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Tangential: I recently started work with an architect to look at completing a residential addition. He says he still drafts on paper and AutoCAD, and has a pers
by xattt 4y ago
Tangential: I recently started work with an architect to look at completing a residential addition. He says he still drafts on paper and AutoCAD, and has a person on staff to input his plans into Revit.
I feel this speaks more about someone that’s at ease with the tools he knows, rather than someone that’s enamoured with new tools.
- borroka 4y agoIn the 1990s I attended a technical high school. We did technical drawing by hand (and by square) until the fourth year, and then we switched to CAD, mainly because the school had purchased a good number of computers with intel i386 and i486 processors--there was some competition to use 486s, let me tell you. CAD was also starting to become popular among architects and professional engineers; for the new generation it was the tool of choice, while for the older generation it was a tool to be skeptical about. Drawing by hand when CAD is available is a waste of time. It is just that the "old" professionals, genius or not, do not want to learn the new technology and look for any foothold that can justify their staying in the technological past.
- dijonman2 4y agoSimplicity wins every time when it comes to sustainability.
- bombcar 4y agoIt also allows a wonderful task division - the person who's "good with computers" can do the computer stuff, the person who is good with design can do the design stuff. We pay insane amounts of money for professionals to do admin-style tasks, but the thought of hiring an admin assistant for them is simply out of the question.