Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
CAD is used in design and development of new products in a diversity of applications both at commercial/industrial and on a home basis. Illustrations of typical CAD applications comprise:
- Architecture
- Aerospace
- Car/vehicle design
- Construction (for example roads, services, surveying, tunnels, bridges etc.)
- Consumer goods (e.g. kettles, toasters, etc.)
- Fashion design
- Factory layouts (e.g. ergonomics)
- Digital circuits
- garden/landscape gardening
- Machinery design
- Interior designs (houses, offices etc.)
- Lighting systems (e.g. to get lighting effects at a concert)
- Heating systems
- Plant design (chemical, nuclear etc.)
- Ship building