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!!

Edited August 27, 2012 by Currahee

[ReMark]

Remember this thread?

 

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?47690-You-know-your-an-old-draughtsman-when...&highlight=horsehair+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?

Edited August 27, 2012 by ReMark

[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.

[ReMark]

My suggestion would be to put the "T-Square" away. Permanently.

[rkent]

Everything starts in CAD and stays there, I started out on the board by the way. I worked at one place in the 90's and if the boss found you had sketched something he made you sticky back it to the drawing, he wasn't going to pay us to draw it twice (that was his thinking and I mostly agree with it). He would always tell us after seeing a hand sketch "I can sell that, sticky back it". He didn't much care what our drawings looked like going to the client, but I did so I found another job.

[ReMark]

An interesting approach to say the least. What if you spilled some coffee on the sketch? LoL

[Currahee]

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

 

LOL...no...fill me in..I have no idea..LOL

[Currahee]

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.

 

THERE YOU GO!! My mind doesnt get to rolling unless I have a pencil, paper and my T-SQUARE..LOL. I could sit in front of the PC all day looking at the AutoCAD screen but you give me a pencil and paper I just go to town with my thoughts and ideas, then I put it all together on CAD

[Currahee]

Everything starts in CAD and stays there, I started out on the board by the way. I worked at one place in the 90's and if the boss found you had sketched something he made you sticky back it to the drawing, he wasn't going to pay us to draw it twice (that was his thinking and I mostly agree with it). He would always tell us after seeing a hand sketch "I can sell that, sticky back it". He didn't much care what our drawings looked like going to the client, but I did so I found another job.

 

I dont necessarily draw it twice..I just get my thoughts together on paper before I start on CAD

[ReMark]

It's part of the word analyze.

[Currahee]

It's part of the word analyze.

 

YES....THAT IS ME!!!!!!!! Been told that by many people....LOL

[Squirltech]

I've used a drafting board before but it's been years. Most of my work starts in CAD and stays there. Once in a while, I'll use my "white board" to illustrate something but it's promptly erased and usually doesn't end up in CAD.

[SLW210]

I have discussed trying to locate an old drafting table and setting it up here at work. It should be a GO when we get time to round up everything.