After re-thinking this, you are right, when I want to design something, I
turn to the paper FIRST also ! ! !

But to create drawings with accurate dimensions and details, you can not
touch CAD.

"daclark" wrote in message
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Charles Gwathney, a world renowned architect, told Charlie Rose one
night, that in order to achieve design, you have to perceive with the
eye and articulate with the hand. He went on to agree that CAD was a
valuable tool for layering out a multiple-storied building, but was
adamant, that CAD is not a creative tool, merely functionary to the
process.
Tom Brokaw, in a commencement speech, said that technology has let us
down. The technology, which was designed to free man from his
drudgery, had actually enslaved him.
Mechanical drafting skill endows the individual with a proprietary
sense of proportion and scale, and man remains the greatest technology.
Plus, the drawing board is good for reading the newspaper on...