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Streaming the future of CAD Ever since the first engineer rotated a 3-D prototype of a product on his computer screen rather than in his hand, the CAD industry has been dreaming of a seamless virtual design process. Imagine engineering teams around the world firing up their CAD stations to start designing a new automobile. As each designer works on the various components, the car model starts to take shape. Tooling engineers collaborate on the process as they work on their own pieces of the design. When the design for the motor is complete, testing teams employ finite element analysis packages feeding the results back to the CAD engineers. Even the marketing departments are involved. They create presentations of the car from the CAD model and display them on the company's Web site in full interactive 3-D. Feedback from the presentation influences the design. When production begins,...

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