The Joy of Hand Drawing Machining Prints || INHERITANCE MACHINING

[@InheritanceMachining]

Welp... my mom watched the video and knew all about the table's origins. Apparently it wasn't for my grandfather at all, but for my mom, aunts and uncles. Most of them took drafting in high school so needed it to finish out their homework. Must have been helpful since 2 of the 6 ended up becoming engineers. How I made it my whole life without knowing this is beyond me 😂

[@VintageProjectDE]

Well, assuming it was your grandfather's seemed obvious. This backstory makes it even more interesting. And as an (electrical) engineer I can only dream of having a drafting table here. Sadly lacking the space to have one. Keep it safe, keep it close! Manual drafting yields so much better results, at least in my experience.

[@stevenb7319]

I do love the pizza break in the intro. Well said video as usual. I love drawing prints and also have to deal with making parts using hundreds of poorly drawn blueprints so the appreciation for this video is several layers deep. 😁

[@canniballectus2560]

That's amazing, thank you for sharing that tidbit. I can only imagine what schooling was like in those days but hearing that your relatives had a drafting class sure is interesting. Then again time changes everything, when I was in middle school I had home ec elective and these days my children have some fancy computer elective, which explains how they burn water and kill Mac n Cheese. Thanks for sharing the drawing process, I really enjoy these type of videos.

[@dogsoupblues]

I took drafting in high school as well, and I've been kicking myself for years for not exploring it further. I've retained as much as I could from those days 20+ years ago by finding any excuse to use the techniques i learned, but I've forgotten much more. Your videos, and especially the drafting portions, have been re-teaching me better than when I was in school, and of course, they're very satisfying to watch in action, so thank you! I will say that I was taught different style arrowheads, but I like yours better 😁

[@derschwartzadder]

Worked as a draftsman in college. When it came time to do my senior project, I gave the school machinist a set of dimensioned, toleranced drawings. He almost hugged me. Guess the other students were ... less precise in their requests for assistance.

[@zakshah3480]

Dude, thumbnail game is on point, the music, the shot selection, the voiceover.....I swear, people have no idea that you've got an equally great talent at making videos as you do with drafting and machining

[@InheritanceMachining]

That really means a lot. Thank you so much! I also have to give credit to my wife. She's a big part of this channel, and in the editing most of all!

[@hafidzgi]

This, he's been killing it since he started this channel honestly, even his first video already set the bar high, there's not much people that possess all that knowledge so well, the attention to detail is just👌

[@Abrikosmanden]

Yeah, this channel is in the absolute top league of KZbin IMHO!

[@jasonhull5712]

@@InheritanceMachining well both of you a very, very talented people. Seriously, you make it look easy sir. And it is very much NOT. 🤷‍♂️

[@jasonhull5712]

There is only about four channels that demand my immediate attention, his is the top of that list. Your spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself. 🍻

[@mikepelelo5657]

As a longtime draftsman (now retired) I can really appreciate this video. My career spanned the transition from the board to 3D modeling. Actually even before the board. As well as being a draftsman I was also formerly a journeyman sheet metal mechanic, a fabricator, and a millwright. My first drafting methods were 2 types of CAD - concrete aided drafting and cardboard aided drafting. I am convinced that starting out my drafting career on the board made a huge difference on the quality of my work when I moved to drafting on a computer. I first learned VersaCAD, then Accugraph, then AutoCAD version 10. Progressed to Inventor and I have done some Solidworks since retiring. Thanks for the excellent video. You always seem to come through for your audience.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Wow, you've seen it all, then! I 100% agree starting at the board helps make for a better designer/engineer. Thanks for sharing and for the support as always, Mike!

[@antokomsic3571]

Hi Mike. I'm just a simple electrician. I understand and have done cardboard aided design but I've never heard of Concrete aided. You've got me intrigued. How did you use concrete?

[@mikepelelo5657]

@@antokomsic3571 Drawing or sketching with soapstone on a concrete surface like a shop floor or your driveway. Very handy! 😁

[@JSomerled]

I started pretty much the same..Automotive body design on Mylar with aluminum..Then CGS,PDGS,SDRC Ideas,Catia,IcemSurf lately,for fun,Fusion 360 and Solid Works.. Designing on the board was a great craft.. Also retiring in a few.. along with cad we picked up running workstations and servers in UNIX,LINUX,everything MS, VMWare, Cisco..My home lab is pretty amazing as well.. In automotive design,the day you stop studying is the day you need to quit..

[@chuckthebull]

I used Windows paint and called it ghetto cad

[@khazdor]

As a Designer/Draftsman with 40 years in the Trade, I still love drawing on a table. Using CAD just doesn't hold close to the satisfaction of drawing on paper. Cool video.

[@yancynancyfancy9860]

Agreed! I am an assistant architect, nothing beats manual artisan drafting. Just like nothing beats an actual hand written letter vs texting or social media...

[@alp763]

For us, new generation, it seems odd to use a pencil. Even though I can feel the satisfaction of doing so. Can you maybe name something aside from personal satisfaction, that makes hand drawings worth the effort?

[@SteelOfLegend]

Young guy here, I hated learning CAD in school and got much more satisfaction from my hand drawn prints. I'm currently in the process of figuring out how I want the rest of my room to be set up before I commit to building my desk. I honestly can't wait because I plan on drawing up the rough sketches of how my house will be remodeled and how I want my barn to be built. Hopefully it will last me for decades after as well.

[@soleVoid]

​@@alp763 First of all overall experience. In the beginning of my study as an engineer before i even knew that Computer Aided Design systems (CAD-systems) exist i was taught to draw by hand and all the rules related. It's been nearly three years since then and i still remember most of the rules and it helps a lot on practice even if I'm drawing with use of the CAD-systems. By the way because of it i started art studying by myself but it's not the point. That's it, nothing to add about.

[@KorianHUN]

I like drawing but CAD helped a lot. When i need 18 parts that interact with each other and thrpugh each other it is so much easier to assemble them in CAD and change dimensions to fit.

[@blakeasullivan18]

With everyone doing nonsense ChatGPT videos, this is the kind of content we need right now. Thanks!

