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Design
More and more we
find ourselves needing to co-ordinate the ideas of clients,
designers, subcontractors and our own workshops. Sometimes a
simple sketch can go straight to production, but it is
often useful to work up the design using Computer Aided Design
(CAD) to evaluate options and to create working drawings. CAD
is a tool, not a substitute for good design, but we do find it
helpful for development, as the following examples show
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| From the initial mock-up and sketches, a
range of options for this intricate piece
could be developed. Once the design was
approved, the working drawings for
manufacture were simply printed off. |
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| In this project, as well as the need to
explore design variations, we also needed to
co-ordinate the design between the shipyard
in one country, the designer in another, the
customer in a third, and our own workshops. |
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| Here the design was pretty much fixed, but
it was useful to be able to determine the
exact plate sizes. |
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| One of a number of stages in the design of
this table, again with dimensioned working
drawings subsequently available for the
workshop. |
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| A copy of an intricate piece of ironwork,
the purpose of converting to CAD enabling
the production of profiled plates |
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| Quicker than marking centres by hand, a
quick CAD drawing printed out and marked
through. |
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