Untersuchungen zum Einsatz eines CAD-Systems für den Konstruktionsbereich der Zentralabteilung allgemeine Technologie der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich

Abstract

There is an extensive range of CAD systems in the marketplace which have been developed by various institutions for different types of applications and for di fferent products, in some cases linked to specific hardware. Apart from such obvious features like prices, rates of sale and computer performance, other criteria such as documentation, ease of adaption and expansion, which are, as a rule, difficult to judge and quantify, play a decisive role. As an optimal CAD system does not exist in respect of every type of application the intended usage must be taken seriously into consideration when selecting a CAD system. On the basis of fundamental investigations of the suitability of CAD for the department for mechanical construction of ZAT at the KFA Jülich, the requirements and special needs of the construction process in the ZAT have been examined. In a short survey of the available CAD-systems a pre choice an the basis of some definitive musts has been made. The performance profile of the remaining systems has been thouroughly investigated and compared with the requirements of the ZAT. Thus the necessary decisions can be made an the basis of documented assessments. The study was completed in October 1982