What is a Mechanical Drafter or Draftsman?
Mechanical drafting or drawing is the art of creating illustrations used by engineers, architects, machine shop workers, wood workers, inventors, etc., in working out the details of constructive designs. In these drawings are the ways which ideas of the exact form, nature, shape, arrangement, and dimension of the parts in objects of a structural nature are expressed and made understandable to others. Mechanical drafting enables the construction work of any kind to be carried on with accuracy, economy of time and material, and takes the place of lengthy verbal descriptions which would not be able to express with clarity and exactness the information required by the workman to create whatever they are building. So then mechanical drafting is the graphic language of the mechanical creation of machinery and manufactured parts. A mechanical drawing that is properly dimensioned and prepared as a guide in constructing the object is called a working drawing. A mechanical drafter or draftsman i
