[Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:12:38 +0530
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289 at gmail.com> wrote:
My father's company had no choice but to stick to Autocad. There were a few
alternatives like Turbocad which was much cheaper and was good. The reason
why we had to stick to Autocad was because of employees. The existing
draftsmen (who call themselves design engineers) were not willing to learn
any new software. When we started to interview new people, some of them
?thought that we were weird ?to use anything other than Autocad and a
majority thought that it would be a career disaster for them to work on a
non Autocad using company.
Although I know nothing about engineering drawing(save doing it in
college) or CAD,
I will pass general remarks.
Learning something new is hard.
It is hard for me, hard for you, hard for everyone.
Only that it is less hard for certain people as they have trained
their brains for that.
Whenever we learn something new, a new channel has to form in the
brain. It is like
a needle laid on top of a clay like matter. It has to slowly form its
impression.
So this resistance is not unusual or unacceptable.
[rant]
That's the state of our nation. Draftsmen who think they are engineers and
engineers who forget that any software is a tool. At least this shallowness
is currently limited to the college educated lot in our country :) Wonder
when car drivers are going to demand a BMW ?to get employed.
Well as long as there is poverty in our country, as long as we are not
as well off as some
Western nation people will always be available for work.
It is all about demand/supply.
In general I think if we pay good money you get good people and if
your company is
known to be stable.
-Girish
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