Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:55:18 -0500, DSK wrote:

basskisser wrote:
Are you going to tell me about your son being a "drafting engineer"????
Is he a drafter (technician), or an engineer, or an engineer that
prefers to do his own drafting?


I know a number of draftsmen; I know a number of engineers
who can also do their own drafting, and some who are
incompetent with AutoCAD and insist it's the computer's fault.

Generally good engineers are proficient with a tool like
AutoCAD. But then, some engineers can't use a wrench, either.

This was years ago, but the draftsmen/women at Heald Machine Tool were
all "drafting engineers" and occasionally recognized errors that the
design engineers made. they also did the revisions and revision
calculations for machine tooling.

A good draftsman will find errors that engineers make, simply because
there are sometimes fit problems that the engineer doesn't recognize if
he's not doing the drafting.

I don't know if that enters into this discussion, but that's what they
were called.

I've been in the engineering business quite a long time, never heard of
one. Were they PE's or Techs?