Logged 2,000 hours in AutoCAD last month and realized I barely know the software

Been drafting for about 6 years now. Did a time tracker thing for a month and it came to 2,000 hours just in AutoCAD. That felt like a lot until I watched a kid fresh out of tech school fly through a layout using dynamic blocks and fields. Made me wonder how many features I'm just ignoring because I got comfortable with the basic commands. Has anyone else hit a milestone like that and realized you're still basically a beginner?

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thomasm4124d ago

Stick a time tracker on your AutoCAD for a month and you'll probably find the same thing. I did this after a decade of drafting and realized I was using maybe 30% of what the program can do. The big one nobody talks about is how much time you waste fixing things you could have prevented with proper layer standards and drawing templates. I spent years manually adjusting linetypes and text heights when a couple hours setting up a good dwt file would have saved me hundreds of hours. It's humbling to see that spreadsheet and realize half your clicks are just correcting sloppy habits.

stella27924d ago

@thomasm41 oh man, that's brutal but I bet you're right lol.