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Solving CAD problems, such as budgeting, education, changes to the organization, support staff, file formats, and limited resources
Creating CAD standards and procedures
Archival longevity
A student once asked, "What are the disadvantages to using CAD?" As editor of upFront.eZine, a weekly email newsletter for CAD users, I sometimes am asked for help from college students working on their papers.
The student said he could find plenty of information about the advantages to using CAD, but not the disadvantages. So, I posed the question to my readership, and received several replies, including one from Malaysia:
Most CAD operators seem to use AutoCAD as a tracing machine. They use the Line, Trim, Extend, and Erase commands as if they were mimicking manual drafting. Their multi-color drawings are created on a single layer!
The result is that other CAD operators cannot continue with the drawing. Because the drawing is not organized, they would rather start over than attempt to edit the drawing.
Proxy objects custom AutoCAD objects defined by ObjectARX programming
Simplex AutoCAD LT font that looks like Leroy lettering
Styles define parameters of text and dimensions
Template drawings
