UNISURF

UNISURF

UNISURF

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UNISURF was a pioneering surface CAD/CAM system, designed to assist with car body design and tooling. It was developed by French engineer Pierre Bézier for Renault in 1968, and entered full use at the company in 1975.[1][2] One of the car parts developed with the assistance of UNISURF was the body of the Peugeot 204.[3] By 1999, around 1,500 Renault employees made use of UNISURF for car design and manufacture.[1]

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    "Dead: Pierre Bezier". Flutterby.com. 6 December 1999. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
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    Pierre Bézier (1971). "Example of an existing system in the motor industry: the Unisurf system". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 321 (1545). JSTOR: 207–218. Bibcode:1971RSPSA.321..207B. doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0027. JSTOR 77846. S2CID 108624752.
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    Clarke, Adrian (7 April 2023). "Why Car Designers Have Used Computers for Longer Than You Think And How Boeing Helped It All". The Autopian. Retrieved 9 April 2023.


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