[NFB-Science] Drawing Tools for Intro to Engineering Design

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Thanks for the suggestions. I will have to experiment with both boards. I am
wondering if there any benefits of using one verses the other. 

Regards,
Nic 

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Hey Nick,

I realize you mentioned you were looking for non-tactile drawing methods,
but I had someone recommend me the Sensational Blackboard. I'm told it's a
low-cost rubbery board that you can place ordinary printer paper on and draw
with an ordinary pen so that both you and sighted peers can feel/see what's
been drawn. I personally used the Draftsman in high school, which is a bit
more expensive and uses plastic film rather than paper.

Best of luck!

Kindly,
Gene


On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM Lloyd Rasmussen via NFB-Science <
nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> For what it's worth:
> Studying electrical engineering at Iowa State University from 1965 
> until graduating in 1969, there was a requirement to take an 
> engineering graphics course, applicable to all engineering students. I 
> did not do close to everything my sighted counterparts did, but I was 
> using a raise-line drawing board, sometimes called the Sewell drawing 
> kit. It used the thin mylar sheets, and was only 8.5 x 11 inches in 
> size. I think this is still available, and realize that the limited 
> dimensions are part of the problem.
> I have always been totally blind. Some people like Abraham Nemeth were 
> much better at visualizing things than I have ever been. In the 
> graphics course I learned about the various kinds of projections. My 
> "masterpiece" was a perspective projection of a cylinder. I think an 
> instructor helped me to do this, using a compass, protractor and other 
> tactile tools. I have no idea how I would draw such a thing today.
> You have come to the right place to ask questions. We don't have all 
> the answers, and you will probably come up with some of them yourself 
> if you are persistent. Your instructors should be willing and able to 
> accommodate your disability, and you have to be in the middle of the 
> process. Your education needs to work for you.
> How are you going to communicate with your sighted coworkers when you 
> enter your first jobs? What kind of information will you need to 
> communicate?
> How
> will they communicate with you? I think that 3D printing and other 3D 
> modeling techniques are going to be helpful to you, and reducing them 
> to paper or a flat screen may become a little less important going
forward.
> I know I have raised more questions than I have answered. As blind 
> people we are all pioneers, and one of our strengths for life can be 
> resourcefulness and creativity.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> Senior Staff Engineer, National Library Service for the Blind and 
> Print Disabled
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [NFB-Science] Drawing Tools for Intro to Engineering Design
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> What tools do blind people use for drawing? I am taking intro to 
> engineering design and I have to do things such as sketching, 
> multi-view drawings, and isometric drawings. Is there something other 
> than a tactile drawing board or is a tactile drawing board what people 
> use? I am interested in hearing about all tools that are out there.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nic
>
>
>
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