Hit 500 hours in AutoCAD last week and noticed a pattern

I finally crossed 500 hours on a drafting project for a commercial building in Phoenix. What surprised me was how my layer naming went from a mess to almost automatic after hour 400 or so. It makes me wonder if there's a specific hour mark where other drafters felt their workflow click into place.

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victor_perry904mo ago

500 hours sounds about right honestly. My layer naming only clicked when I realized I could just copy the same layers from past projects and change a few things. Before that I'd have layers named "walls_final_v3_TEST" and then wonder why my file looked like a Jackson Pollock painting. The real humbling moment was when I accidentally dimensioned an entire floor plan in imperial units instead of metric and had to explain to my boss why the bathroom was somehow 40 feet wide.

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ryand264mo ago

Tbh 500 hours in one program and you just now hit automatic mode? That's wild, I'd be pulling my hair out way before that.

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