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Manual drafting guy in Chicago talked me out of CAD for 3 months, he had a point
I do small residential layouts on the side. Picked up a contract in Chicago back in March. The guy running the shop, 30 years with a drafting board, told me to skip the software for the first pass. I thought he was stuck in the past. After 3 weeks, I saw why. He kept catching dimensional mistakes in my hand sketches that the CAD file would have just auto-corrected and hidden. Reworked 4 floor plans that way. Still use the computer for the final, but his method saved me about 6 hours a job. Has anyone else found that going low-tech first catches issues the tools smooth over?
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price.ray29d ago
Did you find the hand drawing method helped you catch things like door swings and clearances that CAD just sort of fills in without you thinking about it? I'm wondering if the tool was forcing you to slow down and actually see the space instead of letting the software make those calls for you. That's usually where I screw up, when I'm not really picturing the room but just letting the program snap things together.
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