Editing CAD/CAM (section)

==Computer-aided design (CAD)==
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One goal of CAD is to allow quicker iterations in the design process;<ref>{{cite web
   |url=http://images.designworldonline.com.s3.amazonaws.com/CADhistory/8436-TM-4.pdf
   |title=Computer-aided design}}</ref> another is to enable smoothly transitioning to the [[#Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)|CAM]] stage.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Thomas Register]]
       |url=https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/custom-manufacturing-fabricating/cad-cam-software-explanation
       |title=A Guide to CAD/CAM Software}}</ref> Although manually created drawings historically facilitated "a designer's goal of displaying an idea,"<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/download/117/33
|title=CAD |publisher=[[Stanford University]] Student Journals}}</ref> it did not result in a machine-readable result that could be modified
and subsequently be used to directly build a prototype.<ref>{{cite web
   |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220306623
   |title=Intelligent computer-aided design systems}}</ref> It can also be used to "ensure that all the separate parts of a product will fit together as intended."{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

''CAD'', when linked with [[simulation]], can also enable bypassing building a less than satisfactory test version, resulting in having "dispensed with the costly, time-consuming task of building a prototype."<ref name=CADcamSIM.NYT>{{cite news
   |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/business/bolts-and-brackets-by-computer-design.html
   |title=Bolts and Brackets by (Computer) Design
   |author=Barnaby J. Feder |date=January 18, 1981}}</ref>