[@smashyrashy]

just watch good channels like this, simple

[@DrTheRich]

Stop watching those then, you're training the algorithm yourself by what you watch..

[@blakeasullivan18]

@@DrTheRich I don't use KZbin's recommendation algorithms, generally. But I am unsubscribing to the creators putting out those kinds of videos. Hope you have a good day, man.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Much appreciated 🙏

[@ARob-bt4dr]

My dad and his dad were engineers, we have an absolutely beautiful leather bound book full of mechanical drawings and drafts which every once in a while I love to flip through. I really admire hand drawn work.

[@TheCreat]

I was kinda surprised when Adam Savage mentioned you in his recent "Good Shop Drawers" video (timestamp 37:57) as inspiration, though now I'm not sure why that surprised me. I just love how the "makers" often tend to watch each others videos as well.

[@svgalene465]

Same here, but I find it gratifying when one of the people who's videos I subscribe to reference another person who's videos I subscribe to. The Lock Picking Lawyer frequently comes up this way.

[@djsnowman06]

I see we all run in the same circles lol

[@svenhohne2697]

Absolutely true, watching the other makers videos is quite inspirational ;)

[@_D_P_]

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[@InheritanceMachining]

I think at the root of it a lot of KZbin makers just enjoy maker-type youtube content. Whether for entertainment, inspiration or both. But it is also bananas when Mythbusters Adam Savage knows who I am 😂

[@vinceearl4240]

I'm a woodworker, and I find so many mistakes or failures come from not thinking/planning ahead or from not having a good visualization of what I'm trying to do. The fact that you care enough about your projects to put the time into planning them is so fun to watch. And as a hobbyist, it's also great to see someone who has to think about materials differently than a professional shop. The professional gets to build time and materials into the final cost of the project and can absorb mistakes and waste across many projects. If the hobbyist is even getting paid for the work (i.e., selling it), the charge is often nowhere near the actual cost, especially in terms of getting paid for time. Consequently, the hobbyist has to think of materials in terms of what is currently on hand, where scraps and offcuts can be utilized, what's available, and what measures have to be taken to avoid mistakes. When I work with exotic wood, it's in very limited quantities, so I sometimes have to take extraordinary measures to avoid mistakes because I don't have excess material to work with. Not to mention, it's a 45-minute trip to the nearest hardwood dealer. I've seen you deal with similar issues in your projects. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to plan your projects so thoroughly, and for bringing us along on the ride.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Very true! That's why its good to hang onto all those offcuts (and mistakes). They may save my butt at some point. Thanks, Vince!

[@jasonhull5712]

It takes a whole new level of intelligence to do so gracefully and precise. Its definitely a true testament to the level of talent he possesses. Your wood working is no different, just a softer material. Some folks are just so talented and creative, it's so satisfying to watch.

[@derschwartzadder]

paper is cheap. Metal and wood are expensive. Even the time to make a simple sketch can save so much pain and waste.

[@Yigal_F]

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[@EclipseAtDusk]

Oh I can’t wait to watch this later. I’ve always appreciated the precision & clarity of your schematics! I used to work in a print center about 6 years ago, and hands down my favorite customer was the older gentleman who came in to get revisions to his hand drawn engineering schematics printed. He was working on a revision to reflectors that get embedded into asphalt roads, so they’d be less likely to come out of the road during the our harsh winters, especially with plows scraping over them. It was fascinating to talk to him about the process, and I miss those interactions

[@anthonyrivers8395]

I want to spoil it for you🤪 it was awesome, almost futuristic, thrilling, theatrical vid. 20 hours.!!🤭

[@jasonhull5712]

@@anthonyrivers8395 hahaha, your a terrible person! Lol But only if you actually enjoyed ruining it for him.. 🤣👍

[@toma5153]

Reminded me of my high school days when we had a mandatory mechanical drawing class for a year. Some simple layout and lettering, but mostly using drawings to demonstrate geometrical proofs. It went along with a geometry class. Just a small drafting board, a T-square, compass, a scale ruler and several triangles. Fun times.

[@AndresGarcia-qk3sj]

Same, about 2 semesters ago I had a mandatory technical drawing class, and I wish I had the setup that is shown in the video 😂 I was fighting for my life with my t square, wondering if it was still square or not

[@at0mic282]

I am an engineering student from Germany and we had projects to learn manual drafting (though I did mine without a machine as those are expensive). It was tedious but fun... though I still feel like the metric scale makes it way easier than having to calculate difficult fractions etc. Also, that picture for geometric tolerances in the video looked really close to one of our CAD assignments regarding the topic :) Great content, keep it up!

[@Moos1904]

Wo und was studierst du wenn ich fragen darf?^^

[@Smith944]

i was a draftsman. i understand the satisfaction of being involve in the entire process from idea to paper and to product. Truly magical.

[@keenanwekesa1723]

Back in high school, our drafting tables were slanted at an angle, roughly 15-20, so that you didn't have to hunch over when drawing. Also, you could still stand and use the tables comfortably. Great video. It brings back lots of good memories.

[@jamesmoran4120]

My old man is a 40+ year engineer and I took a year after school in basics school. My college and his company both had mechanically adjustable tables. Standing desks before standing desk. They had a winder to take it up and down and a seperate winder to tilt the table from flat to angled up to 20 some degrees. I used to love going into the drawing room to see 4 guys with 4 completely different drafting configs all to personal preference.

[@josheustice2948]

i work with cad in my day job as a civil drafter and started when they had stopped teaching hand drafting in college. after hours i fabricate parts and ever since watching your vids i have been hand drawing any of my machine parts.

[@InheritanceMachining]

I love hearing that!

[@hafidzgi]

I'm an architectural drafter, I graduated in 2018 and I'm glad that they still teach you how to do manual hand drafting at that time, my uncle had one of those drafting table too, although not as fancy as yours, it is still miles better than drafting on a regular desk, it's honestly a soothing process, well at least until you get real tired of it and/or have deadline to catch😂

[@InheritanceMachining]

Amen to that last point 😂

[@AsymptoteInverse]

I took a drafting class in high school in the mid-2000s. I still remember the manual drafting very fondly. There's something very pleasing about drawing something so precise by hand.

