That’s assuming you’re going to be learning 3D software somewhere in the not too distant future.įrom : Mechanical Engineering Drawings - Roymech So I say don’t worry about using a different software just for GA, because either way you won’t use it in a year or two. Less effort is good, but the fundamental understanding helps. Once you use 3D a lot less effort goes into making the 2D drawings (fully dimensioned drawings are a still a pain, but not every product needs them and that usually falls to an engineer). Despite rarely ever using the software again (never after I learned 3D) it was actually good to have to learned 2D drawings before using 3D software, because it made us concentrate more on how to read the views and put them together to make a 3 dimensional object. It was Technical Drawing and we did the first half by hand and then switched to computers for the latter half. I actually used Graphite as well in a college course (graduated 2006). Something like Graphite may be quicker to make some quick and simple 2D drawing, but 3D has so many other advantages and once the part is modeled it can spit out whatever views you want instantly. The standard is to make it in 3D and have it spit out your 2D drawings. This may not be true for some specific engineering disciplines (or perhaps companies that are a bit behind tech-wise), but the industry standard in product design is to not use GA specific software (and also to not call it GA, perhaps technical drawings or control drawings, in my experience).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |