BDE-CAD/CAM/CAE

The need for fast color hardcopy is often the primary justification for electrostatic plotters.

Software for performing meaningful analysis increasingly shows up on the desktops of design engineers.

The ability to construct accurate, easily modified models is helping make manufacturers more competitive.

As engineering models increasingly are described by solid models, there has been a change in the character of hardcopy output devices found in engineering labs.

Parametric features are becoming more common in FEA packages.

A raster drawing from a scanner can be converted to a vector format for later use, such as finite-element analysis.

General-purpose motion-analysis packages run on PCs.