[@paulcharman44]

Absolutely brilliant, hand drawing is a lost art in most companies today but it is alive in your workshop. I fondly recall most of the techniques from my student days and a short time in a drawing office. Please do not stop doing these great drawings. Best wishes from the UK.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thanks a lot, Paul!

[@dwest200]

Started my career as a Draftsman in 1980. Progressed to Designer levels over 30 years. Day in and day out design and drafting. 1987 brought change. CAD. It was either convert or find a new career. On the board we would produce “layout drawings” of assemblies at 10:1 to confirm tolerances and avoid interference issues. Then individual drawings for each part of the assembly. CAD eliminated that step as everything was drawn actual size to four decimals. Geo tolerancing clarified the parts drawings. Then of course CNC became ubiquitous and design to finished part usually was faster on complicated parts. Anyway, there’s no better way to think than through drawing, regardless of the tools and methods. To truly know and understand anything, draw it. Thanks for the blast from the past!👍 BTW vellum and Mylar were the only materials translucent enough to create a blueprint reproduction back in the day . No laser printers or plotters. Diazo Reproduction was the primary reason they were used. Mylar because it wouldn’t stretch and was much more durable than vellum. Layout drawings and PCB’s were done on Mylar due to that stability. PCB’s were designed 10:1 and photographically reduced to 1:1 for the artwork negatives and positives. Fun stuff!

[@DavidHerscher]

Dang, I just can't get over it. Your videos are SO GOOD! The camera work, the cuts, the story beats, everything seems so perfectly anticipated and carried out.

[@InheritanceMachining]

thank you 😁

[@aethertech]

I bet he drafts his video storyline and scripts!

[@mazchen]

Folding those large DIN A0 plans was another art. So satisfying when finishing a large project, and then folding it and putting it all together.

[@TesserId]

To protect the paper when laying down a compass point, a bit of drafting tape (or dots) can be laid down where the point is to be placed. Drafting tape looks like common masking tape (often lighter in color) but with a weaker adhesive that won't tear the paper when removed. It's between the stickiness of drafting tape and post-it notes.

[@paulbfields8284]

Fresh air. I’m 67 and still conceive, design, detail on a board every day. There are head shakers where I work but I’m the only one that do all this and build whatever I draw with my own two hands on manual machining equipment. I’m Blessed to be one of the last of many generations of Journeyman Tool and Die makers. That has machine tool design background. They call me “non degreed” engineer .. we got to the moon without cad..nothing I do is rocket science

[@natancohen1990]

In today's world where everything is done in rush and haste your video brings to me a sanity and calm. l design products using Cad software and everything is dictated by deadlines. I envy you. I really appreciate your insights. This episode brought back to me so good memories of my late father drafting with same pencil and the same sense of pride in his work. Thank you

[@InheritanceMachining]

My pleasure. And thank you as well!

[@c.retana-holguin8318]

Memories flood me as I watch this. In the 1960s in 6th grade at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona, I had your traditional wood shop class where we would sit like medieval scribes on angled desks and drafted simple lines and shapes. "Bring it over and bring it out," our shop teacher, Mr. Earle, would chant as we slid our triangles and T-squares on grid paper. Later, we even made a small wooden book shelf that I still have. In 7th grade at Lassen Jr. High School in South Phoenix, our shop teacher would fling small irregular wooden blocks at us--each block was shaped differently--rectangular or square with an even smaller cube stacked on top. We drafted isometric views and when we had finished one he would throw another at us to draft. We were busy! I also attended graduate school at the University of California, Irvine and studied for the MFA in theater scenic design in the early 80s. We all drafted our ground plans, side elevations, and technical elevations by hand--and to scale using an architect's scale ruler. I have had several drafting tables, triangles, a horde of 2H, 3H, and B pencils, manual and electric pencil sharpeners, a Staedtler Mars electric eraser that cost a "pretty penny," and even a light greenish mat that went over the entire drafting table where you would place your vellum on and it would help create better pencil lines. It did! It was marvelous! And let's not forget the special masking tape and that wonderful eraser grit powder one would sprinkle over the vellum to keep it clean. (The name evades me.) In the 90s when I got my first theater design work, I switched over to technical pens (with three different nib weights) to draft on vellum; I also used transfer letters to create all of my information and numbers. Scene shops and people thought I had drafted on a computer. In around 2010, I transitioned to CAD--it's easier, faster, and of course the file can be saved and emailed to just about anywhere around the world. I can also use color for all of my dimension lines and one has an array of different fonts. You can copy and paste. Learning hand drafting first, has made digital drafting easier; however, I will never forget the work that went into creating a hand-drafted project--the lettering and arrangement of our design elevations showing front, side, and top views, and an occasional exploded view--it was powerful, artsy illustrative design. I once worked at a very old school that had been built in the 1930s. One day we had to secure the blue prints from the city and I remember looking at them--the layout, the measurements and writing all done by hand, and the various weight of the lines all on blue paper--pure ecstatic works of art! Hand-drafting, practically a lost art by now, will never be replaced--it was meditative, relaxing, and we all had to use our "noodles" and figure out how to lay out the design, measure, and move and twirl that pencil as we drafted our lines.

[@nolanoliver1761]

I’ve decided that, thanks to your videos, my present to myself for finishing my engineering degree will be a drafting machine. Thanks for inspiring me to get into a side of making things that I might not have otherwise.

[@InheritanceMachining]

That's awesome!! My pleasure, man

[@RobCoops]

The more of your video's I see the more I wish your grandfather could have seen the use you put the workshop to and the amount of time and effort you put into the parts that you create. The hand drawing of parts is for me the most interesting part I have always enjoyed the work and will still when I am making something bust out the pen and paper to create the drawing of exactly what I am about to create every single time. Thank you for sharing your hobby and the wonderful results.

[@InheritanceMachining]

You and me both. He might have had a fresh idea or two for me as well! Thanks Rob!

