CAD
I teach basic web design, bit of html, bit of css and some photoshop chucked in, also some indesign and illustrator, for some stupid dumb reason this is called CAD as the course leader thinks it is computer aided design and not just bloody basic design.

CAD is making tractors and buildings and stuff.
(bluehamster, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:24, 5 replies)

are you doing design?
are you aided by a computer?

(I'm an engineer, I know it's not really CAD, but technically, it is)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:29, closed)

I'm a CAD monkey, who is trying learn all that you offer.
I wish it was as easy as CAD. The interface and actions In CAD are so much betterinPs and Ai though, it doesn't need to be so fucking irritating, does it?! Fuck you adobe!
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:33, closed)

Actually, the making of the tractors and buildings and stuff is CAM.
CAD is the bit beforehand, when those things are dreamed up.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:45, closed)

AAAghhh
Fucking Autocad
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:26, closed)

CADDDDDDDDD
At the civil engineering place where I work they insist on spelling it "CADD" which ostensibly stands for "computer aided drafting and design." Drives me nuts. In fact nobody here actually designs anything in the program; they plot stuff out and design with an engineer's scale and a hand calculator. Zoom in on curb lines and building corners and you'll see that the line segments don't actually meet at their endpoints. List the building lines and you'll find they're not at ninety degrees.

Also, you should see our so-called "CADD Standards," or as I renamed that directory full of half-assed, unusable rubbish, "KADDD Stadnurds."
(wkiernan, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 22:13, closed)