Manual drafting still beats CAD for quick rough layouts

I know everyone loves their software these days but last week I had to sketch out a wall section for a small addition and I grabbed my old Mayline board instead of booting up AutoCAD. Took me maybe 20 minutes to rough it in with a 2H pencil and a scale ruler, no crashes, no layer management. The builder on site even said he preferred reading my hand-drawn notes over the digital prints because they were cleaner. Has anyone else gone back to paper for small projects?

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sean_murray3d ago

Made my last hand sketch so messy even I couldn't read my own dimensions.

olivere303d ago

@sean_murray I caught a podcast recently where an old draftsman said even pros end up with sketches that look like spider webs sometimes. Happens to the best of us when you're working fast or the coffee kicks in hard. Better to take an extra five minutes than measure the wrong piece on site and waste twenty.