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CAD programs were designed to automate hand drafting processes. Most of the autocad commands made no sense until Drafting 101. It was a full semester of hand dr
by deckar01 6mo ago
CAD programs were designed to automate hand drafting processes. Most of the autocad commands made no sense until Drafting 101. It was a full semester of hand drafting, which did feel excessive. Hand writing hundreds of words in an engineering font is just a waste of time.
- hydrogen7800 6mo agoI took pencil and paper mechanical and architectural drafting for 3 years in a high school vocational program (in the US) which also included learning AutoCAD. I enjoyed the pencil and paper work more, and I must have been among the last age groups to learn it. By the time I became a working engineer only 5 years later, there were no vestiges of manual drafting anywhere. Computer desks must have been the main focus of draftsmen for many years already. I'm not sure if it helped or hurt my CAD drafting skills, but the attention to detail was almost meditative for me during what seemed like hours of silence among a dozen other kids at drafting tables. Not sure I have any real point here, just sharing my experience.
- deckar01 6mo agoMy local community college still had hand drafting as a prerequisite before they would teach me the software as of a few years ago.