"Wally" wrote
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.

Capt. Mooron wrote:
I concur!


Well, you're both wrong... or maybe it's just that you've been using the
cheap set of AutoCad tools. AutoCad will do a large number of design
calculations including area, volume, centers of mass, and moments of
inertia. It will also extract a bill of materials



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.


Well stated.


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.


And are either too arrogant or too poor to hire a good draftsman.

Regards
Doug King