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Category: Design Lifestyle
Tips To Prevent Burnout and Stay Engaged as a CAD Designer, Engineer, Remote Worker, etc..
Being a Designer/Drafter/Engineer can be quite a sedentary and repetitive career.
To stay engaged, healthy, and happy, it’s essential to make an effort to keep active & learn consistently. Over our careers, we’ll go through periods of boredom, low energy, and doubt…
Tasks become familiar, repetitive, and unchallenging.
Days can feel like they’re dragging on.
Health and energy levels feel like they’re always taking a back seat.
Spending every day sitting at a desk can be draining.
Is VR the Future of Remote Work?
Have you spent much time in VR yet? Recently I’ve been trying out and testing different use cases for VR when it comes to remote work, engineering, design, and general day-to-day tasks. I feel like VR and AR are much more commonplace in the major tech sectors and still flying […]
Reading, Watching & Listening to Things #2 | Content for Designers | Engineers | Professionals
Hey Everybody, I hope you’re all doing well and have been able to enjoy this summer, especially given the strange and unique times this year has brought us! Today’s post marks entry #2 to my new Reading, Watching & Listening series where I recap and share some of my favourite […]
Reading, Watching & Listening to Things #1 | Content for Designers | Engineers | Professionals
Hey Everybody, Hope you’re doing well and getting to enjoy a relaxing weekend to recharge from the week. I had a lot of ambitious plans for this weekend like yard work, building some planters, and even going boating, but as the weekend got closer, it seemed the weather gods had different […]
13 Tips, Tricks and Must-Haves when working from home: Designers, Engineers and Professionals
Hey Everybody, Welcome back to the blog, since today is Friday the 13th and with all of the news and concern surrounding Coronavirus, I wanted to take some time to share 13 of the best tips and must-haves for Designers, engineers and professionals in general that are either new to working remotely/from home or […]
Galaxy Note10: A Powerhouse for Portable Design – News, Details and Info
Hey everybody, I haven’t been keeping up with my tech/news posts lately but I want to change that and get back into the habit of sharing news of interesting, unique and cool tech that appeals to myself as a designer and I think you the readers as well. So to […]
AutoDesk Sketchbook is now available for FREE!
Hey everybody! As you’ve come to see on the blog, I have been working/attempting to bring you all a variety of content on both the blog (cadintentions.com) as well as the youtube channel, I want to continue expanding the coverage from mainly AutoCAD tutorials to include as much of the […]
4 Tips to Staying Organized & Focused when Deadlines & Projects Pile Up
Hey Everybody, How’s it going? Hope you’re doing well and having a great week so far! I know my week and even 2018 so far has been a really busy one and I’ve been working to keep up with everything at my day job, at home, and on the blog. […]
Dream Big: Engineering our World – A 3D IMAX Movie about Engineering, Inventions and Design!
Coming to IMAX screens this week (Feb 18th) Dream Big: Engineering our World is a movie I’ve only recently learned about but I was instantly all in. From their website: Narrated by Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges, Dream Big: Engineering Our World is a first film of its kind for […]