CAD

Acronym that means computer aided drawing and computer aided design.

Software used for geometric definition of the virtual model of an object by means of special programs.

Family of systems and software for computer aided design, used for product design, architectural, civil relief, mechanical design and parametric, the metric, the drawing of diagrams etc..

The term refers to the process by which the product is designed and modeled in three dimensions to the computer. Through the process Cad can intervene directly on the industrial production of the object, both during the "modeling" or as any of realization of prototypes or molds for the final production.