@zakshah3480
Dude, thumbnail game is on point, the music, the shot selection, the voiceover.....I swear, people have no idea that you've got an equally great talent at making videos as you do with drafting and machining
@blakeasullivan18
With everyone doing nonsense ChatGPT videos, this is the kind of content we need right now. Thanks!
@mikepelelo5657
As a longtime draftsman (now retired) I can really appreciate this video. My career spanned the transition from the board to 3D modeling. Actually even before the board. As well as being a draftsman I was also formerly a journeyman sheet metal mechanic, a fabricator, and a millwright. My first drafting methods were 2 types of CAD - concrete aided drafting and cardboard aided drafting. I am convinced that starting out my drafting career on the board made a huge difference on the quality of my work when I moved to drafting on a computer. I first learned VersaCAD, then Accugraph, then AutoCAD version 10. Progressed to Inventor and I have done some Solidworks since retiring. Thanks for the excellent video. You always seem to come through for your audience.
@khazdor
As a Designer/Draftsman with 40 years in the Trade, I still love drawing on a table. Using CAD just doesn't hold close to the satisfaction of drawing on paper. Cool video.
@ARob-bt4dr
My dad and his dad were engineers, we have an absolutely beautiful leather bound book full of mechanical drawings and drafts which every once in a while I love to flip through. I really admire hand drawn work.
@TheCreat
I was kinda surprised when Adam Savage mentioned you in his recent "Good Shop Drawers" video (timestamp 37:57) as inspiration, though now I'm not sure why that surprised me. I just love how the "makers" often tend to watch each others videos as well.
@vinceearl4240
I'm a woodworker, and I find so many mistakes or failures come from not thinking/planning ahead or from not having a good visualization of what I'm trying to do. The fact that you care enough about your projects to put the time into planning them is so fun to watch. And as a hobbyist, it's also great to see someone who has to think about materials differently than a professional shop. The professional gets to build time and materials into the final cost of the project and can absorb mistakes and waste across many projects. If the hobbyist is even getting paid for the work (i.e., selling it), the charge is often nowhere near the actual cost, especially in terms of getting paid for time. Consequently, the hobbyist has to think of materials in terms of what is currently on hand, where scraps and offcuts can be utilized, what's available, and what measures have to be taken to avoid mistakes. When I work with exotic wood, it's in very limited quantities, so I sometimes have to take extraordinary measures to avoid mistakes because I don't have excess material to work with. Not to mention, it's a 45-minute trip to the nearest hardwood dealer. I've seen you deal with similar issues in your projects. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to plan your projects so thoroughly, and for bringing us along on the ride.
@toma5153
Reminded me of my high school days when we had a mandatory mechanical drawing class for a year. Some simple layout and lettering, but mostly using drawings to demonstrate geometrical proofs. It went along with a geometry class. Just a small drafting board, a T-square, compass, a scale ruler and several triangles. Fun times.
@dwest200
Started my career as a Draftsman in 1980. Progressed to Designer levels over 30 years. Day in and day out design and drafting. 1987 brought change. CAD. It was either convert or find a new career. On the board we would produce âlayout drawingsâ of assemblies at 10:1 to confirm tolerances and avoid interference issues. Then individual drawings for each part of the assembly. CAD eliminated that step as everything was drawn actual size to four decimals. Geo tolerancing clarified the parts drawings. Then of course CNC became ubiquitous and design to finished part usually was faster on complicated parts. Anyway, thereâs no better way to think than through drawing, regardless of the tools and methods. To truly know and understand anything, draw it. Thanks for the blast from the past!đ BTW vellum and Mylar were the only materials translucent enough to create a blueprint reproduction back in the day . No laser printers or plotters. Diazo Reproduction was the primary reason they were used. Mylar because it wouldnât stretch and was much more durable than vellum. Layout drawings and PCBâs were done on Mylar due to that stability. PCBâs were designed 10:1 and photographically reduced to 1:1 for the artwork negatives and positives. Fun stuff!
@EclipseAtDusk
Oh I canât wait to watch this later. Iâve always appreciated the precision & clarity of your schematics! I used to work in a print center about 6 years ago, and hands down my favorite customer was the older gentleman who came in to get revisions to his hand drawn engineering schematics printed. He was working on a revision to reflectors that get embedded into asphalt roads, so theyâd be less likely to come out of the road during the our harsh winters, especially with plows scraping over them. It was fascinating to talk to him about the process, and I miss those interactions
@at0mic282
I am an engineering student from Germany and we had projects to learn manual drafting (though I did mine without a machine as those are expensive). It was tedious but fun... though I still feel like the metric scale makes it way easier than having to calculate difficult fractions etc. Also, that picture for geometric tolerances in the video looked really close to one of our CAD assignments regarding the topic :) Great content, keep it up!
@keenanwekesa1723
Back in high school, our drafting tables were slanted at an angle, roughly 15-20, so that you didn't have to hunch over when drawing. Also, you could still stand and use the tables comfortably. Great video. It brings back lots of good memories.
@AsymptoteInverse
I took a drafting class in high school in the mid-2000s. I still remember the manual drafting very fondly. There's something very pleasing about drawing something so precise by hand.
@TesserId
To protect the paper when laying down a compass point, a bit of drafting tape (or dots) can be laid down where the point is to be placed. Drafting tape looks like common masking tape (often lighter in color) but with a weaker adhesive that won't tear the paper when removed. It's between the stickiness of drafting tape and post-it notes.
@randallcleaver6990
Loved this! Mechanical Drawing was one of my favorite classes in high school. Watching this brought back memories.
@mazchen
Folding those large DIN A0 plans was another art. So satisfying when finishing a large project, and then folding it and putting it all together.
@josheustice2948
i work with cad in my day job as a civil drafter and started when they had stopped teaching hand drafting in college. after hours i fabricate parts and ever since watching your vids i have been hand drawing any of my machine parts.
@hafidzgi
I'm an architectural drafter, I graduated in 2018 and I'm glad that they still teach you how to do manual hand drafting at that time, my uncle had one of those drafting table too, although not as fancy as yours, it is still miles better than drafting on a regular desk, it's honestly a soothing process, well at least until you get real tired of it and/or have deadline to catchđ
@Dream.of.Endless
Back in gymnasium and technical high school, we had mandatory technical drawing classes. It was my favorite subject. Thank you for sharing this moment...i miss those times.
@InheritanceMachining