I have been in the civil engineering side of things for about 20 years and I
think the revolution in drafting occured in the 80's - that is when the age
of drafters went away. So how about this: since release 12, all we are
doing is making the tech job more secure by making all of these programs
more complicated.
As far the the end result - in my field - going from design to a built
environment - I have not seen any "great" productivity enhancements in a
long time. Mostly, it comes down to how an office is managed. And that is
always a problem, since the things that make a good engineer/architect/cad
person are not the same things that make a good people/business manager.
"Pete Gaudette"
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> "PF" wrote in message
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> > A good manager will hire a cad draftsman/manager to
> customize things for his
> > engineering staff...
> > A really good cad guy will act as a 'consultant' and "work
> his way out of a
> > job"... He'll customize the system for the engineers to
> run Without a
> > "simple" draftsman.
> >
>
> Never gonna happen, most engineers I've worked with have no
> interest in being drafters or CAD Techs. Sure, they like to
> fool around with a CAD program, but let them sit and do
> hundreds of drawings day after day, no way, that's not what
> they trained for or in most cases were hired for.
> Design/drafting is a learned skill and so far there isn't a
> CAD program out there that can replace a good designer, make
> life easier yes, replace, no. The magic button hasn't been
> invented yet. It's a hard concept for some to grasp, but
> the computer doesn't engineer or design, it just sits there
> waiting for instructions.
>
>
> > Software improvements need less "hands-on"
> custiomization... customized
> > software needs fewer semi-skilled designers.
>
> Like I said, a good tool, but you better have a top notch
> designer doing , or overseeing your customization
>
>
> > Be forwarned... while there will always be Some need for
> them, techs are a
> > dying breed! (IMO)
>
> Techs, maybe but skilled designers well versed in CAD use,
> not yet.
>
>
> > And a company that fires the Skilled Cad staff is either
> MORE capable than
> > last month, or more in trouble than a firing can help.
> >
> I'll vote for deep dodo, no helping them. Fits in with
> coporate America, "we need to cut back", so what do they do?
> Lay of mail clerks, file clerks, and maintenance people
> ect.... Then can't figure out why nothing improved.
> That's my $1.50 worth for today.
>
> Pete
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> >
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