I no longer see the need to know how to do hand drafting with a drafting table. The basics are certainly a necessity, but the days of sitting at a drafting table by the hour is long gone and a waste of every one's time. Hand sketching is still important to communicate on the brainstorming level.
Teaching hand drafting would be like teaching math students how to use a slide rule before a calculator. I am not old enough to have used a slide rule but I am sure there was a transition period where math teachers were teaching the slide rule before the calculator. IMO, We are at the very end of the transition period between hand drafting and CAD. The basics of drafting are needed to use CAD successfully but that is the extend of the drafting knowledge needed. |