![]() Which, was interesting in itself.Īs to an argument of paper versus CAD, all I can give is my own personal opinion, as one who sometimes uses both. I actually read that article, with an interest in seeing the argument for using pencil and paper over using CAD, and was slightly disappointed to see it was just covering techniques of doing the drawings. In my case there is one large drawback to Cad, that would be the time spent learning how to use it! Still have paper sketches all over the place although most are now pencil mark-ups placed on the front or back of printed Alibre 2d drawings. >So I look at Alibre as just another tool in the arsenal (toolbox). If you really want to spend some time hand draw a scaled isometric or oblique view of some piece of ornate furniture. Some people have a hard time visualizing front, side, and top views anyway. Couple this with a realistic rendering program and you have greatly increased communications with your client. >Now a Cad program is really good at making changes. "Back to the drawing board" as they used to say. ![]() The biggest problem with hand drawn plans is the time involved changing part or all of it when a client, upon seeing their idea on paper for the first time, will usually start making changes. A practice that saved me grief several times. >I used a drawing board for years to not only come up with working plans for myself but also to give clients a precise picture of what they would be getting. In my shop I will use whatever tool I have or can afford to get the job done. It has always been my opinion that if modern power tools had been available to the highly regarded craftsman of yesteryear they would have used them. ![]() There is a certain purist consensus that believes only hand made cabinetry (made only with hand tools), represents true craftsmanship. I cancelled my subscription because they increased their price, touting their desire to keep a high glossy, heavy weight paper format, in keeping with their high (Fine) quality image. >There is a five or six year stack of Fine Woodworking stored somewhere in my shop dating back to the late 70's. Hop, let me say if you are nothing else you are a pretty good writer. but don't look at me, I'm mostly just a woodbutcher rather than a fine woodworker, and not particularly adept at using AD either. So why would Fine Woodworking print such an article? Maybe one of the more articulate AD woodworkers on this forum could write a rebuttal article. It is so much easier to just buy another HDD when one gets full than it is to sort through and file a zillion sheets of paper.īecause this forum does exist, I know the pencil and paper paradigm should be dead or dying. And it is easy to create new versions of a design attempt without throwing away earlier ideas, so nothing gets tossed. I may still have a problem retrieving (and re-using) AD designs because I haven't mastered M-Files yet (the current version of Alibre Vault), but at least I know approximately which hard drive they are probably stored on. Either the paper gets tossed, or if it's a keeper it winds up buried in a stack of other papers, emerging only after the need for it has long passed. My personal biggest problem with the paper approach is availability and permanence. I am sorely attempted to agree with the author, having pushed and tugged at AD for several years now without much success in making its use "second nature" compared to just using a ball-point pen or mechanical pencil to sketch out my ideas. The gist of this article: it is much easier to trace out a design (or at least a design for box-like furniture) onto semi-transparent vellum or rice paper using an underlayment of isometric grid paper as a guide than it is to use computer-aided-design software, such as Alibre presumably. A synopsis is available here and, if you are a paid-up member of, the full PDF download. Fortune, in the current issue of Fine Woodworking published by Taunton Press, titled "Put Your Designs in Perspective" and sub-titled "Why pencil and paper still beat the computer".
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