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Digital Tapestry: Lockheed Martin moves 3D printing to the production line #3DThursday #3DPrinting « adafruit industries blog

Wed, 11/13/2013 - 06:36 -- rprice

the company’s next-generation digital manufacturing technologies called Digital Tapestry. This is a Model Based Engineering (MBE) tool that Integrates design and manufacturing into a single process. It goes beyond CAD design by providing a digital virtual environment called the Collaborative Human Immersive Laboratory (CHIL), where designers can manipulate parts or even entire machines to see how they go together and operate. As they do so, the system produces a constant stream of automatically updated specifications.