Talk:Computer-aided engineering

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"considering infomation technology that provides tools and techniques that help in design and manufacturing support, the tools is consider CAE tools." - Not sure what you wanted to say here.

[edit] CAE in the Automotive Industry

The second paragraph of this section is little more than advertisements for various CAE tools. At what point is this straying from NPOV? I'm not sure enough about this to remove the paragraph, but at the same time, I feel that leaving it without mentioning all of the major tools is rather unfair. I won't even get started on how to decide what tools should be considered "major". Anyone have a better understanding of WP policy on this to share? - EndingPop 14:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structure of CAE, CAD, CAM, ... ?

Category:Computer-aided design has the following text:

CAD stands for any of
   Computer-aided design
   Computer-aided drafting
   Computer-aided drawing
and may be coupled with CAM (i.e.: CAD/CAM), which stands for any of
   Computer-aided modeling (or solid modeling)
   Computer-aided manufacturing
and can be coupled with computer-aided analysis and Computer Numeric Control CNC.

The entire process is called computer-aided engineering (CAE).

Is that correct? If so, it is not reflected the the Category tree for these subjects. -- tooold (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MSC PATRAN

Why does the topic "PATRAN" link onto this page? PATRAN is merely one of many CAE products and it works in merely one of the disciplines of CAE. At some point last year I saw an independent page for PATRAN. There is a page for the commercial product "NASTRAN", so why not one for the tradionally related product "PATRAN"? Even if it is a dinosaur (and perhaps especially so) it should have a page. Perhaps the original article was deleted because it was too commercial, or perhaps somebody at MSC deleted it since PATRAN is being phased out??