Originally Posted by
ps_bond
There's been an interesting back & forth on Ganoksin too about CAD; one of the points that caught my attention is the idea that the people coming online with CAD who haven't got the bench skills don't have less of an idea on the design part - the practicality & wearability of items (rings too heavy & too wide, for example). Is there merit in the idea that someone going from the bench side to *include* CAD (and remember, it is Computer Aided Design, not about the computer designing for you) will have a clearer idea of what constitutes good design?
I think my ideas on CAD are currently for 2 prongs - 1 is to use it as part of the design process, regardless of whether the item is fabricated or cast (and a potential selling point for commissions - there can be a lot less miscommunication with a rendering of what the item will look like), the other to design and cast very, very small runs (i.e. 1) of things that I can't fabricate sensibly.
At the end of the day, it's just another tool.
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