Machineworks
MachineWorks is the industry standard CNC milling machine simulation system. It is integrated into the major CAD/CAM packages, and saves machinists time and money all over the world.
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About Machineworks
While working at Lightwork Design, Will developed the first iteration of the
MachineWorks OpenGL renderer. He also developed MachineWorks RapidProve, an API layer which brought together several parts of the MachineWorks system in a streamlined task-driven toolkit designed for easy integration. RapidProve was still part of the MachineWorks catalogue six years later.
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Our key contributions
- Development in C and C++ across Intel/MS-DOS, Intel/Win32, SGI/Irix, SUN/Solaris and other Unix environments.
- Use of several sets of development and debugging tools on these platforms, including MS Visual Studio, BoundsChecker, Purify, dbx, and emacs.
- Writing and maintenance of demonstration programs, testing tools and sample product interfaces for Win32 using MFC and the Win32 API.
- Implementation of a real-time software rasteriser with z-buffered HSR.
- Handling the traps and pitfalls of multiplatform OpenGL under the Win32 and X windowing systems.
- Production of manuals and other end-user documentation using LaTeX, Microsoft Word, and HTML.