Design-CAD File Part Details and Tooling Part 1

Description

During my thirty plus years in product design I have personally experienced the evolution of the design process from a lengthy manually intensive process to its current highly sophisticated, time compressed, state of the art. When I started as an industrial designer in the mid 1970's, I began designing with hand drawn sketches which were later rendered using a spectrum of colorful Magic Markers. A selected concept was eventually detailed for production molding after spending hundreds of painfully tedious hours on a drafting table. This process required multiple sheets of velum paper layered upon each other. Design changes were very slow and costly to implement, since even the slightest alteration would require dozens of part drawings to be reworked.

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Publications

MRI Case Study
21st Century Breakthroughs
Commercial Dishwasher
Collapsible Pallet
Rotational Molding Versus Alternative Processes
Rotational Molding Parts: Design Made Easy
Case Study on Design: Arch Chemical Pulsar IV
Design & Vision Making the Process fit the Market
Design Innovation in Mexico
Heineken POP Display: Provides Eye Catching Sales POP
ARM International Rotational Molding Design Class
Lowers Cost and Improves Customer Appeal
Analyzing Medical Design
Rotational molding can reduce cost, part count
Design and the Basics
Why Design?
Point of Purchase Market and Rotational Molding
Marketing & Design
Product Design in India, an American's Point of View
Design Trends in the Revolving Rotational Molding World
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