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The exchange of ideas is essential to everyone, regard- the Internet, it became much easier for designers to less of his or her vocation or position. Usually, this share their work with other designers and manufactur- exchange is carried on by the oral or written word; ers virtually anytime, anywhere in the world. Using but under some conditions, the use of these alone new computer controlled manufacturing techniques, it is impractical. Industry discovered that it could not literally became possible to design a part and have it depend entirely upon written or spoken words for precisely manufactured without ever having it shown the exchange of ideas because misunderstanding and on paper. New terms and acronyms became common- misinterpretation arose frequently. A written descrip- place. The more common of these terms are: tion of an object can be changed in meaning just by misplacing a comma; the meaning of an oral descrip- • Computer Graphics— drawing with the use of a tion can be completely changed by the use of a wrong computer, word. To avoid these possible errors, industry uses • Computer Aided Design Drafting (CADD)— where drawings to describe objects. For this reason, drawing a computer is used in the design and drafting is the draftsman’s language. process, • Computer Aided Design (CAD) — where a Drawing, as we use it, is a method of conveying ideas computer is used in the design of a product, concerning the construction or assembly of objects. This is done with the help of lines, notes, abbrevia- • Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)— where tions, and symbols. It is