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A method of manufacturing an article includes constructing a definition of the article in a computer memory and further defining in the computer memory from the definition of the article, a plurality of tools for forming component parts of the article. The definition of the plurality of tools is dow

A method of manufacturing an article includes constructing a definition of the article in a computer memory and further defining in the computer memory from the definition of the article, a plurality of tools for forming component parts of the article. The definition of the plurality of tools is downloaded to a tool forming device which is then operated to form the plurality of tools. The component parts of the article are then formed utilizing the plurality of tools.

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A method of manufacture of an article comprising constructing a description of said article in a computer memory, constructing at least an engineering design specification library, a materials library, and a features library, forming a rule based system, rules and logic for selecting library element

A method of manufacture of an article comprising constructing a description of said article in a computer memory, constructing at least an engineering design specification library, a materials library, and a features library, forming a rule based system, rules and logic for selecting library elements for use based on a description of an article to be made, downloading said descriptions of said plurality of tooling means from said computer memory to means for forming tools, operating said means for forming tools so as to form said plurality of tool means, forming component parts of said article with said plurality of tool means, operating said rule based system to select elements from said libraries to generate, in said computer memory, from said description of said article, descriptions of a second plurality of tooling means for assembling component parts of said article, downloading said description of said second plurality of tooling means from said computer memory to means for forming tools, operating said means for forming tools so as to form said second plurality of tooling means, and assembling the component parts of said article with said second plurality of tooling means.