Talking to a retired architect about his old hand-drawn blueprints

He said the hardest part of switching to CAD wasn't the software, it was losing the feel of the pencil line weight telling you something was wrong. Anyone else miss that physical feedback from the old ways?

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the_ben18d ago

Reminds me of my grandpa, a machinist, talking about his old lathe. He said he could feel a bad cut through the vibration in the handle, something the digital readout on his new machine just couldn't tell him. That physical sense is totally gone now.

the_kelly17d ago

Yeah, and that's how you get a whole generation of machinists who can't fix their own gear.