INTRODUCTION

Computer Aided Design and Draughting (sometimes known as CADD). Generally, it is the use of computers in design and drawing processes. Traditionally, technical drawing are made using manual drafting. It is often require a lot of effort and time consuming particularly for large complex drawing.CAD is being used widely in modern practice. The ability of computer that enable engineers to produce, revise, store and transmit original drawings has made it very important. Example of CAD software.AutoCAD, PRO/Engineer, IDEAS, UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA,SolidWorks, etc. AutoCAD is a software application for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting in both 2D and 3D. It is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc.First released in December 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, notably the IBM PC. At that time, most other CAD programs ran on mainframe computers or mini-computers that were connected to a graphics computer terminal for each user.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Advantages of CAD Easier Creation and Corrections Working/detail drawings may be created more quickly and makings changes is more efficient than correcting drawings made by hand. Better Visualisation of drawings Many systems allow different views of the same object and 3D pictorial view. Database of Drawing Aids Designs and symbols can be stored for easy recall and reuse. Increased Accuracy Using the computer, the drawing can be produced with more accuracy. Improved Filing Drawings can be more conveniently filed, retrieved and transmitted on disks and tape. Quick Design Analysis Simulation and Testing

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF TRADITIONAL DRAWING

Traditional art can be difficult to work with, because physical mediums are often indelible and if you mess up, you have to start over. With graphic art, you have the option of hitting a few keys and preventing a disaster. That's the attraction of graphic art versus traditional, I believe; it lets people rest easier knowing that their art is virtually untouchable, and safe from smudging, or fading, or whatever.

However, graphic art is easy to reproduce or delete or copy. Hackers can delete whole hard drives in seconds, erasing plenty of artists' portfolios in the time it takes to throw an apple from the roof of a skyscraper. Computers themselves are unreliable; it's easy to lose everything in a night you forget to save, or if your computer crashes, you're likely to lose the past day or so's information. So in those senses, traditional, 'hard-copy' art is more useful.

Both styles have their pros and cons, but the individual's talent and preference is really all that seperates the two.

CONCLUSION OF AUTOCAD
AutoCAD, as well, is poised at a caustic moment in its history. Having grown comfortably in a fairly linear manner for the last seven years, it is now faced with user requirements and market challenges that dwarf any in its history. AutoCAD will need to grow into something much larger than perhaps any of us can today envision, and must do so on an accelerating time scale. We can achieve these goals: goals I believe essential if Autodesk and AutoCAD are to remain dominant in the market, only if we decouple the evolution of AutoCAD from the necessity of modifying the AutoCAD core code. The AutoCAD core must not just cease to grow--it must shrink in the future. By removing IGES, which in an ideal world would never have been in the core to start with, we can commence this process. In several years, AutoCAD can come to resemble, not the intimidating monolith of code it now is, but a community of independent and cooperating applications, each developed and maintained by a small team expert in that aspect of the overall task and able to grasp the totality of a program that, by division of labour, has been reduced to a scale the human mind can comprehend. The AutoCAD user will see increased capability, better user interfaces, and improved reliability. If we do our job correctly, the seams won't show, any more than you wonder if the mitochondria in your cells are really you. This caustic moment, while marking the high point in the growth of the AutoCAD core, may also be a key milestone on the long road toward AutoCAD's ultimate destiny.