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What is the difference between Computer Aided Drafting & Computer Aided Design?

April 26, 2017aided Computer design drafting

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What is the difference between Computer Aided Drafting & Computer Aided Design?

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CAD used to be known as Computer Aided Drafting because all they were really were Engineering Drawing programmes. Then they began to be capable of 3D modelling and high quality renderings and they became more of a design tool than just a drawing tool. When mathematical and structural analysis programmes like Finite Element Analysis became more readily available they truly became design tools.