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Originally Posted by Mass_nerder
As an Intern Architect, I look at these and shiver thinking of all the hand drafting. Everything is so much more elegant and beautiful compared with drawing sets now but thank God for CAD/Revit.
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At times I wonder if too many people are focused on trying to use the software, and how work that, but forget to consider how things can be built and constructed. Just because you can model it in revit does not mean you can build it, but so many people think that. Even though the prints for the Dome are around 40 years old...I'm not so sure that a set of Construction Drawings goes thru the design, draw and build process any faster today than it would have back in 1981 despite the fact that we should have much superior tools to work with. I always admire the visualization skills that people from that era had. They could do things right the first time without the use of 3D viewers, pretty impressive.
But I hear you...if you can't import data from an excel sheet into a program to draw everything for you...someone else does. Plus they do it offshore, and someone with PHD's in Engineering, Computer Science, and Medicine in India gets paid like $75 a month. Somehow that same person can't get the length of a column correct, and thinks the slab edge supports are fine to float in space without any support because the revit model showed it that way.