The Joy of Hand Drawing Machining Prints || INHERITANCE MACHINING

Despite my best efforts to make my next machine shop project “simple”, I just couldn’t help myself but include ALL the features. As a result this one required a bit more engineering design than usual. So I decided to make a dedicated drafting video (i.e. without computer aided design software). I’ll walk through my personal design process starting with the pencil sketch. Then roughing out the assembly drawing. And finally putting together the technical drawing (blueprint) for each part. Along the way I’ll talk about the drafting tools (drafting machine, mechanical pencil, etc), techniques (pencil rolling, line types, etc) and view styles (section view, detail view, etc) I use. Enjoy!

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*Most of the equipment I use is out of production. Comps are listed

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:11 An Idea
1:45 Doodly
2:48 The Computer
4:58 Roughin’ It
6:05 It’s a Setup!
8:17 Cheater
10:03 What Pencils are For
11:44 Heathenistic Tendencies
13:13 Projecting Much?
14:58 dimlin
16:50 Numbers!
18:26 Inspector Brandon
19:25 Jumping the Shark
20:34 Rinse and Repeat

FAQ
Camera: Canon 90D camera with Rode Videomic Pro+ with wind shield
Voiceover: Heil Sound "The FIN" mic with a pop filter and a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 preamp.
Editing: Final Cut Pro X
Intro Song: Way Back Way Back When (Instrumental Version) - Gamma Skies

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[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 😂

[zakshah]

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

[mikepelelo]

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.

[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.

[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.

[ARob-btdr]

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.

[toma]

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.

[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

[vinceearl]

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.

[atmic]

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!

[keenanwekesa]

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.

[blakeasullivan]

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

[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.

[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.

[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😂

[josheustice]

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.

[natancohen]

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

[paulcharman]

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.

[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.

[Smith]

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