Patents Assigned to Modern Engineering Service Company
  • Method for making models using simultaneous construction and CAD/CAM techniques
    Patent number: 4697240
    Abstract: A sturdy three-dimensional master model constructed using CAD/CAM and N/C machine tool techniques by digitally processing surface data to obtain low density, unsweetened, template contour lines offset below the surface on an axis normal thereto, and then simultaneously constructing a rough model having a surface offset above the surface on an axis normal thereto, while developing the surface data to sweetened, high density cutter path data and then using the cutter path data to N/C mill the rough plus model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Modern Engineering Service Company
    Inventors: Dennis A. Cedar, Ralph L. Miller