Re: Tirade

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 13:38:00 EDT

> Everything I can do on Cad, I can do just as fast
> on the board...

That's what my brother (graphic designer) said when I suggested he get a Mac. In fact he prefaced it with spitting noises. Now he laughs when I remind him of it. I seem to recollect saying something of the sort when I first got into using FEA. Once I'd recognized it as a means to enhance engineering skills and not a stand-alone skill, it all made sense.

Anyone who has the presentation and organizational skills to design on paper already knows the hard stuff. Learning to work software is easy after that. The problem is that the process doesn't work backwaards. Skill with CAD software doesn't convey design skills. Computerized crap is still crap.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=yrSDgNlStZKsQhGswxnQ6WFNE4DruW-bkEG7nZK-M9eEJgpKnPtEW8w1VEW7-vNnIqq6XXpGjovL">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Mon May 07 13:38:00 2001