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Computer-aided design (CAD)

 

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to facilitate the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of designs.
CAD software is used to increase designer productivity, improve design quality, improve communication through documentation, and create databases for manufacturing. CAD output is typically in the form of electronic files for printing, machining, or other manufacturing operations. The term CADD (for Computer-Aided Design and Drafting) is also used.
The use of CAD in electronic system design is called electronic design automation or EDA.
In mechanical design, it is called mechanical design automation (MDA) or computer-aided drafting (CAD), which involves the process of creating technical drawings using computer software.
CAD software for mechanical design uses vector graphics to represent traditional drawing objects or creates raster graphics that represent the overall appearance of designed objects.
However, this is not just about shape. Like the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, CAD results must convey information, such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions. CAD can be used to design curves and drawings in two-dimensional (2D) space; or curves, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional (3D) space.
CAD is an important industrial art widely used in many applications including the automotive industry, shipbuilding and aerospace, industrial and architectural design, prosthetics and many other applications.
other uses. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in films, advertising, and technical manuals. We often talk about creating DCC digital content. Perfume bottles and shampoo containers were designed using techniques unknown to engineers in the 1960s. Because of its enormous economic potential, CAD became a major driving force for research. Research in computational geometry, computer graphics and discrete differential geometry.

  • AutoCAD

AutoCAD is a computer-aided design and drafting (CAD) software.
Developed and marketed by Autodesk, AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop application running on a microcomputer with an internal graphics controller. Before the introduction of AutoCAD, most commercial CAD programs ran on mainframes or minicomputers, with each operator or CAD user working on a separate graphics terminal. Since 2010, AutoCAD has also been available as a mobile and web application, marketed under the name AutoCAD 360.

AutoCAD is used in many industries, by architects, project managers, engineers, graphic designers, urban planners and many other professionals. It was supported by 750 training centers worldwide as of 1994.

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