CAD/CAM referred as “Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing”. CAD- computer technology based designing tool assist architects, engineers and other professional plan designer to improve the design activities. Integrate the CAD system with the computer-aided manufacturing generates fastest and effective manufacturing process. Related acronyms CADD stands for "computer-aided design and drafting". Some of the basic terms of the CAD/CAM are Designing, Drafting, Modeling, AutoCAD, Engineering, Rendering, Microstation, Pro E, Ideas and LISP Programming. Some of the popular terms of “CAD/CAM” are described as below:

CAD drafting concern with to preparation of technical drawings and plans which are used during production and construction to manufacturing products such as industry machinery, building plans or anything else related to manufacturing and production.

CAD designing includes the process of preparing general structure of any product or services. Generally CAD designing concerns with the building plans, construction plans, as-built drawings, electrical and mechanical drawings.

A CAD/CAM modeling concerns with conceptual tool that contains a huge set of objects, elements and relationships among them which allows express the production and manufacturing logic.

AutoCAD is a suite of CAD software products for 2-dimentional and 3-dimensional design and drafting.

The process of generation of an image from a model referred as rendering. The model is a description of three dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure.