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2 unusual facts about CAD/CAM Dentistry


CAD/CAM Dentistry

Renishaw plc CAD/CAM systems, from a company that started in industrial metrology with patented probes.

Conventional prosthesis, such as crowns, have temporaries placed from one to several weeks while a dental laboratory or in house dental lab produces the restoration.


ACCD

Academy of CAD/CAM Dentistry-refers to a network of dentists involved in the art and science of CAD/CAM dentistry

Aimsun

Aimsun can exchange data with CAD, GIS, transport modelling, signal optimisation and adaptive control software tools (DWG, DXF, DGN, GIS, Emme, CONTRAM, Saturn, CUBE, VISUM, VISSIM, Paramics, TRANSYT, SYNCHRO, VS-PLUS, UTOPIA, SCATS), SCOOT, ETRA, SICE, Telent, Telvent and ZGZ Prio.

Autodesk Alias

It does not go into mechanical detail to anywhere near the extent that CAD programs such as Catia, Siemens NX, Inventor, Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks do, but has a much more powerful set of tools for the creation of precisely sculpted curves and surfaces.

Bad faith

In Canada, one case of this type resulted in a record punitive award of $1 million CAD when an insurance company pressed a claim for arson even after its own experts and adjusters had come to the conclusion that the fire was accidental; the company was advised by legal counsel that the desperate insured parties would be willing to settle for much less than what they were owed.

BRL-CAD

The BRL-CAD source code repository is believed to be the oldest public version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31 UTC.

In keeping with the Unix philosophy of developing independent tools to perform single, specific tasks and then linking the tools together in a package, BRL-CAD is basically a collection of libraries, tools, and utilities that work together to create, raytrace, and interrogate geometry and manipulate files and data.

Cad Bane

Cad Bane is a fictional character Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy, as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Canadian Elite Hockey League

Team budgets were set at $450,000 CAD and rosters were limited to a maximum of six import players.

Changhe Z-11

Under Mr. Wu, Z-11 became the first Chinese helicopter to be completely designed by CAD/CAM.

Computer-aided design

Also of importance to the development of CAD was the development of the B-rep solid modeling kernels (engines for manipulating geometrically and topologically consistent 3D objects) Parasolid (ShapeData) and ACIS (Spatial Technology Inc.) at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, both inspired by the work of Ian Braid.

Daiso

Most items sold in the store (Daiso products plus a small selection of Japanese foods and beverages) are CAD$2 each.

DEFCAD

DEFCAD began as a respository where users could upload and download CAD models, but quickly became a community with the addition of an IRC channel and public forums.

Dennis Bennie

He arranged for an initial seed investment in 1988 of $1.5 million CAD into funding development of what would become the core computerized forms product, PerForm.

Design tool

One of the most widely used design tools is computer-aided design (CAD) software like Autodesk Inventor, DSS SolidWorks, or Pro Engineer which enables designers to create 3D models, 2D drawings, and schematics of their designs.

Diseconomies of scale

In addition to CGS, GM also used CADAM, UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA and other off-the-shelf CAD/CAM systems, thus increasing the cost of translating designs from one system to another.

EMD F40PH

In 2007, Via Rail awarded CAD Railway Industries a CAD $100 million contract to rebuild its F40PH-2 fleet.

FGG

Increased and decreased levels of γA/γ' fibrinogen have been associated with CAD and DVT respectively.

Geoghan

Lisa Geoghan (b. 1967), British actress best known for playing PC/CAD Officer Polly Page on The Bill

Geomagic

Data from point cloud and 3D scanners and Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) can be used, as well as CAD data imported into the system.

Halifax Harbour Solutions

The CAD $333 million project will construct three sewage treatment plants and connect various sewage pipe networks with lift stations to treat all sanitary sewage in the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth.

Historia Brittonum

Scholar Marged Haycock has suggested this battle can be identified with the Cad Goddeu, the "Battle of the Trees," best known from the tenth-century poem Cad Goddeu.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CAD Lab at Cornell University.

James Francis Helvetius Hobler

Chapter XVII - The Last Cab-Driver, and the First Omnibus Cad in Sketches by Boz (Monthly Chronicle, 1836)

Joan Chalmers

In 1972, she and her parents, Floyd and Jean Chalmers, founded the annual Chalmers Awards, which donates $25,000 CAD to artists in dance, theatre, crafts, film, the visual arts and music.

