These are the relationships between CAD and other software and hardware used in manufacturing. CAD - CAM -IMPORT 2D/3D CNC - IMPORT DXF The relationship between CAD and CAM is that you can import a CAD drawing straight the software to CAM software then imputing it to a CNC machine. More CNC machines nowadays can get the drawings straight off cad to machine it. RAPID PROTOTYPING - 3D MODELS Rapid prototyping takes virtual designs from CAD software, transforms them into thin virtual horizontal cross-sections and then creates each cross-section in physical space one after the next until the model is finished. SIMULATE - FUNCTION - STRESS - TEMPERATURE - SYSTEMS Computer software can be used to simulate many different projects. It can be used to see how much stress your product can take by simulating it on a computer program. This helps as it can help u improve your design if need be. You can also simulate the temperature that your product can withstand. Overall this simulation feature is good as it can show you many things in case you need to improve your product or it can withstand the amount of stress for example you want. CAM (COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING) - MRP 2 The cad software makes the parts list/ billing operations to go into the CAM system in big factories. This helps by letting the system no what's in stock and what's not. After the system knows what is in stock and how long it will take for materials to come in. it can give an estimated time to manufacture all parts so the customer will have an idea how long it will take. If I more important customer comes in, it can be manually change to speed up the manufacturing of the product they are after.
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software is the mind that tells the mechanical parts which are the hardware on how to proceed and perform.
Hardware is the actual physical components. Software uses data to command the hardware to act and make it function based on data input by the user.
They both invole a computer and downloading items or anything you want.
there are several difference between computer hardware and software .fundamental difference between hardware(keyboard,printer) is a physical device and software is instructions that given to the computer(window 2000,microsoft office )etc
The difference between hardware and software is that hardware is something physical. It is something you can touch. For example, a CD and its CD-ROM drive is hardware, but the music that is recorded on it is the software.
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Software is the code that a computer runs - you can not touch software, it is abstract. Hardware is what runs computer code - the physical stuff you can touch.
Software is the code that a computer runs - you can not touch software, it is abstract. Hardware is what runs computer code - the physical stuff you can touch.
The difference between software and hardware is that hardware is a physical object. Software is digital data stored on a physical [hardware] storage device. A motherboard is a circuit board, a physical object, and therefore hardware.
This depends on the exact pieces software and hardware that are under comparison. Although hardware is generally considered more costly, a software program may prove more costly than a hardware device.
Software is developed or engineered; it is not manufactured in the classical sense. Although some similarities exist between software development and hardware manufacture, the two activities are fundamentally different. In both activities, high quality is achieved through good design, but the manufacturing phase for hardware can introduce quality problems that are nonexistent (or easily corrected) for software. Both activities are dependent on people, but the relationship between people applied and work accomplished is entirely different. Both activities require the construction of a "product" but the approaches are different.