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lolwatever
Does anyone do mech eng around here?
if so umm is the focus on computer aided modelling in future years or do they expect you to use the olden day 'hand drawing' multiview sketches and stuff?
just out of curiousity.. today everyone loves thier CAD... oh and onneeee more question, what CAD software do u use?
Salaam bro i just fwd ur question to few friends ,one of my friends has responded (maybe he didnt understand ur questions), Insha'Allah my other freinds will reply too.
aasalam alakum
First of all all your friend has a genuine question. He has every right to
be concerned about today's engineering practices been carried out in the
industry and the things that are taught in the universities today.
My friend, no matter how much technology advances in the industry regarding
engg. drawings, the basic principles are very important to understand which
are right taught in the universities.
Yes, there is extensive use of the hand drawing in the industry but most of
them are the responsibility of AutoCAD draughtsman .. who are like computer
CAD boys hired specially to draw them on paper and on CAD.
Today's engineer only gives the conceptual diagrams to that draughtsman ..
who works with the engineer to make final copies on the CAD. Yes, there are
industries where there are no draughtsman .. and the engineers have to make
first paper or CAD drawings and have them reviewed later.
Actually our universities teach us all the basic skills been used 'out
there in the industry' .. the usage depends upon the kind of job a graduate
engineer lands upon first. If its a Project engineers job then there is
extensive usage of CAD, if he starts with a Maintenance engineer's job like
I am in right now then there is no extensive usage of CAD drawings but yes,
the usage of hand made drawings and that is because hand made drawings dont
take too long to make. We have like a graph papers and we make a rough
sketch of the machine part we want its final drawing to be made and then
send it to the CAD draughtsman who then make their final CAD drawings. One
reason why every engineer doesn't work directly on CADs is because in the
real world .. companies dont buy licences for every engineer.. they just
buy a couple of CAD software licences and then have one engineer or a
draughtsman .. use them for every job.
There is no 3D paper modelling done in here .. nor is there 3D modelling
done on CAD atleast not in the industry I work in, which is a like a
maintenance engineering for a process plant. Companies who are making parts
or where machines are been made may be using such extensive models.
On the question of which software are been used .. there is extensive usage
of AutoCAD.
I'll end this by saying that tell your friend to never take granted any
thing that is been taught in the industry. To be true, the subjects that I
thought were the most boring are been used the most in the industry. Like
this engineering drawings, Materials Management etc.
Make the best use of his time and make studying harder his prime goal. You
cant imagine the results that are gonna come to him out in the real world
if he is prepared.