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Originally Posted by srvy
Hardly anyone uses blueprinting now.
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In my personal version of buggy-whip making, I took drafting every semester in HS, and by third-year we were instructed and authorized to create blueprints of our work.
CAD existed but computers were still in the Commodore 64, IBM 8088 stage, so it was still a couple of years from being practical for instruction, so I got NONE of it.
I try to salve the pain of obsolescence by telling myself that knowing the hands-on practices of observation, measurement, and communication still retains value.