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{{Short description|Method of CAD drawing file translation}}

'''CAD data exchange''' is a method of [[Engineering drawing|drawing]] [[data exchange]] used to translate between different [[computer-aided design]] ([[Computer-aided design|CAD]]) authoring systems or between CAD and other downstream [[CAx]] systems.<ref name="Schoonmaker2003">{{Cite book|last=Schoonmaker|first=Stephen J.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50868192|title=The CAD guidebook : a basic manual for understanding and improving computer-aided design|date=2003|publisher=Marcel Dekker|isbn=0-8247-0871-7|___location=New York|oclc=50868192}}</ref>{{Rp|page=157}}

Many companies use different CAD systems and exchange CAD data file format with suppliers, customers, and subcontractors.<ref name=":2" /> Such formats are often proprietary.{{r|Schoonmaker2003|p=157}} Transfer of data is necessary so that, for example, one organization can be developing a CAD model, while another performs analysis work on the same model; at the same time a third organization is responsible for manufacturing the product.<ref name=":05">Xu, X. (2009).&nbsp;''Integrating advanced computer-aided design, manufacturing, and numerical control: Principles and implementations''. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.</ref>