Proper Drafting Technique

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

Everyone who's used any kind of CAD software should know what im talking about here...when your drawing on the computer, especially 3d modeling, crazy stuff can just happen out of know where...

I'd disagree with this. Maybe at first the crazy stuff happens, especially when you're getting to know the in's and out's of a software package. However, the great thing about CAD packages these days is being able to derive your drawings from your parametric model and have those drawings update whenever a model is changed. If you were hand drawing this and the design changed , there would be a significant amount of time editing or creating a new drawing.

I agree that drafting by hand absolutely helps to understand proper drafting techniques and standards. That being said, it's almost 2010 - time to go digital people.