Riscad: A Simplified Approach To Cad System Design (1992)
article⁄Riscad: A Simplified Approach To Cad System Design (1992)
abstract⁄When employing CAD systems to the design task, it is usually the case that 90 of the work is accomplished by 10 of the capabilities of the system. These capabilities are often more appropriate to the tasks of modeling and drafting rather than exploring design alternatives. CAD system design might well benefit from the application of the RISC philosophy, namely, identify and incorporate only those capabilities most appropriate and frequently used in the design process and make them very powerful and efficient, provide the ability to combine those capabilities to form compound operations, simplify and streamline the user interface and maximize the use of computational power. The RISCAD system Reduced Instruction Set Computer Aided Design System takes this approach.
