Computer aided drafting can help to build the near impossible structure or solution to a product or building problem. Computer aided drafting is where a computer and a special CAD programme is used to draft a plan of how to do something with materials matching the strength required to make the product or structure safe and effective.
It takes years to understand precisely how to use the programme most effectively and a continuous progression of staying current with the new building materials constantly being developed.
Many innovative small trade businesses have great ideas but seem to waste money on making those ideas work. Having an idea as to how something could work to seeing it actually working can be a very expensive exercise in frustration.
Many trade contractors are innovative people and are frequently asked to manufacture and install solutions to near-impossible building requests. These jobs cause frustration both to the customer and the trade contractor and when expensive materials are used, someone usually has to wear the loss.
By drafting a detailed plan on a computer screen first will save a lot of money and frustration.
Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) programmes are used today by most Engineers and Architects to design buildings and everything that has to be strength tested in some way or another. CAD programmes are also used by many industrial designers and numerous other trades but it is not all the same programme as over the years, these programmes have been developed for trade specific jobs. The intention of what the programme is needed for hasn’t changed; just the method of achieving how each design is arrived at.
CAD programmes for industrial designers and other users of the technology differ from how an Engineer or Architect will use the technology. In the “old days” pre-computer, Engineers and Architects used a slide rule. This worked pretty well but often doors were placed and overlapped walls or opened the wrong way. All kinds of wrong instructions were put in the plans for the builders to have to try to follow or sort out. The theory or plan on paper often didn’t match the practical reality when a builder or plumber tried to put the instructions into practice.
Over the years, these incorrect building instructions built up a lot of resentment between the architects and the tradespeople following those instructions because it was usually the builder who ended up out-of-pocket. Even today, a good builder will still do their own check. It still pays to do this to save money on the job. Trust is hard to get and easy to lose.
Over the past decades many new building materials have become available for all trades who use a CAD programme and all of these new product and building materials come with specifications for how and where they are to be used.
The ramifications of misusing any type of material in a product or structure today are huge. Many lawyers make a very good living from these types of lawsuits. To stay out of trouble you are well advised to use a Computer Aided Drafting professional in your quest to build the perfect product or structure.
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