1. Study Guide Project
By: Ryan Carrier

2. Board and Computer Aided Drafting
Traditional drafting involves drawing by hand using a drawing board and precision instruments.
Computer-aided drafting has taken over almost exclusively in industry.

3. Computer-Aided Drafting or Design
The acronym CAD - used to stand for Computer Aided Drafting.  Then over time as software became more sophisticated the acronym was changed to CADD - Computer aided drafting and Design.
The Introduction to CAD Technology course refers to Computer Aided Drafting.

4. Advantages of CAD Use
Because of its electronic nature, CAD can do much more than board drafting.
. It is flexible enough to assist all phases of the design process. It can drive the manufacturing stage as well.

5. Production Input
With the help of CAD, computers now control many production processes.
The machine produces a finished product according to the specifi cations in the CAD file.

6. Plan Extraction
A virtual solid model does not do some things well. For example, it cannot tell a quality control inspector at a glance what  the diameter of a specific hole should be.
 The two-dimensional drawings must be  consulted for such purposes.

7. Disadvantages of CAD Use
Using CAD does have a few disadvantages. One of the most common problems has  nothing to do with the software.
it concerns how people perceive the CAD system.

8. CAD Hardware Equipment
All CAD workstations require computer hard wear.
the equipment that comprises a computer system.
An output device such as a plotter or printer is an example of a peripheral. 

9. The CPU 
he CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the “heart” of the computer.
This is where the computations which make up the “work” of a computer are processed.

10. Monitors
The computer monitor is the display device for a CAD workstation.
A CAD monitor should be at least 17″, large enough to display drawings or parts of drawings effectively.

11. Resolution A pixel is a set of one red, one blue, and one green dot.
The more pixels a monitor displays per inch, the higher the quality of the image on the screen.

12. Input Devices
The most common input devices for CAD workstations are the keyboard, the mouse, and the digitizer. 
Digitizers are  specialized equipment used to convert paper drawings to digital format. 

13. Printers and Plotters
Aster and inkjet technologies have become the standards for printing technical drawings.
They replaced pen plotters which were first used to print CAD drawings.

14. CAD Software
n addition to hardware, a CAD system require the computer programs used to create technical drawings, or the CAD software.
The software determines a CAD system’s drafting capabilities, so you should select it carefully.