Think before you draw.<\/p>\n
Hand drafting took a long time.\u00a0 It caused you to think before you actually set information to paper.\u00a0 Thinking is good.\u00a0 In today\u2019s fast paced CAD and BIM markets, the software moves quicker than some people think.<\/p>\n
Moving from one sheet to another caused you to give pause and think \u201cAm I done?\u201d.\u00a0 Since you had to remove the vellum or mylar or whatever from the drafting board, you stopped and thought about your next step.\u00a0 Do I want to commit to removing this file now?\u00a0 You can say that it is easier now to call up a drawing that when needed when you realize you need to add something.\u00a0 But that is a break in the flow of thought.\u00a0 Stopping and starting jars the thought patterns and derails creative and detail oriented thought.\u00a0 Deep thought in a unified direction is better. I am sure that you have seen disjointed CAD files because they were created piecemeal.<\/p>\n
Starting a new sheet was a daunting task, again causing you to pause.\u00a0 Do I have enough info to get started?\u00a0 Drafting has always been an iterative process, but the iterations were much longer.\u00a0 When you had to add a sheet to a set, you use to first see where the data you were adding might fit on an existing sheet.\u00a0 Not as often now.\u00a0 Just click \u201cNEW\u201d and start drawing.<\/p>\n
I use to be a Technical Illustrator.\u00a0 It was a moonlighting job that I worked at night.\u00a0 Boy that is going back a ways.\u00a0 I would work all night long on one or two sheets, creating technical documents to show assemblies and systems in exploded views.\u00a0 It was tedious and took some planning to figure out how to get down on paper what the graphics were trying to convey.<\/p>\n
It was a thinking process.\u00a0 I cannot tell you how many times I have heard some designer say that he wished the drafter would just think about what they are drawing.\u00a0 It used to be forced upon us.\u00a0 Now it is becoming a lost art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Think before you draw. Hand drafting took a long time.\u00a0 It caused you to think before you actually set information to paper.\u00a0 Thinking is good.\u00a0 In today\u2019s fast paced CAD and BIM markets, the software moves quicker than some people think. Moving from one sheet to another caused you to give pause and think \u201cAm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-basics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}