{"id":1847,"date":"2010-06-15T05:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:08:02","slug":"the-last-gasp-for-cad-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2010\/06\/the-last-gasp-for-cad-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Gasp for CAD &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Gasp for CAD&#8230;\u00a0 maybe not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some reasons that CAD may not be closing in on end of life.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 The developers of CAD software are still making strides in adding tools to the 2D world of CAD.\u00a0 Each new release brings improvements.\u00a0 They may seem small to most, but out there somewhere is a very happy user (many of them) that the new release does this or that.\u00a0 And sometimes there are major upgrades that bring new functions.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 The trickle down of functions end up in the base CAD products. There are many items that use to be part of the advanced tools in the past that are now resident in the newer releases.\u00a0 These improve the basic CAD functions and provide greater productivity.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 CAD is the basic 2D drafting function that everyone needs.\u00a0 Face it &#8211; there are a lot of functions that you do that do not need to be in 3D.\u00a0 They just are not 3D objects.\u00a0 They do not need to be displayed in 3D.\u00a0 Annotation comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 CAD platforms are the guts of many advance tools.\u00a0 Most of the migratory programs (those that continue to mature from a 2D platform) are based on 2D CAD code and functions.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 There are way too many people that just need 2D.\u00a0 Scores of them.\u00a0 Tons of them.\u00a0 Dare I say &#8211; most of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Gasp for CAD&#8230;\u00a0 maybe not&#8230; Here are some reasons that CAD may not be closing in on end of life. 1.\u00a0 The developers of CAD software are still making strides in adding tools to the 2D world of CAD.\u00a0 Each new release brings improvements.\u00a0 They may seem small to most, but out there somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","category-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}