[@dougoberst9018]

I too started drafting in high school which led to my 35 year career (so far) as an architect. I second a lot of comments here and definitely recommend you use that electric eraser! Its a game changer with the shield. Also that ridge on the edge of your triangle is for using ink tech pens, it keeps the ink from bleeding under the triangle. Ink on mylar is the way to go, give it a try, i think you might like it. You can control line weight to really make your drawings pop. Object lines, cut lines, dimension lines, all have their own weight (thickness) that you control with the different pens. Drafting like that is truly an art and you would likely enjoy it very much. I miss those days on my drafting board.

[@Dalbayob69]

Been working in construction for almost 20y now and I can really appreciate a good drawing, makes your job a whole lot easier. Really enjoyed watching this, things done in old school way.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Amen! Thanks

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

Its fascinating to see how you guys do drafting over in the USA, with so many little details that are done completely differently.

[@markus-us1bg]

You mean wrong, just wrong. Best example is a 3/4 scale. Who had that idea? The only factors that should be used are 2, 5 and 10.

[@liamsmith8518]

@@markus-us1bg oftentimes in my drawings I find that the part is just barely too big for all of the dimensions I need and in that case 3/4 is incredibly useful since 1/2 would at that point be much smaller than I really need, and I've always appreciated being able to see all the features well

[@InheritanceMachining]

I wouldn't necessarily say my approaches are normal. I don't really follow many standards 😂

[@InheritanceMachining]

@@liamsmith8518 same! one of the few advantages of imperial over metric. Fractional scales like 3/4 are easy to convert.

[@AraniaTwoFer]

​@@markus-us1bg I have a small metric triangular ruler that includes a 1:75 scale which basically is the same as 3/4. So technically I could use it to draw something at 0.75 scale

[@Dream.of.Endless]

Back in gymnasium and technical high school, we had mandatory technical drawing classes. It was my favorite subject. Thank you for sharing this moment...i miss those times.

[@nblax41]

Mechanical drafting was my favorite course hands down in college. There's something very meditative about it when you're in the zone.

[@petemohanco414]

My dad was a draftsman and this video is like nostalgia central. The table and machine and wow that power eraser really brings me back. He always had a very distinct penmanship that I ended up copying…little did I know until watching one of your videos that it was taught and drafting specific. Love this channel

[@philmoregain]

This is so nice to watch. Back in my apprenticeship days i had to draw by hand too! So challenging but relaxing. Now I work with CAD but I always try my best to create meaningful and good looking drawings

[@InheritanceMachining]

That's the important part! I've often found you can tell the difference between engineers who started on the board or on a computer.

[@ToyotaStarletP7]

It's always great if machinists know how to draw and vice versa. Also I learned that for every purpose you will need different drawings, dimensions, tolerances,... for the same part. Like for design purpose you might do it in one way, but for manufacturing, QC, assembly,... you might do it in a completely different way.

[@moparmadman2544]

I started out my design engineer career on the board and eventually switched to CAD. I can appreciate everything that goes into board work and I actually miss it at times. I still have my inherited board, machine, tools and pencils. After watching this, so many lost memories have come back. This is where it all started for me.

[@davidschmidt8553]

Wow. This was beautiful. I'm one of the last generation to learn how to draft on the board; I still remember my high school drafting instructor, Mr. Patten. CAD never makes me feel the same sense of connection to the work that drafting does.

[@billyboyblue17]

As a long retired draftsman, I really enjoyed this video. Brought back many memories. I thought I was a pretty descent draftsman, then one day I was looking for some drawings for a new project with an old customer. Lo and behold I ran across some drawings that my dad had done (many years apart we worked for the same engineering firm) for this customer some 30 years earlier. What really humbled me was that all the drawings I found (for this customer and others) that my dad had done those many years before WERE DONE IN INK! Looking at all of Daddy's drawings I only found a very few with very faint pencil reference lines - and found absolutely no erasure marks! I never completed a drawing without eraser marks everywhere. - Talk about skill!

[@mybigjak]

Man , this was a work of art , i was one of the last guys to have 3 semesters of drafting at my college, i belive that if you are good doing a draft you are going to be good at CAD

[@danbreyfogle8486]

Your sketch reminds me of my work as a draftsman at a very well know recreactional vehicle manufacture in 1972/73. Detroit job shop engineers were hired to begin an advanced chassis department for a newly designed chassis for the motor homes. I had been working as a detail draftsman but was moved to this department and WOW, what a difference. They would bring me sketches on scraps of paper and scribbled notes and I would transform them into drawings that were conceptional only as this engineering project was working from scratch. I learned so much with this job, I miss it terribly. It was all hand work, no arm or parallel rule, we worked on flat tables with straight edges and triangles. Loved this video, it took me back to a day long since past.

[@Lol54211245loL]

So amazing! I'm taking a mechanical drawing class at my uni and im glad you included the truth that it took about 20 hours lol

[@InheritanceMachining]

Gotta give a comparison for those that only know the CAD game 😆 Thanks!

[@olik136]

I studied architecture in 2005 and we still had to draw by hand the first 4 semesters (NO CAD at all for 2 years...) we literally had to draw entire buildings brick by brick.. so I personally am completely over ever using a drawing table ever again.. architectural drawings are much bigger and more detailed than mechanical drawings though and most annoyingly have a lot more dimensional chains and writing... but it did teach us the importance of line weight- which architects that grew up on 3D software have no concept about..

[@mikepelelo5657]

Back when I studied (in my 40's), Geometric Development was a weed out coarse to knock the class size down. The entire first year was done on the board. The next weed out class was VersaCAD which was the only CAD around at that time in my tech school. Nowadays, that school doesn't even teach board drafting. They no longer even have any drafting tables or gear around there. Most of the kids coming out of high school now already know some 3D modeling. It's a shame really because some very good drafting practice can be learned on a board. Our host here is an excellent example of that. If a person can draft on a board and use a pencil, that person can always learn CAD. Not so much the other way around.

