INTER-ACTIVE GRAPHIC METHODS FOR AUTOMATING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN AND ANALYSES.

Automating of mechanical engineering design, drafting, structural modeling and analyses is being implemented at EOSC with interactive graphic time share terminals. It was recognized that for reducing costs in mechanical engineering tasks and to stay competitive in the industry, these tasks had to be automated. Previously these tasks used labor intensive manual design and drafting methods, and structural modeling with batch processing. Trade-off evaluations and vendor surveys were conducted of several automated drafting and structural modeling systems. The decisions made after the evaluations was to use currently available software and Tektronix terminal equipment for interactive communications with host computers.