069 fax: (614) 766-3605 Tel. 616 381·4527 FAX 616 381·2965 Draftsman 3-D WORLD , Summer 1992 21 A Little Seed Money and Lots of Care Nourish a Big Garden of Ideas at Anoka-Ramsey Community College! by Mark Plenke and Sandi Hitch for the education chancellor's the equipment and help students office, suggested that the college in the latter half of the century, I Editor's Note: This article is an should help people to find new knew we'd have to get involved abridgement and an integration of two, ways to improve their classes. in three-dimensional design," he separate yet complementary articles "There was no money for explained. written by people not associated with 3-0 things like that," explained Television commercials that WORLD. One article, written by Mark Dorothy Warrick, a sociology represent a sporty car as a three Plenke, appeared in the September 1990 instructor who has led the dimensional grid is an example issue of The Correspondent, a monthly intrapreneurs hip committee of the technology that he's newsletter published by Minnesota since its inception. "We decided teaching, Heron said, though the Community Colleges, St. Paul, Minnesota. to take part of the instructional graphics are more for show than The second article, written by Sandi budget and set aside money. We for serious design. "We design Hitch, was published by Anoka Ramsey started with $10,000, now it's more practical things - the Community College in November 1991. $20,000." Faculty members and pieces inside the car's doorknobs. staff submit proposals. The CAD has been used to design A 12-sided box with blue and committee Cof four instructors classroom materials, to print green edges takes shape on a and one administrator) debates multicolored transparencies, and computer screen in the high-tech their merits and then funds maps for visitors," he said. One lab at Anoka-Ramsey those with promise. Warrick student used the technology to Community College, Coon said that part of the committee's plot and layout Anoka-Ramsey's Rapids, Minnesota. Math task is to spot problems in the new basketball court. instructor George Heron leans proposals, before they happen. over his student's shoulder and "We have to anticipate what Experi mentation chooses menu options that spin expense there will be in the To develop teaching the box across the black field and future if a project is funded," she techniques and materials for the bring it back through a half said. "We have to consider what new technology, Heron applied dozen phases to its original problems we'll have if it fails, for a grant from the position. As it twirls, one of the and what problems we'll have if intrapreneurs hip committee. green sides begins to drift away it succeeds." The $840 award allowed him to across the blackness, and the box hire a student worker who suddenly looks like what it is: a Successes helped develop materials while collection of lines on a computer There have been some serving as the subject of Heron's monitor, instead of an object remarkable successes: experiment with 3-D instruction. with height, and width, and specialized software for Heron taught the new design depth. economics and business classes, material as he learned it, research into tutoring programs introducing the computer "Intrapreneurship" for writing and mathematics. graphics into the existing design The spinning box wouldn't But, it's George Heron's 3-D course in the following quarter. have been part of the student design program that Warrick At about the same time, work in the computer lab at and others point to as the most Cadkey, Inc. was looking for Anoka-Ramsey six years ago. exciting success story of the training centers around the The software, CADKEY, is part intrapreneurship program. country to train and keep of the school's three-dimensional Heron had been teaching computer-design professionals design curriculum started by mathematics at Anoka-Ramsey up-to-date on the technology. Heron with an $840 since 1967, the year after the U sing additional "intrapreneurship" grant, seed college was established. When intrapreneurs hip grants, Anoka money for improving classroom the mechanical-engineering Ramsey sent George Heron, and teaching and instructional instructor retired in 1986, later Tom Loftus, a physics techniques at the college. The George Heron accepted the job. instructor, to the company's program - its title is an Two-dimensional computer training center near the amalgam of "entrepreneur" and assisted design was already part University of Connecticut. "intra" for "inside the college" - of the curriculum. Heron knew Anoka-Ramsey became a got its start in 1986. Darby that the equipment in the CADKEY center, attracting Nelson, a biology teacher and computer labs could help trainees from across the Upper former Minnesota state legislator students go beyond it. "If we Midwest. Students now come who was on special assignment were to take full advantage of not only from Minnesota, but 22 3-D WORLD. Summer 1992 also North Dakota, Iowa, architectural design with sis to study stress in structures Wisconsin, Michigan, and even DataCAD. "We now have one and heat flow in solids, stereo from New York. George Heron networked lab with twenty 486- lithography, reverse engineering and Tom Loftus have made the generation computers and an with coordinate measurement Coon Rapids Campus of Anoka other lab with ten 386 computers machines, and computer-aided Ramsey Community College one that are not networked." manufacturing. "We need re of the largest CAD KEY training sources in these and other areas centers in the Upper Midwest. Growth of computerized manufacturing "At the time we introduced "Now we are able to do to prepare us for the future," the program, Anoka-Ramsey was customized work with companies Heron said. the only two-year or four-year in the area, such as Mate Punch "We know that we'll need college in Minnesota teaching and Stevens Lee Company," said more equipment than we have. three-dimensional design, in Tom Loftus. Anoka-Ramsey's For us to get into these new engineering graphics, at the Center for Business and fields, we need cooperation from sophomore level," Heron said. Industry links George Heron's the business community," said "That made us a nationwide and Tom Loftus' CAD training Loftus. ''We need business leader in its development and program with area businesses. partnerships. It's an exciting teaching." 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