[@marshallmoneymaker8322]

This is one of the main reasons I like this channel so much. I took every drafting class available in school in the 80's, Mechanical, Architectural, etc I still print and make arrows the same way today. I remember all the things you do and wish I still had all of the items you use.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thanks! It's definitely training that stands the test of time!

[@ryandalm]

I always love this manual work, I’m very jealous of your skills and knowledge 🤩

[@InheritanceMachining]

Just a lot of time and patience 😊 But seriously, thank you!

[@ryandalm]

@@InheritanceMachining no problem, I can never wait to watch your newest uploads, so keep it up

[@jeremyphelps5140]

After my fabrication and engineering design class in welding school, I love to draft at home on the weekends. I’ll spend hours drafting to ease my mind and I feel very productive at the end of the day. Seeing something you’ve spent hours designing by hand be read and admired by someone else ready to fabricate it is an entirely different level of satisfaction that adds to the whole experience ❤

[@jentacular1375]

Officially watching in math class! Not in trouble yet

[@InheritanceMachining]

😂 a man of your word!

[@persephone9451]

German draftswoman here, I learned it 2017-2020 and we also have still been taught how to draw by hand :) I do guess though that we either have different styles of how to draw a screw or how to show a cut through material (45° lines) or that you learned it a bit different - still enjoyed the video very much, very well explained and I love your voice and your way of talking!

[@IslandHermit]

For the first 15 years of my life I used those horrible pink erasers that smear the pencil mark and abrade the paper. Then I used a Staedtler white plastic eraser for the first time. It was a religious experience. The pencil marks vanished without a trace and the paper looked almost untouched. I've never looked back.

[@Vikingwerk]

8:49 I have half a memory from my technical drawing class in college; of using masking tape or a drafting dot or the like as a re-enforcement on the paper under compass points, so the paper does not take as much wear, and the dot is removed when finished.

[@camoswald6752]

Awesome! I don't know if you remember me asking for a video like this, but this is exactly what I wanted! I have since been sucked into the drafting arm sector of ebay

[@InheritanceMachining]

I may single-handedly be responsible for the depletion of drafting machines on there 😂 Thanks!

[@girliedog]

Because of you, I purchased a vintage drafting machine. I've been doing working drawings with parallel and two-plastic angles for many years. I enjoyed getting to know this wonderful tool for the first time but quickly realized I only have one drafting table and could not devote all of its real estate to the drafting machine. I also do other non-mechanical drawings, so I had to return to my original setup. However, I am pleased to see this video pay homage to a lost craft. I hope this wonderful video will inspire some to give it a go. Drawing on paper, with a pencil or pen, is good for the soul.

[@InheritanceMachining]

It's definitely a space hog but at least you have it and can set it up when you do need it 😊Thanks as always!

[@snake525]

A pleasure to watch as always. Actually took my lunch break when I got notified that this came out so I could watch it immediately lmao I’ve been loving the diversions in recent installments (the whole pizza thing and visual gag with the wood fired oven) - really hope you continue adding those. Feels colloquial and relatable in a way that is difficult to replicate even by creators who devote substantial time and effort to doing so Hope you’re doing well, B - thanks for making these!!

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thanks, man! And I appreciate the feedback. Sometimes I (or my wife) comes up with some hair brained idea and cant resist not trying it 😂

[@snake525]

@@InheritanceMachining Of course, my dude! Lol - and here I’d thought you’d carefully crafted that analogy on a drafting table to a .001 tolerance You ever consider some sort of Q&A thing? I think a lot of your community has taken to watching for the creator as well as the content.

[@ronwilken5219]

Went to the same off kilter humour school as TOT.

[@InheritanceMachining]

@@snake525 not everything is as precisely planned as I lead on. A lot is, but not everything 😂 I did actually do a Q&A for Patreon a few weeks ago. I'll probably release it down the road though on a rainy day.

[@amundson1942]

You brought back high school memories for me! I took mechanical drawing from 1956 to 1960. I had great instruction with a teacher with a penchant for getting though my thick skull. After high school I used my drawing abilities to design plumbing systems and after retirement on wood working projects. Thanks for the memories!

[@irishwristwatch2487]

Ahhh, reminds me of being an apprentice! The grouchy old sod used to make me do loads of these! Its quite satisfying though, especially if youve got visitors and you pull out an old school print! They never need to know it was about 10x longer to do by hand 😂

[@InheritanceMachining]

That's what makes it even cooler!

[@GTScaleModelling]

What I find brilliant about this channel, and I hope that this isn't lost on you either, is that whilst you are getting all this enjoyment from what you inherited from your grandfather, you are also keeping that alive for your own descendants to enjoy. But also adding to that as well with your own parts, tools and drawings. Heck even that sketchbook will be looked on one day in wonder by someone, in the same way you must look at drawings/parts etc. of your grandfathers. And thank you for sharing that with us as well, it's a joy to watch you create those drawings, a true talent.

[@InheritanceMachining]

There is a small part of me that considers this in every project I do. Is this something I would be proud to pass on to my children and grandchildren? My hope is to inspire then to do work they are proud of themselves. in the shop or otherwise. Thanks!

[@jacobbijani]

very cool. I love the drawing sequences in the videos. for some reason I'm most surprised you draw the title block and border by hand, I would have assumed that would be preprinted.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Thanks! I've contemplated it since writing out the fancy name is a little time consuming (and inconsistent 😂) but something just feels wrong about starting with printed lines

[@ronwilken5219]

When I first started with broadcast engineering in Canada (1979) my boss was a Polish/German gentleman who did all our electronic and mechanical drawings on velum. He would sketch out in pencil using the very same engine that you have and then switch to ink. He rarely had to erase but when he did he had a similar eraser machine and the little shield you use. (As an aside I suspect the eraser in your machine is for ink and way too hard for pencil on paper. It'll dig a hole faster than you can blink.) He would then label and annotate in ink using a special pen and letter/number pattern that could be scaled to suit. The drawings would then be printed at a local print shop with black on white rather than blue prints. Three copies were produced. One for the shop, one for the drawing office and a working copy. If we techs found an error it was circled in yellow pencil and changes that we made were in red on the shop copy. The "shop" copy was left on his draughting table and he would update as soon as possible. All other copies were destroyed after the new copies were printed. We had drawings of every conceivable circuit in the station and transmitter sites so when, at two o'clock in the morning, something broke, the appropriate drawing led you down the correct rabbit hole to find the problem. When I became engineer of my own stations I started doing the same except with an early dos version of Autocad on a DOS based laptop. I eventually progressed to autocad LT student version and when I was retired in 2010 I spent my last six weeks or so making sure as many of my drawings were as up to date as possible. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane. 🤞🇨🇦🍌🥋👍

