CAM shapes a shop from the start. (computer-aided manufacturing)

CAM Shapes A Shop From The Start

Two of the most urgent issues in CAD/CAM right now are exchanging data between systems and NC programming of complex surfaces. Here is how one shop built its business around doing both with a personal computer-based CAM system.

CNC Products of Terryville, Connecticut, is a small job shop dedicated solely to machining prototypes and models for large companies that manufacture electrical products of molded plastic components. Its specialty is producing these prototypes and models in very short time.

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