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linda_dixon49•2mo ago

Old-school drafter told me my layers were a mess and I should start fresh

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riley_wood84•2mo ago

Just heard a GC say drafters are just "CAD monkeys" and it stuck with me

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parkerbrown•3mo ago

Spent a week comparing manual drafting to CAD for a house layout and it wrecked my timeline

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ray_martinez82•3mo ago

Wasted $150 on a cheap laser level that drifted after 10 minutes

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amy_anderson•3mo ago

Why does nobody talk about how hard it is to scale drawings on gridded paper?

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the_jake•3mo ago

Spent 4 hours figuring out why my hatch pattern wasn't showing up in AutoCAD

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robin628•3mo ago

Drove by an old drafting shop in St. Louis that's been closed for years

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wood.faith•3mo ago

Serious question, why do so many drafter templates put dimensions on the same layer as the outline?

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the_taylor•3mo ago

Wasted $80 on a cheap drafting table from Amazon

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angela587•3mo ago

I caught a drafter marking up a set with a red pen on site last Tuesday

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avery_flores17•3mo ago

I Used to Dismiss Layer Properties Until a Job in Phoenix Changed My Mind

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dakotab93•3mo ago

Why I think manual drafting still beats CAD for initial layout work

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jasonallen•3mo ago

Three years ago I plotted every single wire and pipe in my CAD drawings by hand, now I use a plugin that automates half of it

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laura_schmidt82•3mo ago

Vent: Why does nobody tag their revision clouds on drawings anymore

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the_harper•3mo ago

Found a tweak to my line weights that saved 3 hours on a floor plan set

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