You could learn a CAD program -- or you could invest in an industrial 3D scanner.

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DeltaCad: This easy-to-learn CAD program can produce scaled house plans and maps, as well as business cards, forms, signs, labels, and flow charts.

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Ott got out her laptop, opened an engineering CAD program and, on-the-spot, created what Howard described: an aggressive climbing shoe with a downturned toe like a banana.

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The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife.

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Presumably, to obtain the design for a widget will be as easy as downloading a song (both legally or illegally) because the design is all software, a small file that a CAD program would handle, for example.

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He didn't own a computer-aided design, or CAD, program.

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He didn't own a computer-aided-design, or CAD, program.

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Students in the program learn to use computer-aided-drafting (CAD) to design a photovoltaic system, they learn about the sorts of issues that come up when designing such a system, and they learn about the installation and maintenance of such systems.

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