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  1. #16
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    I admire you "ButtCad" heads. Is that correct...

    terminology? I "grew up" drafting with pencil and drawing table (when I had access to one). I still have a drawing board and T-square somewhere. I enjoy the cad work. But it does consume an awful lot of time that I would rather spend playing with wood.

    It seems like the more details there are to a piece the more I feel that I have to get every one down on paper. I think part of it is just lack of confidence and part may be lack of experience. I am still green enough (and yeah, slow enough) that each new project has new things to learn that I haven't tried.

    I use SOP a lot on really small projects. Perhaps that will come more with time.

    Nobody roughs things out on napkins anymore? Do you guys not eat out or is it that the restaraunt would frown on you keeping their linen? Try faster food!

    David

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    Times do change...

    Originally posted by Paul Held
    I'm with the "old" guys. Not that I consider myself old. But I generally use the seat of the pants design method. I sketch designs on pretty much anything. Once had a design for an end table, including turned leg profile on a postit note.
    Well, this is not a postit note, but below is the actual plan for the very first furniture project I made when I started woodworking back in 1988...a cherry desk for SWMBO inspired by a Thos Moser piece. The final desk is slightly different, but a picture is available at this link .

    I use DesignCAD now for most of my large projects, but simple sketches are still very useful for many things. That being said, CAD is allowing me to document things better for future use by me or others.
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    The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...

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    Re: Not Alone

    Originally posted by Ken Salisbury
    5 Barns Grumbine said:
    I use ButtCAD, otherwise known as seat of the pants engineering, so I guess I am a little different here.

    Me thinks he is not alone in his methodology. We "old" people (those who have been at it since way before CAD, computers, all all them other fancy things) use his method. To be specific --- my method consists of rough pencil sketches on discarded brown paper bags with a few estimated overall measurements. Material list consists of what ever happens to be available. Every now and then it has resulted in an acceptable piece of work. ---- oh well I guess some of us are just lucky.
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    Understand Ken perfectly. I have been known to pull up to macdonalds drive in with my order written on a scrap 2x4. Oh yea. Steve


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    Re: Re: Not Alone

    Originally posted by Steve Clardy
    Understand Ken perfectly. I have been known to pull up to macdonalds drive in with my order written on a scrap 2x4. Oh yea. Steve
    Steve...that kills me. TLOML bought me a recording tape measure because she saw me writing on a board. Between you and I it's the way I was taught to work. I always loose paper and now can't figure out how to see the measurements I record on the fancy tape measure.

    But don't tell her...she's the best.
    Glenn Clabo
    Michigan

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    Re: Re: Re: Not Alone

    Originally posted by Glenn Clabo
    Steve...that kills me. TLOML bought me a recording tape measure because she saw me writing on a board. Between you and I it's the way I was taught to work. I always loose paper and now can't figure out how to see the measurements I record on the fancy tape measure.

    But don't tell her...she's the best.
    Mums the word Glenn.


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    Re: Re: Not Alone

    Originally posted by Steve Clardy
    Understand Ken perfectly. I have been known to pull up to macdonalds drive in with my order written on a scrap 2x4. Oh yea. Steve
    I have suffered abuse on numerous ocassions for writing things down on a board, or walking into a store with a scrap of plywood with things written on it. I patiently explain that anyone can see that it is a message board!

    Bill

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