Advanced Benefits :

Advanced benefits are more complex, and thus less easy to achieve but at the same time bring great efficiencies in reducing costs and leadtimes. Put briefly, there will come a time when 3D CAD methods can be smoothly integrated with other computer systems within companies - and even the internet. This will enable users to quickly locate the most cost effective components easily, reducing the CAD operators need to search for, and then model them, as well as allowing production and scheduling software to have visibility of bills of material that are evolving as the 3D CAD modeling develops. Although difficult to achieve at present, this will become common place in time, but only for those who work in 3D CAD methods.

2D methods are not able to relay the quality and quantity of design information because 2D methods will always rely on human interpretation or visualization skills to interact with a 2D design. Interpretation, visualization and interaction with a 2D design is always difficult for non design staff and almost impossible for computer systems to extract information, because computers do not have the ability to interpret representative (I.e. incomplete) visual information.