[@tuffymartinez]

I very much enjoy the quality of your shows. I am a retired 49+ years manual machinist. What you are doing is exactly how I have lived & made my living. I find my interest now is to explore a simple fun idea in my home shop, perhaps making some mistakes along the way? If in fact I machine myself into a corner, I also enjoy the adventure of machining myself out. The end result of just "winging it" is usually far more fun than the possession of the finished product. Making repairs for neighbors & helping folks out with some broken device is by far the most rewarding. Walking into my shop can be extremally rewarding when the focus is so intense that time does fly by. TM

[@AdamEarl2]

I have this Japanese mechanical pencil called “uni Kuru Toga”. There is an internal mechanism that rolls the lead as you lift and place the tip back on paper, so the tip is always worn evenly

[@estebannegrete7662]

My dad, who is an architect from the old days (so he made his whole career drafting by hand, only a couple years ago he got more into AutoCAD but he only uses the basics and well, he is half retired so who cares), told me to rotate my pencils while I threw a line, so as to keep the line width and color even. I did it, even when using a mechanical pencil, and well... my drawings were the best in the class :)

[@kaievans9991]

The Kuru Toga only rotates when you lift and place the lead back onto the paper, not when you moving it.

[@AdamEarl2]

@@kaievans9991 you're right!

[@Dogfather66227]

I almost never comment on KZbin videos but this one definitely stirred some memories. I am in my 70s now and learned proper manual drafting as part of the engineering curriculum at college. So while I have some distant fondness for it, I had the opportunity to learn CAD in the early 1980s (and a bit later, solid modeling) I jumped at it and used the technology for the remainder of my mechanical engineering career. To a degree I did lose some ability to do conventional sketching there but the speed and convenience of making changes and the inherent accuracy made me an instant convert. Moreover, constraints and parametric modeling were super hard to apply on paper. I guess I see computer design as somewhat analogous to digital photography. As you might suspect I ditched the wet darkroom and never looked back. As a practical matter though my decimal equivalents chart in my home shop IS on a stone tablet. . . Great video.

[@InheritanceMachining]

😂 The photography analogy is a great one that I always use! Thanks

[@4-anarchy321]

7:18 Made in Western Germany Man those are old

[@InheritanceMachining]

😂

[@enzopredes4156]

I enrolled at engineering last year and hand drawing was one of the first things they taught me. I suck at free hand drawings, but designing a piece by hand brought me so much relief and joy that I could do it through a whole day. There was even this time I began designing a piece at eight at night and finished 5AM, and I was happy, and tired of course. But I said out loud that I would do it all over again, all the nine hours.

[@ItsNotJustRice]

Incredible video. My father is a drafter of 50+ years, still pumping out hand drawn maps for communication systems. This video reminded me of my days in high school, when he'd teach me what he could. Id love another one of these!

[@davidpayne6709]

I remember growing up looking at my dad's set of drafting instruments with wonder and awe at how these could be used to produce the Lamborghini Countach engine cutaway drawing I had pinned to my bedroom wall (promotional material for a drafting film manufacturer). When I got to my very first technical drawing at university (a cross-cut chisel made from hex bar) I spent hours pouring over the details, lining up views, dimensioning and using my neatest handwriting to fill in the title block. I took it to show my dad and he soon knocked my over-confidence down: missing dimensions, incorrect representations, smudges from badly erased detail.... I use commercial CAD packages most days and having first learned hand drawing I appreciate the benefits of such software. It makes good commercial sense. Any changes or corrections are made in minutes. Your video shows exactly what commercial software can never bring to a drawing - the heart & soul of the drafter on every sheet. I still have my A3 drawing board from my uni days and you have reminded me why I kept it all these years. Thank you.

[@russellwall1964]

Oh yeah!!! This takes me back to my high school days when I took Industrial Arts classes. Not only did I fall in love with the layout and methodology, but some 4+ decades later, I still take great pleasure in the creation of a well laid out drawing for the parts I am about to make.

[@InheritanceMachining]

Training that stands the test of time!

[@mho...]

nothing more satisfying then getting an idea out of your head & onto paper, in all its detailed glory 🧐

[@charlvanniekerk8009]

I am currently a second year mechanical engineer and having done GD&T for 6 months already I can tell you that it can really boggle the mind. All the different available tolerances, bilateral, unilateral, symmetrical, basic etc there is so much to know! Its really nice to see it in action in context of the home shop and under the graphite of such a skillful person like yourself, its bound to produce the coolest parts we've ever seen. As you have have proven time and time again. Thank you for the wonderful in depth video of your process for designing and drawing these ideas, it was a joy to watch

[@InheritanceMachining]

I would be lying if I said I fully understood GD&T myself! 😂 Thanks as always for the kind words, Charl!

[@mikepelelo5657]

@@InheritanceMachining Nobody on this planet actually understands all the nuances of GD&T.😂😂🤣🤣It is an arcane subject and will remain controversial until the end of time. That being said, it is a great way to ensure consistency within a closed system; although you can produce the same results with drawing notes. It's when you send your drawings out to an outside vendor that the trouble begins...😎😎

[@jeffwood8109]

Lord, that drafting table and machine bring back memories. Spent a year in mechanical drawing in 9th grade...but we had boards and t-squares. Then did a year of architecture in 10th. I think if I'd stayed in the mechanical side I might have stayed with it. Staring at the same house for a school year killed it for me. Back in '83 AutoCAD was just getting started, I think the instructors were learning it as fast as they could teach it to the students... Your drawings are as much a work of art as the products you make from them.

