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Alternatively one can just use grid paper and some scissors. I bet you learned a lot writing that program as a kid though!
by jfim 3y ago
Alternatively one can just use grid paper and some scissors. I bet you learned a lot writing that program as a kid though!
- dartos 3y agoSometimes a computer is just more accessible than paper.
- williamcotton 3y agoHow so?
- calamari4065 3y agoThe entire industry of CAD
- williamcotton 3y agoWhat does that have to do with implementing a 2D model of a room with movable furniture? How is paper not accessible? Do people not have note paper? What about junk mail? The last few pages of a book? You can make a scale ruler with any uniform markings.
- harimau777 3y agoThis doesn't necessarily apply to every situation, but drawing, cutting out, and positioning paper takes more manual dexterity (and potentially artistic ability) than moving things around on a computer. Pieces of paper are also likely to shift if you need to move things around frequently. In a small apartment, surface space could be limited.
- RugnirViking 3y agoactually using paper for designing objects, especially complicated objects, is an extremely annoying process. lots of erasing lines causing paper to break, areas with internal complexity requiring sub-diagrams, often causing nesting complexity to blueprints on large projects. It makes it so much harder to simply view and talk about the current state of a design when that means sorting through filing cabinets for revision B12 part A.3.1 only to find the paper has torn. Not to mention making physical carbon copies of things. It's one thing to draw a rough sketch of a part, and have someone else do the creative effort of turning it into an object. But quite another to specify in exacting detail how that part should be, so that given to several manufactories you would get back parts that are even remotely interchangeable. In that way it's a lot like the difference between a specification for a computer program, and the actual program. When designing parts I often use pencil and paper when in an initial meeting with stakeholders, to quickly demonstrate ideas. But these sketches are not analogous to the real thing. They simply represent a direction work could be done
- williamcotton 3y agoWe are talking about an application for moving furniture around a room, not designing mechanisms!
- digdugdirk 3y agoAnd yet I still want nothing more than to see Solidworks burn in the deepest depths of Dante's Inferno.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoWait - isn't the 9th circle of Dante's Hell a frozen wasteland?
- wombatpm 3y agoHe meant the Lake of Fire which is reserved for heretics, non believers, pedophiles, and CAD software
- digdugdirk 3y agoFrozen wasteland? Solidworks would blend right in.
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- jagged-chisel 3y agoNow, where is that pad of paper? Bah, the pencil is broken — who took the sharpener?? My computer goes with me everywhere and is ready as soon as I open the lid. Unless I forgot to charge it.
- smokel 3y agoThe Atari 400 would be connected to a separate CRT monitor.
- dartos 3y agoI can use blender, but I can draw or paint to save my life.
- eska 3y agoI remember being laughed at when I cut out coffee filters with a certain angle in order to plan how I would position motion capturing cameras to cover the room optimally. My manager liked the pragmatism though
- taneq 3y agoThere’s some incredible things being fabricated on YouTube with “cardboard aided design.”
- crq-yml 3y agoFor making it really exact to the actual measurements(which presumably was the goal) grid paper isn't going to work, not without large sheets and drafting tools. Illustrative drawing can be done freehand and allowed to slop and distort things a bit, but for a practical interior design you need to get down to centimeters of space.