Thanks, I appreciate it

Ummmm ok? That's wonderful. Are you here with the intent of sparking a debate?

I do both CAD and mesh modeling.
The basic strength of CAD has always been precision location and dimensioning down to the lowest 0.00000"/mm your system can handle, and mathematically *perfect* shapes.

More recent applications also allow the creation and modification of solid shapes, calculations of mass and inertia centroids, the calculation of stresses based on real material properties applied to the computed material in the CADded shape(s), can automatically calculate moving part interference, aerodynamic/hydrodynamic interactions, thermodynamic activity, etc...

AND, of course, CAD is only half the idea. Most CAD can export precisely to computer-numeric-controlled (CNC) machining centers (lathes, mills, vertical machining centers, stereolithographic prototypers, etc...) and allow rapid prototyping of complex parts that will be to-spec on the very first run.

put it this way: mesh makes pretty but wholly virtual things; CAD makes testable and machinable simulations of real objects.

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