Vent: Local shops ditching paper blueprints for screens only is a bad call

Around here, every drafting team is tossing out their printers and going fully digital. They say it's cleaner and faster, but I've watched it slow down real work. Last job, the electricians on site couldn't zoom in on the tablet plans in bright sun, so they guessed on a conduit run. We had to redo a whole section, wasting a day. My paper sets have never failed me like that, even in rain or dirt. Screens glitch, batteries die, but a rolled-up drawing just works. I get saving trees, but when the power goes out, my paper copy saves the day. Maybe we should keep both options instead of jumping to all digital.

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4 Comments

irisowens3mo ago

Totally get that part about screens in the sun. Heard a foreman on a different site say the same thing, that their tablets were useless outside at noon. Paper doesn't have a glare.

jamie_adams2mo ago

Try a matte screen protector, cuts the glare a ton.

the_leo3mo ago

My eyes are bad enough without a screen going full glare at noon too.

the_sam3mo ago

Pretty sure tech companies test their screens in a dark basement somewhere. Real sunlight never crosses their minds.