What Does CAD Mean? What Advantage Can Be Had In Using CAD?

Yes, CAD means Computer Aided Design, or sometimes Drafting. There are two main types of CAD - 2D and 3D. Either one is used to draw something. The purpose may be to figure out how to make something fit together, or it might be to communicate the way something is made. Drawings are 2D (like a pencil and paper picture), but in 3D CAD you make a 3D model of an object that you can look at from any angle. With either type, some advantages, as compared to pencil & paper, are:
- accuracy (computer lines are straight , circles round, dimensions exact)
- clarity (you can 'zoom in', enhance detail, use typed text)
- neatness (the "line" command works the same for everybody, and so does the "erase" command)
- speed (copy from other CAD work & modify)
- for 3D especially, the CAD model can serve as a prototype, since you create virtual 3D objects in the software. You can fit things together, spin them around to view from all sides, cut sections to see inside, even get strength and weight information. You get a lot of the advantages of seeing how it would look when it is made, without the expense of the manufacturing.

Disadvantages:  You have to train people to use it.
 May be very complex to use for some.
 Very expensive to buy, run and mend.
 Difficulty keeping track of changes when many people are working on drawings for a project
 Protecting your ideas is difficult when you must share your drawings with customers and contractors, but you need input about design questions
 Sharing your drawings with other companies who may not be using the same CAD programs.
 Potential for wasted parts and materials due to inaccurate CAD
 Machinery can break down, halting production
 Initial setup of the production line can be expensive, making limited runs cost-prohibitive.

Advantages:  It is very easy to produce many designs at the same time, and much faster than hand designs.
 It is very accurate and precise.
 You can use two standard components and combine them to make a whole new design.
 It can be used nonstop.
 Very easy to correct your mistakes when made.
 You can zoom or magnify
 It can test failure and efficiency
 Hugely more efficient

CAD means Compute Aided Design
The use is to draw the articles in all the shapes and all the views, that means in 3d angle we can view through CAD
It is completely for the mechanical branch and fully designed in computer programming. Using this software we can design so many things.

Some advantages of cad over manual drawings are:
No need for scaling. All drawing is done full size.
Both two and three dimensional drawings can be produced.

The screen drawing area can be set to any size with the click of a button
Your work is copied and stored off the computer for security – you may never lose your work again!

All of the tools needed are supplied by the program.
Drawings are stored on disk rather than in a bulky folder.

Absolute accuracy can be maintained.
Dimensioning is almost automatic.

Production details can be extracted directly from the drawing.
Parts of drawings can be saved and used in other drawings.

Eliminates the need for full size set outs.

C.A.D: Is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or vertical C.A.D often involves more then just shapes.

It means a software is used td draw.

The disadvantage of using AutoCad:
Time & cost of implementing the CAD system.
Time & cost of training people to use the CAD.
Time & cost of migrating legacy drawings into CAD format.
It is quite hard to use it so it takes a bit of practice and training.

 More accurate work than with hand
 Can be altered without erasing or redrawing
 You can zoom or magnify
 Its accurate and precise
 It can test failure and efficiency
 Hugely more efficient
 Less waste
 Very fast

If in reference to a woman calling a man a CAD, it refers that the man is a flirting, 2 timing, has the woman pay his way. Smoozing phony. Lacking in gentleman like manners.jrhean0n

From my view point I think that there is not so much disadvantages in using CAD instead it has got advantages but the disadvantages is that people feels lazy in drawing the structure by our own hand and in our university we just copy others assignment and send it, which makes us to learn less but if we suppose to write by ourselves we may not just copy others assignment and submit it but due to CAD we are made lazy.

Computer Aided Design is an old terminology. We are still using the term and it';s actually should called BIM Building Infomation Modeling.  The computer technology is getting far more advance and allow you to import 3d models into the plan and helps you to visualized if it will work with your architectural design, plans, sections,

You have to train to be able to use it properly

It means Computer Aided Design.

Cad means somebody flirting with someone

Computer Aided Disaster hahaha

I don't no what cad means

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CAD- Computer aided design- The use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual.

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