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Used to sketch floor plans on graph paper, now it's all 3D software and I kind of miss it
Honestly, 10 years ago I drew every custom layout by hand with a 0.5mm mechanical pencil, took me a whole weekend for a 2,400 sq ft ranch. Last week I modeled the same house in 45 minutes using a free app on my laptop, but I still triple-check measurements with my old tape measure because the software glitched on my last client's stairwell. Anybody else find that digital tools just add a new failure point instead of removing the old ones?
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william_henderson1mo ago
What was the glitch that got you? I ask because mine just did something similar on a hallway width last month, software said 3'6" and my laser read 3'4" after framing. Turned out I'd snapped to a wall face instead of the framing layer, took me 20 minutes to catch it and I never would have noticed on paper because I'd have just measured twice with the tape. Sketching by hand had its own traps though, like when you scale something wrong and the whole plan is off by a foot and you don't find out till the client walks the lot. So maybe the real question is which mistakes are easier to catch, the ones you make with your hands or the ones the computer makes for you.
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