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  • Colfax dentist installs high-tech tools

    Mike Neves|Nov 9, 2017

    Rob Smith Gazette Staff Colfax dentist Dr. Robert T. Smith uses computer-driven manufacturing every day in his practice and explained the high tech tools and how he applies them. The use of machines controlled by computer programs to create physical parts has been around for decades. In the 1980s, for a computer-driven machine to create a part, it first had to be defined digitally, drawn up by a human in a computer program such as AutoCAD. Next, that drawing would be used as a reference by a...