Expert: J. B. Borge - 7/25/2006

Question
Which topics of Mathematics are used in the development of CAM/CAM software and other 3-D object related tools.

I have an interview with a company which develops such software and they stressed that they would test me on Maths. Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer
Seetha

The concepts of programming are based on logics, from basic algebra functions to calculus & to physics.  All utilizes the use of variables, if...then functions, loops, etc.

Below are the main Autocad programming interfaces used to control & manipulate drawings/databases.

AutoLISP/Visual Lisp
ActiveX
Object ARX
Visual Basic
C++