"Martin Baxter" wrote in message

Is CAD a graphic art?
NO!... it's a drafting / modeling application.

Rot! CAD: Computor Aided Design; the operative word here being
design.

The operative term is 'Computer Aided'. The 'D' properly stands for
'Drafting'. CAD is an electronic drawing board - it doesn't contain 'design'
tools, it contains 'drafting' tools.


Some design is pure science, some is pure art, most is a bit
of both.

Good design is about finding solutions to address specific problems. Good
drafting is about expressing or describing those solutions with sufficent
competence for them to be implemented.


Show me a good designer and I'll show you an artist.

There are plenty of good designs that are badly drawn - because there are
good designers that can't drive CAD (or draw) to save themselves.