48 hours: software system speeds moldmaking right from the start. (special report: moldmaking) (Cover Story).

What would have taken greatest in quantity mold-making shops weeks, &B Precision Tool did in hours -- 48 be exact. Within that timeframe, the store received an order for a mold lay opened preliminary 3D designs, generated 2D drawings along with computer-generated photo-quality graphics for a customer presentation, and secur piece of work approval.

However, the impressive part of the story is that within those 48 hours is included the drive time to and from the customer's facility. "Actual preliminary designing took solitary 18 hours and was done upon a 3D solid-modeling system called Visi-Series