Advantages of digital drafting traditional manual drafting!
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Computer Aided Design technology is the biggest breakthrough when it comes to the enhancement of manual drafting process. Today computer aided designs are in extremely high demand in Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry due to the richness and accuracy in their content. If fact, CAD drawings are treated as the main source of conveying design intent to building stakeholders. Before the advancement or evolution of CAD technology, paper and pencil were the only tools that were available to AEC professionals for developing drawings or sketches. The conventional drafting process was quite iterative and strenuous which used to demand a lot of time.
CAD drafting reflects a paradigm shift when it comes to the methods and techniques applied in development of drawings.
Safe documentation is the biggest advantage of CAD drafting as we don’t have to save the drawings in folders anymore which had lot of chances of misplacing. However drawings easily used to be misplaced in manual drafting. Computer aided designs or CAD drawings can be easily saved in computers and can be accessed by design and construction professionals at any point of time. With the support of internet these drawings can be easily communicated to whoever wants them. Today CAD drawings are used by all the stakeholders for understanding design technicalities as they can be communicated swiftly. Hence today there remains no risk of losing these highly important drawings. As no papers are used in drawing development digital drafting is considered as an environment friendly process. Be it manual drafting or digital drafting corrections are an important part of drafting process but in manual drafting their implementation was quite difficult as architects and engineers has to erase and redraw the parts of the drawings many time before it could actually be used by them. On the other hand CAD drafting has greatly simplified the revision process as there are powerful tools in AutoCAD which help in implementing the changes fast. CAD drafters can easily undo, redo as well as delete their actions within few mouse clicks now. CAD drafters don’t have to redraw anything in the drawings as the existing drawings can be modified very easily. Last but not least effective drawings are created in a cost effective manner and they can be successfully delivered to clients as per requirement.