Tim Pigott-Smith

Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.

English Actor

Jonathan Ive

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

English Designer

Jamie Hyneman

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.

American Entertainer

Josh Homme

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

American Musician

Bjarne Stroustrup

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

Danish Scientist

Steven Crowder

The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!

Canadian Actor

Bre Pettis

Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.

American Businessman

John Burns

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

English Activist

Describes a man with a lack of morals, often rude or disrespectful.

Negative Connotation

Used in conversational or informal writing but not in formal contexts.

Informal Term

Specifically refers to men, has no female equivalent in usage.

Gender-Specific

Specifically used in technical or professional contexts related to design.

Specialized Vocabulary

Remember that in this context, CAD stands for 'Computer-Aided Design'.

Acronym Meaning

When related to design, 'cad' does not describe a person's character.

Not a Personality

In medical contexts, CAD refers to a serious heart condition.

Medical Abbreviation

Understanding that CAD is a grave health issue can add weight to discussions.

Serious Condition

CAD as a disease is often discussed in healthcare and academic environments.

Context-Specific

 they used the basement of one of their hospitals. And instead of installing the large-scale machines used by western producers, they used low-cost CAD/CAM prototyping technology. They are now the biggest manufacturer of these lenses in the developing world

Tim Brown urges...

 his family come to its appear nine you know prototype these new idea is to test drive these new hands and to be able to see the higher perspective you know what this is all about to see how that our of CAD you know translated into him being

How 3-D-Printed...

 CAD did the calculations for the lunar data and the solar data at that location on earth at the time of the incident of the shooting all right it was well past the end of civil twilight and there was no moon up tonight so all the light in

Cad

Negative Connotation

Informal Term

Gender-Specific

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