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Things To Do (page 321)
1(a)
  Computer Aided Design
(b)
  Alterations to drawings may be easily made and printed without redrawing. Drawings may be stored on disk thus taking up less office space. You can transfer a plan to a 3D view.
 
2(a)
  Addition of video clips and high quality sound. It also utilises the higher storage capacity of CD-ROMs.
 
3(a)
  Drawings which have been drawn by an artist and are available for you to place in your own documents or material.
(b)
  You may not be much good at art yourself or you don't have the time.
(c)
  Need to search for a suitable design. There may not be a suitable design. Need to be careful about copyright.
 
Examination Questions (page 357)
1(a)
  To enable lines to be drawn by the user using the mouse in any shape they want.
(b)
  So that pre-drawn shapes can be accurately produced leaving the user to only have to size them and position them. Examples include circles, rectangles, ellipses etc.
(c)
  So that labels, titles can be added to the drawing.
(d)
  A previously drawn shape can be copied to another part of the diagram.
(e)
  It allows the user to choose and create new drawing colours.
 
2(a)
  Designing new products, Producing architectural plans, Designing a room layout. Designing a new garden etc.
(b)
  Being able to rotate the diagram. Produce a 3D view from a plan view and vice versa. Apply shading to 3D objects. Zooming that allows more details to be seen. etc.
 
3(a)
  Spray; Flood fill; Geometric shapes; Rubber; Zoom; Text; Arrows, Drawing tool etc.
(b)
  Automatic dimensioning; 3D conversion; Automatic shading; Movement; Walk through; Database of parts/drawing objects etc.