CAD stands for computer-aided design, ... but there are two main types: 2D CAD and 3D CAD. CAD is used to create, ... from designing skyscrapers to tiny machine parts.

A standard boring head could not be adjusted to specific increments for precision and required the machine to be stopped to ...

OpenSCAD is a CAD software specifically designed for those who wish to design machine parts. This is something that most other free 3D modeling software products fail at.

For machine shops, the key successful additive manufacturing to treat AM/3DP not as a replacement but as a supplement to ...

In the latest issue of Engineering, researchers from Donghua University and the University of British Columbia present a new ...

Building a 3D knitting machine To bring this concept into reality, Hirose is working under James McCann, an associate professor in the Robotics Institute and leader of the Carnegie Mellon Textiles ...