Technological advances cause some professions to cease to exist, but in the case of drafting technicians, it just made their desks smaller and tidier.

AutoCAD was released in 1982 and by 1994 as many as 750 training centers had been using it worldwide.





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Before, drafting required pencils, erasers, t-squares, and much more time.

And the photos below really show it. Looking at them, you can almost hear the rustling paper.

Now, architectural, electrical and other drafters are mainly clicking their mouse and keyboard.

Explorers:
Now, architectural, electrical and other drafters are mainly clicking their mouse and keyboard.

Well, ain't we glad times have changed

What would've taken days to do can be done in an hour with a click of a mouse

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This are the real gurus... Technology is just making life easy..

I still did these for 5 years during my undergraduate days in futminna.... As fun or tedious it may look. You will at the end prefer to use Autocad to design when you are bern giving a whole city to plan and design....
I really missed those studio days.. Anyone in architecture or planning department will surely understand!

Forherman:


Well, ain't we glad times have changed

What would've taken days to do can be done in an hour with a click of a mouse

And millions lost their jobs...

Hmmm, interesting

interesting
once again it's explorer the only sane person on nairaland after me.

keep u the good work sir

Unfortunately Nigerian schools of Architecture still devote over 80% efforts into teaching students manual drafting while less than 20% is for computer aided drafting, meanwhile there's absolutely no architectural firm asking for your knowledge of manual drafting. Not moving adequately with the times is still a major reason why our institutions don't rank anywhere with other global institutions

AfroMighty:


And millions lost their jobs...

And the creators of autocad made millions

Technology has really made a difference...

Technology ti wa online thereby reducing tedious task.

Hmmm... Technology will soon take over human power... The question is won't it promote laziness? Would it affect our thinking and creative ability .... And won't it promote idleness ?

bamirotola:
Hmmm... Technology will soon take over human power... The question is won't it promote laziness? Would it affect our thinking and creative ability .... And won't it promote idleness ?

promote laziness?? Are you kidding me or you are just insane With technology you can do 100X what you did with your hands in a very short time frame and even more efficiency. So you think the olden days of sudden visit and not calls is better that today with video calls?? Inshort crack heads like you is the reason I'm trying to avoid Nairaland

dangoteinlaw:
promote laziness?? Are you kidding me or you are just insane With technology you can do 100X what you did with your hands in a very short time frame and even more efficiency. So you think the olden days of sudden visit and not calls is better that today with video calls?? Inshort crack heads like you is the reason I'm trying to avoid Nairaland

I hope one day you'd get smart enough to air your opinion without being abusive? I asked a question and its for the astutes here, not for depressed individuals like you looking for where to pour their problems... You need a psychologist and a psychiatrist! Cos I don't see how my question or opinion call for such insult from you... Get well soon bro

wright brothers and other mechanical oriented inventor once did this.

bamirotola:


I hope one day you'd get smart enough to air your opinion without being abusive? I asked a question and its for the astutes here, not for depressed individuals like you looking for where to pour their problems... You need a psychologist and a psychiatrist! Cos I don't see how my question or opinion call for such insult from you... Get well soon bro

Don't mind the fellow...maybe its the way they are brought up ( always abusing people to air their point )

technology is great but in a way it is getting us lazy

Forherman:


Well, ain't we glad times have changed

What would've taken days to do can be done in an hour with a click of a mouse

you'll use an hour to click a mouse

Forherman:


Well, ain't we glad times have changed

What would've taken days to do can be done in an hour with a click of a mouse

you'll use an hour to click a mouse

Oyinbos are very hardworking. only thing Blacks think of is getting rich overnight and digging out human skulls for rituals and that's the reason why black nations are extremely impoverished. You can never play God cos he works too,if God stops working today,we would all die