Architectural Designs

my boyfriend is just starting out as an apprentice draftsperson. anyone able to give advice?

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1. Tell him, "just Believe"
2. I didn't know they even had draftspeople any more! They didn't in the last few places I worked, but I wished they had because drafting is a specialty, it's important work! Mechanical and architectural drawings are a form of communication, a language. The better he understands and 'speaks' this language, the more fluent he is in the language, the easier he makes the lives of all the people who use his drawings--engineers, machinists, inspectors, etc. etc. I used to work as a mechanical inspector. In the last few places I worked, the engineers did their own drawings and they were often ambiguous and faulty. But a good draftsman can make a drawing much easier to understand. It takes a few years to really get the skill down, but then you can just look at a drawing and see all you need to know. A machinist or inspector can really tell the difference! So basically I'd say that he should continue to learn about the software (I'm assuming he uses a computer these days), learn about things like geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and learn ways to make drawings easier to interpret, easier to 'see'. Or, to boil it all down--pay attention, learn the job well, work hard, all that stuff. 8^)