[@ShainAndrews]

I've been on the hunt for the "right" vintage drafting table. This search has been an on and off again project for the better part of five years...

[@PaulewingStHelens]

Years ago I had a job in an engineering company as their CAD operator. They had a period of slack and they asked me to digitise all their old hand drawn drawings. Basically I had to just scan them but as I had so much time I decided to re-draw some of them in CAD. It was here I realised the beauty and skill employed to produce these wonderful works of art. It made me realise how much more skill was involved than being able to use a software package. CAD never seem to be able to produce the artistic side of drawing.

[@jimruddy6083]

Great! Took me back in time 40 years to my Mechanical Engineering drawing intro class in college. Most fun class I ever took! No cool arm, just T-squares. Please do more like this.

[@ScamstinCrew]

I dig the deep dive into the layout part of it. Ive always played at it on jobsites and stuff for sheet metal layouts and complex fitment. Id be lying if I didnt say I was envious of your drafting table and machine. Thank you for sharing it and your knowledge with us.

[@InheritanceMachining]

My pleasure, man. It's a good skill to have, especially knowing how to do it the hard way (i.e. without a machine) haha

[@465maltbie]

I took two years of Mechanical drafting in HS, 1985-1986. But other than a few hand sketches over the years I have always used the computer. Still have most of my drafting equipment, I just dont use it. Thanks for sharing, I am glad you are enjoying the process. Charles

[@heinpereboom5521]

Wonderful to see this! That's how I learned it in technical school in the 1960s. I remember the teacher saying, English and Americans will go from inches to millimeters in a few years, mainly because we found it difficult to convert from inches to mm. Nothing has changed yet haha! The movie is very well made.

[@23davidian96]

My grandpa was a draftsmen in aerospace and I've inherited a lot of his equipment. I've gone into the trade myself but it's all CAD now (for the better imo), however this gives me a greater admiration for the patience he must've had.

[@evanharriman5352]

I’ve been CAD drafting for several years and didn’t “learn” anything new, but I feel like a better drafter after hearing your explanations.

[@ronwilken5219]

Go to your local college night school. They probably have an introduction to CAD course to teach the basics of pencil/paper drawings so that when you do the computer course you can relate to the basic norms required . At least that's how I got into mine.

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

I did Technical Drawing to O level back in the late 70's before computers entered the classroom, with the goal of becoming a draftsman when I left school. Whilst CAD drawings are OK there is nothing like handling and seeing a hand drawn engineering drawing. Whilst my employment plans changed the skills I learnt from the TD teacher have helped me in my adult life. It's nice to see you are keeping this skill alive with your videos being a tutorial as well as functional. I have to agree with some of the other comments, in that your video skills and overall production is extremely good

[@907jl]

This episode was a real treat. Transported me back in time 43 years to Mr. Lukan's Shop/Mechanical Drawing class.......thank you!

[@InheritanceMachining]

My pleasure! Thanks

[@axelbergiers2339]

That table would have been a godsend during my hand drafting classes 😂😂

[@terrybrower3437]

Paper and pencil is how I learned drafting. I didn't even know CAD existed. I was amazed when I first saw a drafting machine-such a hi-tech instrument. Standing at a sloped table after years developing caluses on your elbows was all part of the job.

[@Tom-xn7zc]

I've bought a drawing table like yours at age 26 and for personal use I really enjoy drawing by hand instead of the 3D CAD computer options available to me for my job. Some smooth jazz on the background and a glass of good whisky gets my ADD super focus going at a pace I normally can not keep up with. I truly enjoy this channel since it reflects my personal situation almost to the letter except that I have had to source all the tools and accommodation myself.

[@coajokazz]

Im a technical draftmans and mechanical engineer and im still so satisfied by the whole process and the final result of a good technical drawing

[@rozinant1237]

After 45 years, I’m about to teach my last manual drafting class this fall. You did a superb job of discussing the basics of mechanical drafting. I am going to post this video for my students to watch first class.

[@InheritanceMachining]

That is quite a long career! It would be an honor for you to share my video. Thank you!

[@rozinant1237]

At our College, we still believe strongly in delivering one course in Manual Drafting. We have found (Thru experimentation) that our students do much better when they get to CAD. How do you you know what a “tangent” command is, unless you’ve touched it before, with your own 2 hands? Now, I need to sit you down and talk about your lettering………

[@stocks4bt]

I am a returning architectural student. Any advice or books you're willing to to help me with manual drafting

[@patrickcowan6134]

Was trained in 'proper' engineering drawing at school and as an apprentice Draftsman in an aircraft company; don't do it now, but do sketch out what I want to make, so I understand the pleasure of nice pencil tips, circle templates, or even the old Rotring pens. Nice to see someone recognise the satisfaction of the process.

[@kelm102]

This is probably my favorite video you've made. I took two years of CAD in high school, like your family and I'm assuming a lot of commenters here, and it's funny how much I still remember. We had drafting setups like you, but they were at an angle so we weren't hunched over the whole time. I still remember the various line types, and we used the same tools, but I never had to do ordinant demensioning. We never had any homework in the class we had to finish, so I never had a home setup. I ultimately didn't become an engineer, although I really wanted to. Funnily enough, being left-handed, my table was virtually identical, except that the machine was on the right side of the table and the ruler read 12-0 rather than 0-12 like a standard ruler. My dad was a machinist for 40 years, and the jobs he was working on often had a tolerance of a ten-thousandth, which blew my mind when he first told me.

[@markbrown9765]

Boy did this bring back memories. Back in high school (early '80's) I took 3 years of Mechanical Drafting. It really helped when CAD came along. I'm wasn't in the trades that needed as I did aviation electronics and then IT before retirement but have spent my off time building things from large and small. We're currently building our 3rd house so I sold my mill and lathe as we moved half way across the country. I really miss them and can't wait to get replacements. Your videos help fill the void, thanks.

[@mcorrade]

My father was a architecture draftsmen and I was going into mechanical but then stopped. I really wish I stayed with it. Its really nice to watch you draft.

[@anthonyrivers8395]

Wow, this video is going to be awesome. I’m commenting before I even see the video. I’m so thrilled.

