Do any of you use a drafting table for any of your work?

[Currahee]

Do any of you use a drafting board/table for any of your work or like me a make-shift board. I find I cant do any project, no matter how large or small with out putting a preliminary plan on paper. Did anyone start out on a table? I know I started out on a table in high school (before computers) and wouldnt take anything for the experience. I just wish I had room in my office for a real drafting table.

[ReMark]

Not any more although I started my career "on the board". I do keep a pile of scrap paper handy to sketch out ideas though.

I do have all my drafting equipment still. When I retire I'm going to open a museum dedicated to the "profession" of manual drafting. Maybe I'll hit you up for a couple of donations like an erasing shield, horsehair brush, etc.

[Organic]

Not as such. I regularly draw rough freehand sketches to convey something although that is the extent of it.

[Currahee]

I still use horsehair brushes in my cabinet shop...I couldn't live without them!!

[ReMark]

Remember this thread?

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...orsehair+brush

[Dana W]

I started on a board in 1970, but now my computer is sitting on the drafting table.

[ReMark]

BD: Put away your straightedge and buy yourself a pad of quadrille lined paper.

[Currahee]

BD: Put away your straightedge and buy yourself a pad of quadrille lined paper.

LOL...What do you think was underneath that straight edge...LOL

And I had never seen that post or I had forgotten about it.

[ReMark]

You were using a T-Square AND quadrille lined paper? You do know what the unflattering term for that would be don't you?

[neophoible]

This sort of thing may be related to the psychology of the creative process, that is, to what you personally associate with when being creative. I personally hated working at the drafting board, so making the switch to CAD was a godsend, and one I desperately fought for--begged for, more like it. But I wasn't on the board all that long, maybe a couple of years or so professionally. If the ideas come better and quicker via the board, then it may not be such a good idea to simply ditch it. The switch may ought to come more slowly.