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Computer-aided design (CAD) is defined as the use wide range of computer-based tools which helps engineers, architects and other design professionals in their design activities. It is an important geometry tool within the Product Lifecycle Management process, which involves both software and sometimes special-purpose hardware.

Some of the current packages range from 2D vector based drafting systems to 3D parametric surface. CAD is also referred as "computer-assisted", "computer-aided drafting". Also some of the related acronyms are CADD, which stands for "computer-aided design and drafting", CAID for Computer-aided Industrial Design and CAAD, for "computer-aided architectural design". These names may sound similar but there are quite a few differences in their application.

A9CAD

Screenshot of A9CAD Software

A9CAD is a 2-dimensional general-purpose freeware CAD program. It facilitates industry standard DWG/DXF drawing formats. With the help of A9CAD you can draw shapes such as line, rectangle, circle, poly-line, text and dimension. You can also perform drawing modifications like move, scale, rotate, explode, trim, fillet and mirror. Also, editing color, fill mode, line type and line width. You can change entity attributes via properties window, manage drawing styles and settings and configure drawing environments.

The size of the setup file that is to be downloaded is 15.6MB

System Requirements: - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

• 2D/3D CAD Systems

• Electrical CAD Systems