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techtrends didn’t have Solid Edge, there would have been a lot of guesswork,” he admitted. “I would have to put [the parts] in the water, see how negative or positive they were, then adjust their buoyancy.” The Dangerous Rift In biomimetics, Ciamillo has found a way to bridge marine mammals’ physiognomy and kinematics to mechanical engineering, but he’s still strug- gling to bridge his real-world design expertise to CAD. “I think CAD, CAM, FEA [finiteelement analysis], and all these tools were originally developed to help people like me — people working by hand, building things from realworld experience. But looking at the tools these days, they’re so advanced that I’d have to become a specialist to use them,” he observed. “What may end up happening is, there may be a rift between people coming from my New TurboCAD® Pro 14 includes all the powerful and innovative technology you need to create stunning designs – for less. • Hundreds of 2D /3D Drafting and Modeling Tools • New Google™ SketchUp Support • Import/Export support of 30+ CAD and graphics formats including, DWG, DXF, STEP, IGES, DGN, 3DS and export to PDF • D-Cubed Geometric and Dimensional Constraints • ACIS® 3D Solid Modeling • LightWorks® Photorealistic Rendering There may be a rift between people coming from my world looking for practical tools and others who have spent the majority of their career mastering CAD tools. world looking for practical tools and others who have spent the majority of their career mastering CAD tools.” Ciamillo owns a copy of ALGOR, an FEA package, but “I haven’t even opened the package,” he confessed. “My workflow is skewed toward realworld, hands-on studies. I guess it comes from being a machinist.” In the recent years, relying on the hardware advances and increasingly sophisticated visualization algorithms, CAD vendors have begun advocating the use of digital prototypes over the costly physical mockups for testing and simulation (see “Autodesk Gets Digital,” Cadalyst, December 2007, pp. 13–16). Ciamillo is characteristic of the user segment that vendors may have a tough time convincing to go along with the proposed switch. c Cadalyst contributing editor Kenneth Wong explores the innovative use of technology and its implications. E-mail him at Kenneth. Wong at cadalyst.com. To order by phone call 1-800-833-8082 or visit www.turbocad.com For a 15-day free trial, go to www.turbocadtrial.com/CA For Windows® XP and Vista TurboCAD Technology Partners VI SIT US ONLI N © 2007 IMSI. All rights reserved. TurboCAD and the IMSI Design logos are trademarks of IMSI/ Design, LLC. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. 16 January 2008 | cadalyst | www.cadalyst.com E http://www.turbocad.com http://www.turbocad.com http://www.turbocadtrial.com/CA http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - January 2008 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central Chasing the Dolphins CAD that Won’t Break the Bank AliasStudio 2008 — Design and Visualization Software VectorWorks 2008 — CAD/BIM Authoring Software Dell Precision M4300 — Mobile Workstation What’s in Store for 2008? Low- or No-Cost CAD Goliath Reinvented Doin’ the DEED Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes The Return of Hot Tip Harry

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