The one pastime you have regretted not taking up......yet.

[CaptainQuintero]

It is rather moreish

Apparently even better than After Eights

[laficion]

A Cigarmaker, That means Cuban and free , of course.

[PigFish]

I have zero ability to draw, but I do know my way around a computer! I have been teaching myself CAD drawing. It helps with my humidor design and limits my prototype time. I draw the components that I cannot take from a manufacturers site, scale them, convert them to blocks and visualize my ideas now before I start cutting and drilling! My drawings are still pretty simple technical drawings, but I find them immensely useful. It also allows me to save unlimited numbers of different designs and add zero paper to my office! Once I convert all my items to blocks I can assemble a new concept in mere minutes, instead of hours.

I really enjoy drawing and conceptualizing. I have always been hampered by the fact that my hand drawings were so pitiful, sometimes illegible, even by me! CAD for me is a Godsend. While I can fritter hours away at it, I walk away learning something and with better skills than before I started. If I smoked in the house, I would smoke a ton while drawing…

A side benefit is the artwork that I can generate to add to my eventual literature. It adds a nice "tekky" touch to literature and promo stuff. I enjoy the hell out of it!

One day I hope to teach myself Revit. It is a 3D architecture program.

Life is too short to learn all that there is to learn!!!

Cheers, -Piggy

[Philski]

Is that a prototype design for a post-apocalyptic slide rule?

[PigFish]

It is C3PO's anti-virul suppository! If R2D2 fails to take his meds after interfacing with a foreign computer… well, C3 does not get PO'd because he is protected!!! -P

[LGC]

It looks like a rail with some components mounted.

Ray, go ahead and start learning to draw with a 3-D program. It's much more efficient to draw in 3-D, and use the program to generate different views.

I never regret NOT taking up a hobby. Sometimes I regret picking up the hobbies I have... since they're all costly and difficult to fit into the schedule these days.

Is that a prototype design for a post-apocalyptic slide rule?