Da Vinci, CAD and Photoshop.
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Do you think Da Vinci would have been more productive with CAD and Photshop? I find myself doing things that seem harder than they were before. Sometimes, I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to: I'm using Visio and create 10 pages of diagrams and still feel unsatisfied. I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Do you think Da Vinci would have been more productive with CAD and Photshop? I find myself doing things that seem harder than they were before. Sometimes, I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to: I'm using Visio and create 10 pages of diagrams and still feel unsatisfied. I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I used to do drawing for my woodworking projects and kinda wing it with measurements, but I have TurboCAD and became fairly proficient at drawing so now I use it to do my woodworking projects. I akin it to typing as opposed to had writing, you can move thing around, change them, etc.. Makes life a lot easier.
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I used to do drawing for my woodworking projects and kinda wing it with measurements, but I have TurboCAD and became fairly proficient at drawing so now I use it to do my woodworking projects. I akin it to typing as opposed to had writing, you can move thing around, change them, etc.. Makes life a lot easier.
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For 2D I use NanoCad and for 3D I use SketchUp. So far, they fullfil my needs. I do find that when "thinking" about a project I still prefer to do drafts with pencil, once I have a better Idea and details start to be important, then I go to the PC
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For 2D I use NanoCad and for 3D I use SketchUp. So far, they fullfil my needs. I do find that when "thinking" about a project I still prefer to do drafts with pencil, once I have a better Idea and details start to be important, then I go to the PC
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Yeah same here, I still do hand drawings to get a general idea of what I want.
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Yeah same here, I still do hand drawings to get a general idea of what I want.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I still do hand drawings to get a general idea
I think doing things by 'hand' to get started helps by minimizing the tool(s) required to express your idea. Pencil/pen requires almost no thought to move the idea from your head to the paper. Using an application on a computer is more indirect, putting the mouse/keyboard/application between you and the screen. One of those "ePaper" tablet devices with an intuitive CAD program might give you the best of both worlds.
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Do you think Da Vinci would have been more productive with CAD and Photshop? I find myself doing things that seem harder than they were before. Sometimes, I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to: I'm using Visio and create 10 pages of diagrams and still feel unsatisfied. I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to:
Err...you are also more experienced now. So your perceptions are colored by that. Not to mention that one must keep in mind that human memory is very selective. And not necessarily exact.
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
Yes but you probably don't present the napkin to your co-workers from which you intend for them to work. Sometimes the tools get in the way just because of their precision. If I don't know the solution at all then I might stare into space and/or doodle on a piece of paper. When I know the solution then I use the tools.
