I've heard that said too but it is mostly bull. Given equal ability, the CAD
draftsman will leave the board guy in the dust. Typically though, the board
draftsman will be much better at planning, layout and geometric construction
giving him the edge. The problem lies in education. Typically, drafting
courses these days spend most of their time teaching the software rather
than teaching drafting. People learn to rely on the software. This is true
of a lot of newer technology. Better tools should increase productivity.
Often, it doesn't. People just work less hard to compensate.

"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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I read somewhere that CAD really only saves time on changes rather than on
the initial drawing (unless of course that initial drawing can be started
from something similar). If you are starting completely from scratch,
experienced manual drafters can turn out a drawing as quickly as
experienced
CAD operators. However, since almost every drawing is going to be revised
over the lifetime of a product, the time saving on changes is very
important.