Any one who has worked in product development will tell you that one of the biggest challenges is translating the industrial designer's beautiful vision into a manufacturable engineering database. One important reason this so hard is the tools that we work with. To the unititated CAD may look like MacPaint but to the engineer they are attempting to define complex organic forms using commands based on boolean algebra. Doing this while maintaining the elegance of the designer intended required a skilled and experience engineer teamed with a savy and patient designer. What we really need is better tools. We need tools that help with the creative process not stand in the way. We need tools that have their user interface design by developers with a focus on usability not by engineers and mathematicians focused strictly on precision.