CAD vocab

Computer-Aided


Design Vocabulary

CAD
computer-aided desing or computer-aided drawing, use of a computer to create a desing typically in an

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​additinoal view tyically used to clarify off-axis features in an engineering drawing

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Auxiliary view

​traditional approach to design.

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Bottom up modeling

The process of designing from a basic sketch.

​Top down modeling

an angled line that meets the endpoints of two straight 2D objects.

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