"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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Rot! CAD: Computor Aided Design; the operative word here being design.
Some design is pure science, some is pure art, most is a bit of both.

It's a misnomer..... vector based and you provide the coordinates for it
to
plot.. 2D or 3D. Yes you can design from scratch.... but try and import
a
rastar based graphic to incorporate and your **** out of luck. It's
utilzed
in engineering.. not graphics.

Usually. :-) I've done artwork masters for a guy that makes things in wax -
I start by importing a raster image (scans of hand-drawn stuff) and tracing
polylines around all the important bits to establish a base before working
up the final thing. (The masters are then photographed as negatives,
reduced, and used to make etched metal bucks, from which rubber moulds are
cast...)