Talk:Nanofactory engineering/CAD software
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Discuss the CAD software needed by a nanofactory. As conclusions are reached, put them in Nanofactory engineering/CAD software.
Starting with a KISS approach? by Rxke 16:16, 18 Oct 2004 (CDT)
- Disclaimer: dilletante rambling:*
If you start from the idea the finished objects leave the factory in a folded state, and unfold afterwards, I could see an opportunity for origami masters...
There are already 'folding-instructions' in books etc how to get from a planar form (paper sheet) to e.g. a recipient object, but it should be possible to let origami geniuses design an intermediate or rather 'over-folded' stage: a smaller, more compact (re-folded) form of the eventual form. Once it leaves the factory, it unfolds itself by the steps designed in by the origami people.
Let these people design modular things, like a recipient form, structural forms, tubeforms, etc, and then let them figure out how to 'over-fold' these finished forms again into a more compact shape. Virtually collate these modules (in over-folded form,) in the CAD package, then assemble and you'll get a voluminous, undescript package, folded tightly, that unfolds...
To, for instance, a compartimented pressure-recipient on a standard, with tubes attached to it... this object doesn't look spectacular on the first glimpse, but would/could house enough computing power, energy-generating-power, filters, pressurevalves, molecular filters... To make it (again for instance) a self contained atmospheric compressor/distiller for whatever volatile you want it to output, just set the variables. The diamontoid walls would be quite inert, so you could make a helium extractor, etc...
(no topic) by Rxke 16:28, 18 Oct 2004 (CDT)
Hmmm... Okay, this should be in design, and for some reason the formatting is wrong... Who can delete this?
