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Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to assist in the

creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.[1] CAD software is used


to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve
communications through documentation, and to create a database for
manufacturing.[2] CAD output is often in the form of electronic files for print,
machining, or other manufacturing operations.

Computer-aided design is used in many fields. Its use in designing electronic


systems is known as electronic design automation, or EDA. In mechanical design it
is known as mechanical design automation (MDA) or computer-aided drafting (CAD),
which includes the process of creating a technical drawing with the use of computer
software.[3]

CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the
objects of traditional drafting, or may also produce raster graphics showing the
overall appearance of designed objects. However, it involves more than just shapes.
As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD
must convey information, such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances,
according to application-specific conventions.

CAD may be used to design curves and figures in two-dimensional (2D) space; or
curves, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional (3D) space.[4]

CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including


automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural
design, prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer
animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often
called DCC digital content creation. The modern ubiquity and power of computers
means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using
techniques unheard of by engineers of the 1960s. Because of its enormous
economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in
computational geometry, computer graphics (both hardware and software), and
discrete differential geometry.[5]

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