Ditched manual drafting for Autodesk after 12 years and it still feels weird

I made the switch from hand drafting to Autodesk last March after my old boss retired and the new guy wanted everything digital. First two weeks were brutal, I kept reaching for my scale ruler and pausing way too long figuring out layers. But after a month I could bang out a floor plan in 3 hours that used to take me 8 hours by hand. Now I just miss the smell of my drafting table and having a physical stack of drawings to flip through at the job site. Has anyone else gone back to hand drafting for small residential projects or am I stuck in the past?

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josephbailey4d ago

Used to roll my eyes at old timers clinging to their pencils and vellum, thought they just hated change. Then I picked up a roll of trace and a sharp 2H last month to sketch out a tiny kitchen reno for a buddy, and man, something just clicked. Took me 20 minutes to rough out something that would've taken me an hour wrestling with CAD constraints. I get it now, there's a looseness and speed to hand stuff that the software just kills for small jobs.

theas284d ago

Wait, you used a 2H? Those are like... rocks. I didn't think anyone under 60 actually bought those on purpose.