Cad And Drafting

Originally I started learning CAD in freshman year of high school. Learning Mastercam was tons of fun, and plugging it into a milling machine and later on a laser cutter had an odd calling to me that many things don’t. Being able to punch something into a computer and see it become real, sculpted from raw materials, shows just how far humans have come as a race.

CAD and CAM have stuck with me even when I haven’t been doing them through all these years and only really flared back up in an interest for 3D printing. While I started 3D printing my 3D models done in Blender, my employer at Edge Commerce took interest and started assigning me tasks to make iPad cases and a few other odds and ends.

Some of these projects have pictures, some don’t. But I enjoyed all of them equally. I love the precise measurement and the payoff of a perfect design. CAD is something I always want to learn more of. I’d love to learn to do structural simulation and design something massive someday. Until then, I’m satisfied and loving every moment of small-scale designs.