QUICK SKETCH, SCAN AND SHOPRENDER

A quick loose sketch and scan. You can sketch, scan and color any drawing in Photoshop within a few minutes. This technique could be applied to for floor plan and drawing presentations. Especially for building perspectives. It would be quite easy to do so especially when you are in a tight schedule. You do not really have to render every drawing in 3d Max. I have been doing this technique and still working on loosening up my sketching technique giving me time for more other tasks like the estimates. The result would not be the best sketch in the world by far, but it is quite cool enough for me.

DRIVING THE TABLE

Drafting work is not that hard to do. At first you’d have to learn how to use the right instruments for the write purpose. Mechanical pencils, technical pens, special erasers, ink, tracing paper, triangles, t-squares and you. These are basically what’s needed for architectural designing.  Drafting is a little more like driving. One has to keep the instruments in mint condition. Every piece has its own purpose. As you sit down and drive to draft, you’d be experiencing smooth and rough roads. As one could always speed up as the drive gets smoother and smoother.

ERASE RACE

Erase is a good word.  It corrects mistakes and cleans the smudges on drawing papers.  Erasers are mostly useful in wiping out large amounts of pencil or construction lines on drawings especially in drafting. Erasing is usually done after the penciling and before inking.  The eraser is equally as useful as the forever useful pencil.

TWENTY ZERO NINE

I have something new to explore today.  Though I'm expecting little changes, the newly installed AutoCAD 2009 that I'm trying right now sure did looked a little different from its predecessors.  And I'm sure there are some more newer than this.  AutoCAD 2010 and 2011 as well as 2012 should be on the market nowadays if you care to buy.  But again, it's the drafting and the design that counts.  AutoCAD could just still serve as the most helpful in architectural drafting nowadays.

MANUAL DRAFTING AND THE AUTOCAD MONKEYS

I still have some of my drafting materials since school.  I know almost everybody on the profession is now doing Autocad and all the new software that go along with it, it still seems to feel good to do drawings manually.  I feel sorry for some architecture students who were not trained to do manual drafting.  But I'm sure they were taught in school the way we were. 

THE DRAFTING MAN

If we define the word through Google, we'd find out that the draftsman's nature of work is to translate a designer's ideas into a finished picture using drawing and drafting skills. So it doesn't necessarily mean that the draftsman would be the designer too. All the while an architect or a designer tend to give the draftsman the job of having his designs presentable. This means that a draftsman would have to do the drawings with the designer's approval or edits. So the designer would have to be the concept maker and the prime mover and thinker. In short, Draftsmen are individuals whose primary function is to provide technical support to the designers and engineers who work in construction.