Switched from manual drafting to CAD in 2019 and still catch myself reaching for an eraser

I used to keep a mechanical pencil and a Mars eraser on my right side every day for 12 years. Now I do all my layouts in AutoCAD 2022, but sometimes I still tap the screen like it's paper before I zoom in. Anyone else have old drafting habits that won't die?

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emma68416d ago

The chair thing hit home. I still rock back in my office chair like I'm rolling closer to the table sometimes.

matthew_baker16d ago

Three years in and I still find myself doing a phantom crtl+Z motion on paper when I sketch at home. The weirdest one for me was the muscle memory of rolling the wheel on my old drafting chair to scoot closer to the table, but in CAD you just hit Z and zoom. I also had a bad habit of blowing on my screen to clear eraser dust for the first few months. Never really goes away, just fades to this thing you do without thinking.