Ugh to you, cool to me. Today we have computer aided drafting and the physical drafting tools are less necessary now. But there was nothing like getting down and dirty with the T-square and triangles and pencils. Remember the tool with the perforated, rotating dial that was used to create equally spaced text guide lines. It was also wonderful for creating hatched-in areas even though the professor said no, that’s not what the tool is for. But even he couldn’t see the difference in the result and it was easier than messing with the triangle and measuring off the position of each line of the hatch.
My dad used to have to use a slide-rule. Thank goodness Texas Instruments came out with a calculator. The same kind today that would retail for a couple bucks, well, maybe ten, my dad had to order for 250 bucks. We were allowed to look at it, no touchy.
My kids use graphing calculators in high school.
I took my grade in Engeering Graphics (part of the core, had to take it), and I ran like hell. IMHO, and it’s generally true, guys are better at spacial stuff than girls. That applied to me in the 3-D thinking and drawing that stuff. And that T-square stuck out of the back pack and was totally not fashion forward. lol
There was a real loser in my class. Out of all the students (30 or so) in the class, he decides to steal my drawings. The joke was on him. He must have not looked very well. Machogirl is not a drafter. He got poor grade. If I could have seen his face when he opened up the portfolio and saw a “D”. lol
Other than the triangles, t-square, green engineering paper, mechanical pencils, i blocked everything else out concerning drafting.