CAD standards product shape data" is under development. It defines how to represent quality criteria together with measurement requirements and representation of inspection results. CAD standards CAD Standards are a set of guidelines for the way Computer-aided drafting (CAD), or (CADD) Computer Aided Design and Drawing, drawings should appear, to improve productivity and interchange of CAD documents between different offices and CAD programs, especially in architecture and engineering. Most common: Samples of standardised layers: Thickness for pens and plot: "0,13 mm Gray, 0,18 mm Red, 0,25 mm White, 0,35 mm Yellow, 0,50 mm Magenta, 0,70 mm Blue, 1,00 mm Green". In AutoCAD
Computer-assisted reporting edition of which was written in 1969, Philip Meyer argues that a journalist must make use of databases and surveys, both computer-assisted. In the 2002 edition, he goes even further and states that "a journalist has to be a database manager". In 2001, computers had reached a critical mass in American newsrooms in terms of general computer use, online research, non-specialist content searching, and daily frequency of online use, showing that CAR has become ubiquitous in the United States. The techniques expanded from polling and surveying to a new opportunity for journalists: using the computer to analyze huge volumes of