CAD won and manual drafting lost.Ī few years ago, another story began, and CAD again is a participant.
Virtually all industrial OEMs now use some form of CAD to produce drawings, and many also use CAD add-ons to automatically generate related electrical design drawings such as wiring diagrams, I/O ladder drawings, and panel layout drawings. CAD software improved, PC price/performance ratios leaped ahead, and designers jumped on the CAD bandwagon. We all know how this story eventually unfolded. Printers capable of producing quality drawings were large, finicky, and very expensive. Substantial investments that many industrial OEMs just had made in PCs were not sufficient for CAD software, so new or upgraded hardware was required. It was very hard to find people who understood machine builder needs, and who also knew how to navigate complex CAD software.ĬAD software was very expensive, filled with bugs, and the hardware to run it was pricey. There were many skilled board drafters who understood machine, robot, and skid design from both a mechanical and an electrical perspective. The use of CAD to expedite and improve product design is a given these days, but this was not always the case.Īs recently as the late '80s, CAD applications were considered too complex and expensive for many machine builders. JUST ABOUT every machine, robot, and skid builder OEM uses Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) to some degree to create the drawings needed to build its products. If you can’t find an answer in this 200-page guide, you can consult the vast archive of the HSM Post-Processor Forum, and even post your question on this very active forum.By Dan Hebert, PE, Senior Technical Editor However, the good news is that Autodesk publishes a free manual to guide you through the process, covering the basics of JavaScript and explaining the various sections of a post file. There is unfortunately no user interface changes must be made to the code in JavaScript language.
It can be opened and edited in Notepad or any other text editor. cps post-processor file is merely a text file. Indeed, the “SolidCAD Universal FANUC” post-processor and all the post-processors available on the HSM Post Library website are unlocked and open-source.Ī post. If you wish to make changes yourself, you are free to do so. If you require other changes, SolidCAD offers a post-processor modification service to adapt this post to your machine and to your best practices.
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