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CAD Automation Is the Future of Manufacturing?

CAD integration and automation is the next logical step in the development of the manufacturing industry. By automating these computer designs, you can move your configuration process along faster and ensure that products are designed perfectly before moving into production. 

Why is CAD important to the manufacturing industry?

To say that CAD models were a game-changer for the manufacturing industry would be an understatement. Today, it would be almost impossible to imagine a manufacturing company not using CAD for its design needs.

What is so useful with CAD is the level of accuracy it has. CAD models can be drawn to scale and then enlarged or reduced knowing that the scaled dimensions will still be maintained in the final product. Also, past forms of hand-drawing models required extensive work to fix mistakes and design errors. CAD makes this about as difficult as pushing a button.

Now, what might have once taken a team of engineers months to complete can be done with less human resources and more computing power to create a better resolution model that is much more accurate and can show all of the inner workings of the product in real-time.

Importance of CAD?

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) has been one of the most enduring and adaptable aspects of computers in the workforce. The first use of a CAD program goes back to 1962 and Sketch Pad, a program that lets users draw directly on a screen for the first time.

Since then, it has been adopted by the automotive and aerospace industries to design better cars and planes. In manufacturing, it has been used to design almost anything that you can imagine being created by a factory.

To give you a better understanding of CAD and how it can integrate into your CPQ system to provide a remarkable customer experience, we’ll take a look at what CAD automation looks like in a manufacturing setting, why it has become so important, and what the future of CAD automation looks like.