[iancmceachern]

Totally

Asking me or folks that do what I do to create a hardware product that way would be like asking a sculptor to sit down and write NC code for a marble router to cut out the sculpture they see in their minds eye.

When we're using these tools, Solidworks in my case, we're not just clicking with the mouse. We're typing complex commands, creating and using variables, creating scripts and macros, we often use gaming mice with many buttons mapped to complex hockey's, etc.

The graphics interface is just part of it, the part where it shows us 3d geometry so we can put it into our minds eye, and a way to tell the computer what geometry we are talking about before we execute work using what I described above.

Most people don't get it, if you do you do. You do.