General Draughting
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A draught is an engineering drawing, design or sketch. General draughting services remain important and although CAD (Computer-Aided Design) draughting has taken over to a large extent, a competent engineering company such as D3 Engineering Solutions retains its general draughting skills.
Draughting skills are one of the basic building blocks of sound engineering discipline. Draughtsmen draw up engineering drawings of the product that they are designing. They start their training on the drawing board, drawing physical drawings, before moving on to CADD (Computer-Aided Draughting and Design). The computer is just a more advanced form of drawing board, where designs may be draughted much faster, with advanced CAD software programs.
CAD draughting is the digital computer processing of engineering drawings. This enables faster handling of data and speeds up the design process. 3-dimensional visualisations can also be made of CAD draughts, to see what the finished product will look like. During this process, all the properties of the finished component or assembly may be entered into the program, such as the material cross sections, type of materials used and so on. Simulations, calculations and tests can be performed on the virtual product and the draught may be changed and redesigned if the virtual tests show that it does not stand up to design scrutiny, physical strength or fatigue life projections. Even animated simulations can be performed; vehicle manufacturers utilise this technique to envisage how a car’s body structure will perform in a crash test, before it has even been built.
Basic general draughting remains a required skill in order to successfully start engineering design projects and follow them through the CAD draughting and eventual production processes. D3 Engineering Solutions can be part of your engineering solution today. Contact us.