Why Use CAD Programs for Designing Stained Glass?
Are you still trying to do all your glass design work by hand? How good are you at keeping your designs square? How easy is it for you to get an accurate blow up of your design, and when you do, was your design exactly to scale? Have you ever done some designs for someone only to find that they absolutely can’t picture what it would look like in glass? Have you ever completed a window for someone only to have them ask if you could change a flower from yellow to purple? Do you have boxes of your old designs collecting dust somewhere? Do you have heavy boxes of glass samples that you are carrying around with you? Do you have favorite design elements that you use over and over again…and you have to draw them over and over again? All of us have had some or all of the experiences described above. Each and every situation listed above can be avoided by using a CAD program designed for the glass industry. Fortunately for all of us, such programs exist. Amazingly few of us seem to use them.
