CAD are useful as an aide to completing a design in as timely and efficiently a manner as possible, but they are also a very useful visual aide for people who are perhaps less design oriented. If you’ve had any experience with pitching an idea to those who’ve got their hands on the purse strings, so to speak, then you could probably tell everyone yourself how difficult it is to provide enough insight into what it is you want to create; words are rarely enough.

As a visual aide, CAD processes can be used very early in the design stage, with little cost, to give a basic visual idea of what it is you’re aiming to produce. For pitches that you do, this is invaluable. Those you’re pitching to aren’t necessarily interested in your vision of what the product could look like, they want to see the product. This holds true whether you’re designing a building or designing a product.

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