Hot take: My drafting instructor in Milwaukee made us hand-draw a whole site plan after our CAD crashed.

We were finishing a big project in my second year, and the lab computers went down for like 4 hours right before the deadline. He said 'pencil and vellum, go' and I had to draft a 1/8" scale plan of a 2-acre lot by hand. Do you think forcing that old-school skill is actually useful, or is it just pointless stress now that everything's digital?

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jenkins.spencer2d ago

Pencil and vellum, go" is a terrifying sentence. My hand cramps just thinking about it. That forced skill is weirdly useful though, it makes you actually understand the drawing instead of just clicking buttons. My own hand drafting looked like a toddler with a ruler, so I'm Team Digital, but I get the lesson.

thomas8621d ago

My college architecture final looked like a drunk spider took my pen.