Showerthought: Spent 10 years drawing stuff the hard way before a senior drafter called me out

I was about 6 years into my drafting career, working on a commercial site plan in Austin, when an old guy named Dave leaned over my shoulder and asked why I was manually drawing every single property line. I told him that's just how I learned it in trade school back in 2014. He laughed and showed me how to set up a dynamic block that does the same thing in 3 clicks. Turns out I had been wasting about 4 hours per project just redrawing the same lines over and over. That one tip saved me probably 200 hours over the next year. It still bugs me that nobody in school taught me that shortcut. Has anyone else had a moment where a simple trick from a coworker completely changed how you work?

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elliotr3922d ago

Learn the block editor and never look back.

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dixon.amy22d ago

Clients can't accidentally break block editor layouts with one wrong click.