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27. What formal training have you have had with computer
technologies?
Practitioner 1 2D CAD which I regard as a different discipline. It’s like
drafting, it’s not CAD as we know it today. 3D CAD I’m self
taught.
Practitioner 2 …it’s been learning by doing
Practitioner 3 Job-related industrial training.
Practitioner 4 Self taught as an under graduate… A bit of basic
programming (C++) and being around computer technicians
if something went wrong I would make them explain what
was going on, rather than just letting them fix it for me
Practitioner 5 I had to start figuring out how to do these myself
Practitioner 6 Self taught on some elements, workshop trained on some
and worked with technical facilitator on others.
All of these practitioners indicated they were mostly ‘self-taught’. It was clear
that their experience of using technologies was task-related and project-based.
This is consistent with the findings of the previous survey of international
practitioners (see section 4.3).
28. How would you describe how you make use of computer
technologies in your practice (e.g. concept development, design-toorder,
fabrication, pre-visualisation, prototyping, etc?)
Practitioner 1 …from concept onwards now it’s all computer-based
Practitioner 2 I probably use it more than I should
Practitioner 3 All of the mentioned aspects.
Practitioner 4 Already answered in another question.
Practitioner 5 …now my work can’t be made by hand and I need a
computer to help me with it
Practitioner 6 Tooling, actual production of piece, master models, physical
visualisation.
Unsurprisingly, when asked how they make use of computer technologies in
their practice all of these practitioners indicated that use of the computer is
central to what they do.
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