Thursday, March 20, 2008

INTRODUCTION OF ICT APPLICATION

Now a days, many things have done by using ict. We live in ICT Application environment to reach our goals. In Manufacturing, we should thinking how to produce or improved things to improved our quality of lives. Wether we renew and improved available product or we create a new product that never been produce. To complete our goal,we need ICT Application as a guided. The combination of ICT in manufacturing process in know as "The application of ICT in Manufacturing Process" and it also can applied this two combination into the education field and it is very important to exposed students with the latest technology especially in engineering field. So that in the future they will able to applied what they learn in their jobs.

In engineering, we use ICT to developed our project. The ICT Application we use such as Application software is a program designed to make users more productive and assist them with personal tasks. There are many categories of application software such as Business, Graphics and multimedia, Home/personal/educational, Communications, Utility Program and so on. We focused on Graphics and multimedia like CAD/CAM CAD is software to design their desire part and CAM software to convert CAD data into paths for Computer Numerical Control machine tools.

AutoCAD is a CAD softwares application for 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by Autodesk Inc. Initially released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, and notably the IBM PC. Most CAD software at the time ran on graphics terminals connected to mainframe computers or mini computers.

In earlier releases, AutoCAD used primitive entities such as lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text as the foundation for more complex objects. Since the mid-1990s, AutoCAD has supported custom objects through its C++ API. Modern AutoCAD includes a full set of basic solid modeling and 3D tools, but lacks some of the more advanced capabilities of solid modelling applications.

AutoCAD supports a number of application programming interface (APIs) for customization and automation. These include AutoLISP, Visual LISP, VBA, .NET and ObjectARX. ObjectARX is a C++ class library, which was also the base for products extending AutoCAD functionality to specific fields, to create products such as AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or third-party AutoCAD-based applications.

AutoCAD's native file format,DWG, and to a lesser extent, its interchange file format, DXF, have become standard data perability. AutoCAD in recent years has included support for DWF, a format developed and promoted by Autodesk for publishing CAD data. In 2006, Autodesk estimated the number of active DWG files to be in excess of one billion. In the past, Autodesk has estimated the total number of DWG files in existence to be more than three billion.

AutoCAD currently runs exclusively on Microsoft desktop operating system Versions for UNIX and Maccintosh were released in the 1980s and 1990s, but these were later dropped. AutoCAD can run on an emulator or compatibility layer like Virtual PC or Wine, keeping in mind the performance issues that can arise when working with 3D objects or large drawings.

AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT are available for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified (No LT), Chinese Traditional, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian (No LT), Brazilian Portuguese (No LT), Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Vietnamese. The extent of localization varies from full translation of the product to documentation only.

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