The Case of Art to Part: The Rise of Systemic Intent Based Design with 3D Digital Manufacturing

This article is written and contributed to engineering.com by Chandrakant Patel, HP Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow.
The ability of 3D digital manufacturing to create parts on-demand with vivid shapes, and with contours and physical attributes hitherto not possible, heralds the age of intent based systemic design. For the designer, the mantra now becomes the value derived at a system level.
The Age of the Drafting Table

Figure 1: The Age of the Drafting Table
Prior to 1980s, drawings cre…


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