[Strider]

My father was a designer when he worked (40 years at the same place) and the only advice he gave me is if I ever went into CAD was to learn drafting down pat. He told me towards the end of his career people who came out of college with CAD degrees (He was old schooled and never got a degree) were lost at the job because while they learn CAD down cold they didn't know a lick about drafting itself. He was constantly fixing their work or finishing it because when you are doing a job for real there are deadlines to meet. He taught himself CAD and he enjoy it for if he made a mistake all he had to do was delete his mistake whereas he would have to erase it completely or start all over again if he was using a drafting board. I remember as a child going to where he worked and showing me a drafting board that took up a whole room. He just laughs at that now for it now can all be done on a desktop computer using a plotter.