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Interview 007 - Coggle Diagram
Interview 007
1970s
3D CAD tools for NC machining
Surface design
Curved spine
Orthogonal cross sections
Automating lofting - replacing pattern makers
Teletypes (10 characters per second)
Tektronix storage tube, vector display
Stereo pictures
PERA mini compt drive pen plotter
Paper tape for machine tool
Tektronix flat bed plotters larger drawings
Academia
Max Communication Min Data
Stereo Pictures
Follow way engineers think
How to position control points
Early application to mould design
Changing roles
More efficient design
Increasing collaboration between designer and manufacturer
Broadened perspective of designers
Main constraints slow processing on computers
Control of changes - organisational issues
Who could change
Version control
Who to inform etc
1980s
Work at Wolfson Institute
Control data computing
Replicate existing processes on computer
Metal Work
Auto produce paper tape to feed to machine tool