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The software is what's special. manufacturing of all types is getting cheaper. The magic comes from the design. The magic comes from imagining something and tur
by jfoutz 13y ago
The software is what's special. manufacturing of all types is getting cheaper. The magic comes from the design. The magic comes from imagining something and turning it into a physical object.
CAD is great for precision, but that's not really what's called for, it's something that will give good results with a bit of imagination. It's not minecraft, but whoever captures that freedom of creation in CAD will probably do really well.
- Tsagadai 13y agoImagine a higher rez kinect and holographic display for CAD. CAD will always take a long time though due to our limited input abilities (we can only really do one thing at a time) for highly detailed things. The real magic comes in assisting people to remix existing designs and components with built in engineering rules. Imagine being able to tell a schematic of an arm to hold weight and lift it to X. No calculations, no placing actuators, no wiring, just an arm that does what you wanted it to do. Software like that isn't impossible it just takes a lot of work to get there. These threads always disappoint me because I see so many smart people struggling to think about what is possible instead of what currently is.