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First of all, I would like to welcome you to my CAD website which displays some of my work drawn with IMSI's TurboCAD V9.5, V10.2, and V10.5 Professional CAD programs. For the uninformed, the abbreviation "CAD" stands for "Computer Aided Design". In the past engineers and architects would spend hours at the drafting board laboriously drawing parts, floor plans, etc. to create the blueprints or plans needed for the design and construction of toasters, automobiles, aircraft, skyscrapers and even the massive hydroelectric dams seen around the world. Almost every object around us created by man usually starts out as an idea in someone's head, is then sketched out to more easily visualize the idea and then is drawn out as a blueprint or plan to guide in it's construction.

Today this time intensive task of having to manually hand draw each and every part and group of parts of a project has almost universally been replaced with computer aided design (or CAD). Not only is the use of CAD a much faster method, it often is far more accurate too. Hand drawing, on the other hand, (drafting is the correct term) also has severe limitations when it comes to visualizing an object in three dimensions. While useful in its own right, two dimensioal drawings can give only a crude idea as to what a project will actually look like once it is completed. Modern compters, however, now have the power to actually display a project not only in 2D but also in 3D (three dimensions) so that the project can be viewed and studied from any angle. Materials, colors and textures can also be assigned to these objects so that they can be "rendered" into lifelike graphic representations of an actual real object.

I would also like to mention a fine group of friends I have made on the TurboCAD User's Forum and the invaluable help they have given me both directly and indirectly through their postings. Without them, my leaning curve would have been much steeper. Thanks guys!