An interesting forum. Everyone' views have a good deal of merit so in the end all you are really going to get is opinion based upon
experience.
My education in the early 80s involved a good deal of tedious drafting which I later came to appreciate as it allows
sketches, not always just done on napkins, to represent your ideas in an accurate way and this is often more spontaneous than
working on a computer. CAD drawings are always much clearer than simply drafted drawings and are therefore much easier to use.
As a recipient of a drawn idea, few of us have control over the format in which the drawing will be sent ,sketch draft or CAD so it is best if we can learn to interpret them all easily and converse by using them all.
It is wise to learn to sketch as a kid then, when your spacial reasoning is ready, to learn the basics of drafting before using and relying on a computer program to do all the calculations for you. As with all things that are easy one pays a price in terms of basic ability, we only need to look at the average ability of people to spell words in their mother tongue after using a computer for some years, to get proof of that.
Of course anything is better than nothing but an all-round ability would no doubt be most desirable.  |