MCAD Tech News: 2D to 3D #17
10 Aug, 2005 By: Arnie WilliamsFast Design, Fast Bike
ThinkID helps Trek quickly
produce winning
time-trial bicycle for Lance Armstrong and team
Lance Armstrong had ridden Trek TT
time-trial bikes in four of his six Tour de France victories, heading
into this year’s race in July on his way to a seventh victory. But Trek
was still reviewing its designs and striving to give the Texas
superstar and his Discovery Channel teammates every advantage during
warm-up races in Europe this past spring.
Under speed-defying time constraints and competitive pressure the likes
of which are no strangers to the design team at Trek, Michael Sagan and
Trek industrial designers utilized thinkID technology from think3 to
help design the TTx time-trial bikes that Armstrong and his teammates
rode to victory in the first team time trial of the tour early last
month. Like the victory itself, the design feat required speed and
accuracy and real-life 3D — not a 2D kind of thing. ... Read more
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Arnie Williams, former editor-in-chief of CADENCE magazine, is a freelance author specializing in the CAD industry. E-mail Arnie at awilliams47@hotmail.com.
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Autodesk Inventor, now in its tenth version, has ascended the
mechanical design ladder to hold its own with the competition. And,
though there is still plenty of life left in 2D for certain types of
design, Inventor, like many of its competitors, continues to attempt to
convince users of the undisputed leader in 2D, AutoCAD, that 3D is the
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