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

Tue Sep 22 02:09:45 UTC 2020

Hi Liam,

It sounds like the Sensational Blackboard is more like how sighted people
draw because you use a pen rather than a stylus on a plastic film. My
disability coordinator ordered an Intact about a month ago, but it is not
coming, likely due to a COVID related manufacturing issue. However, we are
not sure if this is the cause of the delay. I am also having the same issue
with a Draftsman board that my state VOC rehab agency ordered. Has not
showed up yet. 

Regards,
Nic 

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I have used the Blackboard and agree it is a good low cost option and is
nice that it works woth regular paper and ink pens. 

The APH InTact I think is very good as far as how easily and well it draws
lines, but it more expensive.

-Liam

> On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:29 PM, Gene Kim via NFB-Science
<nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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-----
>> From: nspohn0--- via NFB-Science
>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:56 AM
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>> Cc: nspohn0 at gmail.com
>> 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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