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Screenshot

I wonder if cbxcit might be useful for some people to show a screenshot of some sort of a CAD package in action?

Yea, sure. If you have one, let's have a look at it. StuRat 05:50, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done, see main page. --DuLithgow (talk) 23:31, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What happend to the screenshot image?

Image ?

Difficult to show CAD in action, due to the large file sizes needed. Is this what you were thinking of:- See Solid modelling and Freeform surface modellingFGHDFH

Diversification

This article needs to be significantly expanded upon. Computer aided drafting should be split in to a sepfdfhfgbxvcbzfdabdferate page and this one should be expanded upon in order to mention the types of cad software that are not nessicarily drawing packages, for example there is plenty of electronic circuit simulation software out there.Noodle snacks 08:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HI

Are advancements in CAD (RP, FEA, Simulation e.t.c.)deleting the need for the orthadox design process?

Perhaps some old design steps, like clay modelling are used less now than in the past, yes. StuRat 05:58, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The requirements of the job

  ?? is this a question?  Note CAD is a tool not a job. See engineer or architect for job requirements.

Why is there an AD here for a scanning service ???

This is supposed to be an informational arcticle... not an ad site...

Wiki is Corrupt?

Looking through the pages that i was once flamed for trying to add some useful links to commercial sites and what do i find? Links that are meant to be for 'Free' resources and user forums yet when you visit you are shown a product page and the only forum is to discuss their own product. Looks like one rule for one and one rule for someone else. I suspect Wiki is fast becoming as corrupt as dmos.

howdy

I feel like this article is in need of some basic maintenance... I feel like the last paragraph before the Intro trail off into some obscure unfinished dimension... I would edit but I dont knwo too much about the subject.

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Does this rephrase make more sense?Freeformer 14:29, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More on History of CAD i.e. Hanratty

You may want to take a look at MCS Company History

Here is an excerpt:

"Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty is MCS's founder and president. He is widely known as "the Father of CADD/CAM" for his pioneering contributions to the field of computer-aided design and manufacturing.

These contributions began in 1957 with PRONTO, the first commercial numerical-control programming system. While at General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1960s, Dr. Hanratty was a co-designer of DAC (Design Automated by Computer), the first production interactive graphics manufacturing system.

Since the day it was founded in 1971, MCS has enjoyed an enviable reputation for technological leadership in mechanical CADD/CAM software. Throughout its history, the company has focused its attention on the production of fully integrated CAD/CAM products that provide binary data compatibility across an exceptionally wide range of computers and operating systems, and MCS's current flagship product, ANVIL-EXPRESS, continues this tradition.

In addition to selling products under its own name, in its early years MCS also supplied the CADD/CAM software used by such companies as McDonnell Douglas (Unigraphics), Computervision (CADDS), AUTOTROL (AD380), and Control Data (CD-2000) as the core of their own products. In fact, industry analysts have estimated that 70% of all the 3-D mechanical CADD/CAM systems available today trace their roots back to MCS's original code."

Regards, H.E. Hall —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.242.64.129 (talk) 10:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Some of this already in the article (should not weight it too much to one man). Have added the web reference.Freeformer 15:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

references to non MCAD

I have removed references to VectorWorks Designer VectorWorks , SEE Electrical Expert as the section on mid/high range CAD was aimed at MCAD (mechanical) packages. If someone is familiar with EDA and AEC packages, please place these back in a related section with other examples of electrical and architectural packages (to be far). I have also removed references to packages that do not have Wiki articles. Freeformer 14:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hello

missing a bit of a sentence

in "Origins and terminology" there is an incomplete sentence. Can anyone fix the issue? The software available in many schools, such as PRO/ DESKTOP(R), Coreldraw(R)....--192.33.238.6 (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Fields of Use"

You can use CAD(D) to design just about anything, right? So it's not clear to me what the value is of listing all potential fields of use. This is kind of like trying to list all the "fields of use" for a sketchpad, or a calculator. It's a long list, and not very interesting.

Brad Halls (talk) 03:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphic design

Graphic design is one of the most famous fields of use of computer-assisted design, and it is yet missing in the article - any specific reason for that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfshade (talk • contribs) 18:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

missing buzzwords

Request for contrast

I work for a company that uses GIS frequently. The guys who do this work are very opinionated about the various merits of CAD, autoCAD, and ArcGIS. No matter how perfectly you can define each of these things, what would really be valuable on the Wikipedia page would be for some knowledgeable person to contrast the pros and cons of each of these programs, in the context of any other current/relevant trends. If someone could provide that, I think it would improve this article. --Greensheep (talk) 17:19, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Link to user talk page

Why is there a link in the artical to the user talk page ?? 213.218.242.73 (talk) 16:18, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article is receiving recurring atacks. Khullah (talk) 04:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

article quality

This article is of bad quality. If it did ever attain b-class, rolling it back to this version would probably be best. 86.20.158.196 (talk) 07:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. The article completely ignores any electrical engineering CAD tools.155.33.168.206 (talk)

what the heck...

Hardware and OS technologies

Today most Computer-Aided Design computers are Windows based PCs. Some CAD systems also run on one of the Unix operating systems and with Linux. Some CAD systems such as QCad, NX or CATIA V5 provide multiplatform support including Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X.

what is this paragraph trying to say? that people use CADs on Windows, Mac and Linux/UNIX. Why even bother with this paragraph? --85.160.91.128 (talk) 00:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]