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Talking to a retired architect about his old hand-drawn blueprints
He said the hardest part of switching to CAD wasn't the software, it was losing the feel of the pencil line weight telling you something was wrong. Anyone else miss that physical feedback from the old ways?
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the_ben2mo ago
Reminds me of my grandpa, a machinist, talking about his old lathe. He said he could feel a bad cut through the vibration in the handle, something the digital readout on his new machine just couldn't tell him. That physical sense is totally gone now.
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the_kelly2mo ago
Yeah, and that's how you get a whole generation of machinists who can't fix their own gear.
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Ever read that article about how surgeons lose some fine motor skill when they only train on robotic simulators? It's the same idea... you can't feel the tissue tension. That's what @the_kelly is getting at with machinists, I bet. The tools give you numbers but take away the gut feeling something's off.
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