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Anyway, Generic Cadd was one of the top PC Cadd systems when Autodesk bought them out and then slowly killed them off.

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Quick take

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.

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noun

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cadd.

noun

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.

Example sentences

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Anyway, Generic Cadd was one of the top PC Cadd systems when Autodesk bought them out and then slowly killed them off.

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In so far as I recall, and I never used Generic Cadd in anger, pretty much everything in Generic Cadd was two letter mnemonics.

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It's Emacs for vectors,ยง but in a world where Emacs was flush with cash and could pay a full blown development team for 30 years...oh and buy out Vim and bury its corpse out in the desert [AutoDesk bought Generic Cadd which used a system of two letter mnemonic commands in 1989 and killed it so dead in 1997 it doesn't even have an English Wikipedia entry].

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I don't know if it's inspired by Generic Cadd, but Autodesk Revit uses two letter mnemonics for shortcuts.

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"with modern CAD systems it is entirely analogous to generating a new report from a database" (not analogous - they are actually databases with a cadd layer on top) But I would love for this to be true!

Quote examples

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"with modern CAD systems it is entirely analogous to generating a new report from a database" (not analogous - they are actually databases with a cadd layer on top) But I would love for this to be true!

Proper noun examples

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I don't know if it's inspired by Generic Cadd, but Autodesk Revit uses two letter mnemonics for shortcuts.

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How do you use cadd in a sentence?

Anyway, Generic Cadd was one of the top PC Cadd systems when Autodesk bought them out and then slowly killed them off.

What does cadd mean?

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.

What part of speech is cadd?

cadd is commonly used as noun.