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Designers and their machines: CAD use and support in the US and Japan

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Jeffrey K. Liker,

Mitchell Fleischer,

Mitsuo Nagamachi,

Michael S. ZonnevylleAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 35, Issue 2

Pages 77 - 95

https://doi.org/10.1145/129630.129634

Published: 01 February 1992 Publication History

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