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Expert: Daniel Mazur - 8/4/2009


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I was planning to enhance my skills of Engineering Drawing in which I am very much interested. Please tell me is it beneficial to practise more and more Engineering Drawing altough Autocad is also available? Or is it time-wastage and futile keeping in view its applications in Mechanical and Civil Engineerings? Or shall I stick to Autocad only?

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Dear Ali,

my apologies for the late answer, after vacations I had to solve some issues at work.... Without hesitation I can say that this course does make sense. I have had to learn a CAD program in course of my first physics job and while it is manageable, I am still somewhat at a loss, how to produce standard drawings out of that CAD program. The manual drawing itself, that IS kind of obsolete, but the knowledge, what needs to be drawn and how (perspective, dimension sizes...) is not. I heartily recommend such a course, if you have doubt on anything to do with the standardized technical drawings. You will use the knowledge even when working with a CAD application.

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Daniel  

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Questions anyone (teenager, undergrad, graduate, professional) may ask on physics, mathematics or inorganic chemistry. Questions may concern subjects themselves or a possible future career in them, if you need advice on a school or hobby project, or you just came across a question that is beyond your current curriculum. I answer bare textbook problems sometimes, but I reserve the the right to redirect you to Physics-Physics section. The kind of questions I like to answer: I just started having science classes at school and they seem difficult, but I enjoy them. Where do I find more information on this, which is not in textbooks but still comprehensible to me? Just leaving high school, and I feel science is really the thing for me. Can you recommend a school and an undergrad program suitable to my inclinations? I am in my second undergraduate year in Physics. We learned the basics of universe expanding this year, the Hubble constant and all that, but invited speakers that gave talks on astrophysics in our department seemed not to agree with this model at all. Is it of any use at all? I am building a [materials research] experimental device for my masters/doctorate thesis and I have the following problem:... I have tried ..., but it still doesn't work. Where might the problem be?

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