Kyphosis

Modern CAD/CAM braces are used in Europe to treat different types of kyphosis.

LASCAD

On 26 October 1992 the London Ambulance Service started to use a new computer-assisted dispatch (CAD) system, known as LASCAD.

Motor-CAD

Modules are available for brushless permanent magnet motors (BPM), outer rotor BPM motors, induction motors, permanent magnet dc machines, switched reluctance motors, synchronous machines and claw pole machines.

National CAD Standard

The National CAD Standard (NCS) is a collaborative effort in the United States between the National Institute of Building Sciences, the American Institute of Architects, and the Construction Specifications Institute, to create a unified approach to the creation and collaboration of building design data by means of building information modeling and integrated into CAD software such as MicroStation and AutoCAD.

Nobel Biocare

Nobel Biocare is a company that manufactures dental implants and CAD/CAM-based individualized prosthetics and is headquartered in Kloten, Switzerland near to Zurich Airport.

NuComm International

On August 27, 2007, Transcom WorldWide S.A., the European Customer Relationship Management and debt collections specialist, announced that it had acquired 100% of NuComm International, and a maximum cash consideration of $90 million CAD (63 million) will be paid in three installments.

Ontario Charitable Gaming Association

Charities in Ontario raise more than $150 million CAD.

OSVehicle - Tabby

The project is released under Creative Commons BY-SA license and the CAD files can be downloaded from the official website.

Programmable Macro Language

Early staff members went on to become prominent in the worldwide CAD community, such as brothers Dick and Martin Newell.

Rupert Campbell-Black

Although initially portrayed as a brutish, womanizing, adulterous cad, Campbell-Black's character is later somewhat redeemed through his triumphant winning of an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain.

Schmiede Hallein

Kulturland Salzburg, city of Hallein,BM:UKK, WIBERG, FM4, Red Bull Music Academy, Kunstraum Pro Arte in Hallein, Carhartt Europe, MusicImport: CAD, Mackie und Aphex, Tourismusverband Hallein

Société des chemins de fer du Québec

On 3 November 2008 CN announced that it was purchasing the New Brunswick East Coast Railway (NBEC) and its sister companies Chemin de fer de la Matapédia et du Golfe (CFMG), Compagnie de gestion de Matane (COGEMA), and the Ottawa Central Railway (OCRR) for $49.8 million (CAD) from the Quebec Railway Corporation.

SofTech, Inc.

ProductCenter integrates with CAD systems such as Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, CADRA, Unigraphics, Catia and ME-10 as well as non-CAD integrations to MS Office and Adobe FrameMaker and view/markup/collaboration integration to Cimmetry’s AutoVue.

Solid Concepts

The company derives its name from its original focus on rapid prototyping through 3D printing (or additive manufacturing) with the idea that virtual concepts can be printed into solid reality, as the technologies that founded the company are capable of directly reading CAD data and creating parts.

SolidWorks

SolidWorks is a 3D mechanical CAD (computer-aided design) program that runs on Microsoft Windows and is being developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, S. A. (Vélizy, France).

Thomas Register

ThomasNet has expanded to provide not only product and company information,but also Online catalogs, computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, news, press releases and blogs.

TiffinCAD

The software is using the IntelliCAD engine commonly used by other CAD developers worldwide but further enhanced with extra functions such as drawing shortcut commands and symbols database that supports productivity.

Time–distance diagram

Time–distance diagrams can be created using any kind of drawing tool, certainly one which allows scaled drawing (for example, CAD editors, Visio).

Tool and die maker

Ongoing evolution of computerized design and control technologies, such as CAD/CAM, CNC, PLC, and others, has limited the use of jigs in manufacturing, however all the computer run machines need some sort of clamping fixture for production runs.

Transcom WorldWide

NuComm had revenues of $122 million CAD (85 million) for the twelve months ended 31 July 2007.

An initial payment of $50 million CAD (35 million) was paid with the remainder being subject to a two tier earn-out ending in December 2008.

UAB Lelija

Main enterprise is located in Paneriai (Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania, where are samples making, CAD (designing), CAM (cutting) departments and nine specialized sewing workshops.

WorkXPlore 3D

In 2010 WorkXPlore 3D was selected by All Nippon Airways (ANA) to distribute and share CAD design information for the maintenance of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Japan.


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