Viewing the future of CAD

This look into the future uses the term CAD in the sense of “computer-aided design of 3D geometry data”. I further restrict the scope to applications that produce geometry defining the shape of physical products. I consider three different aspects of CAD´s future: geometric modeling and visualization, making geometry available to other applications, and keeping the data under configuration control. The world of CAD for physical products will continue to push the limits of available computing resources. Even with the fundamental limits of geometry algorithms, CAD will continue to increase in strategic importance, especially as digital designs age and are transformed into new generations of products