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The Technology History of Virtual Product Creation

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Before geometries were modeled in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software tools, geometries were drawn manually on paper. Since the tradition of manual drawings dates back several hundreds of years, it has evolved and improved over time. In order to understand why such optimized practices have been replaced by computer-aided tools, one has to understand the advantages of using CAD over the traditional methods. In addition, this chapter provides insight to the history of digital product validation and verification. The emerging path of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) is explained. Due to the sharply increasing need to store, exchange and manage such CAD and CAE models as well as other important product related information sets this chapter finally introduces the historic pathway of the new technology discipline Product Data Management (PDM).

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Stark, R. (2022). The Technology History of Virtual Product Creation. In: Virtual Product Creation in Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64301-3_5

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