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On bridging the gap between Mechanical and Electronic Design
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“This makes them more MCAD-aware, but definitely doesn’t replace ECAD tools.” “Similarly, some MCAD tools have looked to build in PCB design functionality by combining ECAD and MCAD tools into a single embedded system, but that is only useful for the simplest of designs.”
– Robert Haubrock,
Senior Vice President of Product Engineering Software
Siemens Digital Industries Software
On Reverse-Engineering solutions and technologies such as 3D Scanning.
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“No matter how careful the scan is undertaken, there will always be noise—small fluctuations in data that will appear in the model that need cleaning up. “The important factor here is making it easy to identify and fix these small blemishes in the data. This means being able to quickly map cylinders, planes and edges into a model to make it easier to get a clean model.”
– Robert Haubrock,
Senior Vice President of Product Engineering Software
Siemens Digital Industries Software