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Update: I was manually dimensioning everything for years before a coworker in Calgary called it a 'time sink'
He showed me how to set up a proper baseline grid and associative dimensions in AutoCAD, which cut my detail sheet time in half. Do you think full automation is always better, or is there still a case for doing some things manually to catch errors?
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brown.gavin1mo ago
That "time sink" comment hits home, my old boss used to say the same thing about manual plotting.
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hall.nina1mo ago
My stats professor called it the "tyranny of the whiteboard.
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Wait, you were manually dimensioning EVERYTHING? For YEARS? That's wild. I can't even imagine clicking on every single line, typing in each number. No wonder it was a time sink, you must have spent half your day just on that. Did you ever have to go back and change something? That sounds like a total nightmare to update.
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