Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background and history of CAD
The production of engineering drawings or any such representations dates back to the first industrial revolution. As the transformations in industry intensified, particularly between the second and third industrial revolutions (Nyemba et al., 2021), drawings and models were equally becoming complex, thus requiring quicker and better ways to generate, let alone manage them. This led to the development of computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) and computer-aided design (CAD) tools to aid in the creation or modification of drawings ...
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