Special Issue: Advances in Computer Aided Manufacturing

In 2007 we have computing power and infrastructure that are emarkable in terms of both speed and cost. A casual observer ould expect the effects of this technological “free lunch” on omputer Aided Manufacturing CAM to be an equally dramatic dvance. However it is a measure of this field’s difficulty that very ew of the problems, which invariably involve complex threeimensional geometry, can be solved by brute force computing. rguably this is because CAM researchers frequently encounter he following two challenges under different disguises across the eld.