SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Difficulty” is a skill issue. There are likely old-school drafting architects who could blow the doors off a CAD designer.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Difficulty” is a skill issue. There are likely old-school drafting architects who could blow the doors off a CAD designer.
Bags@piefed.social 1 month ago
My grandfather was a draftsman for one of the big military contractors back in the day. He's got some of his old work framed, it's really amazing what the human hand used to accomplish with only a straightedge and a compass... As an engineer who uses a lot of Solidworks, sometimes I romanticize and yearn to blow everything up and return to the artful days of hand-drafting as the standard.
My first job out of college was re-making tools to manufacture small electromechanical assemblies for repairing old military aircraft. (Said tools had been thrown away by some previous now-fired director who thought "We haven't used these tools in 15 years, surely we don't need them anymore...", but when the military calls up and asks for part XYZ for a B52 that you've manufactured for the last 65 years, you don't say no, even if you haven't made the part in 2 decades). I had an entire room full of B, C, and D-sized hand-drafted drawings to pull specs and dimensions from, and each one was so beautiful in its own way.