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Changing hats to my construction-oriented divisions, in many cases we had to build what others drew. CAD systems allowed anyone with a minimum of training to turn out beautifully crafted drawings very quickly. Unfortunately, that didn't mean the designs were necessarily very good and the ability of CAD systems to mirror and duplicate parts of drawings meant design flaws could more easily be multiplied.

My BIL was an aerospace engineer and worked on rocket motors. He started off in the days of paper drawings and of course transitioned CAD. He said it took just as long as long to come up with a final drawing on CAD as it did on paper. The difference was that they'd draw a part maybe six times on paper and 50 times on CAD. The result was a better drawing.

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