[@anthonyrivers8395]

Well watched the whole vid…… sooooo much involved and dynamical !!!!! I would get a gamer chair😅😊

[@InheritanceMachining]

I definitely need a more comfortable chair! haha

[@johnhaines6501]

What a joy watching tools and processes I learned years ago when I started drafting in school.

[@jcsrst]

I love the look of your drawings! They have an artistic side to them, the placement, orientation and line thickness. Never knew there was so much involved. I appreciate the analog approach too!

[@edbilek8033]

My Dad had a drafting machine setup in our basement. I remember using it to draw all kinds of things when I was in Jr. High taking Industrial Arts classes (Drafting, Woodworking and Metalworking) in the late 70s. Then once in the workforce, I started using CAD in the 90s (AutoCAD running on DOS based computer with 13 colors). CAD didn't speed up the initial drawing, but it made modifications easier than having to ink new vellum to use as a Master for either Blue-Lines or Blue-Prints. Understanding the manual process helped in the 'auto' work.

[@newdutchworkshop7026]

Thank you for another wonderful video! As someone who occasionally does basic CAD drawing, it's really nice to see how the analog approach works and it actually helps to understand why software works the way it does.

[@InheritanceMachining]

My pleasure! Glad you liked it!

[@chriscraven9572]

Takes me back to school days (UK). Then it was plain boards, Tee squares, and 30/60 + 45 deg set squares. When I got to college it was, joy of joy, proper drafting desks with drafting heads. Loved the subject.

[@captainbackflash]

I love hand drawing. I find it soothing, calming and even meditational. I learned it as a apprentice at Trade school for becoming a mechanical engineer. Later as a student at the university of applied mechanics. Later, I became a master engineer and a certified CAD user, but I still enjoy hand drawing very much. And off course, we have drawing boards at home!!!!

[@pliantimpala7858]

My great grandfather was a carpenter amongst other things, but my father kept his all his drawings including those of the house he design and then built. The amount of detail and precision is quite incredible.

[@kummer45]

I cried when I saw those drawings made with the classical pencil, mechanical drawing arm and the wits of a man. This is the true profession of engineering, architecture in the purest form. Keep doing that. It's 100 percent a joy. I use Grasshopper 3D and Rhinoceros for my drawings. However THIS IS WAY, way, way better in my opinion. Drawing matters a lot. It's the heart of our profession.

[@chrisviking428]

Dude! This video brought so many memories from school flooding back too me. I had a teacher that insisted we draw the screw threads in detail (No Shortcuts he would say) I’m looking for a mechanical drafting scale right now! 😂

[@k.rot9175]

My father and my grandfather worked like that way over many years. Sometimes I was watching them, drawing stuff for machines or underground railroad depots. Later in school, we had lessons to draw machine prints and was building it too (just very simple things, like boxes for stuff or some other handcrafted stuff). Now I work on my on project with less skills, to draw parts of a garden railway locomotive. Maybe in some years, the train will be on the track. Your video was good to regonize, how I have to work on that project. Thanks.

[@johnkelley9877]

Having been a machine operator all of my working life these drawings with the dimensions and notes are very familiar and brought back good memories. Thanks for sharing this. It was very helpful and a great tutorial.

[@rob7439]

I started mechanical drafting in highschool I loved it, then got into CAD and later into machining, and even later instructing. To this day I cannot stress the importance of being able to hand draw a print. And I agree completely, a nice well drawn print is a piece of art.

[@deldridg]

What a breath of fresh air! As a woodworker, now heavily involved in a complex rebuild of our house, I'm ever reliant on the hand-drafting skills I developed in high school and at uni as an engineering student in the 80s. There's nothing more beautiful (other than my wife and daughter of course) than well-drawn plans and although Sketchup and other tools are very useful, I love the immersion of analog drawing (and analog photography, and analog cars, and analog people, and analog... etc.). Many thanks and warm regards from Sydney - David

[@InheritanceMachining]

I definitely have the same nostalgia for all things analog 😁 Thanks, David!

[@jonathanadams2623]

This video made me go dig out a book I have titled “ The Elements of Marine Engineering, Vol. 3. ‘Mechanical Drawing’”. It’s dated 1900 and is part of one of those International Correspondence Schools (ICS) courses that seemed to be popular at the turn of the 20th century. This thing goes into everything from basic tools (homemade not bought) to geometry fonts, line styles etc. The book also features a hand drawn electrical schmatic for a 1918 Saxon 6 model 4 and some briggs and stratton gaskets…. Weird yes but it came out of a salvage yard.

[@Curt_Sampson]

Boy, it's a good thing you found out early about that being an architectural scale! Imagine if you'd done the whole drawing with that and only discovered when the material arrived that the piece of metal you'd intended to cut down in your milling machine was eight feet across!

[@matthewpeterson3329]

Another wonderful video. I took the equivalent of 6 years of drafting in High School. Basically, 3 years of 2 hour blocks early in the AM. This video brought back so many memories! We had those exact tables in our drafting department. By the time I was a senior, I had templates for everything, multiple eraser shields for different applications, and several pencils for different leads. I got so quick that I started selling drawings to classmates from the machine shop class where they had to design then build their creations. There were several students who were decent machinists, but made sloppy drawings and got down graded because of their "penmanship". Eventually I got so busy that I started abbreviating the drawings by using proper GD&T, Measuring from datums and including datum frames, rather than doing longhand dimensioning. This was a blessing and a curse, as I could finish the work faster, but then had to explain the system to the student in a way that they could tell the teacher what they did and why... we gotta keep up this ruse, boys. We finally got caught when one of my "customers" couldn't explain true position to the teacher. I should have known better than to include such witchcraft in a drawing. Anyway, I loved this video. And your family was lucky... all I had at home was one of those crappy cable and pulley tables. You know, the kind that always ripped your vellum.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

I've been gaining a big interest in hand-made drawings lately, I've always enjoyed clear communication, old tools and machinery and this style of creating things, and you left me with the feeling you're the man I'd marry, even tho I'm a straight guy.