Old Timers, Which Is Worse: Endless Paperwork or Waiting For Computer To Unfreeze...?

[Averageman]

Anything is better than trying to type a Military Form through three sheets and two carbon copies.

[titsonritz]

My AutoCAD and REVIT freeze up all the time but it doesn't mean I want to go back to drawing by hand.

I just got on here and wait for it to unf*ck itself.

I remember DOS based Acad sucked so bad we did everything posssible to avoid a "regen". I could out drawn it by hand back then...that didn't last long.

[utahjeepr]

I remember DOS based Acad sucked so bad we did everything posssible to avoid a "regen". I could out drawn it by hand back then...that didn't last long.

Oh good God! And those damned plotters, the ones that held pens.

[titsonritz]

Oh good God! And those damned plotters, the ones that held pens.

More obnoxious than an old Wall Street Stock Ticker Tape Quotation Telegraph, right there with ammonia based blue prints. Good times.

[Diamondback]

Oh good God! And those damned plotters, the ones that held pens.

Hey, we had those in my high school CAD lab... they were dumped along with DOS AutoCAD (for WINDOWS '95!) over Christmas break sophomore year. ('96-'97)

Ugh, now that DraftSight has killed its "hobbyist"-tier licenses I'm looking for a budget-friendly CAD system again. (DS was great while it was "free for home/hobby/student use"... I miss IntelliCAD that I had on my first laptop sometimes.)

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

Da Fuq? Y'all never heard of cloud based storage?

Reading this thread reminded me of this scene from Zoolander.

[Disciple]

Which is admittedly a growing challenge with my ever-higher storage needs... right now 35TB and growing.

Video?

[Diamondback]

Video?

Tons upon tons of high-resolution scans of old engineering drawings (for example, 1 1700s-1800s ship of the line is an elevation plan, a sail plan, a masts-and-yards plan and a separate plan for each deck, and the idea of "build multiple to same design" only came along around the late 1740, so that means lots of one-offs each needing, a huge library of digital-edition reference books including virtually the entire Osprey Publishing catalog, and an absolutely absurd number of Excel spreadsheets. (TROMs in particular get huge--Tabular Records Of Movement, every time a ship enters or leaves port or navigates to/from a specific location. Ditto day-by-day records of any given WWII squadron's movements, kills and losses when I'm trying to write scenarios or a campaign based on that service history.) I also sometimes have picky clients who insist on "No Cloud Storage" for their project data, so you take their money you do what they tell you.

I'm going back through and purging materials from closed accounts held by dead contracts when I have idle time, but even that's more "slow the bleeding."

[jsbhike]

Oh good God! And those damned plotters, the ones that held pens.

Calcomp Plotters I think?

Been a long time since I have used Autocad, but it seemed like every new version had a butt load of stuff that had a new method to do something(rarely simpler/more intuitive, just different) while not fixing problematic crap that screwed up.

[Stickman]

I think every cop shares my frustration in wanting to get off shift but a report won't upload or the computer won't accept your evidence. Meanwhile the guy you booked is sitting in jail and you have no choice but to wait for your computer guy to unfrog the issues.


Paper was much better.