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Article: LETTER: Digital prototyping may bring big improvements.(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Design Week
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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I enjoyed reading Scott Billings's article about the increasing use of rapid manufacturing and prototyping and agree that there is a quiet revolution happening in the world of manufacturing design (DW 20 September).
But I did feel he omitted a key aspect of this radical change - the growing use of digital prototyping. This has now been made possible by the increasing inclusion of testing, analysis and simulation tools in mainstream and affordable design software, enabling users to explore the possibilities of design before committing to any manufacturing or physical prototyping.
This is a fast and economical way for designers to explore their ideas - ...